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About Us

Staff Profile

Staff Profile

Department of English
NET, M.Phil, M.A, B.A(H)

Ms. Jaya Yadav

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualifications

Degree Institution Year
B.A. (H) English Lady Shri Ram College for Women 2013
M.A. English Hindu College 2015
M.Phil Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi 2017
PhD Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi pursuing

Career Profile

Over 5 years of teaching experience in the University of Delhi

Administrative Assignments


Convener,  Lakshya-Student Support Cell, IQAC, Bharati College

Organising Secretary, ICSSR Seminar, "Society and Sustainability for Vision Viksit Bharat@2047: Addressing Socio-Economic and Environmental Challenges in the North East Region of India.”

Member, Language Lab, Bharati College 

Member, Timetable Committee, Bharati College 

Member, Admissions Committee

Member, IQAC

Member, Organising Committee, "The Increasing Role of the Russian Language in the BRICS and SCO Countries: Education, Language, and Culture", by Department of English and Department of Sociology, Bharati College, University of Delhi and Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, North Campus, University of Delhi in collaboration with The Embassy of the Russian Federation.


Areas of Interest / Specialization

South Asian literature, Victorian Literature, Cultural Studies, Postcolonialism, Historiography 

Subjects Taught

 American Literature, Partition Literature, Speculative and Detective Fiction, Literature and Human Rights, Ecology and Literature, 

Research Guidance

Publications Profile

Publications in the Last one year

    • Article, ‘Runaways and Gun Island(s): In Search of a Home (land) away from ‘Home’’,  IACLALS Journal (December 2022).


    • Chapter, “A Tale of Two Travels: Reading Historiography through Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land’, in India and the Traveller edited by Rita Banerjee. Bloomsbury India. (September 2022).


    • Chapter, ‘‘Parallel ‘Discoveries’: (Re)constructing the ‘Scientific’ Enterprise in The Calcutta Chromosome’ in Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms, edited by Ritwick Bhattacharjee and Shweta Khilnani. Bloomsbury India. (May 2022).


    • Chapter, co-authored with Jitender Gill and Ruchika Bhatia ‘How to Teach a Novel’ in Teaching Literature: Some Approaches. G.K. Publications. (May 2022).


    • ‘Reading Lolita in Tehran and A Thousand Splendid Suns: Through History, Politics, Gender.’ International. Journal. of Adv. Res. 7 (Oct). 863-869] (ISSN 2320-5407).

Conference Organization / Presentations (in the last three years)

  • Paper presentation, “Decoding Digital Divides: Analysing Newer Methodologies to Reframe Partition Studies through Project Dastaan and the 1947 Partition Archive” at the International Conference ‘Memoryscapes: Historiographies & Methodologies Around the 1947 Partition’ at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Silchar, Assam, sponsored by SPARC in alliance with University of British Columbia and Royal Holloway, University of London (December 2024)


    Paper Presentation, ‘Kulture’, ‘Konsumption’, and Korea: Analysing Western Influencers in Korea through the Lens of Gender and Cultural Studies at the ‘TikTok Cultures in Korea Symposium’, by the TikTok Cultures Research Network, supported by School of Media, Creative Arts, and Social Inquiry at Curtin University, in partnership with the Korea Research & Engagement Centre of Western Australia. (September 2024)


  • Paper presentation, '(Dis)placed Divisions: Analysing Siddhart Deb’s Point of Return and Kishalay Bhattacharjee's Where the Madness Lies’ at the two-day National Seminar on "Land, Development, and Identity Politics in North East India", by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. (July 2024)


  • Paper presentation, ‘Reincarnation(s) and Representation: Analysing Visuality and Politics in Colonial India through an Analysis of Photos of the Gods by Christopher Pinney’ at the International Seminar on “Visual Cultures of Colonial India: A Historical Perspective,” organised by Department of History, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi in alliance with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. (April 2024)


  • Paper presentation,‘Accidentally Occidental: Decentering the Canon through an Analysis of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina’ at "The Increasing Role of the Russian Language in the BRICS and SCO Countries: Education, Language, and Culture", by Department of English and Department of Sociology, Bharati College, University of Delhi and Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, North Campus, University of Delhi in collaboration with The Embassy of the Russian Federation. (March 2024)

  • Paper Presentation, 'A Modern Prometheus? Analysing Humour, Popular Culture, and Representation in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson Series' at the International IACLALS Annual Conference on 'Wit, Humour and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance', BITS Pilani KK Birla Campus, Goa (February 2024)


    Paper presentation, “(B)order! (B)order!: Analysing Transnational Migration(s) in
    Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Gun Island,” for the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS), ‘Climate Change and South Asia’ at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (April 2023)

Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)

Awards and Distinctions


  • Awarded Travel Fellowship for the Global South Academic Conclave (GSAC) on WASH and Climate linkages at Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (February 2024)


  • Winner, Best Paper presentation, “The Room(s) of Domesticity: Analysing Gender, Class and Race in Downton Abbey through Historiography” for Power and Patriarchy 2022, University of Liverpool (January 2022)

Association With Professional Bodies


  • Member, South Asian Literary Association


  • Member, Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia


  • Member, Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies

Other Activities