Faculty Details
Dr. Narender Kumar

Dr. Narender Kumar

Associate Professor

Email: Rishiknarender.english@rla.du.ac.in

Contact: 8826462607

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Educational Qualifications
S.No. Qualification University / Institution Year
1 Ph. D. University of Delhi 2016
2 M.Phil CDLU 2008
3 MA K.U.K 2004
Industry/Permanent/Temporary/Contractual/Adhoc Teaching Experience
Sr.No. Post Institution Duration Type
1 Associate Professor Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi 16.02.2025 - till date Permanent
2 Assistant Professor Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi 23.11.2025 - 15.02.2025 Permanent
3 Assistant Professor P. G. D. A. V. College (E), University of Delhi 2015
4 Engaged with Ph.D Department of English, University of Delhi 2012 - 2015
5 Assistant Professor Bhagat Singh College (E), University of Delhi 2011-2012
6 Assistant Professor Dyal Singh College, University of Delhi 2009-2011
Administrative Assignments
• Teacher-in-Charge (2017-18)

• Convener Remedial Course Committee (2016-17)
Area Of Interests/Specialization
• Postcolonial Literature

• Literary Theory

• Dalit Studies

• Punjabi Literature

• Gender Studies

• Sikh Studies

• Dalit Sikh studies

• Dalit Feminist Studies

• Dalit Social & Political Movements

• Punjabi Literature & Punjabi Dalit Literature
Subjects Taught
• Romantic Literature (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Mary Shelley)

• European Classical Literature (Homer)

• British Poetry and Drama from 14th to 17th Centuries (Wife of Bath)

• British Literature: 18th Century (William Congreve)

• British Literature: 19th Century (Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens)

• Popular Literature (Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie)

• Nineteenth Century European Realism (Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Honore de Balzac)

• Autobiography (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, M. K. Gandhi, Annie Besant, Binodini Dasi, A. Revathi, Richard Wright, Sharankumar Limbale)

• MED

• Nineteenth Century Novels

• Research Methodology
Research Guidance
One scholars pursuing PhD
Journal Publications
• "Religion, Caste and Politics in Punjab: Late 19th Century to 1980s" dialog, Vol. 39, Spring 2022, pp. 115-134, ISSN- 0975-4881.

• "Indian State, Land Politics and Dalit Political Imagination of Gurdial Singh" Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 54, Issue No. 45, 16th Nov. 2019. ISSN: 2349-8846.

• "Reading Gurdial Singh: A Reflection on Caste and Gender in Punjab" Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. XXIV, Number 2, Winter 2017, pp. 55-69. ISSN: 09721401.

• "Poetry, Politics and Dalit Imagination: Madan Veera and His Poetic Canvas" Fortell Journal of Teaching English Language and Literature, Issue 43, July 2021. PP. 59-69. ISSN: 22296557.

• "Religion, Caste, and Politics in Punjab: Late 19th Century to 1980s" Dialog, Vol. 38, 2022, pp. 88-107, ISSN: 09754881.

• "Politics of the Representation of Marginalized Subjects in early Punjabi Novels: Chitta Lahoo (1932), Civil Lines (1954) and Lahoo di Lao (1977)" in Dialog No. 23 (Spring 2013), pp.88-109. ISSN: 09754881.

• "Race, Caste and Post-Murder Politics: A Reflection on United Protest—Black, White and South Asians" Literaria, Vol. VIII, 2019-20, PP. 88-105. ISSN: 2278-2710.

• "Class, Caste and Gender: A Critical Study of Sant Singh Sekhon's Lahoo-Mitti (1949)" Scholar Critic, Vol.2, Issue 3, December 2015, PP. 122-141. ISSN: 2348-6945.

• "Caste, Conversion and Politics: A Critical Study of Malapalli (1922)" Sangharsh/Struggle eJournal of Dalit Literary Studies, vol. 04, issue 03, July to September, 2015. ISSN: 2278-3067.

• "Garlanding the Sanitation workers: Glorification of Labor, Caste and Indian Psyche" Scholarly Research Journal for Humanity Science & English Language, Vol. 10, Issue-49, 2022, pp. 12107-12113, ISSN: 2348-3083.

• Decoding Kaala: Caste and the Politics of Development in International Research

• “Politics of the Representation of Marginalized Subjects in early Punjabi Novels: Chitta Lahoo 09754881

• “English and Egalitarianism” in Epaper.dailypostindia.com, 5 June, 2014.
Conference Oraganization /Presentations
• “Gender and Caste in the Novels of Gurdial Singh,” National Seminar on Gender, Caste and Religion in Indian Literature, Punjab University Chandigarh, March, 2016.

• “Class, Caste and Gender: A Critical Study of Sant Singh Sekhon’s Lahoo-Mitti (1929),” in a Symposium on Social Concerns in Dalit Literature, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, October, 2015.

• “Class, Caste and Gender: A Critical Study of Sant Singh Sekhon’s Lahoo-Mitti (1929),” National Conference, University of Delhi, September 2015.

• “From Vehda to Suburb and from Margin to Centre: A Study of Colonial Modernity in Punjabi Fiction Pio-Puttar (1946) and Lahoo-Mitti (1949),” National Conference (Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh) February 2014.

• “Politics of the Representation of Marginalized Subjects in early Punjabi Novels: Chitta Lahoo (1932), Civil Lines (1954) and Lahoo di Lao (1977),” National conference, Delhi University, March, 2013.
Awards and Distinctions
• Doctoral Fellow at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi