Faculty Profile

Bhoomika Meiling’s main areas of research are translation and culture studies. After graduating in English from Lady Shri Ram College in Delhi University, she went on to obtain her Master’s and M.Phil degrees from Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is currently working on her Ph.D thesis wherein she explores the nexus between the novel genre and nationalism with special reference to island novels and survivalist fiction written between eighteenth and twenty first century. Her M. Phil dissertation grappled with the nuanced difference between rewriting and translation vis-à-vis translation activity between Hindi and English. Renowned Hindi writer Alka Saraogi’s works were taken as case studies for this research. Another area of interest is oral culture of Uttar Pradesh and its close linkages with the contemporary popular culture.

• Junior Research Fellowship granted by UGC.
• Best Student in English (1st in University of Delhi, South Campus), LSR, 2003-2004 and 2001-02.

JOURNAL ARTICLE

• Meiling, Bhoomika. “ ‘Kishore Babu’s Soliloquy: Woeful has been the story of this life’-Translation from Hindi.” JSL 11 (Spring 2009): 146-49.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Therapeutic Aspects of Native American Poetry’ presented at the International Seminar of Ancient Arts, New Delhi, 11th of April, 2010.
• The Fall of Gynocracy: An Analysis of 20th Century Representations by Women Writers of Native American Tribes’ presented at American Information Resource Center, New Delhi, 16th February, 2006 to mark the Black History Month.
• Representing India: A Post-colonial Reading of the translation of Raag Darbari’ in the seminar ‘Translating Narratives: Culture and Hybridity’ at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, New Delhi, February, 2004.