Book Details

Publication Year: 2019

Contributors

Author Info: Dr. Ajay Kumar Sharma is Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, Maharaj Singh College, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh (India). Besides, he is Dean, Faculty of Arts and Dean, Students Welfare. He has worked as Programme Officer, N.S.S. for seven consecutive years and as Director, Career Counselling Cell, for three years. He is the Editor of the college magazine, Sumati. Dr. Sharma had his schooling at the prestigious Rashtriya Military School, Chail, Shimla Hills (H.P.). He did his M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from the Institute of Advanced Studies, C.C.S. University, Meerut.Dr. Sharma has 21 years experience of teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students. Eleven research scholars have been awarded Ph.D. degree under his guidance; he has also successfully supervised two students for obtaining M.Phil. degree. Besides publishing a book entitled, Indian Writing in English: A Kaleidoscope of Recent Criticism and more than 25 scholarly articles in reputed research journals and anthologies, he has presented about 20 research papers in national and international seminars and conferences. He organised a UGC Sponsored National Seminar on and ldquo;Indian Writing in English: A Synthesis of the East and the West and rdquo; on 16-17 December 2006.Dr. Sharma was honoured for his services in the field of pedagogy and awarded and lsquo;Guruji Samman and rsquo; by Shri I.D. Swami, former Minister, Govt. of India, in a programme organised by Vishal Institute of Languages and Literature, Yamuna Nagar, in 2011.