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amarjeet@niser.ac.in
PhD, Indian Institute of Techonology Kanpur (2009)
MA, Hyderabad Central University
BA, Ravenshaw College
Courses Taught at NISER, Bhubaneswar:
Select List of Publications in Journals
BOOK CHAPTERS:
1.Nayak, Amarjeet. "Syncretic Jagannath Culture and Popular Odia Imagination: Representations of Lord Jagannath in Odia Cinema" published in Bonding with the Lord: Jagannath, Popular Culture and Community Formation, 2019. Eds. Jyotirmay Tripathy and Uwe Skoda. Bloomsbury Publications, New Delhi, India
2. Sethi, Bijay Kumar and Amarjeet Nayak. “Departure from Speciesism to New Humanities in Selected Short Stories from North-East India”, Perspectives on New Literatures: Postcolonial Responses, Eds. R. Janatha Kumari and Chitra Trivikram Nair, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2015. pp. 60 – 68.
3. Nayak, Amarjeet. “Debunking the Stereotypes: A Close Reading of Selected Short Fiction in English from the Northeast India" in an edited volume titled Discourse on Marginality: Identity, Diaspora and Other Issues, Ed. Manash Pratim Borah & Deepak Anaware (Wizcraft Publications), 2013. pp. 71 – 78.
4. Nayak, Amarjeet. “What does it mean to be an Untouchable? A Study of the Many Contours of Subjugation and “independence” in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable” in Social Exclusion Inclusion Continuum: A Paradigm Shift, eds. V. Rama Krishna, R. Shashidhar, M. Muniraju. Neruta Publishing House, Bangalore, 2012. pp. 01 – 13.
5. Nayak, Amarjeet. "Sweeping Generalizations and False Dichotomies: An Examination of the Insider-Outsider Dichotomy in Anjum Hasan's Lunatic in My Head", ed. Indu Swami. Exploring North-East Indian Writings in English, Vol. 2, New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers, 2011. pp. 44 – 55.
6. Nayak, Amarjeet. “Westward Ho! Half-baked realities and the fully formed Stereotypes in The White Tiger”, ed. R. K. Dhawan. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger: A Symposium of Critical Response, New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2011. pp. 158 – 164.
7. Nayak, Amarjeet. "An Examination of the Notion of a Nation State in Siddhartha Deb's Surface", Ed. Indu Swami (Assam Central University), Exploring North-East Indian Writings in English, Vol. 1, New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers, 2010. pp. 165 – 176.
Conferences / Seminars / Workshops:
Chairperson, school of Humanities and Social Sciences (July 2020 Onwards)