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Tezpur University
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  • Mandakini Baruah
  • Mandakini Baruah
    Assistant Professor

    • Ph. D. in Cultural Studies (Tezpur University) 2012
    • MA in Cultural Studies (Tezpur University University) 2005

    Emails:
    mb@tezu.ernet.in
    mb@tezu.ac.in

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    +91 3712 5160(Office)
    +91 98643 63466(Mobile)

  • Courses taught:

    Masters:

    • CT423: Research Methods
    • CT431: Gender and Culture
    • CP525: Understanding Gender
    • CT161: Basic Concepts in Cultural Studies I
    • CT163: Basic Concepts in Cultural Studies II
    • CT164: Cultural Studies: Its Development and Trends

    Ph D:

    • CT733: Subjectivity and Representation

     

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Publications:


Journals:

Baruah, Mandakini. 2022. “Menarche Rituals for Constructing Feminine Identity: Observing Nowai Tolani Biya, the Menarche Rituals of Assam”. Dilip Kumar Kalita (ed.) Anandam Journal of Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art and Culture, Assam, Vol. 11. ISSN: 2394-9023

Gogoi, Moyuree and Mandakini Baruah. 2020-21. “Food as a Gendered Text: An Analysis from Visual Media.” In Srotaswini: UGC CARE Listed Journal, V. 138-144. ISSN: 2277-5277.

Baruah, Mandakini. 2016. “Space, Female Subjectivity and the Lens of Paremiology: Understanding the Gendered Space as in Assamese and Bengali Literature”. In History Today, Journal of History and Historical Archaeology. No. 17. 178-182. ISSN:2249-748X.

Baruah, Mandakini and Bharati Baruah. 2015. “Representing Folklore in Children’s Comics: A Study of Assamese Comic Rongmon”, Research Promoter, V (V). 133-141. ISSN: 22310193

Baruah, Mandakini. "Representing The Female Body and the Concept of Feminine Beauty in the Context of Assamese Proverbs" in Proverbium, Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship Vol. 32, 2015 (ISSN: 0743-782X).

Baruah, Mandakini. & Debashis Baruah. ?No Life Stirs in her Belly Now?. North- Eastern Indian Writings in English, Modes and Concerns (A Book of Proceedings) Ed. Archana Talukdar. 2015.

Baruah, Mandakini. "Discourse of Gendered Body in Folktales: A Study of the Assamese Folktales as an Expressive Genre", The North Eastern Research Bulletin (An International Referred Annual Journal), XXIV, Dec., 2014(ISSN: 0975-8305)

Baruah, Mandakini. "Gender Stereotypes in the Context of Assamese Folktales". Research Drops, vol. 3, No.2. 2013.

Baruah, Mandakini. "Constructing Female Identity in Consanguinal and Affinal Relationships: A Study through Select Assamese Proverbs" in Labyrinth, an International Peer-reviewed Journal of Post Modern Studies (0976-0814) edited by Dr. Lata Mishra Oct., 2012.

Nath, Debarshi Prasad and Mandakini Baruah. "Representation of the Mother-Figure in Folk Genres of Assamese", Contemporary Discourse. (ISSN 0976-3686) 2011.

Books and Chapters:

Baruah, Mandakini. 2022. “Asomiya Prabad aru Nari”. Binapani Devi Kataki (Ed.) Sanskriti Bikhyan. Jorhat: J.B. College. 259-264. ISBN: 978-81-929622-9-0.

Dutta, Kuntala and Mandakini Baruah. 2020. “Rural Development Through Self-Help Group: A Tool to Give Voice to the Voiceless”. Bedabrat Saikia and Srinibas Jena (Ed.s) Rural Development in India: Challenges and the Tasks Ahead. Guwahati: EBH Publishers (India). 172-184. ISBN: 978 93 88881 29 6

Baruah, Mandakini. 2017. “Baishnaviya Dharar Bhakti Sangitat Narir Angsagrahan: Atit aru Bartaman”. Pradip Jyoti Mahanta (Ed.) Asamar Bhakti Sangit: Parampara Aru Parivardhan. Guwahati: Purbanchal Prakash. 273-277. ISBN: 978-81-7213-332-0.

Baruah, Mandakini. 2016. “Female Space as an Agency for Patriarchy: Contextualizing Select Rites of Passage Associated with Women in Assam”. Geeta Singh and Seema Mehra Parihar (Ed.s). Gender and Space: Multidisciplinary Insights. New Delhi: New Delhi Publishers. 203-211. ISBN: 978-93-85503-48-1

Baruah, Mandakini. 2015. “Birth Rites: An Agency for Muting Subaltern Voices”. Bishnu Charan Dash (Ed.). Negotiating Subaltern Consciousness: A North East Perspective. Delhi: Abhishek Prakashan. 191-198. ISBN: 978- 81-8390-133-8

Baruah, Mandakini. "Gendered Understanding of Purity and Profanity: The Case of Assamese Folk Genres" in Women?s Narratives from North East India: Lives in the Margins. Nath, Debarshi Prasad (ed.). Guwahati: Purbanchal Prakash in association with the Department of Cultural Studies, UGC-SAP-DRS (I). T.U. ISBN: 978-81-7213-282-8. March, 2016

Baruah, M. & Debashis Baruah. "No Life Stirs in her Belly Now" in the Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on North-Eastern Indian Writing in English: Modes and Concerns organised by ADP College, Nagaon, Assam on 23 & 24 Aug., 2014.

Baruah, Mandakini. 'The Narrative Construction of Masculinity in Assamese Folktales with Reference to Lakshminath Bezbaroa?s Burhi Air Sadhu' in North-East India- The Paradym of Historical, Socio-Economic and Cultural Interaction edited by Guptajit Pathak. New Delhi: Jnananda Prakashan. (ISBN: 978-81-7139-617-7), 2014, Pp-19-25.

Baruah, Mandakini. 2014. 'Constructing Feminine Ideology: An approachthrough Assamese Proverbs.' in Das, Nigamananda (ed.) Metaphysics of Redemption: An Anthology of World Literature.

Baruah, Mandakini. 'Gender and North East India' in Cultural Studies: Perspectives from North East India. edited by Pradip Jyoti Mahanta and Debarshi Prasad Nath. Guwahati: Purbanchal Prakash, 2013.

Books edited:

Baruah Mandakini (Ed.). 2020. Women and Urbanity: Cultural Memory of North-East India. Tezpur: Tezpur University. ISBN: 978-81-937452-2-9.

Conference Proceedings:

Baruah Debashis and Mandakini Baruah. 2015. “No Life Stirs in Her Belly Now: Eco-Conscipusness in Contemporary Women Writers in English from India’s North-East”. In Archana Talukdar (Ed.), North-Eastern Indian Writings in English, Modes and Concerns, A Book of Proceedings. 26-37. ISBN: 978-93-84679-14-9.

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Supervised PhD Works and MA DIssertations/Documentations


Supervised MA Dissertations and Documentations:

  1. 2022: A Study on Women’s Participation in Everyday Life: A Case Study on Working Women Under Jyoti Agency, Mausumi Sharma (CTM20038)
  2. 2022: Dance for Social Change and Empowerment: A Documentary of Srijani Sangeet Mahavidyalaya and Its Proprietor Mitali Dutta Borthakur Jagriti Priyadarshini Baruah (CTM20015)
  3. 2022: Construction of Female Subjectivity in Mising Folklore with Special Reference to Folk Tales and Folk Beliefs: Case Studies from Lem Chapori Village in The District of Golaghat, Assam, Tajoswita Kalita (CTM20009)
  4. 2022: Disease as Social Construct: Representation of Rare Diseases in The Select Films of Bollywood, Rajita Parasar (CTM20004)
  5. 2021: Gendered Space and Tangible Culture: A Case Study of Select Musical Instrumentalists from Assam, Tanbhi Goswami (CTM19021)
  6. 2021: Old Age Home: The Last Ray of Hope for The Helpless Elders, Bandana Kalita (CTM19019)
  7. 2021: Beliefs Associated with Pregnancy: A Case Study of the Pregnancy Rituals among the Dimasas of the Dijuwa Area of Nagaland, Ringsmola Jigdung (CTM19008)
  8. 2020: An Allegory of a Master Craftsman: A Research on Mr. Mukunda Madhab Borah, An Unknown Legendary Folk Artist. Murchana Baruah (CTM18026)
  9. 2020: Idol as A Metaphor in Urban Space: An Iconographic Study, Kaberi Deb (CTM18012)
  10. 2020: Women, Urbanity and Entrepreneurship: A Study on Select Beauty Parlours of Tezpur Town, Madhusmita Devi (CTM18011)
  11. 2019: A Documentary on The Sarthebari Bell Metal Industry of Assam, Dimpy Pathak (CTC17038)
  12. 2019: Understanding the History and The Process of Bakeries, With Special Reference to Shaikh Brothers in Guwahati, Assam. Pragyashree Bora (CTC17029).
  13. 2019: A Documentary on ‘Bokakheca Bhaona’: A Cultural Heritage of Jamugurihat Area in The District of Sonitpur, Assam, Ankita Saikia (CTC17026)
  14. 2019: Romanticization of Mental Illness in Hollywood Movies, Bondita Borkotoky (CTC17004)
  15. 2018: Cultural Memory through The Window of Migration and Displacement: Stories of the Refugees after Partition, Sangita Kalita (CTC16008).
  16. 2018: The Legend of Kajir Ronghangpi and Its Toponymic Association with Kaziranga, Monalisa Ronghangpi (CTC16004)
  17. 2018: Documenting the Ashtabhuj Borbheti Namghar of the Mayamara Community of Jorhat District of Assam with Special Reference to the NA LAGUWA Utsav, Puja Borthakur (CTC16021)
  18. 2018: Breaking the Stereotype: A Case Study on the Female Bike Riders of Assam, Abhijit Sarma (CTC 16020)
  19. 2017: Women’s Space in Ritual Performances: A Study of the Buddhist Monastery of Namphake Village of Naharkatia, Assam. Moonmoon Chetia (CTC15041)
  20. 2017: Tattoo ss Metaphor: A Study of the Cognitive and Behavioural Expressions of the Tattooed Persons, Bharati Bora (CTC15038)
  21. 2017: Homophobia and Gender: A Case Study on How Homophobia is Represented in Media, Payal Sarkar (CTC15030)
  22. 2017: Making of Masculinities with Special Reference to Visual Media (Advertisements), Samikshya Madhukalya (CTC15006)
  23. 2017: Sports as Gendered Space: A Case Study of the Sportswomen of Assam, Subheshya Sharma (CTC15003)
  24. 2016: Self-Help Group as a Medium of giving Voice to Women: A Study of the Select Self-Help Groups of Dhakuakhana, Lakhimpur, Kuntala Dutta (CTC14028)
  25. 2016: Rites of Passage and Gender Role: A study of the Ritualistic Practices Associated with Pacheti and Matheni Mahotsav of Darang District of Assam, Megha Mallika Dutta (CTC14012)
  26. 2016: Mobile Phone Messages: A Patriarchal Tool for constructing Female Subjectivity Kakusmita Buragohain (CTC14006)
  27. 2016: School Textbook as the Agent of Gender Construction: A Study of the select NCERT Primary Textbooks, Arunima Kalita (CTC14005)
  28. 2015: Reality Shows on National Television and Re-Emergence of Regional Stereotypes of North East India, Pragana Baruah (CTC13022)
  29. 2015: Representation of Feminine Beauty in India Magazines: Exploring issues of Beauty and Womanhood, Anita Nath (CTC13008)
  30. 2015: The impact of Natural Disasters on Everyday Life and Culture Change: A Study of Flood Affected Areas of Dhakuakhana of Lakhimpur district, Assam, Pragjyoti Khanikar (CTC13007)
  31. 2015: Representation of Tomboyish characters with special reference to films: A Comparative Analysis of the Select Films of Bollywood and Hollywood, Elura Das (CTC13001)
  32. 2014: Domestic Violence of Women among the Tea Garden Communities of Assam with Special Reference to Sarusarai Tea Estate of Jorhat District, Niranjita Saikia (CTC12025)
  33. 2014: Representation of Folkloric Items in Children's Comics with Special Reference to Assamese Comic Rongmon, Bharati Boruah (CTC12019)
  34. 2014: Representation of Women's Sexuality through the Analysis of Deepa Mehta's Elements Trilogy: Fire, Water, 1947 Earth, Supriya Khatoniar (CTC12009)
  35. 2014: Representation of Women in Popular Assamese VCD Films: Special Reference to Jonbaai VCD Series, Sattyabrat Prasad Saikia (CTC12006)
  36. 2012: Impact of Social Networking Sites on School Children: Emphasizing on a Few Schools of Sonitpur District of Assam, Rubi Chetia (CTC10006)
  37. 2012: Constructing Social Norms Through Body Gestures, Assam in Context, Uttara Kalita (CTC10003)
  38. 2011:Textual Strategies, Role of the Teacher and Cultural Content: A Study of Select Textbooks of the SCERT, Assam, Gitu Rani Kalita (CTC09009)

Seminars and Conferences:

Resource Person / Key Note Speaker/Chairperson:

Panellist for the International Webinar on “Backlash of COVID-19 on Women of the Streets: Health Degeneration, Economic Agony and Abrupt Lifestyle Turn Around” organised by The Africa-Asia Youth Foundation-AAYFO (Assam Chapter) on 23rd June, 2020

Invited Speaker for the Plenary Session of the National Webinar on Cultural Studies organised by the Department of English and the Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), B.S.S. Arts, Science and Commerce College, Makni, Osmanabad, India on 10th June, 2020.

Chaired one of the technical sessions in the National Seminar on Cultural and Linguistic Studies in North East India: Prospects and Challenges organised by Department of Languages, Sankardev College, Shillong, Meghalaya on 30th and 31st October, 2019.

Invited as a Resource Person to grace the occasion as a Panelist for the National Seminar on Negotiating Issues of Orality, Folk and History in the 21st Century organised by Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, ICFAI University, Tripura on 5th and 6th November, 2018. The title of the discussion is “Folklore, Gender Sensitization and Pedagogy: Reframing for Classroom Transaction”.

Keynote Speaker in the ICSSR-Sponsored Seminar on Gender Sensitization, Equal Opportunity and the Role of the Institutions of Higher Education organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Furkating College on 12th and 13th October, 2018

Chaired one of the technical sessions in the ICSSR-Sponsored Seminar on Gender Sensitization, Equal Opportunity and the Role of the Institutions of Higher Education organised by Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Furkating College on 12th and 13th October, 2018.

Resource Person in the Workshop on Personality Development Programme organised by Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) Under Centres of Excellence for Curriculum and Pedagogy Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) Scheme, Tezpur University during August 27 to September, 5, 2016.

Resource Person in the One Day State-Level Workshop on Soft Skills in Practice organised by Nowgong College Women’s Cell on 29th June, 2016.

Papers Presented In Seminars / Conferences (International/National):

“Remaking the Urban Space: Perpetuating the Issues of Inequalities” in National Seminar on Cultural and Linguistic Studies in North East India: Prospects and Challenges organised by Department of Languages, Sankardev College, Shillong, Meghalaya on 30th and 31st October, 2019.

“Gender Myth and the Politics of Humour: Analysing Some Sexist Jokes and Memes in Social Media” in the National Symposium on Urban Folklore with Special Reference to North East India organised by the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, during 22nd and 23rd August, 2019.

“The Edibility of Women as Food: A Study with Special Reference to Lila Gogoi’s Noi Boi Jaai” in the National Seminar on FoodCultures of India organised by the Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University in Collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) on 1st and 2nd December, 2016.

Baruah, M. "Performing Puberty Rites for Constructing Female Subjectivity: A Study with Reference to Puberty Rites in Assam" in the International Seminar on Performative Communication: Culture and Politics in South Asia organised by The Centre for Culture, Media & Governance(JMI) and Department of Sociology, South Asian University(SAU), New Delhi on 20-21 January, 2015.

Presented a paper in UGC sponsored National Seminar on North-East Indian Writing in English: Modes and Concern organized by the Department of English, ADP College, Nagaon in collaboration with Sanjivani. The title of the paper was "No Life Stirs in Her Belly Now: Ecoconsciousness in Contemporary Women Writers in English from India's North-East" which was jointly presented with Debashis Baruah.

Baruah, M. "Nature as 'Resource': A Literary Perspective with Special Reference to Select Women Writers in English from NE India"' in a UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Using Natural Resources for Sustaining Modern Life-Style and Sustainable Development organised by Furkating College, Golaghat, Assam on 29& 30 Aug., 2014.

Baruah, M. "Gender and the Discourse of Body in Lakshminath Bezbarao's Burhi Air Sadhu" in a UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Lakshminath Bezbarao's A Pioneer of Modern Assamese Literature and An Architect of Assamese Nationalism organised by Nowgong Girls' College, Nagaon, Assam on 19& 20 September, 2014

Baruah, M. "Gender and Poetic Language: A Study of Select Poems of Jyotiprasad Agarwala" in a UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Life and Works of Jyoti Prasad Agarwala organised by L.G.B. Girls' College, Tezpur, Assam on 7 & 8 November, 2014.

Participated in UGC Capacity building Workshop for Women Managers in Higher Education (SAM) organised by Chandraprabha Saikiani Centre for Women's Studies, Tezpur University from 3rd to 7th Sep., 2012.

Participated in a workshop on WOMEN'S STUDIES AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE organised by Chandraprabha Saikiani Centre for Women's Studies, Tezpur University from 6-7th March, 2012.

Participated in a National Workshop on CULTURAL MAPPING IN ASSAM: LANGUAGE, PERFORMANCE AND SOCIETY organised jointly by the Dept. of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University(UGC-SAP-DRS-1: 2011-2016) and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 14th to 17th February, 2012.

Participated and presented a paper entitled "Folktales as a Tool for Constructing Gender Stereotypes; Assam in Context" in a national Seminar on 'Reception and Reflection of folk-tales in Indian Life and Literature' organised jointly by Sahitya Academi and the Dept. of Assamese, Dibrugarh University from 28th Nov., 2011 to 30th Nov., 2011. ge: http://www.tezu.ernet.in/mypage.htm

Workshops attended:

Completed Foundation Program in ICT for Education: an AICTE approved FDP (FDP101x) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay from March 8 to April 12, 2018.

Participated in the Workshop on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) organised by Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) Under Centre of Excellence for Curriculum and Pedagogy, PMMMNMTT, Tezpur University on 24th and 25th November, 2016.

Participated in the “Legal Awarness Programme on Women” organised by Chandraprabha Saikiani Centre for Women’s Studies, Tezpur University on 1st and 2nd November, 2016

Participated in a National Workshop on “Philosophy, Culture, Anthropology, Community, Politics and Democracy” organised by the Department of Cultural Studies and sponsored by Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, held from April 23 to 25, 2015.