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About Us

Staff Profile

Staff Profile

Department of English
PhD, M.Phil, MA

Dr. Aateka Khan

Associate Professor

Educational Qualifications

Degree Institution Year
PhD Jamia Millia Islamia 2020
MPhil, English University of Delhi 2002
MA, English University of Delhi 2000
BA English Honours University of Delhi 1998

Career Profile

23 years of Undergraduate teaching

Administrative Assignments

(In the Last 2 years)

TiC, Department of Journalism, 2022-23

Member, Screening Committee, 2022-23

Convenor, Paper-Setting for Creative Writing, 2022-23

Convenor, Paper-Setting for Creative Writing, 2021-22

TiC. Department of English, 2021-22

Co-Convenor, Admissions Committee, 2021-22

Member, Prospectus Committee, 2021-22


Areas of Interest / Specialization

Life Writings, Translation Studies, Avant Garde Theatre, Jacobean Drama, Travel Writing

Subjects Taught

Modern European Drama, AECC, British Poetry and Drama, SEC-Business Communication, Travel Writing

Research Guidance

Publications Profile

Publications in the Last one year

a)      Published paper titled “Burton’s Racist critique of Portuguese Goa” published in Research Review Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in 2019. e-ISSN 2455-3085. Impact Factor 6.377. Vol-4 | Issue-03 | March 2019 . p 919-924.

b)      Published an article “Is India’s Talaq bill really for Indian Muslim women?” in Global Village Space, in January 2018. Available also in print. Is India’s Triple Talaq bill really targets Indian Muslim women? (globalvillagespace.com)

c)      Published paper titled “Richard Burton: Disguise as Journey to the Self and Beyond” in Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing edited by Ian S. McIntosh, E. Moore Quinn and Vivienne Keely. Published by CABI, U.K. in 2018. ISBN

9781786394996.

d)     Published paper “Baburnama: Negotiating Autobiography and Historicity” Vol. 1 No. 02 (2021): Bayan College International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, June 2021 | Bayan College International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (bayancollegeijmr.com)

Conference Organization / Presentations (in the last three years)

Presented paper entitled “Burton’s Pilgrimage to the terra incognita” at Mansfield College, Oxford at the conference Sacred Journeys in 2014.

Presented paper entitled “Richard Burton and Disguise: Interrogating Differences through Costuming” at Freie University, Berlin, Germany at the conference Encounters with Difference: a conference on Travel Writing and Gender, 27-28 October 2017.

Convenor, Webinar on Politics of Women's Writing, May 2020

Delivered an invited lecture as Resource person for Dyal Singh college (m) on Travel writing 10 April 2021

Research Projects (Major Grants/Research Collaboration)

Awards and Distinctions

Katha Award for best translation of short story from Urdu to English, 1999.

Association With Professional Bodies

Other Activities