1st Edition
Literature, Language, and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma
Introduction: “Towards a Framing of Parts”, by Anubhav Pradhan
1. Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats: Contemporaries, Strangers, Partners
R.W. Desai
2. Ibsen’s Ghost in Forster’s The Longest Journey
Sumanyu Satpathy
3. Redefining British Masculinity in Captains Courageous
Chetan
4. Reading Poetry Through Translation: A Note on a Hindi Translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Rajiva Verma
5. Teaching in Translation, Teaching Gender and Sexuality
Ruth Vanita
6. Radical Unlearnedness with Proletarian Schooling: Dilemmas of discipline and teaching in D.H. Lawrence’s Education of the People and Fantasia of the Unconscious
Divya Saksena
7. Holding Environments: An Enquiry into Institutional Minds
Sonali Jain
8. The Challenges of Skilling the English Language Learner for the Global Market
Anjana Neira Dev and Sameer Chopra
9. Evidence-based decision making in our teaching: why is it important and how do we do it?
Rama Mathew
10. Developments in teaching College English at University of Delhi
Mukti Sanyal
11. Theatre, Feminism, and Society: Notes from a Practitioner
Anuradha Marwah in conversation with Anubhav Pradhan and Sonali Jain
12. Nostalgic possibilities: Planning and heritage in Shahjahanabad
Anubhav Pradhan
Biography
Sonali Jain is Associate Professor (English) in Bharati College, University of Delhi. Her doctoral work at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) centred on Vijay Tendulkar and the semiotics of cinema. She was Translator- in-Residence at the University of East Anglia, UK in 2008 and has translated Tendulkar’s play Baby into English. She has also edited Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Her areas of interest include psychoanalytic theory, film studies and translation. She is trained in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She has been painting for many years and her works have been exhibited in a number of group shows.
Anubhav Pradhan is Assistant Professor with the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai. His research straddles urban history, heritage, planning, and writing as well as colonial cultural contact and the intersections of empire and modernity. He is Deputy Editor of South Asia Research; editor of Articulating Urbanity: Writing the South Asian City (forthcoming, 2022) and co-editor of Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives (2019). He has taught at Ambedkar University Delhi, South Asian University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and the University of Delhi and has served Primus Books, Delhi as their Senior Marketing Editor. He has also been associated as a researcher with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He reviews frequently for national and international journals and has presented his work in a wide range of conferences all over the world.
