Pakhi Jain

Experienced Guest Lecturer at the Department of English, Ramjas College, University of Delhi. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi since 2022 and additionally have qualified for NET .

Career Objective :

Known for delivering engaging lectures with valuable materials and organized classroom management. Dedicated to fostering student achievement and promoting a comprehensive understanding of the subject. Enthusiastic educator with a passion for fostering student growth and creating engaging learning environments. Seeking a teaching position where I can utilize my skills to contribute to student success.

• A) Publications
• “Animals, Literature and the World of Rays”. Children’s Literature, John Hopkins UP, vol. 53, 2025, pp. 20-43. Project Muse, doi, https://doi.org/10.1353/chl.2025.096087
• Book chapter titled “If Walls Could Speak: Assessing the Politics of Literary Representation of Girls in Zenanas/Purdahs in Nineteenth Century Indian Literature” in Women and Literature in India, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, July 2025.

• B) Conferences
• Presented a paper titled “Technology Haunts the Child: Reading Dying Children in Mulk Raj Anand’s Short Stories” in Department of Modern Indian Languages, Aligarh Muslim University, on 4th November, 2023.
• Presented a paper titled “Ecospheric Colonization and Colonial Indian Children’s Literature: A Reading of Kari the Elephant (1922)” in Children’s Literature Assembly, University of Georgia, on February 21, 2025.
• Presented a paper titled “Forsaken Toys, Patriarchal Zenanas, and Fleeting Girlhoods in Cornelia Sorabji’s Sunbabies: Studies in the Child-Life of India (1904)” in Children’s Literature Association (ChLA), on 9th June 2025.

• C) Moderated Sessions
• Rapporteur for the Young Researchers’ Conference, 2022 organized by the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia.
• Moderated a session in the national conference “Reimagining Northeast Writing and Narratives: Literature, Border, Ethnicity and Cultural Imagination” organized by Jamia Millia Islamia from 9-11 November, 2023.