Dr. Manmeet Sodhi
Assistant Professor
Dr Manmeet Sodhi did her Masters, M.Phil and Doctorate Degree in English from Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her Doctoral thesis was on Tradition, Transition and Transformation: Myth, Identity and Subjectivity in Selected Indian Films. She has twelve years of teaching experience. Her area of speciality is Film and Cultural Studies.
Film Studies , Cultural Studies , Western Literary History
M.A , M.Phil , Ph.D.
Publication Details
- Sodhi, Manmeet, “ Spatial voices in the Ideological Contested Territories: Reclaiming Myths and Ideas in Shyam Benegal’s Rural Trilogy”. The Literati (Peer Reviewed).
- Sodhi, Manmeet, “Productive Bodies: voices of Subjugation and Resistance in Aruna Raje’s Rihaee” The Criterion
- Sodhi, Manmeet. “Contextualising Desecration of Women: Gendered Violence in Bapsi Sidwa’s Cracking India.” Reflections on Contemporary Indian English Fiction. First ed. 2011. ISBN 81-902800-8-2
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- Sodhi, Manmeet. “Popular Culture As A Resource In English Teaching” in the proceedings of UGC sponsored Two – Day National Seminar on English Language Teaching In India: Problems And Strategies
- Book published under the title Business Communication(A Text-Book For B.Com Professional Part 1) 2011 ISBN- 978-81-272-6454-3
- Sodhi, Manmeet. Sexual Stereotyping: A Study on Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord. Pragati English Journal. Vol.8 No.2. 2008.pp 81-87. ISNN – 0975-4091.
Conferences And Seminars
- Presented a paper titled “Contested Social Spaces: Reclaiming Myths and Ideas in Mrinal Sen’s Bhuvan Shome” in National Seminar onSouth and West Asian Literature and Film: Narratives of Modernity in Department Of English, Punjabi University, Patiala held on February 6th and 7th, 2014
- The paper titled “Spatial voices in the Ideological Contested Territories: Reclaiming Myths and Ideas in Shyam Benegal’s Rural Trilogy” was presented in the IACLALS Conference 2014 held at Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh on 20-22 Feb., 2014
- Presented paper on “Representations and Representational Spaces in the Selected Films”in National Seminaron Contextualizing And Reorienting Violence and Its Spaces In A Postmodern, Globalized World Order held at Lovely Professional University, Punjab on 7 December 2013.
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- Attended UGC SAP Workshop on Television Studies: November 2 – 8 November, 2012 Department of English & Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh
- Best oral presentation of a research paper titled (Re)Construction Of Women’s Cultural Identities In Gurinder Chadha’s Film, Bend It Like Beckham in the International Conference on Empowering Women Through Higher Education organized by KMV, Jalandhar on 20-21 October 2011
- Participated in the UGC sponsored Two – Day National Seminar on Influence of Media On Language, Literature And Culture organized by Post Graduate Department Of Punjabi, Lyallpur Khalsa College. Jalandhar on 28TH and 29TH January, 2011
- Presented paper on “Productive Bodies: voices of Subjugation and Resistance in Aruna Raje’s Rihaee” in UGC spansored National Seminar on Voice and Vision of women Writers in Indian English Literature
Other Information
- Delivered an extension lecture on the topic ‘Building Blocks of Language’ at Guru Nanak College, Sukhchaina Sahib, Phagwara on 11 September 2017
- As a Resource person in a three-day workshop on Creative Writing by the Post Graduate Department of Punjabi, Lyallpur Khalsa College. The topic was How to Read a Film in reference toGurdial Singh’s Anhey Gohre da Daan
- Attended an ICSSR sponsored 10-day workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences, from 16 to 25 March 2015
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- Attended Film Appreciation Course-2012 at Film and Television Institute of India, Pune from 1 June 2012 to 30 June 2012
- Has Written Book Reviews for the National Daily ‘The Tribune’since 2008. Some of them are on: Terrorist at my Table (Imtiaz Dharkar); Bollywood Baddies: Villains, Vamps, and Henchmen in Hindi Cinema; The Mother of Mohammad; Nothing can be as Crazy; The Pages of my life; Woman Farmers of India; Lahore to Delhi…Rising from the ashes; The Indians: Portrait of a People(Sudhir Kakkar and Katherine Kakkar); Brida (Paulo Coelho); The Disappearances(Vijay Sheshadari); Disappearing Daughters(Geeta Aravamudan); Sikh Philosophy and Religion ( Nirmal Kumar)