FACULTY PROFILE Dr. Ratan Deka, MA, M Phil, Ph. D (IIT Ghy) Email: ratandeka2@gmail.com Contact No: 985430449 Designation: Assistant professor Areas of interest/specialisation: Trauma studies, critical theory, Indian writing in English, cultural studies etc. Date of Joining: 28-08-2009 Publication in Journals: Title of paper From Ecocide to Traumatic Homicide: Representation of Nature in Mamoni Raisom Goswami s Chenabar Sont Name of journal Transcript: Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies. Vol. IV Year of publication January- December 2017 ISSN number 2347-1743 Publication in Edited Volumes: Title of paper Ethnicity, Identity and Trauma: Exploring Displacement in Umakanta Sharma s Ejak Manuh Ekhan Aranya Name of the Book Problematics on Ethnicity, Identity and Literature Year of publication 2012 ISBN number 978-81-924140-5-8 Narrating Memory and Collective Trauma: A Reading of Rita Choudhury s Mākām Women s Writing from the North East India 2016 978-93-83403-11-0 Quest for Place in Emotionally Displaced Space: Strategies of Countering Trauma in Jahnabi Barua s Rebirth and Dr. Reflection of the Changing Indian Society in Indian English Fiction 2016 978-81-932297-2-9
Bhabendra Nath Saikia s Antoreep Metaphorical perspectives: Theoretical Imperatives and Implications 1. Not a Tale of War 2. Breaking Silence Crescent 2016 978-93-85229-37-4 Verve 2018 978-93-87497-18-3 Participation in Corporate Life of the College: Responsibility NCC Caretaker Officer from 2011 to 2014 of Nalbari College. Assistant officer in Charge of GU Examinations (First Semester) Assistant officer in Charge of GU Examinations (Fifth Semester) Members of admission committee Members of database committee Period/ Year 2011-1014 2010 2014 2010-2015 2016-2018 Member of editorial board of college magazine 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 Member of Career Counseling and Guidance Cell 2016-2018 Assistant officer in Charge of HS Examinations Member, Editorial Board, Crescent In-charge, Nalbari, Nalbari College Magazine Co-ordinator, Seema Biswas Centre for Film and Performing Arts 2016 2016 2017-2018 2017- till date
Extension/ Community Service: Responsibility Supervising Officer, HSLC Examination, 2010 Period/ Year 2010 Subject Expert in Committee for Selection of Additional Teachers on Contractual Basic by Inspector of Schools, Nalbari 2010 Lifetime member of Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda Organised Blood Donation Camp at Nalbari College under the banner of NCC in collaboration with SMK Civil Hospital Nalbari. Lifetime Member of Asom Sahitya Sabha. 2010 onwards 22 nd November 2011 2013 onwards Guided a group of students of English Major 3 rd in an excursion (one week) to Kolkata 2013 Guided a group of students of different departments to an educational tour of Assam Assembly and Shankardev Kalakhetra and Rajbhavan, Assam 2017 Guided a group of students of different departments (major) in an educational four day tour of Shibasagar. 2017 Member, SMDC, Milan Higher Secondary School, Banekuchi 2017-till date External Evaluator Gunotsav, Assam Phase I & II 2017 & 2018 Oral/Poster presentation /Participation in Conference/Seminar/ Workshop/Symposia: a) International Conference: I. Oral Presentation on Rescue or (Re)-Creation? A New Historical perspective on Rita Choudhury s Novel Makam in Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture; held at Benaras Hindu University, Department of English in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi & ICSSR, New Delhi; during November 9-11,2010. II. Oral Presentation on Social Networking, Sexuality of the closet and the Second Life in the Thirteenth International Conference of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara; held at Chandigarh; during 15-18 th December 2010.
III. Oral Presentation on Ethnicity, Identity and Trauma: Exploring Displacement in Umakanta Sharma s Ejak Manuh Ekhan Aranya in Problematics on Ethnicity, Identity and Literature; held at Sibsagar College, Sibsagar; during 11, 12, 13,14th October 2012. b) National Conference: I. Oral Presentation on Merits and Demerits of Using Mother Tongue in English Classroom: A Case Study of English Teachers in Nalbari District of Assam in UGC sponsored National Seminar on Current Trends in the Teaching of English in India; held at Nalbari Commerce College, Nalbari; during 9-10 th June, 2010. II. Oral Presentation on Nation State and Ethnic Conflict: An Overview of North Eastern Situation in UGC sponsored national seminar on Ethnic Conflict & Identity Crisis of Different Ethnic Groups in North-East India; held at Suren Das College, Hajo; during 7-8 January, 2011. III. Participated in the National Seminar on Imaginary Homelands of Salman Rushdie; held at Department of English, Gauhati University; during 20-21 January, 2011. IV. Oral Presentation on Role of Translation in Cultural Studies with Reference to Indian Literature in English in UGC sponsored national seminar of Reconfiguring Comparative Literature through Translation / Text History & Culture; held at Barama College, Barama; during 28-29 th July, 2011. V. Oral presentation on Quest for Place in Emotionally Displaced Space: Strategies of Countering Trauma in Jahnabi Barua s Rebirth and Dr. Bhabendra Nath Saikia s Antoreep* in... UGC sponsored national seminar on Reflection of the Changing Indian Society in Indian English Fiction; held at M. N. C. Balika Mahavidyalaya, Nalbari; during 11 & 12 September 2015. (it is going to be published in the fortcoming conference proceeding publication). VI. National Seminar on Environmental Awareness: Issues, Concerns and Challenges at Nalbari College, Nalbari on 27 28 th August, 2016. Paper: Living With / Living Away From Nature: Trauma Psychosis in Mamoni Raisom Goswami s Chenabar Sont. VII. National seminar on Vedas: The Storehouse of Knowledge organised by department of Sanskrit, Nalbari College in Collaboration with Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Vedavidya Pratisthan (Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India) Paper: Importance of Self Consciousness in Trauma Healing: Bramha Sutra and Modern Individual.
VIII. ICSSR sponsored national seminar on Exploring Female Voices in the Writings of Contemporary Indian English Literature, 21-22 November, 2018 Paper: The New Order: Kaberi s Resistance and Subversion of authority in Rebirth. c) Regional / state level Conference: I. Participated in UGC sponsored State Level Seminar on Folk-life and Culture- Their Impacts on the Society in the Present Day Context at Nalbari Commerce College, Nalbari, 5-6 th June, 2010. II. Participated in UGC sponsored State Level Seminar on Folk-life and Culture- Their Impacts on the Society in the Present Day Context at Nalbari Commerce College, Nalbari, 5-6 th June, 2010. III. Participated in RELO, US embassy (New Delhi) sponsored workshop on C. L. T methodology; held at Sonapur College, during 14-15 th November 2011. IV. Participated in Assam College Teachers Association sponsored National Workshop on Rashtriya Ucchatar Siksha Abhijan : A Paradigm Shift for Quality Education and Financing Higher Education; held at Nowgong College, on 10 th May, 2014. V. Participated in the Northeast Young Social Scientist s Meet organised by Omeo Kumar Das Institute of Social Change and Development from 20 th Jan to 21 st Jan, 2012. VI. Participated in the UGC sponsored National Workshop on Research Methodology in Contemporary Geographic Research organised by Nalbari College, Nalbari, from 13 th to 19 th February, 2012. d) College level Conference: I. Participated in workshop on Examination, Evaluation and Grading Process in Semester System, GU held at Nalbari College, on 8 th September, 2014. II. Participated in the Workshop on Rescue Skill & Technique on Disaster organised by Tool Room & Training Centre (MSME), on 3 rd March, 2015. III. Participated in the Workshop on Academic Performance Indicator (API) organised by Kamrup College, Chamata, on 29 th June, 2015. R.C./O.C./Short Term Course/Workshop Attended:
I. Participated in the Teacher s Orientation Camp on Introductory Linguistics organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Languae, Department of English, Nalbari College, Nalbari from 13 to 18 th June, 2008. II. 1 Orientation Course at ASC, Jawaharlal Nehru University, during 31.01.2011 to 25.02.2011 III. 1 Refresher Course at ASC, Hyderabad University, January 08-28, 2014. IV. Workshop on Performance Poetry, Organised by the British Council and Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati in IIT Guwahati on 26 th September 2015. V. TEQIP Symposium on Language Literature and Cognition organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati in IIT Guwahati on 25 27 November, 2015. VI. Refresher Course at HRDC, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 08/01/2018 02/02/2018 VII. FDP conducted by Kalinga University at Nalbari College, Nalbari, 6-7 th April, 2018. VIII. FDP in Behavioral Remodeling and Use of ICT Tools for Classroom Delivery of Teachers at Nalbari College under E&ICT Academy, IIT Guwahati. 26 Nov 2 December, 2018 Signature of the Faculty Member