Staff Profile

More than 22 years

Member, Governing Body, 2014-2015

Teacher-in-charge, Department of English, 2018-2019

Teacher-in-charge, Department of Psychology, 2019-to date

Convenor, Chilman, the Dramatics Society of Bharati College, 2002-to date

• Psychoanalysis
• Modern Indian drama
• Film Studies
• Translation

BA (Hons) English (partial list)

• Nineteenth-century European Realism
• Modern European Drama
• British Literature: The Early Twentieth Century
• Women's Writing
• Literature and Cinema

Other (partial list)

• Readings in Indian Diversities

Since 2015

Books edited

• Language, Literature and the Classroom: Essays for Promodini Varma, edited by Sonali Jain and Anubhav Pradhan. Routledge, 2021. (ISBN 9781032233529)
• The Virtual Couch: COVID-19 through a Psychoanalytic Lens, edited by Sonali Jain. Routledge, 2023.

Papers in Refereed Journals

• ""Miss Julie: A Psychoanalytic Study", by Sonali Jain, Epiphany Vol. 8, No. 2 (2015): pp. 161-176. ISSN 2303-6850

Book chapters/essays

• “Teachers on the Couch: Dynamics of an Educational Institution in India”, by Sonali Jain, in 3rd International Conference on Education, Culture and Identity – The Future of Humanities, Education and Creative Industries: Book of Proceedings, eds. M. Mulalic, A. Mulalic, N. Obralic, E. Jeleskovic, pp. 32-58. Sarajevo: International University of Sarajevo, 2018. (ISSN 2566-4409) 
• “Holding Environments: An Enquiry into Institutional Minds”, by Sonali Jain, in Language, Literature and the Classroom: Essays for Promodini Varma, eds. Sonali Jain and Anubhav Pradhan. Routledge, 2021. (ISBN 9781032233529)

Language, Literature and the Classroom: Essays for Promodini Varma, edited by Sonali Jain and Anubhav Pradhan. Routledge, 2021. (ISBN 9781032233529)

Conference Organisation

• Convenor, National Conference on The Female Gaze/Voice in the Indian Cinematic Imagination, Bharati College, April 2019.
• Convenor of a series of nine webinars related to psychological effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, May-August 2020.

Presentations

• “Death denied? A Psychoanalytic Study of Deepa Mehta’s Water”, presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, October 2018.
• “Kamala: From Invisibility to Truth”, presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (online), October 2020.
  

Charles Wallace Fellowship: Translator in Residence at University of East Anglia, UK, January-March 2008.

Member, Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society

Member, American Psychological Association, Division 39

Senior Fellow, Livonics Institute of Integrated Learning and Research 

Convenor, Counselling Centre, Bharati College

Course Coordinator of Certificate Course in Mental Health and Counselling, jointly organised by Bharat College and Psychoanalysis India, September 2020-January 2021