Engagement & Service

Scholarly Engagement

Invited Lectures

• Invited to deliver a talk entitled “Reading Illness Ecologically: Methods in the Medical-Environmental Humanities” by Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany, on 21 September 2026.
• Delivered an invited talk at the Environmental Humanities Reading Group, Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society, Germany, on 16 December 2024.
• Delivered an invited lecture at the School of Social Sciences and Languages (SSL), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai, India, on 15 February 2023.

Plenary and Keynote Addresses

• Delivered Plenary Talk at Two-Day International Conference on Exploring the Literary Space as a Bridge Across Disciplines, organised by Government College Una, H.P., 15–16 November 2024.

Selected Conference Presentations

• “Postcolonial Development and Khasi Culture: Reading Desmond Kharmawphlang's Poems through Indigenous Ecocriticism.” 7th World Conference on Social Sciences (WorldCSS), 5–7 July 2024.
• “Indigenous Ecocriticism and Esther Syiem's Poems.” International Conference on Redrawing the Boundaries of Ecocritical Discourse: Literary Environmentalism and Plurality of Voices, Department of English Studies, Central University of Jammu, 21–22 July 2022. Also chaired a session.
• “Cultural Preservation and Environmental Conservation at the Time of Extractivist Development: Khasi Poets on Khasi Environmental Philosophy.” Online Symposium on Diversity of Environmental Philosophies in Asia, Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy (NAEP), June 2022.

Professional Development

• Workshop on “Literature, Art, and Medical Humanities: Major Philosophical Themes,” Banaras Hindu University, 18–22 March 2025.
• Workshop on “Unsettling Archeology,” IIT Gandhinagar, 26–29 September 2022.
• Faculty Development Programme on “Innovative Pedagogies and Emerging Trends in English Studies under NEP-2020,” Department of English, Sarala Birla University, Ranchi, 22–27 June 2026.

Academic Leadership

Institutional leadership roles supporting curriculum development, research governance, student welfare, and academic quality assurance.

• Convener, Department Research Committee (DRC), Department of HSS
• Co-ordinator, Project Based Learning, Department of HSS
• Committee Member, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), BITS Dubai Campus
• Committee Member, Commission for Academic Accreditation (CAA)
• Committee Member (Humanities and Social Sciences), Departmental Committee on Academics (DCA) and Cross Campus Departmental Committee on Academics (CCDCA)
• Faculty In-Charge, Public Speaking and Literary Club
• Hostel Warden
• Chairperson, Mess Committee
• Member, Standing Committee for Students' Discipline
• Member, Library Committee

Organised Distinguished Lecture Series

Conceptualised and organised an international Distinguished Lecture Series bringing together leading scholars in Indigenous Studies and Health Humanities.

Transnational Indigenous Studies

• Dr Devaleena Das, “The Conflict between New Materialism and Indigenous Metaphysics: A Transnational Feminist Look at the Existing Antipathy,” University of Minnesota Duluth Campus, USA, 11 May 2022
• Prof. Hsinya Huang, “Navigating Austronesia, Islanding Indigenous Poetics: A Decolonial Turn,” National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, 5 May 2022
• Prof. Craig Santos Perez, “Pacific Islander Eco-Poetry,” University of Hawai'i, Mānoa, USA, 27 April 2022
• Kaitlin Moore, “'You / say ancestors and I breathe, / bones:' Mushrooms, Mollusks, and 'Making Kin' in Māori Cosmology,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, 19 April 2022
• Prof. Susan Friedman, “Tribalography in Indigenous Oceania: LeAnne Howe's Storytelling Theory and Kathy Ketnil's YouTube Poetry Performances,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, 17 November 2021
• Prof. LeAnne Howe, “Mound Building, Ball Games, and the Counter Clockwise Motion of Tribalography,” University of Georgia, USA, 15 November 2021
• Dr Jenna Hunnef, “Reading and Researching the Literature of Allotment,” University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 9 November 2021
• Prof. Christopher Teuton, “'Standing in the Middle': Perpetuating an Enstoried Cherokee Ecology through Community-Driven Indigenous Research,” University of Washington, USA, 4 November 2021

Health Humanities

• Dr Debashrita Dey, “From Diagnosis to Dialogue: Language and Communication in the Health Humanities,” Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India, 16 June 2026
• Dr Devaleena Das, “Biopower, AI Ethics, and Structural Determinants of Health,” University of Minnesota Duluth Campus, USA, 6 February 2025

Entrepreneurship Mentorship and Career Development

Mentor students in entrepreneurship through start-up incubation, pitch preparation, investor engagement, career counselling, and mock interview training.

• Genme — a medical supply chain company based in India; the student now moved on to VinGo
• BitBotRobotics — autonomous drone delivery solutions for last-mile logistics in India, bitbotrobotics.com
• MyAmaani — a tourism company on Arabian heritage and culture in Dubai, UAE (registration underway)
• Zisto — a cloud kitchen-based food company based in Dubai, UAE (registration underway)
• QuillStone — a holding company with multiple business activities based in India and the UAE (UAE registration underway)

Professional Service

Peer Reviewer