Faculty

Dharmendra Singh

Assistant Professor | Department of English

Contact (Off.): 9891110257

Email Address : dharmendra[dot]singh[at]pgdav[dot]du[dot]ac[dot]in

  • PhD , 2019 , University of Allahabad

Teaching Experience:
1. Assistant Professor, Department of English, PGDAV College,
University of Delhi, (August 1st 2023 - )

2. Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lajpat Rai College Affiliated to
CCS University, Meerut, (August 27th 2020- July 31st, 2023)

3. Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) Department of English, Lakshmi Bai College,
University of Delhi, (October 08th, 2015- August 26th, 2020)

a) Torn Between Two Cultures: Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, The Criterion, 2014 Vol. 5,
ISSN 0976-8165
b) Portrayal of Women in SocioCultural Context: A Study of Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters,
2016, JOELL, VOL .3 ISSN 2349-9753
c) Cultural Displacement and Double Identity in Manju Kapur's The Immigrant, European
Academic Research, 2014 Vol. 1 ISSN 2286-4822

Invited Lecture:  Identification and Removal of Barriers in Professional Communication, Institute of Engineering and Technology, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 5th December 2022.

Seminars

  1. Presented paper on “Torn between Two Cultures: Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake” at International Conference on Literature, Language and Communication: ‘An Essential Trident’. 9th &10th December, 2013. Amity University, Lucknow Campus.
  2. Presented paper on “Gender Bias as Portrayed in Shashi Deshpande’s The Dark Holds No Terror at National Seminar on Current Issues in Human Right Education and Value Development. 14-15 Feb 2014.DBS PG Collage, Dehradun.
  3. Presented paper on “Cultural Dislocation and Changing Identity in Manu Kapur’s The Immigrant” at UGC sponsored National Seminar on Literature and Culture of South Asia. Feb28- March1, 2014.Department of English, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya University, Gorakhpur.
  4. Participated in the “Everyday Heroines: Gender, Poverty and Development” multi-media competition and won third prize conducted by Women Advisory Board, University of Allahabad on March 8, 2014.
  5. Presented paper on “Complexities of Human Relationships in Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters” at International seminar on Reading/ Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times in collaboration with Sahitya Academy& ICSSR, New Delhi 5-6 March 2014. Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
  6. Participated in a National Seminar on “Women and Development: Issues and Challenges” sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi, March 3-4 2017,Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi.

Three months certificate course on “Understanding Gender” conducted by the Center
for Women’s Studies, University of Allahabad, Prayagraj in 2013.