Mala Shikha
Mala Shikha
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies,
School of Language Literature and Culture Studies
Room No
360, SLLCS-1
Email
malashikha[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, maladoon[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

  • Ph.D., Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2019.

  • Erasmus Mundus Masters, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, University of Berga-mo, Italy and University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2006-2008.

  • M.A., Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2004-2006.

  • B.A. (Hons.), Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2001-2004.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Indo-Hispanic Reception Studies, Golden Age Spanish Literature, Medieval Iberian Culture and Literature, Contemporary Hispanic Literature and Culture, Spanish as a Foreign Lan-guage in context of India (ELE), Women’s Writings, Literary Criticism and Literary Transla-tion.

Experience

16 years

Awards & Honours

  • Visiting Hispanist Fellowship by the Fundación Duques de Soria, Spain in October 2024.

  • European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Masters Fellowship from September 2006 to September 2008.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

  • Completed a Short-Term Project on “El Hispanismo en la India” sponsored by the Funda-ción Duques de Soria, Spain, October 2024.

  • Completed a Major Research Project on “India in the Latin American Imagination” spon-sored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, 2013-2016.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  • Shikha, Mala and Ranjan, Ranjeeva (2022), “Representation of India in Travel Writings by Latin American Women”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, E- ISSN: 0975-2935, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n3.08.

  • Ranjan, Ranjeeva and Shikha, Mala (2022), Editorial Introduction to “Across the Cultures: Ibero-America and India”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, E- ISSN: 0975-2935, pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v14n3.00.

  • Shikha, Mala (2022), “Multivalence and Relevance of the Myth of Don Quixote”, Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature, Vol. 5(1), pp. 32-37. 10.36348/sijll.2022.v05i01.004.

  • Shikha, Mala and Ranjan, Ranjeeva (2021), “A Kaleidoscopic Gaze of India through Julio Barrenechea’s oeuvre", Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, E- ISSN: 0975-2935, pp. 1-22. 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n4.61 .

  • Shikha, Mala and Facciani, Chiara (2019), "Representation of Trauma in Roberto Bolaño’s “El Ojo Silva” and José Emilio Pacheco’s “El Torturador”, Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, ISSN: 0970-0692, pp. 69-87.

  • Shikha, Mala (2017) “Octavio Paz ka Bhaarat”, Sahchar E-Patrika, Vol. 3(3), E- ISSN: 2395-2873.

  • Shikha, Mala (2017) “Severo Sarduy’s Benares: A Metaphor for Cuban Self” in 15 Days, Vol. 154, ISSN: 2249-605X, pp. 1-3.

  • Shikha, Mala (2017) “Solahvi Shatabdi ke Spanish Sant San Juan ka Rahasyavaad”, Sahchar E-Patrika, Vol. 3(4), E-ISSN: 2395-2873.

  • Shikha, Mala (2017) “Juan Montalvo, a cosmopolitan author: An insight into life and works”, The Public: Problems and Solutions, Vol. 7, ISSN: 2230-4540, pp. 11-13.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  • Narang, Tanya and Shikha, Mala (2024), “Teaching of Spanish as a Foreign Language through Films in an Indian Classroom”, SARJALL, Vol. 6(5), pp. 96-102. https://doi.org/ 10.36346/sarjall.2024.v06i05.005.

  • Shikha, Mala (2023) “Por el caleidoscopio: la India en la literatura latinoamericana”, En la Interzona: Ensayos de Estudios Culturales, eds. Lucía Caminada Rossetti and Ricardo  Pé-rez Martínez, UNAM, Mexico City, pp. 221-240.

  • Shikha, Mala (2018) “India through Paz’ lens: A special Focus on Vislumbres de la India”, chapter in edited book Octavio Paz and India: Enduring Resonances, eds. J. Prabhakar Rao, Tutun Mukherjee and Ranjeeva Ranjan, Prithvi Prakashan, New Delhi, ISBN: 978-81-86845-61-5, pp. 75-88.

  • Shikha, Mala (2017) edited and revised Hindi Translation Tum Chhor Gaye of a Portu-guese Novel Morreste-me by José Luis Peixoto, ISBN: 978-1-63535-744-8.

  • Shikha, Mala (2013) “Understanding context through text: Interrelatedness of Language and Literature”, MAGIC 2013, pp. 46-52.

Patents (if any)

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