HARPREET KAUR VOHRA NEE SOPHIA ALPHONSE Associate Professor

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  • Department of English
  • School of Humanities
  • harvohra@rediffmail.com

Academic Activity

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Educational Qualification (UG,PG & Higher Order)

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1 P.hD. Dysfunction in Canadian Society in the Novels of Margaret Atwood: A Gandhian Critique Panjab University, Chandigarh 2011
2 MA English Panjab University, Chandigarh 2000
3 Diploma Creative Writing IGNOU 2000
4 Test National English Language Testing Service CIEFL, Hyderabad 2000
5 BA (Hons) English North Eastern Hill University, Shillong 1996

Area of Specializaion

Anglophone writings from Northeast India, Children's Literature, Indian Writing in English

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Teaching Experience

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1 Lecturer English Appejay Institute of Management, Jalandhar, Punjab
2 Assistant Professor University Institute of Laws, Regional Centre, Ludhiana Panjab University, Chandigarh
3 Associate Professor School of Humanities, Dept. of English Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

Research Experience

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Papers Published in UGC Approved Journals

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1 Death Rituals and Afterlife: The Ao-Naga Boatman of the dead in Temsula Ao’s poems and the Greek Mythological character of Charon Harpreet Kaur Vohra NEHU( North Eastern Hill University) Journal Vol. XVIII, No.2 2020 -
2 The Empire builds upon a Pyre: Poppy fields, the Ocean deep and Sarvodaya in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies Harpreet Kaur Vohra Asian Quarterly Vol 17, 58-68 2019 -
3 Children’s Literature and Change: Harry and Jack: A Perfect Antithesis Harpreet Kaur Vohra Diviner(DAV College, Chandigarh) Vol. 14, No. 2, 1-10 2017 -
4 Hybrid Culture and the Armenian Community in India: Crossbreeding and Extinction Harpreet Kaur Vohra The Scholastic Forum (DAV College, Chandigarh) Vol 3.1&2, 50-56 2017 -
5 The Centre and the Margins: Indigenous Societies and their Interpretation of Independence in Robin Ngangom’s poem 15th August Harpreet Kaur Vohra Asian Quarterly Vol 17, 2017 -
6 Experiments with Love: Janice Pariat’s Boats on Land Harpreet Kaur Vohra NEHU (North Eastern Hill University) Journal Vol XIII, 87-94 2015 -
7 Love through Experimentation: A Teenager’s Experience in JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Harpreet Kaur Vohra Sukhadia University Journal of English Literary Studies, Udaipur Volume- l No. 1, 107-114 2013 -
8 Symbolism of the Mountains: A Study of Selected Poems of Mamang Dai Harpreet Kaur Vohra NEHU (North Eastern Hill University) Journal Vol XI, No 1, 45-54 2013 -
9 Depiction of the Stepmother and the Witch in Three Popular Fairy Tales: Typecasting Women as Evil Harpreet Kaur Vohra The Literati (DAV College, Jalandhar) Winter, 2.2, 139-144 2012 -
10 Dislocated Individuals and their Desired Escape from their Former Locations: A study of two Indian Novels Harpreet Kaur Vohra NEHU (North Eastern Hill University) Journal Vol X, No 1, 57-71 2012 -

Papers Published in Non UGC Approved Peer Reviewed Journals

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1 Sexual Metaphor in the Poetry of Robin S. Ngangom: Interpretation through the Triangulation of Discontent, Regret and Discovery Harpreet Kaur Vohra Indraprasth Journal, Indraprasth University, New Delhi IX & X, 99-110. 2021 -
2 Globalization and the Internal Migrant in Anjum Hasan’s Neti Neti: The Postcolonial Hangover is never Overrated here! Harpreet Kaur Vohra IACLALS (The Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India) Journal Vol. 1, 207-212 2015 -

Papers Published in Conference Proceedings

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1 Quest for Identity and Culture in Khalid Hussein’s A Thousand Splendid Son’s - Proceedings of UGC sponsored International Conference Harpreet Kaur Vohra Proceedings of UGC sponsored International Conference on English Language and Literary Studies, ISBN 9788192385808 50-55 2012

Books

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