Literature, Language, and the Classroom

Sonali Jain is Associate Professor (English) in Bharati College, University of Delhi. Her doctoral work at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) centred on Vijay Tendulkar and the semiotics of cinema. She was Translator- in-Residence at the University of East Anglia, UK in 2008 and has translated Tendulkar’s play Baby into English. She has also edited Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Her areas of interest include psychoanalytic theory, film studies and translation. She is trained in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She has been painting for many years and her works have been exhibited in a number of group shows. Anubhav Pradhan is Assistant Professor with the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai. His research straddles urban history, heritage, planning, and writing as well as colonial cultural contact and the intersections of empire and modernity. He is Deputy Editor of South Asia Research; editor of Articulating Urbanity: Writing the South Asian City (forthcoming, 2022) and co-editor of Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives (2019). He has taught at Ambedkar University Delhi, South Asian University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and the University of Delhi and has served Primus Books, Delhi as their Senior Marketing Editor. He has also been associated as a researcher with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He reviews frequently for national and international journals and has presented his work in a wide range of conferences all over the world.

Introduction: Towards a Framing of Parts. 1. Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats: Contemporaries, Strangers, Partners 2. Ibsen’s Ghost in Forster’s The Longest Journey 3. Redefining British Masculinity in Captains Courageous 4. Reading Poetry Through Translation: A Note on a Hindi Translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets 5. Teaching in Translation, Teaching Gender and Sexuality 6. Radical Unlearnedness with Proletarian Schooling: Dilemmas of discipline and teaching in D.H. Lawrence’s Education of the People and Fantasia of the Unconscious 7. Holding Environments: An Enquiry into Institutional Minds 8. The Challenges of Skilling the English Language Learner for the Global Market 9. Evidence-based decision making in our teaching: why is it important and how do we do it? 10. Developments in teaching College English at University of Delhi 11. Theatre, Feminism, and Society: Notes from a Practitioner 12. Nostalgic possibilities: Planning and heritage in Shahjahanabad