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Curriculum Vitae Divya Saksena, PhD

2015 OBJECTIVE: Academic Career, Curriculum Development & Instructional

Design in Education. Humanities, Literature, Cultural & Women’s Studies

C O N T A C T D-306 Neelpadam One, Vaishali Sector-5 Ghaziabad-201010, India

Cell: +91-844-781-7464 Email: dsaksena@gmail.com saksenadivya@gmail.com Web: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/divya-saksena/8b/207/990/

FUNCTION & SKILLS SUMMARY

Work-specific Essential Skills: Develop course content for degree, diploma or certificate program of study, Conduct

course and program evaluation or review, Deliver lectures and presentations, Lead discussion groups and seminars,

Practical experience related to area of instruction, Provide assistance to students with special needs, Work

individually and in groups with students/learners

Teaching Audience: Youth, Adult, Immigrants, International students, College/University students

Teaching Format: Tutor/one-on-one instruction, Lecture, Classroom, Workshop, Seminar, Distance-Education, teaching

in an international environment.

Computer Applications: Windows, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Spreadsheets, Database software,

Presentation & Desktop publishing software, Internet LMS (Moodle, Blackboard, WebCT)

Multilingual; multicultural skills and experience.

Instructional Design: use multi-platform delivery of interdisciplinary content for learning, evaluation and assessment.

EDUCATION

Degree Institution Dates Field/Major/Subjects Result

PhD English

Department of English,

The George Washington

University, Washington DC,

USA.

August 1999 –

May 2003

British Modernism, Aesthetics, D.H. Lawrence

Dissertation: “The Shimmer Not The Shape of Things: The Aesthetic Philosophy of D. H. Lawrence”

Dissertation passed

“Without Revision”

GPA 3.83/4.0

M.Phil.

Department of English

University of Delhi, Delhi,

India.

December 1979 –

December 1981

English Literature, Literary Theory, Modern

British Novel, Shakespeare, Romance

Tradition. Indian Writings in English

“Passed” written &

oral exams

M.A.

Indraprastha College for

Women, University of Delhi,

Delhi, India

July 1977 – May

1979

English. “A” grade

GPA 4.68/6.0

B.A. University of Delhi, Delhi,

India

July 1974 – May

1977

English, Hindi, Sanskrit, History. 59.6%

General

Certificate of

Education

University of London, UK

Exam Center: British Embassy,

Moscow USSR

January 1974

June 1973

‘A’ Level English Literature.

‘O’ Level: English Language, Hindi, Economics,

Mathematics, Physics with Chemistry

“B” grade

“A” grade in all 5

subjects

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EXPERIENCE

TEACHING: 08/2011-05/2012: College Professor & Distance Education Online Tutor, English & Language Studies, Okanagan College,

Kelowna, BC, (Canada), Full-time, contract, with benefits.

08/2004-12/2009: Associate Professor of English, Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Murfreesboro TN (USA).

Renewable tenure track with full benefits

08/2003-05/04 Assistant Professorial Lecturer in English, The George Washington University

(GWU), Columbian School of Arts &Sciences Annual Contract

08/1999-05/2003 Graduate Teaching Assistant & University Fellow, The George Washington

University, Department of English 4-year Contract

1995-1998 Senior Lecturer in English, Gargi College, University of Delhi, India

Permanent appointment (until retirement age with benefits)

1993-1995 Lecturer in English, Gargi College, University of Delhi, India

Temporary, renewable annual appointment (without benefits)

1989-1993 Lecturer in English, affiliated colleges of University of Delhi, India

Temporary, renewable annual appointments (without benefits)

1990-1996 Accredited Academic Counselor, Distance Learning, English. Indira Gandhi National Open

University (IGNOU) New Delhi, India

Temporary, renewable annual appointment (without benefits)

1980-1983 Lecturer in English, affiliated colleges of University of Delhi, India

Temporary, renewable leave vacancy appointments (without benefits)

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE: 06/2012-03/2014: Program and Curriculum Design, Professor-English, Shiv Nadar University, India

(startup awaiting UGC approval). Contract, with benefits.

02-10/2010 Curriculum Design and Associate Professor English, Foundation for Liberal and Management

Education, Pune, India. Contract.

2006-2009 Advisory Board, University Fellowships Office, Honors College, MTSU

Consultant and adviser to Fulbright & other fellowship applicants,

2002-2003 Coordinator, Graduate Student Support, The George Washington University,

Office of Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships, Per Contract, with benefits

Special responsibility for Rhodes, Fulbright and other Scholarship Programs, Website Maintenance,

GTA Program & Orientation, March –July 2003.

2002-2003 Mentor, Student Summer Internship Program SLP-154, The George Washington University, Office of

Graduate Assistantships & Fellowships, May-August 2003.

July- August 2002 Writing Fellow, Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship Programs, The George Washington University, Office of

Graduate Assistantships and Fellowships,

Summer 2003 Consultant and Subject Matter Expert, ‘Langnet,’ Online Learning Project,

National Foreign Language Center of the University of Maryland, Per Contract to prepare language

learning objects and lessons online

1993-1998 Speaker, Distance Education broadcasts, All India Radio.

08-09/1993 Course-designer and Instructor, University of Delhi, Department of English

English Language Exchange Program for Japanese students from Fukuoka, Japan, Per Contract

1986-1987 Teacher-in-training, Royal Society of Arts Dip. TEFL & TESL, Luton College of Higher Education, UK.,

Course requirement: English for multicultural and ethnic minority students..

1986-1987 Anchor-presenter, BBC Radio Bedfordshire, UK, live on-air weekly multicultural program. Freelance.

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SELECT INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS & ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

●Book Saksena, D. (2008). The Aesthetic Philosophy of D. H. Lawrence, (Saarbrucken: VDM-Verlag, 2008). ISBN: 978-3-639-09056-7.

●Book Chapters Saksena, D. (2009). Thematic essays (3 each) on Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of the Suburbia, V. S. Naipaul, A Bend in the River and Ivan

Turgenev Fathers and Sons for Special Themes in Literature ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple, (Facts on File Inc, 2009).

Saksena, D. (2008). “Only connect” the beast and the beautiful: The Secular Humanism of E M Forster and D H Lawrence,” in Tague,

Gregory ed. Origins of English Literary Modernism 1870-1914 (Bethesda, Dublin: Academica Press, 2008), 257-278. ISBN-13:

978-1-933146-48-5.

Saksena D. (2008). Long essay “End of Empire” and introductions to lives and poems of Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Rudyard Kipling

et al in Persoon J. and Watson R. ed. Companion to British Poetry, 1900 to the Present (New York: Facts on File, 2008). ISBN-

13: 978-0-8160-6406-9

Saksena, D. (1997). “Chthonic Celebration of Life: Egypt’s Cleopatra with reference to Shaw and Shakespeare” in Raghavan, Hema V.

ed. The Imaging of Women in Myth and History, (Delhi University, 1997), 101-108.

Saksena, D. (1996). “Points of Viewing: Shakespeare’s Troilus & Cressida and Antony & Cleopatra” in Shakespeare: Varied Perspectives

(New World Literature Series 90), edited by Vikram Chopra, with a Foreword by Kenneth Muir (Delhi: South Asia Books/ B.R.

Publishing Corporation, 1996), 359-369. ISBN: 8170188229

●Citations Saksena, Divya. "Shakespeare's Cleopatra: The Forgotten Factor of Ancient Egypt. (#1054; p 289In Bains, Yashdip S., Antony and

Cleopatra: An Annotated Bibliography (Garland Shakespeare Bibliographies), (Routledge, 1998) ISBN-13: 978-0815314745

Saksena, Divya. "Shakespeare's Cleopatra: The Forgotten Factor of Ancient Egypt.” In Desai, R.W. Shakespeare’s Latencies (Delhi:

Doaba House, 2005)

●Peer Reviewed Journal Contributions Saksena, D. ‘Shakespeare’s Cleopatra: Factoring In Forgotten Egypt,” Journal of Drama Studies Vol. 2 No. 2, 2008, Kurukshetra

University, India, (2009).

Saksena D. “My salad days when I was green in judgement”: Shakespeare, Enobarbus and Cleopatra.” Commemorative volume,

Shakespeare Society of India International Seminar on Shakespeare's Intellectual Resources, edited by B. S. Dahiya,

Kurukshetra University, India

Saksena, D. (1995). “Psychosis of Dream in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” (condensed), Bulletin of The Shakespeare

Society of India, 1994-95, Delhi, 8-9.

Saksena, D. (1992). “Shakespeare’s Cleopatra: The Forgotten Factor of Ancient Egypt,” (abstracted), Bulletin of The Shakespeare

Society of India, 1990-92, Delhi, 5-6.

Saksena, D. (1992).”Deborah Cameron: Feminist Critique of Language,” Book Review, In- Between: Essays and Studies in Literary

Criticism, vol.1 March 1992 no. 1, New Delhi, 98-102.

●Editorial and Proofreading Assistance Harris, J. (2002) Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing (Albany: State University of New York Press).

●Conference Papers Saksena, D. “Radical Unlearnedness with Proletarian schooling: Dilemmas of discipline and teaching in D.H. Lawrence’s Education of

the People and Fantasia of the Unconscious”. 2013 International D.H. Lawrence Conference, Centre de recherches

Anglophones et Groupe d’Etudes lawrenciennes, Universite Paris-Ouest, Nantrerre-La Defense, 4-6 April 2013.

Saksena D. “The Fallacy of Understanding: D H Lawrence’s Emotional Logic in Fantasia of the Unconscious and Apocalypse.”

International D H Lawrence Conference, Universite Paris X Nanterre La Defense, Paris, France, 26-28 March 2009.

Saksena D. ‘“A much bigger thing than passion”: D. H. Lawrence’s Women and Love in the Postcolonial Classroom.’ 11th

International

D. H. Lawrence Conference, Nottingham, UK, August 2007.

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Saksena D. “My salad days when I was green in judgement”: Shakespeare, Enobarbus and Cleopatra.” Shakespeare Society of India

International Seminar on Shakespeare's Intellectual Resources, Kurukshetra University, India, October 9-11, 2006

Saksena D. ‘Cultural Identity and the Epics of India, with special reference to the Ramayana.’ International Conference on Cultural

Diversity, MTSU Murfreesboro & Nashville, TN, November 2005.

Saksena D. ‘Blyton out of Blighty: Children’s Literature of the Empire in a post-colonial world.’ Second Biennial Conference on

Children’s Literature, Nashville, TN, April 2005.

Saksena D. ‘“Body, Power and the Panopticon Gaze: Women who have ruled India in spite of men” Women and Power

Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s Studies, MTSU, March 2005.

Saksena D. ‘A New Place: Aesthetics of Place in D.H. Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod.’ Modern Language Association of America Annual

Convention, San Diego, CA, December 2003.

Saksena D. ‘A minefield of linguistic constructs: the rewards and recriminations of translation (with special reference to Shakespeare

texts in India).’ South Asian Literature Association Fourth Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, December 2003.

Saksena D., Fuisz, L.S. & Harty, J. ‘Against Parrot-Compulsion: Perspectives on Literature and Learning (Hartley Coleridge, Willa Cather,

D. H. Lawrence).’ Panel presentation International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 2004

Saksena D., Larsen, K. ‘Star Equilibrium: Aesthetics, cultural value and the writer’s role in adapting D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers for

film.’ Literature/ Film Association Annual Conference, Towson University, MD, November 2003.

Saksena, D. ‘“Learning not-to-be, to come into being”: D H Lawrence's Aesthetic Vision and Philosophy in the Early Novels.’ Ninth

International D. H. Lawrence Conference. Kyoto, Japan, July 2003.

Saksena, D. ‘Chthonic Celebration of Life: Egypt’s Cleopatra with reference to Shaw and Shakespeare.’ International Seminar on the

Imaging of Women in Myth and History. Gargi College, Delhi University, November 1996.

Saksena, D.’Dream Psychosis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ International Seminar on Shakespeare’s Problem Plays. The British

Council with The Shakespeare Society of India, Delhi, March 1995.

Saksena, D., Hasnain, T. ‘Gender as Power: Contemporary Literary and Cinematic Texts.’ Seminar on Power and Punishment, St

Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Dec. 1994.

Saksena, D. ‘The Concept of Empire: Deuteronomy and Troilus & Cressida.’ The Shakespeare Society of India, April 1993.

Saksena, D. ‘Children’s Fiction of the Edwardian Age: with special reference to Susan Coolidge, Louisa Alcott and Richmal Crompton.’

Inter-university Seminar on The Child in Literature, Hansraj College, Delhi University, December 1992.

Saksena, D. ‘Shakespeare’s Cleopatra: The Forgotten Factor of Ancient Egypt.’ The Shakespeare Society of India, August 1991.

Saksena, D. ‘Points of Viewing: A Study of Shakespeare’s Antony & Cleopatra and Troilus & Cressida.’ International Shakespeare

Seminar, Department of English, Delhi University with The Shakespeare Society of India, December 1989.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Book Manuscript

Saksena, D. (2013-15). All It Takes: A Monkey & A Shotgun, (under preparation). Uses biography, memoir and historical sub-sets to

examine the coming of age experience of young men and women in pre-independence India circa 1925 to 1949.

Research Project

Saksena, D (2012-continuing): “Calculated Gazes: Search for Selfhood, Manipulations of Discourse and Beyond:” Situated in an interdisciplinary academic milieu, the project addresses the historical, political, literary and cultural

parameters within which women participated in India’s freedom movement instead of being marginalized as gendered ciphers and statistics. The continuum of the influence of the epic tradition and its operational effectiveness is unique to India. Using the wide range of political, social, and cultural texts generated by the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, the informing framework of the research uses Foucauldian concepts of surveillance and discipline to re-read manipulations of the Indian epic discourse. These are subject simultaneously to manipulation by both creator(s) and receiver(s). Thus, my project will collate and create a digital database of epic discourse from multiple sources—literature, folk memoirs, mythologies, --films, posters, pamphlets and correspondence– and interrogate multi-media cultural phenomena and artifacts to examine how a national identity for India and Indian women during and following the independence movement has been established, propagated and sustained.

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Research Paper Kapoor A. & Saksena, D. (2015). ‘Friendship Networks in Adolescent Girls in Urban India: A Case Study.’ Examines theory and

practical aspects of network formations in adolescents using computational and sociological strategies.

RESEARCH EVALUATION & SUPERVISION

2012-2013: Research Advisor for one PhD dissertation and one MA thesis at Shiv Nadar University..

2008: External Examiner for evaluating PhD Thesis on Modern Poetry: Yashu Rai: “Kamala Das: A Study in Confessional Mode of

Poetry” supervised by Dr K B Singh, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India.

2006 - 2009: Examiner for PhD Field Examinations in Anglophone Literature, Middle Tennessee State University Graduate Program.

Responsibilities include

preparation of reading list, field examinations, and questions database

preparing and reading field examinations

conducting oral exam for successful candidates

2006 – 2009: Examiner for PhD Field Examinations in Modern British Literature and British Modernism, Middle Tennessee State

University Graduate Program,. Responsibilities include

preparation of reading list, field examinations, and questions database

preparing and reading field examinations

conducting oral exam for successful candidates

AWARDS & FUNDING

Institution Award Year(s) Value/Details

Middle Tennessee State U Reassigned time 3 credit hrs 2006 USD 2500. Assisted in establishing of

University Fellowships Office

Middle Tennessee State U Conference travel funding 2007,2006 USD 800. For international travel

George Washington U Conference travel funding 2004 USD 800. For international travel

George Washington U Graduate Teaching Award 2002 Nomination

George Washington U University Fellowship &

Graduate Teaching

Assistantship

1999 to

2003

Four-year fellowship of value USD

31,000 per annum

Indraprastha College for

Women, Delhi University

First position in M.A. English

at college level

1979 INR 250. Academic merit award

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

New Frontiers in Global Learning & Communication-2013-14:

-Participated in intensive workshop-cum-training for design of online courses and teaching materials, and use of new

technologies in the classroom for teaching, response, assessment and evaluation. Jointly organized by University of

Massachusetts-Boston (USA), Center for Entrepreneurship & Career Oriented Programs & Shaheed Rajguru College of Applied

Sciences for Women, University of Delhi, 28 Dec 2013 – 2 Jan 2014.

The George Washington University:

-Center for Instructional Design and Development: as a participant in SIWI 2004 Teaching Toolbox: received training in design

of online courses and faculty websites for instruction using Blackboard and software like Dreamweaver and Adobe Access

July 2004.

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University of Delhi:

-Center for Professional Development of Higher Education:

(1)Teachers’ Refresher Course in Women’s Studies, April-May 1998

(2)Teachers’ Orientation Course (144 hours) OR-24 Curriculum Development, 1994-1995

-Certificate Course in Film Appreciation, Gargi College, 1995

-National Gallery of Modern Art Certificate in Art Appreciation, 1995-1996

Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi:

-Computational Linguistics. Basic and Advanced Certificates, (Government of India National Language Teachers’ Training

Program), June-July 1994.

The Royal Society of Arts, UK: Completed course-work for Diploma TEFL/TESL Teaching of English as a Foreign & Second Language,

1986-1987.

UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE SERVICE

Shiv Nadar University

2012-13: Graduate Student Advisor, English Department.

Member, University Library Committee, and Library Journals & Building sub-committees.

Member, University Committee on Sensitization of Gender

Member, Academic Council.

Okanagan College

2012: Member, College Arts Committee.

Middle Tennessee State University

2008-2009: Women’s Studies Program, MTSU: Member, Director Search Committee, Member, Library Committee, Member,

WMST Conference Committee.

2006-07: Co-sponsor of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honors Society, assisting students preparing to present papers at the

Society’s annual convention.

2005-2006: Recording Secretary, International Programs and Services Committee,

2004-2008: Member English Department ESL Committee (2 x 2-year term)

2005 Member, English Department Full-time Temporary Instructor Search Committee

2005-2009 Associate Member, Graduate Council

2004-2009 Member Women’s Council

The George Washington University

2003: Faculty Member, Review Committee, GWU Shapiro-Bender Scholarships Program.

2002-2003: Student member, Department of English Graduate Studies Committee,

August 2002: International Services Office, Orientation Program for International Students. Group leader, “Adjusting to Life

in the U.S.” and Speaker for panel discussion on “Academic Success in the U.S. Classroom”

University of Delhi

May-July 1998: Assistant Coordinator, Delhi University Evaluation Center for Examinations in English, at Gargi College, Delhi.

1997-98: Member, Department of English Syllabus Revision Committee for B.A. English (Honors) with specific responsibility for

courses on World Literature, Women’s Writing, Literature in Translation.

1995-98: Evaluator, Delhi University Annual Examination, for B.A., English Honors, for (1)“Renaissance Drama” and (2)“The

English Novel in the 18th

& 19th

Centuries.”

1994-96: Member, Executive Committee and Ad hoc Treasurer, The Shakespeare Society of India,

Gargi College, University of Delhi, India

1997-98: Teacher-in-Charge of the College Department of English,

1996-98: Member, College Magazine Committee and Editorial Board,

1995-98: Member, Committees for English Honors and Extra-curricular Admissions,

1996-98: Co-convener of the College Drama Society, Responsible for student and staff productions of Purgatory (W. B. Yeats),

St. Joan ( G. B. Shaw), Catastrophe (Samuel Beckett), Madhavi (Bhisham Sahni).

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MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS & NETWORKS

2012-pres Research Gate Network 2014-pres Chronicle of Higher Education Network 2014-pres American Association for Adult & Continuing Education 2014-pres NAFSA-Association of International Educators 2014-pres Higher Education and Research Forum 2014-2015 AMOL online course and MOOCs design systems

2002-pres The D. H. Lawrence Society of North America, (DHLSNA), USA

2000-2009 The Modern Language Association of America (MLA), USA

2003-2005 South Asian Literature Association, (SALA), USA

2002-2004 Literature/Film Association, USA

1989-LIFE The Shakespeare Society of India, New Delhi, India (formerly affiliated with The International

Shakespeare Association, UK)

PROFESSIONAL EVENT ORGANIZATION & SUPPORT 04/2005 Second Biennial Conference on Children’s Literature, Nashville, TN, Session chair and moderator.

03/2005 The Modern Language Association of America Women and Power Interdisciplinary Conference in Women’s

Studies, MTSU, Moderator.

05/2004 Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture & Society (GWU)Organizing Committee

01/2004 Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu. Reviewer in English.

11/1996 International Seminar on the Imaging of Women in Myth and History, Gargi College, Delhi University.

Stage adaptation of The Woman (Edward Bond).

03/1995 International Seminar on Shakespeare’s Problem Plays,The Shakespeare Society of India with The British

Council, New Delhi, Executive Committee.

02/1995 International Seminar on Re-reading the Romantics, Department of English, Delhi University, Logistics and

Reception Committee.

12/1994 International Conference on Henry James, Department of English, Delhi University, Organizational support and

Registration.

DISSERTATION & RESEARCH: Published. (Details available)

Institution Dates Brief Description of Project

Department of English, The

George Washington

University, Washington DC,

USA

August 1999 –

May 2003

Doctoral Dissertation, under Prof. Margaret Rapp Soltan.

“The Shimmer Not the Shape of Things: The Aesthetic

Philosophy of D. H. Lawrence”

Defense Examination Committee: Prof Alf Hitebeitel, Prof R.

Ganz, Prof Vikram Chandra, Prof. Judith A. A. Plotz, Prof. J.

Green-Lewis, Prof. C. Sten.

Department of English,

University of

Manchester, UK

January –October

1984

Research project under Prof. D. J. Palmer on women in

Shakespeare’s problem plays

MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES & COMPETENCIES

01/2014 Panelist and Moderator, “Girls in ICT Day” Panel Discussion, jointly organized by CISCO and Shaheed Rajguru

College of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi.

2012-13 ‘ Co-owner’ of Falcons Football Team at Shiv Nadar University, India.

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01/2012 Panelist and contributor, Roundtable on Academic Writing, Okanagan College Penticton campus.

11/2011 Assisted with fundraiser event ‘Taste of India’ for Okanagan College Students in Need Fund.

01-05/2005 Designed and taught communicative language course ‘Beginning Hindi’ (for effective spoken and written

interaction with native speakers in appropriate settings with reference to the culture of north India) under

aegis of the Middle Tennessee State University Program for Continuing Education.

01-04/2005 Helped to inaugurate folk art youth-group MAYA (Multicultural Artistes and Young Achievers) of Murfreesboro:

Choreographed and taught Indian folk dance performance “Dandia: Celebration of Spring” for MTSU

International Day.

07-08/2007 ‘Friends of India at Murfreesboro’ (FIAM): Choreographed and taught Indian folk dance for under-14 girls’ group

performance, Independence Day celebration.

10-12/2003 The World Bank Group, Washington DC: Participant and performer, Series & Finale Performances,

Showcase India, ‘Celebration of Cultures’

TRAINING & COMPETENCIES:

Classical Indian art forms: 6 years’ training in Kathak at ‘Sangeet Bharati,’ New Delhi, India.

Multi-cultural competencies through international residence, study and travel in the United States, India,

Canada, the United Kingdom and at the Indian Embassy, Moscow

LANGUAGES

Native capability: English, Hindi; Advanced: Sanskrit Intermediate: French, Russian;

Basic: Latin, German, Punjabi, Gujarati

COURSES TAUGHT & DESIGNED: Details available separately.

Okanagan

College

September

2011 to May

2012

(British Columbia, Canada)

Freshman

Literature

Poetry &

Drama

Spring 2012 For English majors, introduction to critical writing and reading, introduction

to Poetry & Drama, using selections of poetry from medieval to

contemporary, including modern Canadian poets, and drama from classical

to modern (Sophocles Oedipus Rex, Shakespeare Hamlet, Ibsen A Doll’s

House and Stoppard Rosencratz and Guildenstern Are Dead)

Short Fiction

& the Novel

Spring 2012 For English majors, introduction to the novel and short story genres, using

Bronte Wuthering Heights, Dickens Hard Times, Hesse Siddhartha and

selection of short fiction by James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Frank O’Connor,

O’Henry, Saki and P.G. Wodehouse.

Narrative Fall 2011 For English majors, freshman, introduction to narrative, in poetry and

prose, from the classical to the contemporary. A range of authors and

topics covered including Alfred Noyes, Loreena McKennitt, Samuel Pepys,

Siegfried Sassoon, James Joyce and Jerome K. Jerome et al.

Writing &

Composition

Freshman

University

Writing

Fall 2011 /

Spring 2012

Using thematic framework ‘Myth and History’ including sub-sets of folklore

and fairy tale and ‘Mystery, Miracle, Macabre,’ including sub-sets of

detective fiction, Gothic, horror and the supernatural. Assignments

concentrate on reading, analysis, critical reasoning, documentation styles,

library research and the writing process.

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Middle Tennessee

State University

Women’s

Studies

2005 to 2009 (Murfreesboro, TN, USA)

“Introduction to

Women’s

Studies”

2005 to 2009 Introductory course designed to expose students to a variety of issues

and disciplinary approaches to the study of women and gender, with

primary focus on women's issues in the modern post 1800 world. In

addition to assigned readings from theory and literary texts, also

examines representations of women and their condition in film and other

media.

“Women and

Leadership”

2006 Examines critically and analyzes leadership tasks and accountability,

strategies and constraints, power and decision making, inter-cultural

tensions and dilemmas, ethics and leadership styles, and the

organization and resource-mobilization in the struggle by women’s

organizations for social development and human rights.

“Feminist

Theory”

2008 For Women’s Studies minors; provides overview and detail of feminist

theory from 18th century to contemporary.

Middle Tennessee

State University

English 2004 to

2009

(Murfreesboro, TN, USA)

Upper Division

Literature Courses

Introduction to

Literary Studies

Fall 2009 For English majors, upper division course on Literary Theory, from the

classical to the contemporary. A range of authors and topics covered

including Aristotle, Horace, Sidney, Kant, Wordsworth, Coleridge, T. S.

Eliot, Saussure, Derrida, Foucault, de Beauvoir, Irigaray, Cixous,

Greenblatt, et al.

Special Topics:

War and

Literature:

Fall 2008 “Shell-shock, trench-trauma and the literary battle scars of World War

One.” Course examines several, now-neglected, masterpieces by British,

American and European writers of the period, to see how each in its own

artistic terms both succeeds and fails to respond adequately to the

horrors of the trenches.

“Lyric Poetry” Summer

2006

For English majors, upper division course on development of the lyric

genre, its various forms and its traditions from ancient to contemporary

times.

“The Modern

Novel”

2007 For English majors, the English novel from Woolf and Conrad to Lessing

and Amis, with a special component devoted exclusively to reading

Ulysses.

“Modern British

Literature”

2007 Specialist course on British Modernism for English majors/seniors: Works

of W.B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce,

Joseph Conrad.

Upper Division

Literature Survey

“British Literature

II –from the 18th

century to the

present”

2006 to

2008

For English majors. Course examines issues that emerge from the

English Civil War and the French Revolution, Victorian dilemmas about

power and faith, and the First World War, to see how literature as art

becomes the means for an individual to hold on to his/her sanity and

survive in a world of chaos where “things fall apart/The center cannot

hold.” Includes a detailed reading of Frankenstein.

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Lower Division

Literature Survey

“Experience of

Literature”

August

2004 to

2009

Introduction to literary genres and devices, using the Bedford Anthology

of English Literature, to fulfill required general education credits.

Freshman Writing &

Composition

Expository

Writing

2004 to

2005

Required credit course, linked with “Writing for ESL Students.”

Departmental approved text.

Writing:

Research &

Argument

2004 to

2005

Required credit course. Departmental approved texts, e.g., One World

Many Cultures.

The George

Washington

University

1999 to 2004 (Washington DC, USA)

Literature Surveys British

Literature:

“Medieval to

18th century”

2001 to 2002 Sophomore, general requirement course, first part of British literature

survey (includes works of Chaucer & Shakespeare, Beowulf, Dr Faustus,

Hamlet, Paradise Lost)

British

Literature:

“The French

Revolution to

the 20th

century”

2002 to 2004 Sophomore, general requirement, course, second part of British

Literature survey. Modernist concerns of alienation, disillusionment and

fragmentation (including Heart of Darkness, The Waste Land, Sons and

Lovers and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Irish writers (Shaw,

Wilde, Yeats, Heaney) and contemporary representations from

Anglophonic (Asian, Latin-American and African-American) literature).

Specialist

Undergraduate

Courses

Postcolonial

Literature

2003 For juniors & seniors. Specialist undergraduate survey of postcolonial

Anglophone literature and film (Achebe, Atwood, Castle, Kureishi,

Ondaatje, Young).

Comedy 2002 to 2004 Specialist undergraduate survey (a selection of dramatic texts ranging

from Lysistrata, Tartuffe, The Taming of the Shrew, Volpone, and The

School for Scandal to Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest,

Accidental Death of an Anarchist and Noises Off, as well as

representative works of Edward Lear and P. G. Wodehouse) to illustrate

conventions of the commedia dell’arte.

Freshman

Composition

Expository

Writing

2001 to 2003 Theme-based writing courses using Feminist/ Psychoanalytical theory:

Imaging of Women in Folk & Fairy Tale ; Bergson’s theory of laughter;

Cultural Materialism; Foucauldian concepts, the panopticon gaze,

Western and Indian epics .

University of Delhi 1989-98; 1980-

83

(New Delhi, India)

Graduate (M.A.)

course on British

modernism:

The English

Novel

1993-1998 Tutorial classes at college-level.to extend university department lectures:

‘The English Novel 1900-1950.’ Forster, Conrad, James Joyce, D. H.

Lawrence.

Undergraduate

B.A Honors &

B.A/B.Sc./B.Com

general courses

1989-98;

1980-83

English Literature for Honors students; English Language for general and

subsidiary courses for majors other than English. Lecture classes &

tutorial/preceptorial meetings at college-level

TOPICS/Authors include: 17th -20

th century Poetry; Renaissance Drama;

Tragedy (Classic to Modern); Biblical texts/Classics ; Fiction: from the 18th

to the 20th century. Emily Brontë, Dickens, Conrad, Lawrence, Hemingway

Divya Saksena, PhD

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Shiv Nadar

University

2012 to 2014 (NCR, India)

Instructional

Design

2012-13 Program and Curriculum Design for undergraduate and graduate courses in

English and Writing, from Freshman Undergraduate to Master”s and Doctoral

Programs.

Graduate Courses

for M.A. & Ph.D.

students

“Introduction to

Gender Studies”

2012-13 Introductory course designed to expose students to a variety of issues and

disciplinary approaches to the study of women and gender, with primary focus

on women's issues in the modern post 1800 world. In addition to assigned

readings from theory and literary texts, also examines representations of

women and their condition in film and other media.

“18th to 19

th

century Prose”

2013 Examines critically and analyzes leadership tasks and accountability,

strategies and constraints, power and decision making, inter-cultural tensions

and dilemmas, ethics and leadership styles, and the organization and

resource-mobilization in the struggle by women’s organizations for social

development and human rights.

Undergraduate:

Freshman Majors

“Exploring

Literature”

2012 Introduction to literary genres and devices, using classic texts like Oedipus

Rex, Hamlet, A Doll House, selected poems by seminal authors like Keats and

T. S Eliot, and selected short stories by representative writers like Joyce,

Steinbeck, Lawrence, Chitra Divakurni and others.

Academic Writing 2012 Using literary texts like The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, introduces

students to academic writing processes. Assignments concentrate on reading,

analysis, critical reasoning, documentation and citation styles, library research

and stages of the writing process.

REFERENCES (with Transcripts & Dossier) available through Interfolio Credentials Service, USA