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Dr SHARMILA N

Speciliazation : English

Qualification : MA, MPhil, PhD

Department : SCHOOL OF LAW

Campus : BANGALORE CAMPUS

Dr. Sharmila N is a Professor of English Studies at the School of Law, Christ University. She currently serves as the issue editor of the Christ University Law Journal. Dr. Sharmila also manages the Centre for Social Action and teaches writing skills to first-year law students. With over 25 years of teaching experience, she has been with Christ University since 2009. Her doctoral research focused on Afro-American writers Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Dr. Sharmila?s interests include Cultural Studies, Feminist Literature, and Environmental Humanities. She supervises eight PhD scholars and has published numerous research articles and book reviews in international journals. Dr. Sharmila is keen on collaborating with scholars and faculty on research projects that align with her interests.

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Articles in Periodicals

Articles in Journels

2024

Name of Journal: RUPKATHA JOURNAL ON INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN HUMANITIES

Date Of Publication: 31-Jul-2024

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 16/2/1 - 15

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Co-Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N

URL: https://rupkatha.com/

Indexing Agency: Web of Science

Name of Journal: South East Asian Review of English

Date Of Publication: 29-Dec-2024

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 61/2/46 - 77

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Co-Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N,SHARNITHA S

URL: https://ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/SARE/about

Indexing Agency: Scopus

Name of Journal: Economic & Political Weekly

Date Of Publication: 14-Sep-2024

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 59/37/71 - 72

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Sole Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N (667)

URL: https://www.epw.in/about-us.html

Indexing Agency: Web of Science

Name of Journal: The IUP Journal of English Studies

Date Of Publication: 13-Mar-2024

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 19/1/51 - 66

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Co-Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N

URL: NA

Indexing Agency: Scopus

Name of Journal: Agathos

Date Of Publication: 11-Nov-2024

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 15/2/221 - 230

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Co-Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N

URL: https://www.agathos-international-review.com/

Indexing Agency: Web of Science

Name of Journal: Journal of Black Studies

Date Of Publication: 10-Jul-2024

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 55/0021-9347/437 - 441

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Sole Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N (667)

URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/overview-metric/JBS?

Indexing Agency: Scopus

2022

Name of Journal: Asian Affairs

Date Of Publication: 28-Sep-2022

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 53/2/1 - 15

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Co-Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N,NIA SUSAN CHALY

URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raaf20/current

Indexing Agency: Scopus

Name of Journal: Journal of Contemporary Asia

Date Of Publication: 17-Mar-2022

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 52/1/1 - 3

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Sole Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N (667)

URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjoc20/52/1

Indexing Agency: Scopus

Name of Journal: Cogent Social Sciences

Date Of Publication: 02-Sep-2022

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 8/1/1 - 13

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Co-Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N,TANNVI

URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/oass20

Indexing Agency: Scopus

2020

Name of Journal: The IUP Journal of English Studies

Date Of Publication: 15-Dec-2020

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 15/4/103 - 116

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Sole Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N

URL: https://www.iupindia.in/English_Studies.asp

Indexing Agency: Scopus

2025

Name of Journal: Literature And Aesthetics

Date Of Publication: 14-Apr-2025

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 34/3/227 - 236

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Co-Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N

URL: https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/LA

Indexing Agency: Web of Science

2017

Name of Journal: Journal of Dharma

Date Of Publication: 07-Sep-2017

Category: Article in Research Journal

Volume No/Issue No/Page No: 42/1/9 - 28

Sole Authored /Co Authored: Sole Author

Author Name (s): SHARMILA N

URL: www.dharmaramjournals.in

Indexing Agency: Scopus

Blog

Invited Talks

Films / Videos / Documentaries

MPhil/PhD Guided/Adjudicated

2024

Name of Student: JERIN T

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: May 2024

2023

Name of Student: RIYA ROSE THOMAS

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: May 2023

2019

Name of Student: DEEPA MATHEW

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: March 2019

Name of Student: Deepa Mathew

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: January 2019

2022

Name of Student: RHEANNA MATHEWS

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: July 2022

Name of Student: ALINA JOSEPH

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: July 2022

Name of Student: SANDHRA SUNNY

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: July 2022

Name of Student: SHILPA NATARAJ

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: January 2022

Name of Student: HUTULU DASAI

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: January 2022

2025

Name of Student: DIVYA R

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: January 2025

Name of Student: Divya R

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year: January 2025

Unknown

Name of Student: DEVIKA K

Institutions: Christ University

Month & Year:

Name of Student: Amandeep Kour

Institutions: Punjab University

Month & Year:

Research Project

Workshop / FDP / Training Programme

2025

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Climate Change and Human Rights

Name of the Organiser: Coursera

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2025-04-18

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Creating Engaging Presentations with Mentimeter

Name of the Organiser: Coursera Project Network

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2025-04-10

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: LCA Training

Name of the Organiser: Christ University

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2025-04-09

2023

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Politics : An Introduction

Name of the Organiser: Oxford University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-06-19

2022

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: GIAN Course on 'Apprehending contemporaneity: A Globalized gaze on postcoloniality & Diaspora'

Name of the Organiser: NIT Durgapur

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2022-07-25

2021

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Beginner's Workshop on Research in Social Science I

Name of the Organiser: Christ University

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2021-05-30

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Educational Leadership Programme - Towards a Futuristic Legal Education

Name of the Organiser: School of Law

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2021-05-19

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Moral Foundations of Politics

Name of the Organiser: Yale University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2021-05-17

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Literature & Nature

Name of the Organiser: Cambridge University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2021-01-25

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: PDP on Research and Publication

Name of the Organiser: Christ University

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2021-01-25

2020

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Introduction to Philosophy 2

Name of the Organiser: Oxford University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-09-14

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: The Modern and the Post Modern II

Name of the Organiser: Wesleyan University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-05-18

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: The Modern and the Post Modern

Name of the Organiser: Wesleyan University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-04-19

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Learning to Teach Online

Name of the Organiser: University of New South Wales

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-04-17

2019

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Literary Theory:An Intorduciton

Name of the Organiser: Oxford University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2019-09-11

2018

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Exploring sustainability in the Indian Context

Name of the Organiser: Azim Premji University

Level: National

Role: Participant

Date: 2018-04-11

2017

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: QIP

Name of the Organiser: School of law

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2017-11-16

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: FDP

Name of the Organiser: School of law

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2017-11-02

2016

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Law of Philosophy and Interpretation

Name of the Organiser: Christ University

Level:

Role: Participant & Presenter

Date: 2016-12-05

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Research and Publications

Name of the Organiser: Christ University

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2016-12-01

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Legal Research

Name of the Organiser: Christ University

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2016-05-19

Awards / Achievements /Others

Books

Book Chapters

2024

Type of Book: Article

Title : Liberalism and its Discontents

ISBN: 978 -1-80081-008-2

Month/Year: Feb 2024

Type of Book: Article

Title : Smoke and Ashes

ISBN: 978-93-5699-275-7

Month/Year: Feb 2024

2023

Type of Book: Chapter

Title : India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance

ISBN: 9789390679119

Month/Year: Mar 2023

Type of Book: Article

Title : The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida

ISBN: 9780143459675

Month/Year: Mar 2023

Type of Book: Article

Title : India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic

ISBN: 9781032158921

Month/Year: Feb 2023

Type of Book: Article

Title : The Nutmeg's curse: parables for a planet in crisis

ISBN: 9780670095629

Month/Year: Feb 2023

2022

Type of Book: Article

Title : Tomb of Sand

ISBN: 9780143448471

Month/Year: Oct 2022

Type of Book: Article

Title : Voices of Dissent: An Essay

ISBN: 978 0 8574 2 862 2

Month/Year: Sep 2022

Type of Book: Article

Title : Bewilderment

ISBN: 9781785152641

Month/Year: Aug 2022

Case Study

Patents

Participation in Seminars/Conferences/Symposium

2025

Type of the Program: Symposium


Role: Presenter


Title: Climate Migration & Displaced futures: Challenges faced by children and moral imperatives for justice


Date: 2025-03-06


Organising Institution: Christ University


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Trauma as the site of resistance in select stories of Mahasweta Devi


Date: 2025-01-30


Organising Institution: Manav Rachana University


Level: International


2024

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: History, Woman's body & Agency:A Feminist Reading Of Pinjar & Tomb of Sand


Date: 2024-10-03


Organising Institution: Pondicherry University


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Moderator/Chair


Title:


Date: 2024-03-14


Organising Institution: Christ NCR Campus


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Reinstating the Non-human in African Literature: Reading Ben Okri's�Every Leaf a Hallelujah�Using the Aesthetics of Proximity


Date: 2024-03-02


Organising Institution: SRM University, Sonepat, Haryana


Level: International


2023

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Non-human Subjects and Environmental Ethics: An Ecocritical Reading of Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse


Date: 2023-10-06


Organising Institution: Guru Gobind Singh College, Chandigarh


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Uncovering Layers of Trauma in Cherokee Women: Analysing 'The Remover' using Dian Million's Felt Theory


Date: 2023-09-21


Organising Institution: NIT Surathkal


Level: International


2021

Type of the Program: Seminar


Role: Participant


Title:


Date: 2021-12-06


Organising Institution: St. Berchman's College, Kerala


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Decentering and Postmodernism:Aravind Adiga's 'The White Tiger' as an Ex-centric Narrative.


Date: 2021-07-23


Organising Institution: Jindal Global University


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Gender Justice Through Literary Imagination And Judicial Reasoning


Date: 2021-03-14


Organising Institution: Moscow State University& Knowledge Steez


Level: International


2020

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Violation of land as violation of feminine space- An Ecofeminist Reading of 'Mayilamma' & 'Mother Forest'


Date: 2020-03-03


Organising Institution: Osmania University


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Systemic Misogyny in Bollywood with specific reference to 'Padmaavat' and 'Kabir Singh'


Date: 2020-02-13


Organising Institution: TIIKM


Level: International


2019

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Analysis of Kant's Categorical Imperative and Constitutional Morality from a Socio-Legal Perspective


Date: 2019-12-14


Organising Institution: Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Vishakapatnam


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Co-presenter


Title:


Date: 2019-03-02


Organising Institution: National Law University, Delhi


Level: International


2018

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart' as a study in Ecological Imperialism


Date: 2018-12-15


Organising Institution: Christ University


Level: International


2017

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Analysis of Yann Martel's 'Life of Pi' from a Deep Ecological perspective


Date: 2017-12-15


Organising Institution: Christ University


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Moderator/Chair


Title:


Date: 2017-09-16


Organising Institution: Christ University


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Literature as a text on secular discourse - An analysis of Orhan Pamuk's 'The White Castle'


Date: 2017-09-15


Organising Institution: Christ University


Level: International


Type of the Program: Seminar


Role: Presenter


Title: Rhetoric as an Instrument for Manipulation and Distortion of Truth: An Analysis of Orwell's 1984


Date: 2017-03-10


Organising Institution: Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram


Level: National


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: A comparative study of female identity as portrayed in Alice Walker's The Color Purple and Mahasweta Devi's Draupadi


Date: 2017-02-03


Organising Institution: Institute of Advanced Studies in English


Level: International


2016

Type of the Program: Seminar


Role: Presenter


Title: Women Empowerment as portrayed in Alice Walker's The Color Purple


Date: 2016-09-22


Organising Institution: Jyoti Nivas College, Bangalore


Level: National


2015

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Empowering Trafficked Women: Issues and Challenges


Date: 2015-03-05


Organising Institution: The American College, Madurai


Level: International


2014

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: SUPPRESSION TO SELF-ASSERTION: MAPPING THE PROGRESS OF WOMEN IN THE NOVELS OF TONI MORRISON AND ALICE WALKER


Date: 2014-11-14


Organising Institution: IMRF, Pondicherry


Level: International


2013

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Relevance of Macbeth in the 21st Century


Date: 2013-12-09


Organising Institution: Amity University, Lucknow


Level: International


Type of the Program: Seminar


Role: Presenter


Title: Challenges for women in the service sector: A socio-legal perspective.


Date: 2013-10-24


Organising Institution: BMS College for Women


Level: National


2011

Type of the Program: Seminar


Role: Presenter


Title: 'Problems of Women in the unorganized Sector'


Date: 2011-08-05


Organising Institution: Scott Christian College, Nagercoil


Level: National


2010

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Economic Empowerment of Women


Date: 2010-02-05


Organising Institution: Immaculate College of Education, Pondicherry


Level: National


Own MPhil / PhD Thesis

1970

Guide Name: Dr.R.Rajagopal

Institution: Other

Month Year: January 1970

Consultancy

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