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Bhoomika Meiling

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Affiliation

  • Assistant Professor , School of Letters

Email

    bhoomika@aud.ac.in

Qualification

  • Ph. D. 

Centre for English Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2014.  Title of the thesis: ‘Surviving Nationalisms: A Study of Island Novels from Eighteenth to Twenty-first Century’

  • M.Phil. 

Centre for English Studies, School of Languages, Literatures and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2009. Title of the dissertation: ‘The Poetics and Politics of Translation: A Post-colonial Reading of Alka Saraogi’s novels Kalikatha: Via Bypass (1998) and Shesh Kadambari (2001)’

Post-graduation & Graduation:

  • MA English, Centre for Linguistics and English, SLL & CS, JNU, 2006.
  • BA (hons.) English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi,   2004.


 

Past Experience

Teaching   Experience:

  • 15 years of teaching at UG, PG and PhD level at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD)
  • Before joining AUD, taught at reputed Delhi University Colleges such as Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Jesus and Mary College and Hindu College. 

Area of Expertise

  • Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature
  • Study of literary forms, especially the Epic, the Legend, the Novel and the Short Story
  • American, African, Russian Literatures, World Literature and Folklore
  • Translation studies, Culture studies, Theories of Nationalism, the Public Sphere, Disability and Neurodiversity Studies
  • The Epic Traditions of Mahabharat and Ramayan

Awards

  • Junior Research Fellowship granted by UGC.
  • Best Student in English (1st in University of Delhi, South Campus), LSR, 2003-2004 and 2001-02.

Publications

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS: Papers in Peer-reviewed/ UGC CARE journals

  • Meiling, B. (2009). Kishore Babu’s soliloquy: woeful has been the           story                                        of this life. JSL, New Series 11, 146-149.
  • Meiling, B. (2015). Woman and desire in the Sawan folksongs. MZU Journal of Literature and Culture Studies, 2 (2), 50-69
  • Meiling, B. (2015). In the wake of decolonization: writers’ response to political catastrophe in Nigeria”. Research and Criticism, 6, 67-71
  • Meiling, B. (2019). Songs of festivity: folk and film songs about Holi. Shodh Sarita, 6 (24), 83-87.
  • Meiling, B. (2020). ‘The sieve with sixteen soles’: intertexts and intersections in Alka Saraogi’s Over to you, Kadambari (2004). Shodh Sarita, 7 (26), 39-43.
  • Meiling, B. (2021). ‘Via Bypass’: history, fiction and metafiction in Alka Saraogi’s Kalikatha: Via Bypass (1998). Shodh Kosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts, 2 (2), 429-434.
  • Meiling, B. (2022). R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island: negotiating masculinity, nation and the empire. Shodh Kosh: Journal of  Visual and Performing Arts, 3 (1). 1060-1066.
  • Meiling, B., & Singh A. (2022). Negotiations of the diasporic self in M.G. Vassanji’s  The Magic of Saida (2012). JHAS, XII (3), 1-8.
  • B. Meiling. & Singh A. (2023). Folk tellings of Ramayan and Mahabharat:manifestations of the Indian knowledge tradition. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Patrika, 42 (2.i), 263-266
  • Meiling, B. (2024). Literature and politics in curriculum making: teaching twentieth   century Russian literature in India. Journal of Humanities and Applied Sciences, XIII (4), 28-34.
  • Meiling, B. (2024). ‘In the shade of freedom’: history, identity and hybridity in Alka Saraogi’s early novels. International Researcher’s Journal, XI (3) 31-38.
  •  Kumar, A. & Meiling B. (2024). The ethic question and the problem of nothing:the many challenges of reading J. M. Coetzee's fictions. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Patrika, 43 (2), 91-94.
  •  Singh, A. & Meiling B. (2024). Kumbh Mela and the mytho-spatial consciousness: new directions. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Patrika, 43 (2), 47-49.
  • Meiling B. (2025). Robinsonades and nationalism: understanding the curious case of Wyss's Swiss family Robinson. The Expression, 11. (1)34-43.
  • Ao J. I. & Meiling, B. (2025). Women’s integral role in pre-colonial Ao Naga  warrior culture. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Patrika, 44 (1), 9-12
  • Meiling B. (2025). An image of India: reading Alka Saraogi’s Ek Break Ke   Baad (2008). International Researcher’s Journal, XII (4), 1-4.
  • Meiling B. (2025). Robinson Crusoe and Lemuel Gulliver: divergent                                               protagonists from the age of Enlightenment. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh                                Patrika, 44 (1), 1-8.
  • Gupta, J. & Meiling B. (2025). Narrators and narration in Muddupalani's ‘Radhika    Santwanam’. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Patrika, 44 (2), 114-118.

PUBLICATIONS IN CULTURAL PRESS:

  • Published 37 interviews with different JNU alumni as Student Correspondent, JNU News, a bimonthly newsletter published by Public Relations Office, JNU. (2006 – 2009)
  • Meiling, B. (2016, September 24) “On the Origin and Progress of the Novel” (Review  of the book Understanding the Novel: A Theoretical Overview by Albeena  Shakil). EPW, Vol LI, No. 39, 31-34.

Seminar/Conferences

CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • Presented paper titled as ‘Art, Mysticism and Politics: A Brief Study of Nicholas Roerich’s Work about India’ at an International Conference celebrating 60 years of Centre of Russian Studies, JNU, 12-15 November, 2025
  • Presented paper titled as ‘Fifty years in the Quest of Mahabharat: Brook and Carriere’s Orientalism and Far Beyond’ at a National Conference on The Discursive Expanse of the Mahabharat organized by Deshik, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi in September 2024Presented paper titled as ‘Songs of Festivity: A study of Folk and Cinematic Narratives of Holi’ at the 2016 Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society held at Miami, Florida, 19-22 October, 2016.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘The Female Other in Avadhi Folksongs: Reading
  • Desire in Sawan’ at National Seminar on ‘Interrogating Manuscript Traditions’ held at AUD , 24-25 March, 2015.
  • Presented paper titled as ‘Magic and Medicine: The Diasporic Worldview in
  • The Magic of Saida’ at International Seminar on ‘Migrations, Boundaries, Transgression: Commemorating the Komagata Maru Incident’ held at Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University, 18-19 February, 2015.
  • Presented a paper titled as ‘In the Wake of Decolonization: Writers’ Response to Political Catastrophe in Africa’ at National Seminar on ‘Intersections: History and Literature’ organized by Dept. of English, Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, DU on 11th and12th of March, 2014.
  • Presented a paper titled as ‘Dreams of the Rich and the Poor: Reading Alka Saraogi’s Ek Break ke Baad and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger’ at the International Conference on ‘Comparative Cultural Studies: Towards New Postcolonial Paradigms’ organized by IACLALS from 27th to 29th January 2011.
  • Presented a paper titled as ‘The Fall of Gynocracy: An Analysis of 20th Century Representations by Women Writers of Native American Tribes’ at a Seminar held at American Information Resource Center, New Delhi on 16th February, 2006 to mark the Black History Month.
  • Presented a paper titled as ‘Representing India: A Post-colonial Reading of the translation of Raag Darbari’ at national seminar on ‘Translating Narratives: Culture and Hybridity’ held at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi in February, 2004.

 

 

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