1. Courses Designed & Offered:

PG Level

1. Research Communication
2. Narratives & Worldmaking
3. Film Theory & Criticism

UG Level

1. Understanding Visual Culture
2. Literature & Coping Skills
3. Communication for Engineers
4. Leadership through Literature
5. Basic English (Only offered) 
6. Preparatory English

2. Courses Coordinated:

UG Level

1. Data & Digital Economy
2. Media Environment
3. Quality management & Business Strategies
4. Finance & Economics for Engineers

3. Extension Activities:

1. Subject Expert (English Language): Syllabus Committee for AICTE Induction Program 2020
    (Designed and developed English Language module)
2. Expert Reviewer: New Course Structure in Humanities & Management, Centre of Management & Humanities, Punjab       
    Engineering College (Deemed to be University)
3. Expert Reviewer: Course on Speculative Fiction, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management, IIT
    Bhubaneswar
4. Peer Reviewer: Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis

1. Research Groups:

    Medical & Health Humanities Research Group

    The research group in Medical and Health Humanities is exploring the intersections of medicine, health, and the human     
    experience through interdisciplinary approaches, bringing together insights from Literature, Film, and Cultural Studies. We
    are examining how narratives, representations, and social contexts shape understandings of health, illness, and care to
    foster a meaningful engagement of the arts and sciences to enrich medical education, healthcare practices, and public     
    understanding of health.

    Scholars:

    Mahua Bhattacharyya*
    Manvi Pandey
    Ryno Settrisman
    Ankita Nandi
    Pallavi Priya
    Nimisha Tiwari
    Anindita Paul

    *PhD Awarded

    Film and Cultural Studies Research Group 

    The research group in Film & Cultural Studies is exploring how cinema as a powerful medium of cultural, aesthetic, and
    political  discourse, reflects, constructs, and challenges social realities across diverse historical and geographical
    contexts.. We engage with a wide range of film traditions and cultural practices, with particular attention to questions of
    representation, reception, and transformation. 

    Scholars:

    Veeru Rajbhar*
    Pratyusha Pramanik*
    Sooraj SS* **
    Nikita Mittal
    Samridhi Thakur

    *PhD Awarded
    ** Co-Supervision

2. PhD Thesis Supervision:

    Awarded

    Sooraj SS* | Tensions in Heteropatriarchal Consensus: Men and Masculinities in Contemporary Kerala | 2024

    Mahua Bhattacharyya | Shedding the Burden, Moving Forward: A Comparative Study of Select Contemporary Indian and   
    American Breast Cancer Narratives | 2024

    Pratyusha Pramanik | From Maternal Paradox to Empowered  Mothering: Reconfiguration of Motherhood in Contemporary 
    Hindi Cinema | 2023

    Veeru Rajbhar | Kabir Seen through the Eyes of the People: Reception, Adaptation and Transcreation | 2022

    Christina Charan | The Problematic of Subjectivity: Looking Beyond Michael Foucault | 2022

     *(Co-Supervisor)

    Ongoing

    Nikita Mittal | Towards Disruptive Inclusion: New Men & Masculinities in Contemporary Bollywood

    Manvi Pandey | Constructing Autobiographical Selves: A Study of Female Performers in India

    Ryno Settrisman | Area: Mental Illness Recovery Narratives

    Samridhi Thakur | Area: Desiring Subjects & Female Sexual Desire

    Ankita Nandi | Area: Organ Transplant Experiences

    Pallavi Priya | Area: Mental Illness & Stigma

    Nimisha Tiwari | Area; Patient Consent & Autonomy

    Anindita Paul | Area: Abortion Narratives
 

3. Internship Supervision:

• Nikita Mittal, Ajit K Mishra. Changing/Unchanging Realities: Mapping Experiences of Same‐Sex Love vis‐à‐vis Section 377 Indian Penal Code Through Hostel Room 131 (2010) and Badhaai Do (2022). Sexuality, Gender & Policy (Wiley), 2025. SCOPUS
   
• Pratyusha Pramanik, Ajit K Mishra. The ‘ART’ of (Re)Production: Understanding Motherhood Beyond Biological Destiny. Journal of International Women's Studies (U of Bridgewater), 2025. SCOPUS
   
• Mahua Bhattacharyya, Ajit K Mishra. Mommy with a Different Body': Rethinking Motherhood through American Breast Cancer Memoirs.  Journal of International Women's Studies (U of Bridgewater), 2025. SCOPUS
   
• Mahua Bhattacharyya, Ajit K Mishra. Narratives of Reconstruction: Looking Beyond Biographical Disruption through Three Indian Breast Cancer Memoirs. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine (Sage), 2025. WoS & SCOPUS
   
• Mahua Bhattacharyya, Ajit K Mishra. Rethinking Gender and Epistemic Injustice: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Breast Cancer Memoirs. Humanities (MDPI), 2025. WoS & SCOPUS
   
• Ryno Settrisman, Ajit K Mishra. Journeys to functionality: A dimensional analysis of personal narratives of recovery from depression. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (Wiley). 2024. WoS & SCOPUS
   
• Pratyusha Pramanik, Ajit K Mishra. From the womb to the world: a study of pregnancy narratives by celebrity moms in India. Medical Humanities (BMJ) 2024. WoS & SCOPUS
   
• Nikita Mittal, Ajit K Mishra. Masking Sexuality: Studying Gay Men’s Closeting Strategies through Contemporary Bollywood. Quarterly Review of Film and Video (T&F), 2024. SCOPUS
   
• Pratyusha Pramanik, Ajit K Mishra. Changing Stories, Changing Lives: Reconfiguration of Mothering Practices in Contemporary Bollywood. Quarterly Review of Film and Video (T&F), 2023. SCOPUS
   
• Sooraj SS, Kavya Krishna KR, Ajit K Mishra. The Male Householder and the Hypermasculine Deity: Malayalam-Language Films Based on the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala. Visual Anthropology (T&F), 2023. WoS & SCOPUS
   
• Pratyusha Pramanik, Ajit K Mishra. Trajectories of Care: Representations of Empowered Mothering in Contemporary Bollywood. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English (U of Malaya), 2023. WoS & SCOPUS
   
• Mahua Bhattacharyya, Ajit K Mishra. To Weep or to Laugh: Studying Humour and Breast Talk through Indian Breast Cancer Narratives. Literary Voice, 2023. WoS
   
• Pratyusha Pramanik, Ajit K Mishra. Bad Mothers, Bad Daughters: A Study of Maternal Ambivalence in Avni Doshi's Girl in White Cotton and Renuka Shahane's Tribhanga. Literary Voice, 2023. WoS
   
• Pratyusha Pramanik, Ajit K Mishra. Matricentric Leadership: Vidya Balan and the Emergence of Alternative Leadership Style in Popular Hindi Cinema. Media Watch (Sage), 2023.
   
• Sooraj SS, Kavya Krishna KR, Ajit K Mishra. Undoing the Masculine Hero: Fahadh Faasil's Stardom in Contemporary Malayalam Cinema. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Australian National U), 2023. WoS & SCOPUS
   
• Mahua Bhattacharyya, Ajit K Mishra. Tabooing 'Ageing in Women': Paradoxes of Feminist Perspectives. Literary Voice, 2022. WoS
   
• Ajit K Mishra. Rethinking the India-Bharat Divide vis-à-vis COVID-19: Implications for a Sociolinguistics of Health Communication. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2020. WoS
   
• Ajit K Mishra. Navigating Precarity:(Re)mediation, Agency, and Human Security in Airlift. Literary Endeavour, 2019.
   
• Ajit K Mishra. The Insurmountable Malaise: Richard Wright's The Long Dream and the "Will to Being." Language in India, 2019.
   
• Ajit K Mishra. Negotiating Politics of Alterity: Narendra Jadhav's Outcaste: A Memoir and (Re) visionist Discourse. Labyrinth, 2013.
   
• Ajit K Mishra. Beyond Silence: Shashi Deshpande's That Long Silence and Alternative Intercourse. IUP Journal of English Studies, 2013. SCOPUS
   
• Ajit K Mishra. Fetishizing Marginality: Contemporary Indian Academia and the Rise of Subaltern. Labyrinth, 2012.
   
• Ajit K Mishra. Resisting ‘Alterity’: Ambedkar and the Ethics of Recognition. Journal of Exclusion Studies, 2011.
   

Sponsored Research Projects:

MOOC Projects (Sponsored):

Consultancy Projects:

Project under NPTEL Pre-Doc Fellowship:

A. Digital Content Development:

MOOCs 

1. 20 hrs (8 week) MOOC on "Literature & Coping Skills"
    NPTEL-SWAYAM (MoE, Govt. of India)
    Being offered every year since 2021
    Course Instructor: Ajit K Mishra

2. 15 hrs (6 week) MOOC on " Essential Life Skills"
    Jointly developed by IIT (BHU) Varanasi and CEMCA- Commonwealth of Learning (Canada)
    Offered in all Commonwealth countries in 2022-23
    Course Instructor: Ajit K Mishra

3. 20 hrs MOOC on " Essential English Language Skills"
    Swayamprabha (Govt. of India)
    Course Instructor: Ajit K Mishra
 

B. Collaborations:
 

C. Programs Organized:

D. Invited Talks (Select):

External
1. Member, Governing Body, Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi (Since June 2024)
2. Member, Board of studies for Agricultural Journalism, Institute of Agriculture, Banaras Hindu University (2022-2024)
3. Member, Board of Studies, Department of English, RSR Engineering College, JNTU (Since 2023)

Institutional:
1. Coordinator, ASEAN-DIA (Since December 2021)
2. Coordinator, Alumni Visiting Faculty Program (Since June 2019)
3. Faculty Incharge, International Student Affairs (Since September 2020)
4. Co-Coordinator, Centre for Faculty Development & Educational Technology (CFDET, formerly TLC)
5. Member, International Relations Committee (Since September 2024)
6. Member, Institute Furniture Purchase Committee (FY 2024-25)
7. Member, PG Ordinance Review Committee (April 2023)
8. Member, Committee for Modification of Ordinances & Syllabus for Preparatory Course
9. Member, Committee for Review of PG Course Curriculum Structure (2025)
10. Member, Committee for Induction Program (For Odd Semester 2025-26)
11.Member, Non-Faculty Grievance Committee (2022-23)
12.Member, Committee fro Promotion of Group-A Staff (2022)
13.member, Institute Library Committee (2019-21)
14.Member, Organizing Committee for Convocation & Sub-Committee for Director's Address & Institute Brochure
15.Faculty Editor, IIT BHU Connect (2019)
16.Member, Institute Newsletter Purchase Committee (2019)

Departmental:
1. Head of the Department (June 2021-June 2024)
2. Chair, PhD Admission Committee (5 terms)
3. Chair, DFAC  (July 2021- June 2024)
4. Member, DFAC (2020-21, 2024-)
5. Convener, Department Alumni Relations Cell
6. Convener, Department Space Committee
7. Member, DPGC
8. Member, Finance/Budget Committee