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Prof. Usha Bande |
| Designation- Visiting Professor at Vishwa Bharati University, Shanti Niketan (WB) Retd. Principal Govt. College Arki, Distt. Solan (H.P) Former Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla |
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| Email- profusha@iias.ac.in | |
| Duration of Fellowship- August 2001 to July 2004 | |
| Research Project |
“Writing Resistance - A Comparative Study of the Women Writers of the Sub-Continent "
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| About : Dr. Usha Bande, Former Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla and also Visiting Professor at Vishwa Bharati University, Shanti Niketan (WB), was on the faculty of English Literature in Govt. College for Women, Shimla. She retired as Principal Govt. College, Arki. Dr. Bande started her schooling from St. Joseph’s Convent, Jabalpur and has had a brilliant academic career. Dr. Usha Bande worked for her doctorate on the novels of Anita Desai, interpreting Desai’s characters from the angle of Third Force psychology. Hers is an innovative approach and has been widely acclaimed by US scholars in the field. She has numerous research papers and more than a dozen books to her credit. She completed a major UGC project on the Indian Short Stories in 1998, and has worked recently in the field of Women’s Studies at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She is associated with the Institute for Integrated Himalayan Studies, HP University, Shimla and has worked on four major projects under their auspices. Besides academic writing, Dr. Bande is fond of journalistic and creative writing and is a regular contributor to The Tribune, Alive, Women’s Era, Times of India, Indian Express and many other news papers and magazines. She has considerable academic publications, some of which are:1. Writing Resistance: A Comparative Study of Women Novelists (Shimla: IIAS, 2006) 2. Ecology and Folk Traditions in Himachal Pradesh (Delhi: Indus Publications, 2006) 3. Literature, Culture and Nature. Jaipur: Rawat, 2013 4. Violence in Society: Literature and Media. Jaipur: Rawat, 2012. 5.Cultural Space and Diasporic Writing: Journey Metaphor in Women’s Writing (Shimla: IIAS, 2003). 6. Woman in Indian Short Stories: A Feminist Perspective (Jaipur: Rawat, 2003) 7.Victim Consciousness in Indian English Literature (Jalandhar: ABS, 1997) 8. Mothers and Mother Figures in Indian Literature. (Jalandhar: ABS, 1994) She has 35+years of teaching experience besides Research, Conducting workshops and acting as Resource Person for various Universities. |
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