FACULTY PROFILE

Personal Details

Name: Dr. Themeem T
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department affiliation: English
Email: themeem@ststephens.edu/themeem.t@gmail.com

Education:

B A, MA in English (University of Calicut), MPhil, PhD in English (University of Hyderabad)

Work History:

1. St Stephen’s College, Delhi: 2015 – the present
2. Sullamussalam College, Areacode, Kerala : 2007-2008

Fellowship and Recognitions:

Moulana Azad National Fellowship, 2011 (MANF)

Courses Taught

1. Undergraduate: American Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures, Partition Literatures, Modern Indian Writing in English Translation, Victorian Literature, and Literary Criticism.
2. Postgraduate: American Literature and Postcolonial Writings.

Administrative Positions Held:

1. Member, Workload Committee, Dept of English, St Stephen’s College: 2023 –
2. Staff Advisor, Enabling Unit, St. Stephen’s College: 2023 –
3. Staff Advisor, Equal Opportunity Cell, St. Stephen’s College: 2022 – the present
4. Member of the College Governing Body – 2021-2022.
5. Staff Advisor, Enabling Unit, St Stephen’s College – 2019
6. Time Table Committee, Dept of English, St Stephen’s College – 2016 – 2020
7. Staff Advisor, Cine Club, St Stephen’s College – 2018
8. Staff Advisor, English Literary Society, St Stephen’s College – 2017
9. Staff Advisor, Quiz Club, St Stephen’s College – 2016.

Recent Publications:

Chapters/Compendia/Entries in Books/Anthologies

• “Clearing A Space” by Amit Chaudhuri, The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Indian Writing in English, Ed. by Manju Jaidka and Tej N. Dhar, Routledge, New York, 2024.
• Sidhwa, Bapsi. The Routledge Encyclopaedia of Indian Writing in English, Ed. by Manju Jaidka and Tej N. Dhar, Routledge, New York, 2024.

Articles/Essays in Journals

1. Cyber Capitalism, Speed and the Production of Waste: “Waste” and “Wasted Lives” in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, English Forum (UGC-CARE), Gauhati University, Guwahati, 2023.
2. Character and Technological Culture: Time-Space Compression, Speed and The Character of Society in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, Assonance, A Journal of Russian & Comparative Literary Studies (UGC-CARE), University of Calicut, 2023.

Seminars/Conferences/Invited Talks

1. “Techno-Apocalypse and the Loss of Memory in the Digital Era in Don DeLillo’s The Si- lence”, “Memory in a Digital Age”, International Conference, Centre for Memory Studies, IIT, Madras, 2022.
2. “The Idea of Character and the concept of Hero in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis”, The Futures of American Studies, International Conference, Dept of English, University of Delhi, 2011.

Research Areas

1. Major Areas of Specialisation: (Areas where I have researched and published in the main)
   Technological Culture, Posthumanism, Waste-Studies, Character (Fiction and Other) and American Literature
2. Minor Areas of Specialisation: (Areas where I have mostly taught, and occasionally published):
   Modern Indian Writings in English/Translation, Partition Literature, Postcolonial Literatures, Literary and Cultural Theory, Dalit Writings, and Postmodern Gothic.