Dr. Ria Mukherjee
Department : Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature
School : School for the Study of Culture
Institution : Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi (India)
Birth Date : 19 December 1988
Blood Group : A+ve
E-mail : ria.sxcran@gmail.com
Preceding Degree : M.Phil.–Humanities and Social Sciences (English) - Gold Medal
Information Concerning Doctoral Research
University Registration Number : CUJ/P/Ph.D/CTFLL/2014/01
Topic of Research : The Role of Values Within a Society as Reflected in Hor Hopon (Santhal) Folktales
Supervisor : Dr. Rabindranath Sarma
Course Work Status : Completed Successfully
Date of Registration-cum-Admission : 12 August 2014
Fellowship Source : University Fellowship (Tenure : 12-08-2014 to 12-08-2018)
Ph.D. Thesis Defended on 29-07-2022.
Seminars / Conferences / Lecture Delivered / Resource Person
Indian English Poetry by Women since 1980’s, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian school of Mines, Dhanbad.
Oral Tradition of Tribals of Jharkhand: A Brief Study - Folklore and Tribal Studies in Eastern and North-East India: Perspective and Present Status, Department of Folklore Studies, Kalyani University.
Change and Continuity in Folk Medicines and Traditional Healing Practices in Jharkhand: The Case of Hodopathy , Folk Medicines and Traditional Healing in India: Theory and Practice, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya.
Tribal Worldview in Selected Santhal Folktales - Samvaad- A Tribal Conclave, Organised by Tata Steel, Jamshedpur.
Common Property Resource Status in Jharkhand: A case study of Oraons Common Property Rights and development in Chotanagpur area of Ranchi District, Indigenous worldview, and the Life, Work and Vision of Dr. Ram Dayal Munda, at the Central Auditorium, Ranchi University, Ranchi.
Re-Looking From the Eyes of “Others”- The Question of Identity: With special references to Tribal Studies, International Seminar on Emerging New Identities in Dalit and Tribal Literature and Society at Department of English and Foreign Languages, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak, Madhya Pradesh.
Iconographical Representations of Folklore: With Special References to Santhal Folktales, First Biennial International Conference IACLSC 2016 at Institute of Advanced Research, The Puri Foundation, Koba Institutional Area, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Ojha- The Unheard Medicine Man: A Case Study, Documentation and Archiving, at National Seminar on Tribal Cultures and Philosophy in Oral Narratives, organised by Department of Contemporary and Tribal Customary Law, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
In Texts, Why not in Contexts?, at National Seminar on “Development of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups: Status and Strategies, organised by Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi in collaboration with Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, Jharkhand.
Workshop / Training Courses Attended
Workshop on Languages Sciences and Description, WORLDS 2, K.M. Institute of Hindi and Linguistic, Dept. of Linguistics, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University, Agra.
National Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences for Folklore Studies, Organized by Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand, Sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi.
Workshop on “Elimination of Bonded about/Child Labour and Human Trafficking”, organized by National Human Right Commission, New Delhi and Department of Labour, Employment and Training, Government of Jharkhand, held on 9th September, 2016 at Judicial Academy, Dhurwa, Ranchi.
International Folklore Winter School Folkloristics, Organized at Institute of Advanced Research, The Puri Foundation, Koba Institutional Area, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Workshop on Ol Chiki Script (Santhali Script), Organized by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Ranchi Regional Centre and Ranchi University.
Spring Up! An Internatinal Seven Day E-Learning Workshop in Language, Literature and Theory from May 15, 2020 to May 21, 2020, Organized by Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Online workshop on NEP 2020 Implementation, from 14-15 December, 2022, organized by UGC Human Resource Development Centre, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
Faculty Development Program on “Amazon Web Services”, from 22nd-27th August, 2022, organized by TMIMT, Teerthankar Mahaveer Universirty, Moradabad in collaboration with Brainovision Solutions India Pvt.Ltd & All India Council for Technical Education- AICTE.
IP Awareness/Training program under National Intellectual Property Awareness Mission on August 17, 2022, organized Intellectual Property Office, India.
Publications (conference proceeding / journal / book chapter)
A paper on Mahesh Dattani’s Tara. “A Document of Hollowness of Relationships in Urban Society”, ISBN 9789381672839
A paper on Mahesh Dattani’s Bravely Fought the Queen. “Gender Politics in Dattani’s Bravely Fought the Queen”,ISBN 9789381672845
Tribes in Contemporary Inia: Orality, Identity and Development. “Tribal Worldview in Selected Santhal Folktales”, ISBN 81-7019-555-8 (Inida), ISBN 1-55528-410-8 (USA)
IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IOSR-JHSS). Volume 22, Issue 8, Ver IV (August 2017), pp- 16-19. e-ISSN: 2279- 0837, p-ISSN:2279-0845. “The Iconographic Representations of Folklores: With Special References to Santhal Folktales and other Genres”
Debilitation of Ethics, Values and Identity in the Post Modern Indian English Literature. “Women as Non-Entity in Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence”, ISBN 978-93-5207-254-5.
International Journal of Research in Social Sciences (IJRSS). Volume 9, Issue 5(1), Month May 2019, pp 91-99. ISSN: 224P-2496, Impact Factor: 7081. “Re-Looking from the Eyes of Others The Question of Identity: A Study of Orientalism with special reference to Tribal Identity.”
International Journal of Research in Engineering, IT and Social Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 4, April 2019, pp 258-260, ISSN: 2250-0588, Impact factor: 6.565. “The Spiritual Kinship: An Insight Study of Santhal’s Totem World.”
Dogo Rangsang Research Journal: (A Bilingual Research Journal Indexed in UGC-Care List), Vol.VII, Issue XII, July 2020, pp 242-252. “Symbolic Representation of Identity: A Fight for Freedom, Choice and Existence in Santhal Folktales & Contemporary Writings”