CURRICULUM VITAE

GEETA KHADKA (CHAND)

 

Work:  Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, Nepal

Mailing Address: 1/28 Tebahal Tole, P.O.Box 680, Kathmandu, Nepal

E-mail: sidmeg@ccsl.com.np

Temporary Position: Fulbright Visiting Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, 2nd floor, 5700 Cass, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA

Tel (h): 248.427.1957

E-mail: kgeeta5@hotmail.com

Homepage: www.cll.wayne.edu/isp/gkhadka/

Current Address:  28645 Briar Hill Dr., Farmington Hills, MI 48336

Tel.: 248-427-1957

 

EDUCATION 1996: Ph. D. in American Literature. Dissertation on Whitman’s System of Dynamic Meditation: A tantric guide to his work Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal. 1983: Masters in Linguistics. Summer Institute of Linguistics and Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, TU. Nepal. 1974: Masters in English Literature. Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, TU., Nepal

1971: A. Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. New Delhi / India

1968 Senior Cambridge. La Martiniere High School, Lucknow / India

ACADEMIC POSTS

Aug 25, ‘00—Feb 25, ’01 Visiting Fulbright Professor. Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Wayne State University, Detroit.

1997 - Present Associate Professor. Central Department of English, T.U. Nepal.

1988 –1997 Lecturer. Central Department of English, T. U. Nepal

1983--1986 Lecturer, English Instruction Committee, Padma Kanya Campus, T.U. Nepal.

1979—81 Assistant Lecturer, English Instruction Committee, Institute of Education, T.U. Nepal.

1975 – 1977 Assistant Research Officer, Instutute of Nepal and Asian Studies, T. U. Nepal.

1975: Teaching Staff of the Teacher Training Program in Linguistics. Jointly organized by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, USA and Tribhuvan University, Nepal.

DISTINTIONS

2000: Fulbright Post Doctoral Research Scholarship to Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Wayne University, Detroit, USA.

July 20 – Aug 31, 1996 Participant at Summer Institute for the Study of American Studies for Post Ph. D. Scholars, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Sponsored by CIES , Washington. --><

Sept 4 – 25, 1994 Research Scholar at American Studies Research center, Hyderabad, India. <> Sponsored by United States Information Service (USIS), Kathmandu / Nepal.

Oct 24 – Dec 10, 1993 Visiting Scholar to Drew University, New Jersey , USA. Sponsored by Drew University.

Sept 1 – 21, 1991 Reasearch Scholar to the American Research Center, Hyderabad, India. Sponsored by the USIS, Kathmandu / Nepal.

PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS

Chand Geeta, N.M.T., S. Subba

Studies in Bilinguilism in Nepal: Report on Pilot Project No. I. 1976, Institute of nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu / Nepal

Chand Geeta, N. M. T., S. Subba

Studies in Bilingualism in Nepal: Report on Pilot Project No II. 1977 Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu / Nepal.

Trail L.L., H. T. R., I. S., N. M. T. and Geeta Chand

" Some Lamani sentence Types: An Experiment in Pedagogical Research." Pacific Linguistic Series A-No. 53, 1980, Department of Linguistics, Australia.

Sept 17, 1991 Invited to give a talk on " ‘Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun’ an Archetypal Poem," at the American Studies Center, Hyderabad / India.

Dec. 2 and 4, 1993 Invitation by the Department of English, Drew University to give a talk on: i. "Status of Women in Western Nepal." ii. " Whitman’s Evocation of Kundalini Shakti."

Sept 5, 1994 Invitation to presented a paper on " Walt Whitman and His Poetry" at the American Research Center, Hyderabad / India.

April 24, 1996 Invitation from USIS to give a talk on " Tantric Whitman’s ‘Song of Myself’ as Kundalini Yantra" for the American Studies Lecture Series at the United States Information Service, Nepal.

Aug 22, 1996 A talk program on "Developing American Studies Curriculum for use in Tribhuvan Unversity, Nepal" at University of California Santa Barbara, USA.

Nov 26-27, 1996 Invitation to present a paper on "Structural Persuasiveness in Walt Whitman" at the 17th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal, Kathmandu

Feb 12-18, 1998 Expert and trainer for Teachers’ Orientation Seminar-workshop on "Ancient Tales" organized by the Curriculum Development Center and Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu / Nepal.

Feb 23-24, 1998 Invitation to present a paper on "Idea of Nature" at the Tenth Annual Conference of Literary Association of Nepal. Kathmandu / Nepal.

Feb 11-12, 1999 Invitation to give a talk program on "Pains and Pleasures of Being a Woman in Nepal" at the Eleventh Annual Conference of Literary Association of Nepal. Kathmandu / Nepal.

March 16-17, 1999 Participated and presented a paper on "From Monistic to Pluralistic Reconstruction of American Studies" in the Regional American Studies Conference. Co-sponsored by the Bangladesh Association for American Studies (BAAS) and United States Information Service, Dacca, Bangladesh.

March 8-18, 2000 Expert commentator and trainer on "Puritanism to Postmodernism, a History of American Literature" at the Teachers Orientation workshop- seminar of M. A. English first year syllabus at Kirtipur, T. U. / Nepal.

July 11-21, 2000 Expert and trainer "How to Teach Interdisciplinary American Studies" at the Teachers Orientation workshop-seminar of M. A. English second year syllabus, Kirtipur, T. U. / Nepal.

SEMINARS / WOKSHOPS

February 13-15, 1976 "Bilingualism in India" organized by Central Institute of Hindi and Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi / India.

November 4-7, 1977 " Seminar in Linguistics" organized by the Institute of Nepal and Asian Studies, Ttribhuvan University, Kathmandu / Nepal.

May 20-23, 1987 "Workshop in Teaching English Literature" conducted by Dr. Julie Klein, Fulbright Professor in American Studies and ESL, USA at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu / Nepal.

Nov. 20-23, 1989 Seminar- Workshop conducted by Professor Susan M. Davies, expert from the British Council, on "Evaluation in English" jointly sponsored by the Controller of Examination, Central Department of English, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu / Nepal and the British Council, Kathmandu / Nepal.

Jan-- July 1992 Seminar-workshop in the Nineteenth and the twentieth Century American Literature. Conducted by Prof. Steve Jerves, Fulbright Professor, U.S.A Organized by the Central Department of English, T. U. Nepal and United State Education Foundation (USEF), Nepal.

Jan—July 1994 Seminar-workshop in American Writers Within and Beyond the Traditional Canon, conducted by Prof. Helen Westra, Fulbright Professor, U.S.A. Organized by the Central Department of English, T. U. and USEF, Nepal.

1996 January- July A course in Interdisciplinary American Studies. Organized by the Central Department of English, TU, in collaboration with USEF, Kathmandu. Conducted by Dr Moti Nissani, Fulbright Professor, U.S.A

May 24- June 3, 1998 Consultant in the Teacher Orientation Program for Compulsory English. Organized by the Directorate of Curriculum Training, Higher Education Board, Kathmandu / Nepal.

Aug 2-19, 1999 Participant in a seminar-workshop on Interdisciplinary American Studies. Sponsored by the American Cultural Center (USIS), Kathmandu / Nepal.

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