Department of English: Faculties
Yashowika Subba
Assistant Professor (WBES) &
Head, PG Department of English
Highest Qualification: M.A.
Contact details:
- Email-id: (official): yashowika.subba@gmail.com
- Phone No.: (+91) 9547249885
- Office address: PG Department of English, Darjeeling Government College.
Teaching experience in years, months: 8 years and 3 months
Date of joining to this institution: 21/09/2022
Previous positions held:
- Part Time Teacher at Darjeeling Govt. College (2009-2014)
- Assistant Professor (WBES) and Head (2015-2016) at APC Roy Government College Siliguri ( Served from 14/08/2014- 20/09/2022)
Courses taught:
English (BA HONS.) and M.A
Research area/interest:
Translation Studies, Comparative Folklore, Himalayan Studies.
List of Publications: NA
Presentation ( Papers presented in following seminars):
- Two Day International Seminar on Language, Culture and Society, Local and Global Perspective. Organized by Centre for Studies in Local Languages and Cultures, University of North Bengal (27-28 March, 2019) Paper entitled “Preservation of Limboo Identity through Language and Culture”.
- Three Day International Seminar on Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav: Cultural Heritage of Eastern Himalayas and North East India. Organized by Department of English, Southfield College, Darjeeling (May 25-27,2022) Paper entitled “Performance of Limboo Mundhum and Ritual as a Symbolic and Cultural Representation of its Community.”
Workshops:
- Workshop on Restructuring the Undergraduate Syllabus on CBCS (Honours and General). Organised by Council for Undergraduate Studies in Arts, Science, Commerce and Law & Board of Under Graduate Studies in English, University of North Bengal. (04.12.2017)
- Five Day National Translation Workshop on TRANSLATING ORAL NARRATIVES OF SIKKIM: CO-CREATION, CRITIQUE AND COLLABORATION. Organised by The Department of English, Sikkim University in Collaboration with ICSSR, NEW DELHI. (12-16 September,2022)
Sunita Lama
Assistant Professor (WBES)
Highest Qualification: M.A.
Contact details:
- Email-id: (official): sunizlama@gmail.com
- Phone No.: (+91) 9547757076, WhatsApp: 9547757076
- Office address: PG Department of English, Darjeeling Government College.
Teaching experience in years, months: 8 years and 3 months
Date of joining to this institution: 21/09/2022
Previous positions held:
- Contractual Lecturer at St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling. (2012-2014)
- Assistant Professor (W.B.E.S.) at APC Roy Government College Siliguri (18th Aug 2014- 20th Sept 2022)
Courses taught:
English ( BA HONS. M.A
Research area/interest:
Arab American Literature, Palestinian Literature, Diaspora Studies, Myths and Folklore.
List of Publications:
- Surpanakha-The Face that was Disfigured: A Feminist Enquiry into Kavita Kane’s The Lanka Princess, Exposure, The Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. III, No. I, June 2017, ISSN: 2454-6429 (Peer- Reviewed Journal).
Presentation ( Papers presented in following seminars):
- Paper entitled Food as Cultural Marker: Darjeeling Culinary Trails and Edible Identities presented at the International Web Seminar on "Modern Trends in Humanities, Science & Technology and Social Sciences for Sustainable Development" organized by APCR Siliguri, 23rd- 24th Sept, 2021.
- Paper entitled REMAPPING HOME IN ARAB-AMERICAN LITERATURE: LOOKING INSIDE RANDA JARRAR'S A MAP OF HOME AND ALIA YUNIS'S THE NIGHT COUNTER at the International Conference on “Race, ethnicity and Migration in Postcolonial Literature”, organized by AMU Murshidabad, West Bengal, 23rd March 2022.
- Paper entitled CONDITIONAL CITIZENS?? ARAB AMERICAN WOMEN QUESTION CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS IN THE U.S. presented at the International Conference on Recent Advances in the field of Management, Law, Education and Technology: An Interdisciplinary Approach 22, ICRAMLET 22 organized by Aligarh Muslim University Centre, Murshidabad, West Bengal, 2nd June 2022.
Workshops:
- Online FDP on Entitled “Paradigm Shift in Teaching-Learning Pedagogy & Scope of Research Methods in Post COVID Era” (09th June -15th June, 2020).
- FDP on Advanced Concepts of Developing Moocs (02nd July to 17th July, 2020).
Rippandi Lepcha
Assistant Professor (WBES)
Highest Qualification: M.Phil
Contact details:
- Email-id: (official): rippandilepcha.kal@gmail.com
- Phone No.: (+91) 9932621398, WhatsApp 6296770536
- Office address: PG Department of English, Darjeeling Government College.
Teaching experience in years, months: 6 years and 11 months
Date of joining to this institution: 02/11/2022
Previous positions held:
- Guest Lecturer in St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling.( August 2015-December 2015)
- Assistant Professor & Head in Government General Degree College at Pedong (January 2016-October 2022)
Courses taught:
English ( BA HONS. M.A
Research area/interest:
John Milton, Himalayan Studies, Contemporary Indian Literature.
List of Publications:
- Rediscovering Kalimpong Through Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and Chuden Kabimo’s Song of the Soil, International Journal of Research Culture Society(2022).
- She Blooms Anyway (A collection of Poems), 2020.
- Love(Noun) Needs Love(Verb) to Be True (A collection of Poems) 2021.
Presentation ( Papers presented in following seminars):
- International Conference on Politics of Representation, Sikkim University, 2017 Paper entitled Representation of Marriage in Milton’s Paradise Lost and The Bible: A Study in Contrast.
- National Interdisciplinary Seminar, Cluny Women’s College, 2019 Paper entitledCultural Identity and Change.
- International Seminar, Parimal Mitra Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Malbazar, 2020 Paper entitled Spaces in Conjugal Relationships: Doorway for Adversary to Enter or A Gateway to Good Union of Couples.
- National Interdisciplinary Seminar, Sikkim University, 2021 Paper entitled ‘Society and Mixed Marriages: An Uneasy Kinship
- International Conference, Department of Memory Studies, IIT Madras, 2022 Paper entitled Kalimpong Constructed Through Memory.
- International Conference, Jointly organised by Mila University Centre, Algeria; International Scientific Research Association, India 2022 Paper entitled Rediscovering Kalimpong Through Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss and Chuden Kabimo’s Song of the Soil.
Workshops:
- Discovery Sacred Lands organised by University of Toronto, 2022.
- National Translation Workshop organised by Sikkim University, 2022.
- Short Term Course in Research Methodology, Organised by North Bengal University, 2020.
Sagarika Subba
Assistant Professor (WBES)
Highest Qualification: M.Phil
Contact details:
- Email-id: (official): sagarikasubba@gmail.com
- Phone No.: (+91) 9681634806, WhatsApp: 9681634806
- Office address: PG Department of English, Darjeeling Government College.
Teaching experience in years, months: 6 years and 9 months
Date of joining to this institution: 05/11/2022
Previous positions held:
- Contractual Lecturer at St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling. (2014-2015).
- Assistant Professor (W.B.E.S.) at B.K.O.Hindi Government College, Banarhat(01.02. 2016- 03.11.2022).
Courses taught:
English ( BA HONS. M.A
Research area/interest:
Women Studies, Indian writing in English.
List of Publications: NA
Seminars and Workshops attended:
- Combating violence on women and girls in collaboration with National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (27.08.18 to 31.08.18).
- One day workshop on various scholarships and schemes organised by B.K.O.H Govt College on 26.01.22.
- International seminar on Social and Political thoughts of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. (12.03.2020 - 13.03.2020).
Lahangma Lawati
State Aided College Teacher (SACT) in English
Highest Qualification: M.A.
Contact details:
- Email-id: (official): limbunilahang@gmail.com
- Phone No.: (+91) 9382771496
- Office address: Department of English, Darjeeling Govt. College, Lebong Cart Road, Darjeeling, 734101.
Teaching experience in years, months: 11 year 7 months
Date of joining to this institution: 01.07.2010
Date of joining to this service: 16.07.2002
Courses taught:
Undergraduate English (Honors and General)
Anupama Pradhan
SACT I
Highest Qualification: M.A., SLET (specialization in Physical Chemistry).
Contact details:
- Email-id: (official): padhananupama1987@gmail.com
- Phone No.: (+91) 9832405510
- Office address: Department of English, Darjeeling Govt. College, Lebong Cart Road, Darjeeling, 734101.
Teaching experience in years, months: 10 years, 11 months
Date of joining to this institution: 01.08.2011
Date of joining to this service: 01.08.2011
Fellowships, Awards and Honors (if any):
Awarded & Felicitated in Music field.
Courses taught:
B.A. Programme and honours.
Presentations/attended in Conferences/Workshops/Seminars/Symposium:
- One day International Seminar in Folk Songs (Presented Paper on Gaine Folk Songs).
- Attended two days National seminar at Darjeeling Government College on NATURAL LANGUAGE Organized by CIL- Mysore.
- Attended two days National seminar at Darjeeling Government College, on BHANU BHAKTIYA RAMAYAN Organized by PG Department of Nepali and IQAC.