BITS Pilani

  • Page last updated on Sunday, April 16, 2023

Research

banner
Research

Research

  Research Areas
  • Film Studies
  • Film Narratology and Indian Biopics
  • Business Communication
  • Technical Communication
  • Media studies

Sponsored Research Projects

 
  1.  Cinematic Arts: A Critical study of Interdisciplinary Aspects in Cinema with special reference to Literature, Audio-Visual and Performance   Funding Agency: UGC in March 2013.Amount Rs.5,54,600 , Duration -two years (Major research project). Completed                                                                                                            
  2. Cinematic Arts: A Critical Study of Multidisciplinary Aspects in Cinema  Funding Agency: BITS, Pilani   Amount: 2 Lakhs      Duration :Two years. Completed                                                                                               

 PhD Supervision

 
 Completed(02)
    
  1. Neerja Vyas   PhD Title: Narrative Form of Selected Hindi Biopics: An Empirical Study of Style and Structure.  Thesis awarded in 2018
  2. Shrija Srinivasan   PhD Title: Space, Place and Landscape: A Geocritical Study of P.D.James'Police Procedurals. Thesis awarded in 2022.      
      Ongoing(04)
  1. Pankaj Bharti    PhD working title: A Study of Narrative Strategies for Communicating the Idea of ‘Change’ in Selected Science Fiction Prototype stories. 
  2. Sakshi Yadav     PhD working title: Transnational Approach to Indigenous Ecocinema: A Study of Narrative Style and Structure. 
  3. Vibha             PhD working title: Mediatized Novel: Mass Media and the Indian Novel from 1990 to Present.
  4. Sonika  (In progress):  PhD Working Area: Film and Culture
Papers presented at International  Conferences 
 
 
  •      Pankaj Bharti and Sushila Shekhawat presented a paper titled Using Science Fiction Prototyping to improve Cognitive and Problem Solving Skills in Indian Students at the Second International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (ICON 2023) organized By Teaching Learning Centre at BITS,Pilani, Pilani Campus during 9 to 11 February,2023.

  •    Sakshi Yadav and Sushila Shekhawat presented a paper titled Exploring Ecology through Indigenous lenses at The View from the Anthropocene: Exploring the Human Epoch from Post Anthropocentric Perspectives an Interdisciplinary conference at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary during 15-16 October,2022. 

  •      Vibha and Sushila Shekhawat presented a paper titled Hashtag This, Hashtag That: Case Study on Rise of Digital Platforms as New Arenas of Censorship at the international memory studies conference Memory in a Digital Age organized by the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras from 23-25 August 2022. 

  •      Sakshi Yadav and Sushila Shekhawat. Environmentalism of Women: A Study of Selected Indian Ecofeminist Documentaries at the International Conference on Redrawing the Boundaries of  Ecocritical Discourse: Literary Environmentalism and Plurality of Voices organized by the Department of English, Central University of Jammu in  collaboration with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment ASLE, India during 21 to 22 July ,2022.

  •      Vibha and Sushila Shekhawat.Shushing up Sita: Ideological Adaptations of a Mythical Heroine at the 17th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference (In)visible Adaptation: Diversity and Inclusion at School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, on 23-25 June, 2022.

  •     Shrija Srinivasan and Sushila Shekhawat, “Understanding Island Spaces through Culture Studies: Practices and Representations” paper presentation in a Themed Session at the Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences “The Opportunities of Crisis: Resilience and Change in World History”, from 20th - 23rd July 2021, at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.

  •   Shekhawat,Sushila. Dissemination of Health News through Media during the Global Pandemic:An Indian Perspective at the Fourteenth Global Studies Conference on Life After Pandemic:Towards a New Global biopolitics at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, from 4-5 June 2021. 

  •    Shrija,Srinivasan and Sushila Shekhawat.“A Palimpsest of City and Country:Larksoken Headlands in 1989” in the seminar “Crime Fiction, Global Mapping and Grand Narratives, Sec. 2” during the 2021 ACLA Annual Meeting held virtually during April 8-11, 2021.

  •    Shrija,Srinivaan and Sushila Shekhawat. Where are they? Position of Women in Law Enforcement in the Online National Conference on Sustainable Development Goals jointly organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, MNIT Jaipur and National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand in academic collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society, New Delhi on 10 – 11 September, 2020. 

  •    Shekhawat,Sushila. Enhancing Employability Skills of Engineering Graduates at the 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering: Enhancing Future Skills and Entrepreneurship during September,16-17, 2019 organized by the Indo-German Center for Sustainable Manufacturing, a joint venture of Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, India and Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. 

  •     Shekhawat, Sushila. Fictional Narratives and Question of Ethics at the 5th World conference on Media and Mass Communication. -MEDCOM 2019.” Change in Media, Media for Change. Looking for New Paradigms” during 5 to 7April,2019 at Kualalumpur, Malaysia.  

  • Shekhawat, Sushila. Globalization and Cinema: Exploration of the Shifting Paradigms of Cinematic narration in Indian Films at the International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research o-rganized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus during 8 to 9 February,2019. 
  • Srinivasan,Shrija and Sushila Shekhawat.Infinite Memory Loop:Trapped in the Cabinet of Dr Caligari at the International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge ,Education and Research organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,BITS,Pilani,Pilani Campus during 8 to 9 February,2019.
  • Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat.Ethics and Hindi Biopics.Presented at the International Conference on Media,Culture and Ethics organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,BITS,Pilani,Pilani Campus during 9 to 10 February,2018
  • Shekhawat, Sushila. Identity Formation through Food as a Mataphor in Popular Culture:A Study of Indian Films, presented at the International Conference on Literature as Cartography of Emotions: Ways of Being and Belonging Organized by the Department of English, St. Xavier’s College, Jaipur during 27 to 28 January,2017.
  • Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Creation of identity on Screen and its Impact: Biopics of the Living presented at the International Conference on Literature as Cartography of Emotions: Ways of Being and Belonging Organized by the Department of English, St. Xavier’s College, Jaipur during 27 to 28 January,2017.
  • Shekhawat,Sushila.Revelation of real life Identities on Screen: An Exploratory Study of Biopics and Documentaries in Indian Cinema presented in the National Conference on History Reconstrued through Literature: Nation, Identity and Culture organized by Department of English,Jai Narain Vyas University,Jodhpur during 1 to 2 February,2017.
  •  Shekhawat,Sushila. Deconstructing Media representation of Women Through Contemporary Hindi Films presented in the International Seminar on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: Dimensions, Directions and Challenges organized by Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur during 25 to 26 November 2016.
  • Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Cultural value and Questions of Morality: The Bollywood Biopic, presented at the Fifth Annual London Film and Media Conference on Questions of Cultural Value held  in London during 7  to 9 July 2016. 
  • Nidhila S and Sushila Shekhawat. Language as a Social Paradigm: Reading Jagmohan’s Uravidangalin the National Student’s Conference, RAW.CON 2015 held from 9 to 11 September presented at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad.
  •  Shekhawat,Sushila. Shakespeare and Contemporary Indian Politics: An Analysis of Haider by Vishal Bharadwaj. presented at an International Conference on “Shakespeare in Indian and European Languages: A Postmodern Review organized by Jai Narain Vyas University and Shakespeare Association, India during 16-18 November, 2015.
  •  Shekhawat,Sushila. Teaching English language through a Universal Language of Cinema presented at the International Conference on Methods, Aesthetics and Genres in English Communication organized by Centre for Professional Communication, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, UK, during 4-5 April 2014.
  • Virender Singh Nirban and Sushila Rathore. Functional and Language Usage in Internet Based Communication: Study of Blogs, Facebook and Twitter presented at the International Conference on Empowering the English Language Classroom organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, MNIT, Jaipur from 18 to 19 January 2013.
  • Shekhawat, Sushila (2012).Variegated Shades of A Female in Indian Films: A Study of Mirch Masala and Arth presented at the Annual International Conference in Language, Literature and Linguistics at Singapore during 9-10 July 2012. .
  • Shekhawat, Sushila Use of multimedia Language Laboratory for Teaching Business Communication presented at the third International ElTAI Rajasthan Conference on Interface of Language, Technology and Culture at BITS,Pilani,Rajasthan,8-9 October 2012
  • Chasul and Sushila Shekhawat. Techniques for Enhancing Vocabulary presented at the 3rd International ElTAI Rajasthan Conference on Interface of Language, Technology and Culture at BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan,8-9 October 2012.
  • Rathore, Sushila and V. S. Nirban (2011). Developing Communication Competence in the Students through Face to Face Conversation presented  at the 'International conference on Transcending Disciplinary Decadence: Exploring Challenges of Teaching, Scholarship, and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences” at IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 18–21 December 2011.
  • Rathore, Sushila and Geetha B (2011). Teaching Soft Skills to Engineering Students: A Case Study of BITS Pilani presented at the International Conference on Embracing Glocal English organized by ELT@I Rajasthan, Jaipur Chapter at Jaipur during 4 to 5 November, 2011.
  • Geetha. B &  Sushila Rathore, Integrating Humanities and Liberal Arts  in Engineering Education: Need and  Future Directions  presented at the International Conference on Role of Humanities & Social Sciences in Holistic Development of Future Technocrats (RHSSFT 2011), Waknaghat Solan, 23-24 September,2011.
  • Nirban, V. S. and Sushila Rathore (2011). Using Internet Applications as Online Platforms for Language Learning at the 'International Conference on Web Based Learning and Library Management', Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center, 30-31 January, 2011.


Quick Links

    An Institution Deemed to be University estd. vide Sec.3 of the UGC Act,1956 under notification # F.12-23/63.U-2 of Jun 18,1964

    © 2024 Centre for Software Development,SDET Unit, BITS-Pilani, India.

    Designed and developed by fractal | ink design studios