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    Dr. Sabreen Ahmed

    Associate Professor AND HOD

    Specialization : Gender Studies
    Qualification :PhD
    Area of Research : Posthumanism and Contemporary Theory

    • sabreen.ahmed@nagaonuniversity.ac.in
    • 9435362020

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    Journal (28)

    1. Sabreen Ahmed and Aditi Ghosh , Abject Flesh: The Female Body in Subversive Pain and Power in the Select Post Apocalyptic Fictions of Sophie Mackintosh Aditi Ghosh1 and Dr. Sabreen Ahmed2. Literary Enigma Vol. 1  3  ISBN: 3049-2033 https://literaryenigma.com/volume-3-issue-1 [2026]


    2. Sabreen Ahmed and Sukanya Hazarika, Spatial Constructivism and the Contested Space of Mind: A Postcolonial Reading of Assamese Migration Narrative in the Novels Astitwa and Bongol Bohu Dur. Dabeer( UGC CARE-LISTED TILL DISCONTINUATION)  Special Issue  ISBN: 2394-5567  Pageno: 167-179 . https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19863829 [2026]


    3. SABREEN AHMED, The Cultural Disembodiment of the Demented Self in Selected Postcolonial Indian Novels. IIS Univ. JOA Vol. 14 (1), 154-168 (2025). Vol. 14  1  ISBN: ISSN 2319-5339 (P), 2583-7591 (O).(UGC_CARE)  Pageno: 154-168 [2025]


    4. SABREEN AHMED, Multinational Capitalism, Religion and the South Asian Immigrant Question in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (UGC-CARE). Drishti: The Sight  ISBN: 2319-8281. (UGC_CARE) [2025]


    5. SABREEN AHMED, LOCATING THE CARNEVALESQUE AND PUBLIC LAUGHTER IN MILAN KUNDERA'S THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING. The IACLALS Journal Vol. 10  2024  ISBN: 2395-1206  Pageno: 104-111 [2024]


    6. SABREEN AHMED, .“Cyborg and the Cultural Syndrome : Reading the Ecofeminist Post-human Embodiments in Nitoo Das’s Poetry”. Sona Sophia Vol. 6  1  ISBN: 2349-8668.  Pageno: 9-19 [2023]


    7. SABREEN AHMED, The Cultural Aesthetics of the Folklore and the Everyday in Amlanjyoti Goswami's Poetry. Drishti: The Sight Vol. 12  I  ISBN: 2319-8281 [2023]


    8. SABREEN AHMED, “Musings of the Everyday Wonderland: A Review of Amlanjyoti Goswami’s Vital Signs. Cafedissensus Everyday  ISBN: 2373-177X [2022]


    9. SABREEN AHMED, Male ‘I’ and the trope of failure in Shashi Deshpande’s “Dark Holds No Terror". BL College Journal  ISBN: ISSN 2664-228X [2022]


    10. Sabreen Ahmed, The Night of a Schizophrenic. Cafedissensus  ISBN: ISSN2373-177X [2021]


    11. Sabreen Ahmed, The Beefless Kitchen. Cafedissensus  ISBN: ISSN2373-177X [2021]


    12. Sabreen Ahmed, The Life Cycle of a Human Female from Menarche to Menopause. Khoj: Biennial Magazine of B. Barooh College Women’s  ISBN: 2395-4884.  Pageno: 56-61 [2021]


    13. SABREEN AHMED, . Ecofeminism in the English Poetry by Women of North East India: A Critique of NitooDas’ Poems. Literary Voice Vol. 13  2  ISBN: UGCCARE-2664-228X, (Webof Science indexed)  Pageno: 215-221 [2021]


    14. SABREEN AHMED, A Space Gendered Feminine: Gender Dimensions of Historiography and Qurratulain Hyder’s Historical Novel River of Fire. Drishti: The Sight( UGC-CARE) Vol. 12  1  ISBN: 2319-8281 [2021]


    15. SABREEN AHMED, The Spatial Politics in the Craft of Postcolonial Indian Muslim Women Novelists: A Select Reading of Shama Futhehally’s Tara Lane, Samina Ali’s Madras in Rainy Days and Anjum Hasan’s The Cosmopolitans( UGC-Listed). JCLA Vol. 44  2  ISBN: 0252-8169 – UGC Listed [2021]


    16. SABREEN AHMED, Demystification of Islamic Fundamentalism and Patriarchy in Tahmina Anam’s Novels from a South Asian Feminist Perspective. BL College Journal Vol. 2  1  ISBN: ISSN 2664-228X  Pageno: 7-25 [2020]


    17. Sabreen Ahmed, Mobocracy in Post Covid Assam. Cafedissensus  ISBN: ISSN2373-177X [2020]


    18. SABREEN AHMED, Reflections on the city of Kabul Pre and Post-Taliban in Khalid Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. BL College Journal  ISBN: 2664-228X [2020]


    19. Sabreen Ahmed, The “radical middle” in Post-Colonial Poems’: Reviewing Kamal Kumar Tanti’s poetry in Translation in CafĂ© Dissensus Everyday. Cafedissensus  ISBN: ISSN2373-177X [2019]


    20. SABREEN AHMED, .“The Invisible Third World Women in Sara Suleri’s Meatless Days”. Abhibyakti, Annual Peer Reviewed Journal of Women’s Cell, ACTA, Assam Vol. 6  1  ISBN: 2450-0546  Pageno: 105-112 [2018]


    21. Sabreen Ahmed, The Body as an Oral Text: A Review of Teresa Rehman’s “The Mother’s of Manipur”. Cafedissensus  ISBN: ISSN2373-177X [2018]


    22. SABREEN AHMED, Gendered Narratives and Male Subjectivity in Shashi Deshpande’s Selected Novels: An Androcentric Reading (UGC-LIsted). Literary Insight Vol. 9  2  ISBN: 0975-6248 [2018]


    23. SABREEN AHMED, A critique of science and social medicine in Assamese society with special to reference to Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife in Langlit An International Peer Reviewed Journal in English. Langlit: AN International Peer Reviewed Journal Vol. 1  4  ISBN: ISSN: 2349-5189  Pageno: 384-388 [2015]


    24. SABREEN AHMED, Sexing the Karachi City: Gender and Urban Subjectivity in Shandana Minhas’s Tunnel Vision. International Journal of Language and Linguistics Vol. 1  1  ISBN: 2374-8850  Pageno: 51-56 [2014]


    25. SABREEN AHMED, “A Study of Muslim Women’s Fiction from a Gendered Praxis”. Image-A Research Journal of Nazira College Vol. 3  1  ISBN: 2347-534X  Pageno: 51-54 [2014]


    26. SABREEN AHMED, Indigenous Roots of Indian Feminism and Women Empowerment: ATheoritical Approach. Delve Vol. 3  1  ISBN: 2278-7402 [2014]


    27. SABREEN AHMED, Gendered Voices A Study of Women Seclusion and Partition in Mumtaz Shahnaz's The Heart Divided and Atia Hosein's Sunlight in a Broken Column. Wizcraft: International Journal of Language and Literature  ISBN: 2319-4952  Pageno: 11-18 [2013]


    28. SABREEN AHMED, Parodizying the Zenana in Rokeya Shakhawat Hossein;s Sultana's Dream. Delve Vol. 2  1  ISBN: 2278-7402 [2013]


    Book Chapter (11)

    1. Dr. Sabreen Ahmed, Tracing Roots/ Routes of Indian Traditions: Assamese Drama at a Glimpse. Proscenium: Voices Across Borders Vol. 1  1  ISBN: 978-81-903854-3-5  Pageno: 60-64 [2026]


    2. Sabreen Ahmed, The Night Alone. The Virasat Anthology of Short Stories  ISBN: 978-9392281297 [2025]


    3. SABREEN AHMED, "Gender and Crime in the Journalistic Writings from North East India” in ED. Issues and Trends in the Literature from North East India. Bani Publicatins Vol. 1  1  ISBN: 978-81-954347-9-4  Pageno: 9-21 [2023]


    4. SABREEN AHMED, Trauma and Therapy: A Study of Depression Narratives in Indira Goswami’s Autobiographical Writings Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond, London: Routledge , June,2022.. Routledge Vol. 1  1  ISBN: 978-1-032-42527-6 [2022]


    5. SABREEN AHMED, .“Language of Social Media, Higher Education Research and the North East Indian Perspective” Suryani, I and Buragohain, D. Eds. 2019. International Languages and Knowledge: Learning in a Changing World. Kangar: Universiti Malayasia Perlis Press. Malayasia Perlis Press  ISBN: 978-9670922829 [2019]


    6. SABREEN AHMED, .“Cybernetics, Higher Education and the North- East Perspective” in Co-Production of Science and Social Order. Principal Nowgong College  ISBN: 978-81-924066-7-1  Pageno: 182-189 [2018]


    7. SABREEN AHMED, Gender, Religion and the Cultural Invasion of the Feminine Body Space in Semina Ali’s Madras in Rainy Days. Principal Nowgong College  ISBN: 978-81-924066-3-6  Pageno: 86-94 [2016]


    8. SABREEN AHMED, Victorian Womanhood and Inversion of Gender Role in Elizabeth Barret Browning’s Aurora Leigh. Bimrixa  ISBN: 978-81-924066-1-3 [2016]


    9. SABREEN AHMED, "The Dialectics of Tradition and Modernity in Aruni Kashyap’s The House with a Thousand Stories” inNorth East Indian Writings in English: Modes and Concerns. Ajanta Press  ISBN: 978-93-84679-14-9 [2015]


    10. SABREEN AHMED, "Analyzing Shashi Deshpande's Postcolonial Feminist Position/Disposition through her Selected Novels" in Ed. Postcolonial Writings in English, Assamese and Bengali: A Comparative Reading.. Krantikaal Prakashan  ISBN: 978-93-81694-91-6 [2014]


    11. SABREEN AHMED, “ Gendered Crisis of a Woman Writer with special reference to Shashi Deshpande” in Ed. Yugobandita.. Alibaat  ISBN: 978-8192664606  Pageno: 155-168 [2013]


    Book(Authored) (2)

    1. SABREEN AHMED, Muffled Voices in the Zenana and Beyond: The Fiction and Life Writings by Selected South Asian Muslim Women Writers, Routledge, 2025. ( Monograph by Dr. Sabreen Ahmed). Routledge Vol. 1  1  ISBN: 9781041210269  Pageno: 1-150 https://www.routledge.com/Muffled-Voices-in-the-Zenana-and-Beyond-The-Fiction-and-Life-Writings-of-Selected-South-Asian-Muslim-Women-Writers/Ahmed/p/book/9781032983455 [2025]


    2. SABREEN AHMED, Soliloquies. Alibaat Publishers  ISBN: 978-9381-069346 [2016]


    Book(Edited) (5)

    1. Ahmed, et al., Canvas. Krantikal  ISBN: 978-8169526-11-1  Pageno: 1-150 [2026]


    2. SABREEN AHMED, Interstice: Troubled mind Gendered Spaces. Wissenmonk Vol. 1  1  ISBN: â€Ž 978-9393815613  Pageno: 1-254 [2024]


    3. SABREEN AHMED, Inked Wreaths. Wissenmonk [2024]


    4. SABREEN AHMED, Interface: Language, Ecology and Gender in North East India. Exceller Books [2021]


    5. SABREEN AHMED, Indian English Fiction and the Northeast. Edited Seminar Proceedings.. Principal Nowgong College  ISBN: 978-81-924066 [2016]


    International Seminar Presentations by Dr. Sabreen Ahmed


    1.    Presented paper entitled “Gendering the Margins: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife” at an International Conference on ‘Narrativizing the NorthEast India and Beyond’ at Assam University, Diphu Campus in January 4-6, 2012.

    2.    Presented paper entitled “Reflections of the City of Kabul: Pre and Post Taliban in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns” at an International Conference on Afghan Literature at Gauhati University in Feb 2019.

    3.    Presented paper entitled “Locating the Carnevalesque and Public Laughter in Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” at an International Conference on ‘Wit, Humour and Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance’ by IACLALS at BITS, Goa Campus on 15-17 Feb 2024.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    International Seminar Presentations by Dr. Sabreen Ahmed

     

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “Gendering the Margins: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Mitra Phukan’s The Collector’s Wife” at an International Conference on ‘Narrativizing the NorthEast India and Beyond’ at Assam University, Diphu Campus in January 4-6, 2012.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “Reflections of the City of Kabul: Pre and Post Taliban in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns” at an International Conference on Afghan Literature at Gauhati University in Feb 2019.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “Locating the Carnevalesque and Public Laughter in Milan Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting” at an International Conference on ‘Wit, Humour and Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance’ by IACLALS at BITS, Goa Campus on 15-17 Feb 2024.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “ Precarity and Performativity in Postapocalyptic South Asia: Reading Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape and the Island of Lost Girls “at International Conference on ‘Living with Precarity: Literature in the 21st century 3rd and 4th October 2024’ at   Bodoland University.

     

    1.  Presented paper entitled “The Omnipresent Nature in Zubeen Garg;s Songs: An Ethnomusical Analysis”. at an International Conference on Planet Langlit at Green University, Dhaka on 15th January 2026.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled” A Study of the Subalternin Charcoal Portrait through an Eco-gendered Lens” at an ‘International Conference on Environment and Indegenous Knowledge System in South Asian Context’ at Nowgong  Girls’ College in March24-25, 2026.

     

    1.  Presented paper entitled “Cartographies of Migration and Reconfiguring Indigeneity in Assamese Migration Narratives: A Specific Study of Astitva” at an International Conference on Assam Don Bosco University in April 2026.

     

     

     

    National Seminars Presentations by Dr. Sabreen Ahmed

     

     

    1. Presented Keynote address entitled “ Beyond the Erasures of Silence and Invisibility” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Women’s Voices in North- East India: Issues and Challenges’ at Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya, Jorhat on 12th October 2018.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “ The River and Community Life in Indira Goswami’s The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker and Lakshmi Nandan Bora’s Magic Wings of the Tern” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on “ Sociology of/and River Traditions: Re/reading Narratives of Northeast India” organized by the ICSSR North Eastern Regional Centre Shillong, 1st& 2nd Sept. 2026.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “Cybernetics, Higher Education and the Northeast Perspective: A Study in Socio- Scientific Co-production” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Co-Production of Science and Social Order: A Social Science Perspective on Gifts of Science to Society for Overall Development’ organised by  Nowgong College, 17th -18th August 2018.

     

    1. Presented Paper entitled “The Global/Local Shift in Anjum Hasan’s Neti Neti” at UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Indian Fiction in English and the North-East’ organised by  Nowgong College on 5th & 6th August 2016.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “Gender, Religion and the Cultural Invasion of the Feminine Body Space in Samina Ali’s Madras in Rainy Days” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Gender in Different Cultural and National Contexts: Local and Global Impact on it and its Role’ organized by  Nowgong College, 20th & 21st January 2015.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “ The Dialectics of Tradition and Modenity in Aruni Kashyap’s A House of Thousand Stories” at UGC Sponsored National Seminar on North East Indian Writings in English: Issues and Trends organized by ADP College on August 2014.

     

    1. Presented paper entitled “Analyzing Shashi Deshpande’s Postcolonial Feminist Position/Disposition through her Selected Novels” at UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Postcolonial Writing in English, Assamese and Bengali: A Comparative Reading’ organized by Rupahi College, Assam on 18th May 2013.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    4.    Presented paper entitled “ Precarity and Performativity in Postapocalyptic South Asia: Reading Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape and the Island of Lost Girls “at International Conference on ‘Living with Precarity: Literature in the 21st century 3rd and 4th October 2024’ at   Bodoland University.

    5.     Presented paper entitled “The Omnipresent Nature in Zubeen Garg;s Songs: An Ethnomusical Analysis”. at an International Conference on Planet Langlit at Green University, Dhaka on 15th January 2026.

    6.    Presented paper entitled” A Study of the Subalternin Charcoal Portrait through an Eco-gendered Lens” at an ‘International Conference on Environment and Indegenous Knowledge System in South Asian Context’ at Nowgong  Girls’ College in March24-25, 2026.

    7.     Presented paper entitled “Cartographies of Migration and Reconfiguring Indigeneity in Assamese Migration Narratives: A Specific Study of Astitva” at an International Conference on Assam Don Bosco University in April 2026.

    National Seminars Presentations by Dr. Sabreen Ahmed


    1.    Presented Keynote address entitled “ Beyond the Erasures of Silence and Invisibility” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Women’s Voices in North- East India: Issues and Challenges’ at Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya, Jorhat on 12th October 2018.

    2.    Presented paper entitled “ The River and Community Life in Indira Goswami’s The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker and Lakshmi Nandan Bora’s Magic Wings of the Tern” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on “ Sociology of/and River Traditions: Re/reading Narratives of Northeast India” organized by the ICSSR North Eastern Regional Centre Shillong, 1st& 2nd Sept. 2026.

    3.    Presented paper entitled “Cybernetics, Higher Education and the Northeast Perspective: A Study in Socio- Scientific Co-production” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Co-Production of Science and Social Order: A Social Science Perspective on Gifts of Science to Society for Overall Development’ organised by  Nowgong College, 17th -18th August 2018.

    4.    Presented Paper entitled “The Global/Local Shift in Anjum Hasan’s Neti Neti” at UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Indian Fiction in English and the North-East’ organised by  Nowgong College on 5th & 6th August 2016.

    5.    Presented paper entitled “Gender, Religion and the Cultural Invasion of the Feminine Body Space in Samina Ali’s Madras in Rainy Days” at ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Gender in Different Cultural and National Contexts: Local and Global Impact on it and its Role’ organized by  Nowgong College, 20th & 21st January 2015.

    6.    Presented paper entitled “ The Dialectics of Tradition and Modenity in Aruni Kashyap’s A House of Thousand Stories” at UGC Sponsored National Seminar on North East Indian Writings in English: Issues and Trends organized by ADP College on August 2014.

    7.    Presented paper entitled “Analyzing Shashi Deshpande’s Postcolonial Feminist Position/Disposition through her Selected Novels” at UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Postcolonial Writing in English, Assamese and Bengali: A Comparative Reading’ organized by Rupahi College, Assam on 18th May 2013.
     

    Life Member IACLALS

     

     

    • I have been a resource person for ICSSR sponsored National Seminar as Keynote Speaker in OCT, 2018 at Jorhat Kendriya Mahavidyalaya and have also contributed several conference papers sponsored by UGC and ICSSR.
    • Evaluated a PhD thesis and took viva voce as external evaluator through online mode at CES, JNU, New Delhi on 16th June 2023.
    • I was the Convenor and Organizing Secretary of ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on “Gender Discrimination at the Workplace and Women’s Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach.” Held on 28, 29 Dec 2023.
    • As a speaker at pre Women’s Day Celebration organized by DSWO, District Administration and NSS unit where l shared my views on  “ Understanding Gender: Investment, Intersectionality and Inclusivity”. 4th March, 2024
    • Resource person at the National Seminar on “ Narratives from South Asia: Trends and Trajectories” was a delightful at Mahapurusha Srimanta Sankaradeva Viswavidyalaya , MSSV Nagaon on 30th March 2024
    • Resource Person at Arya Vidyapith College for a Lecture Programme on “ Recent Trends of Posthumanist Praxis on 11th February 2025
    • Resource Person at Post Graduate Department of English Karim City College, Jamshedpur on 11th March 2025 for a Web Interaction Series on “The Literary Praxis of Posthumanism With Reference to Selected Dystopian Fiction”
    • Chairperson at International Conference on Indian Knowledge System at Nowgong Girls College on 26th March 2026.
    • Chairperson at International Conference on “Mnemonic Spaces: Mapping Identity and Representation in Contemporary Literature, Society and Culture” organized by HPB Girls’ College (Autonomous), Golaghat, Assam on 3rd Sept. 2026

     

    1. Delienation of Male Subjectivity in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande

    Funding Agency : UGC
    Principal Investigator: Sabreen Ahmed
    Co-investigator: -
    Status: Completed
    Year: 2014
    Duration: 2

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    1. Tanmoyee Sarkar

    Ph.D Research Scholar

    Area of Research : Green Studies
    Full-Time

    2. Aditi Ghosh

    Ph.D Research Scholar

    Area of Research : Feminist Dystopia
    Full-Time

    3. Chandamita Basumatary

    Ph.D Research Scholar

    Area of Research : Posthumanism
    Full-Time

    4. Sukanya Hazarika

    Ph.D Research Scholar

    Area of Research : Spatility
    Part-Time