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Payel Pal
Department: Humanities and Social Science , English
Guide: Gurumurthy Neelakantan
Research Topic
Rediscovering America: The Politics of Humanism in the Select Fictions of Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates
Contact Information
Office/Lab
6th Floor Faculty Building
Humanities and Social Sciences Department
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur-208016
Education
B. A (Economics Hons) 2009, St. Xavier’s College,Ranchi.
M. A. (Economics, with specialization in World Economics) 2011, School of International Studies, Center for International Trade and Development (CITD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.
M. Phil(Economics) 2011-2012, School of Economics , University of Hyderabad.
Ph. D (Economics) 2012-17, HSS, IIT Kanpur.
Selected Publications
Pal, Payel and Gurumurthy Neelakantan. "Morrison's Prostitutes in The Bluest Eye." Notes on Contemporary Literature 44.2 (March 2014): 4-7. Print.
Pal, Payel. "(Hi) Stories and Tellers: A Critical Study of Toni Morrison's Paradise." The Journal for English Language and Literary Studies 2.3(July 2012): 44-50. Print.
Pal, Payel. "To be a 'man': Exploring the Politics of Violence in Toni Morrison's Home." Negotiating Margins: African American and Dalit Writings. Ed. A Karunaker. New Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2014. 61-72. Print.
Awards & Fellowships
Awarded UGC Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Fellowship for being the only Female student scoring over 60%.
Awarded UGC Junior Research Fellowship in 2009