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ELIZABETH VARKEY

Specialization : English

Qualification : MA, M.Phil

Department : SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND PERFORMING ARTS

Campus : PUNE LAVASA CAMPUS

Elizabeth Varkey holds an MPhil from the University of Delhi. She is currently an Assistant Professor at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Lavasa and is pursuing her PhD from Savitribai Phule Pune University. She was awarded the Israeli Council for Higher Education scholarship to study Conflict Resolution at Bar Ilan University, Israel. She has worked briefly at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, New Delhi. She has co-edited the book Defenses of Clay: The Book of Job

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Articles in Periodicals

Articles in Journals

Blog

Invited Talks

2025

Name of the Program:

Date: 2025-04-03 00:00:00

Name of the Institutions: Nucleus of Learning and Development

2024

Name of the Program: Campus Connect programme with St. Joseph?s College, Moolamattom, Kerala, India

Date: 2024-09-21 00:00:00

Name of the Institutions: Department of Data Science, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus

Name of the Program: keynote Address at Students' Seminar on The Graphic Novel: Pop Culture or Subversively Profound

Date: 2024-01-24 00:00:00

Name of the Institutions: St. Mira's College for Girls, Pune

Films / Videos / Documentaries

MPhil/PhD Guided/Adjudicated

Research Project

Workshop / FDP / Training Programme

2025

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Refugee Studies: A Literary Introduction

Name of the Organiser: A.P.C. Mahalaxmi College for Women, Tamil Nadu in collaboration with Nucleus of Learning and Development

Level: National

Role: Invited Resource Person/Trainer

Date: 2025-06-26

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: User Awareness and Education for Generative AI

Name of the Organiser: Coursera

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2025-02-03

2024

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Precarity and Human Life: Reflections on Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture

Name of the Organiser: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna in association with University of Northampton (UK), University of Toronto (Canada), University of York (UK) and Aarhus University (Denmark)

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2024-11-11

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: 2024 Jean Monnet Summer School in Migration and Refugee Studies

Name of the Organiser: Oxford Brookes University

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2024-09-02

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Emerging Teaching Learning Trends, Tools, and Techniques

Name of the Organiser: Department of Languages, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus - 'The Hub of Analytics'

Level: Institutional

Role: Organiser & Participant

Date: 2024-06-03

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Mastering Innovative Online Course Development

Name of the Organiser: Centre for Digital Learning (CDL) and Centre for Professional Development (CAPS)

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2024-03-18

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Publishing Edited Book with International Collaborations

Name of the Organiser: Research and development Cell, CHRIST Bangalore

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2024-03-13

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: One Week Online Faculty Development on ?Reading and Researching the Literature of Crisis?

Name of the Organiser: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Trichy in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2024-01-22

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Young Climate Authors: Educator Training Program

Name of the Organiser: Cogitation Club and North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2024-01-01

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Online One Week National Faculty Development Program on Graphic Novels and Comics as a New Pedagogical Approach

Name of the Organiser: Gokul Global University (GGU), Siddhpur ? Career Development Cell In Collaboration with Top Education Centre

Level: National

Role: Participant

Date: 2024-01-01

2023

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Introduction to Corpus Linguistics

Name of the Organiser: Department of Languages, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus - 'The Hub of Analytics'

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-09-12

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: International Faculty Development Program on Introduction to Digital Humanities

Name of the Organiser: Inter-Disciplinary Research Platform of Digital Humanities, IIT Jodhpur, and Scottish Church College, Kolkata

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-08-19

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Faculty Development Programme: Innovation and Creativity

Name of the Organiser: CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus - 'The Hub of Analytics'

Level: Institutional

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-07-31

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Digital Humanities Approach to Literature and Language

Name of the Organiser: Department of Languages, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus - 'The Hub of Analytics'

Level: Institutional

Role: Organiser & Participant

Date: 2023-06-30

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Quality Improvement Programme on Expanding Teaching & Research Horizons through Digital Humanities

Name of the Organiser: Department of Languages, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus - 'The Hub of Analytics'.

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-05-02

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Digital Humanities: Humanities Research in The Digital Age

Name of the Organiser: The Open University, UK on Open Learn Platform; funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership

Level: International

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-04-01

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Women?s Leadership in Asia (WoLA):Feminist Leadership for Social Transformation (Online Leadership Course)

Name of the Organiser: Ewha Institute for Leadership Development, Ewha Woman's University (Seoul), Scranton Women?s Leadership Center (Korea), United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, Wesley Foundation (Japan)

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-03-06

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Online National Level Workshop on Qualitative Research Methods

Name of the Organiser: Nodal Office, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala

Level: National

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-01-28

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Two Week Refresher Course in English

Name of the Organiser: Teaching Learning Center, Ramanujan College, University of Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2023-01-02

2021

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Feminist Teaching and Research in Higher Education

Name of the Organiser: University of Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2021-07-23

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: iHumanities College Summer School of Literary Theory and Philosophy

Name of the Organiser: University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, in Collaboration with St. Berchmans College, Kerala

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2021-07-02

2020

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Entrepreneurship, Incubation and Innovation

Name of the Organiser: University of Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development

Level: National

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-06-23

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Open-Source Tools for Research

Name of the Organiser: University of Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development

Level: National

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-06-08

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Faculties in Universities/ Colleges/ Institutions of Higher Education

Name of the Organiser: University of Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development

Level:

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-06-04

Name of the Workshop/FDP/Training Programme: Managing Online Classes and Co-creating MOOCS:2.0

Name of the Organiser: University of Delhi and Ministry of Human Resource Development

Level: National

Role: Participant

Date: 2020-05-18

Awards / Achievements /Others

2016

Name of the Awards/Achievements/Others: Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE) scholarship

Description: Bar-Ilan University International Summer Program in Identity-Based Conflict Resolution

Organisation: Israeli Council for Higher Education (CHE)

Month/Year: 25 May 2016

2023

Name of the Awards/Achievements/Others: 1 year ELO membership and Scholarship to attend the Conference titled "Access Works: ELO UnConference"

Description: Founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1999, the ELO now has a presence across North America and in South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. The members hail from a wide array of disciplines and areas of study, including Art, Literature, Communication, Computer Science, Humanities, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Women Studies, and Comparative Media.

Organisation: Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)

Month/Year: 17 December 2023

Name of the Awards/Achievements/Others: HASTAC Scholars Fellowship Program 2023-2025

Description: The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program is an innovative student-driven community of graduate and undergraduate students. Each year, around 100 new scholars are accepted into a new 2-year cohort of the program. Scholars come from dozens of disciplines and have been sponsored by over 200 colleges and universities- ranging from small liberal arts colleges to large research institutions.

Organisation: HASTAC Committee

Month/Year: 11 December 2023

Name of the Awards/Achievements/Others: WoLA scholarship

Description: The WoLA Scholarship is supported by United Board for Christian Higher Education(United Board), Scranton Women's Leadership Center, and Wesley Foundation. It covers all expenses of the WoLA course.

Organisation: United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia

Month/Year: 07 February 2023

2024

Name of the Awards/Achievements/Others: Full Scholarship to attend Young Climate Authors Educator Training Program

Description: The Young Climate Authors (YCA) is a book authoring program that teaches children how to write and publish storybooks on climate change for a global audience. The 12-week, fully online educator training equips adults to implement the Young Climate Authors Program with children and youth.

Organisation: Cogitation Club and NAEEE

Month/Year: 02 January 2024

Books

Book Chapters

Case Study

Patents

Participation in Seminars/Conferences/Symposium

2025

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Participant


Title:


Date: 2025-01-15


Organising Institution: Amity University


Level: International


2024

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Seeing/Reading Comics and Graphic Narratives through a Digital Lens


Date: 2024-07-18


Organising Institution: University of Central Florida


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Moderator/Chair


Title:


Date: 2024-01-18


Organising Institution: Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)


Level: International


2023

Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: Between Borders: Exploring the Interstices in Malik Sajad's Munnu


Date: 2023-10-19


Organising Institution: Montreal Comic Arts Festival (MCAF) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (CIRM)


Level: International


Type of the Program: Conference


Role: Presenter


Title: The Kashmir Conflict: A Subaltern Visual Historiography


Date: 2023-02-18


Organising Institution: AVP College of Arts and Science, Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, India in collaboration with Cape Comorin Trust, India


Level: International


2019

Type of the Program: Seminar


Role: Presenter


Title: Food, Asia and the Empire: A Brief Journey of the Humble Curry


Date: 2019-03-08


Organising Institution: Christ University


Level: International


Own MPhil / PhD Thesis

2019

Guide Name: Dr Swetha Antony

Institution: University of Delhi

Month Year: October 2019

Consultancy

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Cases / Notes / Working Papers

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