Advisory Board
- Dr Anup Singh Beniwal
Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email: anupbeniwal@ipu.ac.in
Bio note: With over 38 years of academic and research experience, Professor Beniwal has served as a faculty member at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences (USHSS), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), since 1999. Appointed Professor in 2007, he has taught English Language and Literature and pursued research in literature, culture, translation, and communication studies. He has authored seven books and published extensively in scholarly journals, alongside contributing translations, reviews, and opinion pieces. He has supervised 16 PhD scholars, 28 MPhil dissertations, and 84 postgraduate research projects. His editorial contributions include Critical Practice and Indraprasth, and he serves on the advisory and editorial boards of several academic publications. His extensive administrative experience at GGSIPU includes serving as Vice-Chancellor, Dean of USHSS, and Director of Academic Affairs, among other leadership positions. He has also served on committees and academic bodies constituted by the UGC, CEC, and NAAC, as well as various universities across India. Throughout his distinguished career, he has remained deeply committed to teaching, regarding the classroom as the central space of his academic and professional vocation. - Dr Ashutosh Mohan
Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email: ashutosh.ushss@ipu.ac.in
Bio Note: Prof. Mohan is working as a Professor of English at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GGSIPU. He joined Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in July 2008. His area of interest is English Literature. - Dr Manpreet Kaur Kang
Professor, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
In-charge, School of Film Making
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
New Delhi
Secretary, MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World)
Former President, IASA (International American Studies Association)
E-mail: manpreetkang.ipu@gmail.com
Bio Note: Manpreet Kaur Kang (PhD in English, Panjab University, 2002) is a Professor of English at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India and is also In-charge of the School of Film Making. She is also a member of the Academic Council of the University. She was an IFUSS Fellow, Virtual Research Residency, International Forum for US Studies: A Centre for the Transnational Study of the United States, University of Illinois, 17 Jan–13 May 2023. She was a Faculty Research Shastri Fellow at the University of British Columbia in 2009. Her areas of interest are Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, American Literature and Literatures of the Diaspora. She recently co-edited an anthology titled There’s a Spirit in the Woods: Global Perspectives on Literature and Ecology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). - Dr Vivek Sachdeva
Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Founding President, Association for Film Studies in South Asia (AFSSA)
Email: viveksachdeva@ipu.ac.in
Bio-Note: Prof. Vivek Sachdeva is a Professor of English at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, and the Founding President of the Association for Film Studies in South Asia (AFSSA). His core academic work spans adaptation studies, Hindi cinema, and Punjabi cinema. He has published widely and authored multiple books, including Fiction to Film: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's The Householder and Heat and Dust (Orient BlackSwan, 2017), Shyam Benegal's India: Alternative Images (Routledge, 2020), and the short fiction collection The Biryani Shop and Other Stories (2022). He is also the co-editor of Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions (Routledge, 2019) and South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s) (Routledge, 2025). In addition to his critical studies, Prof. Sachdeva has translated Punjabi Partition plays into English—anthologised in Plays from a Fractured Land (Sahitya Akademi)—and translated the Punjabi poetry section for Humanistic Concerns in Punjabi Literature (Orient BlackSwan). - Dr Shuchi Sharma
Professor & Dean
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email: dean.ushss@ipu.ac.in
Bio Note: Shuchi Sharma is Professor and Dean at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi, where she also serves as a member of the Academic Council. Holding a doctorate in Ibsen’s drama, she taught at Delhi University before joining GGSIPU in 2005. Her teaching and research expertise spans Modern Drama, Contemporary Indian Hindi Theatre, Gender Studies, Non-Verbal Communication, and theatre as pedagogy. Additionally, she is the Founding President of the Women's Association for Social Protection and Justice (WASPJ) and actively researches theatre for women's empowerment. She is the editor of Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025). - Dr Chetna Tiwari
Associate Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email: chetna.ushss@ipu.ac.in
Bio Note: Dr Chetna Tiwari is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka, Delhi. For more than 22 years, she has been teaching postgraduate and undergraduate classes. Her fields of research are Indian Writings in English, Writings of Indian Diaspora, and Cultural Studies. Dr Tiwari has published extensively in renowned Journals and is the editor of three books and an International journal. Many scholars are working under her guidance for their PhD degree, and around 80 students have completed their master’s dissertations under her guidance. - Dr Naresh Vats
Associate Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email: naresh.ushss@ipu.ac.in
Bio Note: Dr Naresh K. Vats is an Associate Professor. He teaches English, Indian Aesthetics &Theory, Film Studies, and Communication Skills in the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GGSIP University, New Delhi, India. He has travelled extensively within India, in Europe and in America. Prof. Vats has presented a number of research papers, given plenary talks, conducted workshops, and published several research articles. He has guided several PhD, M.Phil. and M.A. dissertations. As an aware citizen, he does his bit to contribute to the betterment of society and humanity. He is committed to 'Bharatiya ethos and sanskara', 'World peace', and 'Existence with Harmony'. - Dr Shubhanku Kochar
Associate Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email: shubhankukochar@ipu.ac.in
Bio Note: Dr Shubhanku Kochar is an Associate Professor in University School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He specialises in African Literatures in English and Literature and Environment. His latest publications are Environmental Post-Colonialism: A Literary Response (2021, Lexington Books), Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism (2023, Lexington Books), Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral: Representation of City and Village in Literature (2024, Ibidem/ Columbia University Press) along with Beyond the Ocean: Literature History and the British Empire, and Poverty and Pollution: Environmental Casteism and Dalit Literature 2026, both by Springer. His recent published work is Spectre of Scarcity and Hunger: Indian Literature and the Idea of Famine, 2026 by Routledge. - Dr Arun Malik
Assistant Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email- arunmalik.ushss@ipu.ac.in
Bio Note: Dr. Arun Malik is an Assistant Professor of English at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi. He holds a PhD in English from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, and has teaching experience at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. His academic and research interests include Indian Writing in English, Feminist literary criticism, Gender studies, and Postcolonial literature. His research focuses on representations of women, identity, freedom, and self-discovery in Indian English literature. - Saurabh Maji
Assistant Professor
University School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Email: saurabh.m@ipu.ac.in
Bio Note: Saurabh Majhi is an Assistant Professor of English at the University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GGSIPU, Delhi. His research interests include contemporary Japanese literature, with a sustained focus on the works of Haruki Murakami through the frameworks of narratology, masculinity studies, and cultural theory. His scholarship explores shifting masculine identities, narrative structures, memory, modernity, and cultural encounters in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan. He has presented his research at national conferences and academic forums and has received institutional recognition for his research contributions. His teaching and research interests emphasise interdisciplinary approaches, critical inquiry, and the study of Japanese literary traditions.
