Ms. Nupur Chawla

Assistant Professor

Email Address : nchawla@maitreyi.du.ac.in

Literature from Northeast India, Indian English Writing, Short-Fiction. 

PhD: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. (pursuing currently)

M.Phil: Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi (2017)

M.A: Department of English, University of Delhi (2015)

B.A: Maitreyi College, University of Delhi (2012)

Certificate Course (Urdu): Department of Urdu, University of Delhi (2013)

  • Indian Writing in English Translation 
  • Women's Writing
  • Shakespeare
  • Nineteenth Century European Realism
  • Cinematic Adaptations of Literary Texts 
  1. Member, ISO Certification Committee, Maitreyi College

  2. Member, Annual Report Compilation, Maitreyi College

  3. Faculty editor, Dialectic, Annual Newsletter, Department of English, Maitreyi College (2024)

  4. Member, NAAC Committee, Criteria 1 and 6, Maitreyi College, 2022.

  5. Department Representative, NAAC Department Audit, 2022.

  6. Event Host ,NAAC Cultural Evening (2022), College Annual Day (2022, 2023), Rhapsody, College Cultural Fest (2023, 2024), among various other college events.  

  7. Co-Convenor, International Interdisciplinary Conference (World Disability Conference), on "Contemporary Intervention in Disability Discourse" jointly organized by the Enabling Unit, Maitreyi College (University of Delhi), India & the Divyang Employees' Welfare Association (DEWA), India, funded by the National Institute of Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun, India (Department of Empowerment Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India) held from 27-29 June, 2022.

  8. Curriculum Contributor, Three Month Certificate Course on "English Proficiency: Make English Easy", organized by the Department of English, Enabling Unit, Remedial Class Committee of Maitreyi College (May'22- August '22). 

  9. Reviewer, Moderator & Technical Coordinator in Sessions, Second International Sanskrit Conference (ISC) on Sanskrit Studies Across the World (संस्कृत का वैश्विक परिदृश्य) jointly organized by Department of Sanskrit, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, Bharat; School of Indic Studies, Institute of Advanced Sciences, USA; Department of Sanskrit, RBSGGD College, Mau, UP, Bharat & Department of Sanskrit, SGGSJMGD College, Palia Kalan, Lakhimpur Kheri, UP, Bharat held from 01-02 March, 2022.

  10. Chief Member Coordinator, Organizing Committee, Two Week Faculty Development Program cum Refresher Course organized by Maitreyi College, in collaboration with GAD/TLC SGTB Khalsa College, Delhi University, in March 2021.

  11. Organising Committee Member, Three Months Certificate Course of Skill Development on Applications of Digital Tools in Teaching & Learning Indian Languages jointly conducted by Enabling Unit, Maitreyi College (University of Delhi), Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India & School of Indic Studies (Institute of Advanced Sciences), Dartmouth, USA held from 17th April 2021 to 31st July, 2021.

  12. Department Representive, Department of English during the Academic Audit 2021

  13. Mentored two student research papers for presentation in the Interdisciplinary Academic Event Avgaahan '21, organized by Maitreyi College.

  14. Editor-in-Chief for the English Department Magazine, 'Dialectic' in March 2021.

  15. Have authored course material for students of B.A.(H) English, at IGNOU. The course is on American Poetry. 

  16. Event host in various academic and cultural events of the college such as Visit of the Principals from Andhra Pradesh to Maitreyi College, organized by National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi (2023), Rhapsody (2023), Equinox (2022), Annual Day (2021 and 2022), College Orientation Programme (2021) and various other cultural and academic events at the College level. 

  17. Judge in various college events: Rhaosody '24, Adamya ‘21, Internal Complaints Committee Inter-College Fest, Trenchant, Debating Society event during Rhapsody ’21 and '23, Annual College Fest and various other college events.

Subject Expert, Online Subject Series, CEC-UGC (Consortium for Educational Communication), UGC New Delhi (Since 2019).

  • Co-edited. Anaupcharik: A Bilingual Miscellany by Anand Prakash. Signer, Delhi, 2018 (Book released at the Press Club of India, Delhi on September 20th, 2018)
  • Authored study material on American Poetry for students of BA(H) English at IGNOU, July 2021
  •  “Tribes in Transition: Representation of Conflict in Temsula Ao’s Short Fiction”. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Vol. 44, 2021
  •  “Reading Humanism as Resistance: Assertion and Conflict in Select Writings from Northeast India”. Summit Times, Vol. 02, Issue 199, July 30, 2017
  • “Narrating Conflict in Nagaland: A Case Study of Temsula Ao’s Short
    Fiction”. Eastern Quarterly, Vol.12, Issues III-IV, 2016.
  • “The Mirage of Freedom: Dalit Women and the Nation in Bama’s Sangati”.
    Journal of Literature Studies, Vol 2, January-July 2016
  •  “Nobody can Deny the Truthfulness of those Portraits: Rashid Jahan’s Angare”. Journal of Literature Studies, Vol.1 January 2015
  • “I’m trembling with fear it may be the truth”: Challenges of Knowledge in Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo. Journal Of Drama Studies: An International Journal of Research on World Drama in English (including translation), Vol.9 No.1, January 2015
  • “A Debt-ridden Falstaff in Windsor and Merry Women”. Journal Of Drama Studies: An International Journal of Research on World Drama in English (including translation). Vol. 8 No. 2, July 2014
  • Presented a paper in San Francisco, CA, USA, at the 2023 MLA Annual Convention, January 2023. 
  • Presented a paper in Baltimore, USA, at the 53rd Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Languages Association, NeMLA in March 2022.
  • Presented a paper in New York City at the Annual Conference of SALA (South Asian Literary Association), in January 2018.
  • Presented a paper at ICSSR-Sponsored National Conference on “Tribes in Transition: Reaffirming Indigenous Identity Through Narrative”, held at Jamia Milia Islamia Delhi. Paper title “Representing/Re-presenting Conflict: Study of Temsula Ao’s Short Fiction”, in October 2017
  • Presented a paper at National Conference on Cultural Studies, ELCC-2017, held at Manipur University.
  • Participated in National Conference on “Many Patriarchies, Many Positionalities: Re- interrogating Gender Narratives from North-East India”, held at Shivaji College, University of Delhi, 2016.

Appointment to Paper Setting Boards

  1. Contributed to the setting of question papers for DSE paper Dystopian Literature, in April 2024.
  2. Contributed to the setting of question papers for English Fluency, April 2023, December 2022.