Appointment of Indian Council of Social Science Analysis (ICSSR) Member Secretary

New Delhi, January 27, 2023: The Ministry of Schooling, Authorities of India has appointed Prof. Dhananjay Singh as Member Secretary of Indian Council of Social Science Analysis (ICSSR).

Prof. Dhananjay Singh began his instructing profession at Sri Aurobindo School, College of Delhi, in August-September 2006 and thereafter taught at Satyawati School, College of Delhi from September 2006 to December 2007. He joined the Centre for English Research, Jawaharlal Nehru College, as a school in 2007, and headed the centre as its Chairperson from January 2019 to January 2023. He served because the Affiliate Dean of the College of Language, Literature and Tradition Research from Could 2021 to January 23, 2023. He additionally served as Affiliate Dean of College students, JNU, (November 2017 to September 2019) and Chief Proctor of JNU (November 2019 to Could 2021). He served because the Warden at Chandrabhaga Hostel, Jawaharlal Nehru College (September 2010 to Could 2017).

Early in his instructing and analysis profession, Prof. Singh labored, as Assistant Editor, within the prestigious undertaking titled The Encyclopedia of Indian Poetics, with Dr. Kapil Kapoor because the Chief Editor, a undertaking of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, & Union Academique Internationale (UAI), Brussels. He was additionally Assistant Editor, with Dr. Kapil Kapoor because the Chief Editor, of Mutual Regards: Indo-Irish Anthology, a collaborative undertaking involving Jawaharlal Nehru College, New Delhi, and the College of Ulster at Colerain (Eire).

Prof. Singh has taught MA and PhD programs in JNU on Analysis Methodology; Sanskrit Poetics; Comparative Poetics; English Literary Criticism; Life, Literature and Thought-Nineteenth Century; Indian Aesthetics; Indian Philosophy of Language; Bharata’s Natyashastra, Anandavardhan’s Dhvanyaloka; South Asian Fiction; Canadian Fiction; Inventive Writing; Irish Drama; and Irish Poetry and Fiction. He has supervised 23 PhD theses and 20 M.Phil. dissertations.

Prof. Singh has been invited to ship talks and current papers in Nationwide and Worldwide conferences by prestigious institutes and universities in India in addition to outdoors India corresponding to College of Tubingen, Germany, College of Wurzburg, Germany, College of Grenoble, France, and so on. A number of of his analysis papers on language, literature, and different areas of cultural research have been printed by prestigious publications corresponding to Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, Sahitya Akademi, and Indian Institute of Superior Research, Shimla.

Prof. Singh is the writer of the monographs Fables within the Indian Narrative Custom: An Analytical Research (D.Ok. Printworld, 2011), The Poetics of Theatre in Early India (D.Ok. Printworld, 2021) and the forthcoming Philosophy of Efficiency in India (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2023-2024).

Prof. Singh was Visiting Professor at College of Bergamo, Italy in 2014; Worldwide Visiting Fellow at Grinnell School, Grinnell, IOWA, USA, in 2015; and Visiting Analysis Fellow at Trinity Lengthy Room Hub, Trinity School Dublin in 2017. For his analysis on Seamus Heaney and Buddhist epistemology in a comparative framework, he was awarded Analysis Secondment by the European Union’s Marie Curie Worldwide Analysis Trade Scheme to the Venture “Social Efficiency, Cultural Trauma and Reestablishing Strong Sovereignties (SPECTRESS),” at Trinity School Dublin in Could-July 2017.