Dr. Debashis Baruah

Projects done:

• One UGC-sponsored Minor Research Project done on “Quest for Identity in Contemporary Writing in English from India’s Northeast: A Study in Diverse Perspectives”.

Publications:

Published creative writings like poems, short stories, translated short stories, articles in Assamese in various newspapers and magazines of Assam. Have written 12 entries in the Axomiya Biswakosh (The Assamese Encyclopedia, Vol- History), published by Axom Xahitya Xabha.

Some of the research publications are:

• Ecological And Ecomystical World in Plays in English from Northseast India, Labyrinth (Journal), Guwalior (Indexed at EBSCO HOST, USA)
• Myriad Views of Ecology in Contemporary Poetry in English from India’s Northeast, Research Drops(Journal), Kurukshetra, Haryana
• “I am a Curiosity, an ‘ethnic’ Specimen”: Postcolonial Voice in English from Northeast India, Literary Insight, (Journal), Thane, Maharastra (database collaboration with EBSCO HOST, USA)
• Ecological And Ecomystical World in Plays in English from Northseast India (Book chapter), Author Press, New Delhi
• India’s Northeast Rhetoric of Politics and Politics of Rhetoric, (Book chapter), .Jnanada Prakashan, New Delhi
• Ecopolitics: An Overview, Shabd Shilpi (Book chapter), World Book Publishers, New Delhi
• Northeast Indian Writing in English: The National Narrative Redefined, Nagaland University Journal
• Urbanity, Ecological Degradation and the Feminist Response (Seminar Proceeding), Tezpur University
• The Voice of the Other: Situating Subalterns in Contemporary Writing in English from Northeast India, (Seminar Proceeding), Assam University, Diphu Campus
• Contemporary Writing in English from Northeast India: Issues and Intentions, (Seminar Proceeding), Mount Olive College, Kohima
• Contemporay writing in English from Northeast India: The Margin is Writing Back, ACTA Journal, Guwahati
• No Life Stirs in her belly now: Eco-consciousness in Contemporary Women Writers in English from India’s North-East, (Seminar Proceeding), ADP College , Nagaon
• The Bomb and the bleaching powder have left her with no tomorrow: Ecology and the Women Voice in Contemporary Writing in English from Northeast India, Research Promoter (Journal), (Golaghat Commerce College)
• Ecological plays of Ratan Thiyam, (Seminar Proceeding), HCDG College, Sivasagar

Administrative & Academic Assignments:

• Coordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Furkating College
• Coordinated a seminar sponsored by ICSSR
• Coordinated a seminar sponsored by NAAC
• Performed duty as Asst. Officer-in-charge in exams conducted both by Furkating College & Dibrugarh University in a number of times
• Performed duty as Supervising Officer in HSLC Exam conducted by SEBA
• Performed duty as Supervising Officer in MA/M.Sc./M. Com. Exams conducted by Dibrugarh University under Distance Mode
• Performed other academic duties assigned by AHSEC
• Performed duties as a member of the Board of Studies for the UG Course in English, Dibrugarh University

Extra & Co-curricular Activities:

• Won the Best Debator award in school, college & university
• Won a number of times the Best Debator award in many state-level competitions
• Won a number of times the First position in recitation in many state-level competitions
• Adjudged the Best Manuscript Writer of Poetry & One-Act Play in Dibrugarh University
• A stage-performer of recitation

Extension Services:

• Served as Secretary, Furkating College Teachers’ Unit
• Served as Editor, Beeksha, the journal of the Golaghat Zone of ACTA