Department of English
Geeta

Dr. Geeta

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Associate Professor

Email Id :geeta@manuu.edu.in

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Educational Qualifications:Ph.D.

Teaching Interest: Indian Literature in Translation, Women’s Writing, Dalit and Tribal Literature, Communication Skills and Contemporary Kannada Fiction

Profile of Geeta

Dr. Geeta is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English at Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad, with over nine years of teaching experience and presently guiding four Ph.D. scholars. She holds an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. from the Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi. Her doctoral thesis, “Transgression of Gendered Boundaries: An Enquiry into Rebel Women Characters in Select Kannada Novels,” offers a critical exploration of rebellious female protagonists and their negotiation of gendered identities in Kannada fiction.

She is the author of Beyond Boundaries: Voices of Shores (2025), published by Gyan Geeta Prakashan, New Delhi. Dr. Geeta has actively contributed to literary and cultural platforms, presenting her Banjara poetry with Hindi translation at Unmesha: International Literature Festival (Sahitya Akademi, 2025, Patna) and a Banjara short story with English translation at the All India Tribal Writers’ Meet (Sahitya Akademi, 2025, Raipur). She has also published three Hindi poems on Banjara identity: “बंजारा : पहचान का सफर,” “मेरी पहचान,” and “हाँ, मैं बंजारा हूँ”—in Samakaleen Bharatiya Sahitya (November–December 2025), Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi.

In addition to her scholarly contributions, she has demonstrated strong academic leadership by organizing a Two-Day National Conference, Reframing the Subaltern Narratives: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Insights (11–12 February 2026), under the Department of English, MANUU, Hyderabad. She also coordinated a One-Day National Symposium, Women Writing in India: Contemporary Perspectives and New Aesthetics, in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, held at MANUU on 10 March 2026.

Dr. Geeta has presented research papers at numerous national and international conferences and has published in reputed journals. She has also been invited as a Resource Person at various academic forums. Her areas of research interest include Indian Writing in English, Comparative Literature, Dalit Literature, Tribal/Adivasi Literature, and Women’s Writing.

Research Publication of Geeta

  1. The article entitled, Subversive Retellings: Women’s Voices and Inner Liberation in Volga’s The Liberation of Sita is published in an International Journal of English and Studies (IJOES) An International Peer-Reviewed and Refereed Journal. Volume 7, Issue 10. ISSN: 2581-8333. October 2025. P. No. 333-339.
  2. The article entitled, Unbound Voice: Feminist Resistance in A Story in This Way is published in The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Vol. 16, Issue. 4.  ISSN: 0976-8165. October 2025.
  3. The article entitled, Narrating the Margins: Caste, Gender and Identity is published in indexed, double-blind peer-reviewed Lang Lit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal Vol. 12, Issue 1 with ISSN 2349 – 5189. August- 2025. P.no. 280-285.
  4. The article entitled, Culture, Traditions and Transformations: A Study on Kannada Novel Havan is published in The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Vol. 16, Issue. I.  ISSN: 0976-8165. February 2025, P. No. 400-411.  
  5. The article entitled, Desdemona as a Subversive Daughter and Submissive Wife: Reading Shakespeare’s Othello is published in Bodhi International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Science, Vol. 8.  No.4 - ISSN: 2456-5571, July 2024 Regular Issue. 162-166.   
  6. The article entitled, The Unheard Story of a Banjara Warrior: With Special Reference to a Play the Banjara Warrior (2018) is published in The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Vol. 15, Issue. III.  ISSN: 0976-8165. June-2024. P. No. 204-212.
  7. The article entitled, Unending Dalit Procession: Analysis on Siddalingaiah’s poem Dalits are Coming is published in indexed, double-blind peer-reviewed Lang Lit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal Vol. 10, Issue 4 with ISSN 2349 – 5189. May- 2024. P.no. 17-21.
  8. The article entitled, A Critical Analysis on Caste and Gender in Shivaram Karanth’s Choma’s Drum (1978) is published in indexed, double-blind peer-reviewed Lang Lit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal: Vol.9 Issue 3, with ISSN 2349 – 5189. February, 2023. 21-28.
  9. The article entitled, Interior Conflicts in Vaidehi’s Chandaley is published in UGC referred International Journal Literary Insights (ISSN 0975-6248) Volume-10, Issue-1I, pp.233-241, January 2019.
  10. The Article entitled, The Cultural Representation and the Process of Modernization in Lambani Tribe of Karnataka is published in Indexed Lang Lit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal, Vol.2 Issue 4, with ISSN 2349 - 5189. 531-536. May 2016.
  11. The Article entitled, Postcolonialism and Indian Literature is published in Lang Lit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal, Vol.2 Issue 3, with ISSN 2349-5189. February 2016. 541-544.
  12. The Article entitled, Tradition and Colonial Modernity: Reading M.K Indira’s Phaniyamma (1976) is published in Research Chronicler: A Peer-reviewed and Indexed International Multidisciplinary Research Journal Vol. III, Issue IX-I with ISSN 2347-5021.   Special Issue: Post Modern Trends in Language and Literature. December. 2015. P. 84-87.
  13. The Article entitled, The Theme of Motherhood in Chandrashekhar Kambar’s Singarevva and the Palace published in LUMINAIRE: A Refereed Journal of the Department of Languages, Garden City College, Bangalore Vol.6, Issue 1, with the ISSN: 2249-2542 in 2016. P. 89-93.
  14. The Article entitled, Amerika Ki Pravasi Hindi Lekhikaon Ki Kahaniya Samaj aur Sanskriti Ka Dvandva published (jointly) in a book Bharatiya Aur Pravasi Hindi Katha Sahitya: Vartaman Paridrushya, Anbhai Parkashan: Mumbai. ISBN 978-81-908663-1-6. P. No 235 to 240.January. 2016.
  15. The Article entitled, Beyond the Margin: Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke published in Lang Lit: An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal VOL.2, ISSUE-2 with the ISSN 2349-5189 in November-2015. P. 657-660.
  16. The Article entitled, Transgression of Gendered Boundaries: Desires and Sexuality in Select Kannada Novels is published in Contemporary Research in India: A Peer-Reviewed Multi-Disciplinary International Journal with the ISSN 2231-2137. Special Issue: in April, 2015. P. 65-69.
  17. The article entitled, Subversion of Naranappa in U. R. Ananthmurthy’s Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man is published in an International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (IJMR) Vol. IV, Issue 1(ii) with the ISSN: 2277-9302, in April 2015. P. 50-51.