DEPARTMENT.FACULTY

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Prof. Nikhat Taj
  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.QUALIFICATION

    Ph.D

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.DESIGNATION

    Professor

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.THRUST_AREA

    Victorian and Modern British Fiction

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.ADDRESS

    AB- 61, Medical Colony, AMU, Aligarh 202002

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.MOBILE

    9412274030

  • DEPARTMENT_STAFF.EMAIL

    nikazams@gmail.com

DEPARTMENT_STAFF.COMPLETE_CV

Has teaching experience of more than thirty nine years (under graduate, post graduate, and research classes).Presently associated with senior level teaching and research guidance. Specialization in 19th and 20th century British Fiction. Has done Ph.D on the English novelist E.M. Forster. Special interest: Victorian and Modern English novelists. Some of the novelists taught at the under graduate and post graduate level are: Jane Austen,Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy,  Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Angus Wilson, Paul Scott. Other areas of interest (teaching and research) include: Literary Criticism/Theories, Poetry (Romantic, Victorian , Modern) and Indian Writing in English. Has published papers as well as supervised/supervising research in the above mentioned areas. Papers/Articles published in reputed journals like: Sahitya Akademi- India Journal, Points of View, Spiel, Aligarh Journal of English Studies,The Journal of Faculty of Arts, AMU. Has been actively involved with the corporate life of the university. 

  1. The Evolving Concept of Indian Women in the Novels of Four Indian Women Novelists in English
  2. Deepest of the Arts and Deep Beneath the Arts
  3. Paul Scott’s staying On: A Postcolonial Construct.
  4. A Psyche in Confusion - The Interplay of Socio-cultural Dynamics in Qurratulain Hyder’s Sita Betrayed
  5. In the Midst of Nowhere: A Study of Women Situation in Qurratulain Hyder’s Two Novellas
  6. A Study of the Organising Principles in Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire. Sahitya Academy
  7. "'Agony and Glory' of Clym Yeobright in The Return of the Native: A Study in Humanistic-Existential Behaviour."
  1. The ‘Prologue’ as a Narrative Device in Angus Wilson’s Late Call
  2. E.M. Forster’s Art and Vision
  3. A Spot of Time Sucked into History – A New Historicist Approach to Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Line