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Dr. Suranjana Barua
Dr. Suranjana Barua Associate Professor
PhD (University of Delhi)

Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
About

Hello. I am currently working as Associate Professor of Linguistics (Dept. of HSS) at IIITG. I had joined this Institute in July 2014 as an Assistant Professor before which I worked for nearly three years as Research Associate at the Centre for Assamese Studies, Tezpur University. I did my M.A, M.Phil and PhD throughout from the Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi. I am a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Language and Language Teaching and am a Language Specialist and Aviation English Trainer for AELTO/TSP Guwahati under Airports Authority of India, Ministry of Civil Aviation, Govt. of India. I have also been a Language Consultant for various organizations across India.

I have served as the Associate Dean (Student Affairs) here at IIITG (Oct, 2018-till Aug, 2022) and as the Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIITG (March, 2016-Oct 2018). I am a Member of the Linguistic Society of India (LSI); a Member of Indian Association for Women’s Studies (IAWS), a Member of the European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS) and a Member of Aaranyak (an NGO of Assam dedicated to wildlife conservation).



Research Interests

Sociolinguistics, Discourse/ Conversation Analysis, English Language Teaching, Translation Studies, Gender Studies, Socio-cultural and political history of Assam

Teaching

At IIITG, I am teaching/ have taught the following courses:

For B.Tech:

  • Introduction to Linguistics (HS 201)
  • Language and Society (HS 202)
  • Language, Cognition and Culture (I) (HS 302)
  • Language, Cognition and Culture (II) (HS 404)
  • English (HS 101)

For PhD:

  • Research Methodology (HS 701; shared with HSS faculty members)
  • Perspectives in Linguistics (HS 708)
  • Sociolinguistics (HS 709)

For outsourced staff members of IIITG

  • English Language Learning Programme for Adults (ELLPA) under Institute Social Responsibility

Research Scholars

  1. Ms. Dimple Choudhury
    Status: Completed and Degree awarded in 2022
    Thesis Title: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Study of Miju and Digaru: Two Endangered Languages of Arunachal Pradesh
  2. Ms. Barshapriya Dutta
    Status: Ongoing
  3. Ms. Porixita Kakoty
    Status: Ongoing

Internship Supervision: 4

  1.  Ms. Raima Basu, Department of Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Status: Completed in 2023)

         Title: Code-switching and Code-mixing in Two Genders: A Case Study of Male and Female Speakers in Mixed Group                       Setting

    2. Ms. Sayantika Das, Department of Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (Status: Completed in 2023)

                 Title: A Linguistic Exploration of the Farsi Hijra Language in Kolkata

     3. Ms. Manjusha Roy, Amity University, Gurugram (Status: Completed in 2023)

                 Title: ‘Bhadramahila’: A Case Study of Bengali Women Speakers of Bengal

     4. Ms Vijaya Lakshmi, Department of Linguistics; Banaras Hindu University (Status: Completed in 2021)

                 Title: Basics of Research in Sociolinguistics

     

Research Projects

  1. ICSSR Minor Research Project in 2019 titled Makers of Modern Assam: A Case Study of Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi, Kalaguru Bishnu Prasad Rabha and Chandraprabha Saikiani. (With L.David Lal) 
    Status: Completed

Books

  1. Suranjana Barua (2023): Revelation of Self in Language: Narrative Identity as Emergent in Conversation (Tulika Books, New Delhi). Revelation of Self in Language (tulikabooks.in) Revelation of Self in Language | Columbia University Press

Major Translations

  1. Barua, Suranjana (2023). Translated Golap Khound's short story collection Girmit: Stories from the tea gardens of Assam. Notion Press, India. 2023. 
  2. Barua, Suranjana (2019). Translated select poems of Bishnu Prasad Rabha in Sarma, M., Borah, G.K. and Nath, D.P. 2019. The Call of the Pherengadao: Select Writings of Bishnuprasad Rava. P156-166. Katha Guwahati.
  3. Barua, Suranjana (2012) Translated Rajanikanta Bordoloi’s epochal novel Miri Jiyori as research project at Centre for Assamese Studies, Tezpur University in 2012 (Publication Board, Assam, Oct 2012).
  4. Barua, Suranjana (2009). Translated Padma Shri Arun Sarma’s play 'Sri Nibaron Bhattacharya' (with J.P.Saikia). Published in Robes of Destiny by Sanbun Publishers, New Delhi; 2009.

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