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Mala Shikha

Mala Shikha

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@mail.jnu.ac.in, maladoon@gmail.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

15 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.

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.