Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Neha Hejaz BIT Lalpur
, Humanities and Social Science
Dr. Neha Hejaz, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Social Science - PhD (IIT(ISM) DHANBAD) 		Contact Address
Permanent Address Tatanagar (Jamshedpur) - 832110
Local Address 105, IGH, BIT MESRA, RANCHI, JHARKHAND-835215
Phone (Office) NA
Phone Residence NA
Email Id nehahejaz@gmail.com
Joined Institute on : 29-Apr-2024
  Work Experience
 
Teaching : 1 Years

Research : 5 Years

Individual: 6 Years
  Professional Background

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • (26/6/2023 – 26/4/2024) – Adhoc Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at NIT Rourkela, Odisha. 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • (May 2023) PhD, IIT(ISM) DHANBAD, JHARKHAND,
  • (2017) MA English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP.
  • (2015) BA(Hons) English, MMV, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, UP.
  Research Areas
 

MEDICAL HUMANITIES

HEALTH HUMANITIES

ART THERAPY

NARRATIVE MEDICINE
  Award and Honours
 

MHRD INSTITUTE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP at IIT(ISM) DHANBAD (December 2017- December 2022) 

  • Junior Research Fellow at IIT(ISM) DHANBAD (December 2017 - December 2019)
  • Senior Research Fellow at IIT(ISM) DHANBAD ( January 2020- December 2022)

UGC-NET (JRF) awarded in Nov 2017

National Level 5th rank in Post Graduate Entrance Test BHU 2015. 
  Publications
 

a.) Research Papers in SCOPUS & Web of Science Indexed journals.

  1. Neha Hejaz & Rajni Singh. “Narratives of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Healing through Music in Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach.” Medical Humanities, vol. 50, no. 1, 2024, pp. 77-85. [AHCI (Web of Science) & SCOPUS] http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2023-012744.
  2. Neha Hejaz & Rajni Singh. “‘Writing the Wrongs and Writing the Rights’: Scriptotherapy in Ian McEwan’s Atonement.” Journal of Poetry Therapy, vol. 36, no. 3, 2023, pp. 226-242. Routledge: Taylor & Francis (SCOPUS & ESCI). https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2023.2170718.
  3. Neha Hejaz & Rajni Singh. “The Therapeutic Power of Poetry in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and The Children Act.” Journal of Poetry Therapy, vol. 36, no. 1, 2023, pp. 65-84. Routledge: Taylor & Francis (SCOPUS & ESCI).  https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2022.2068357.
  4. Neha Hejaz & Rajni Singh. “The En(Counter) of a Deeper Darkness: Ian McEwan’s Saturday.” 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, vol. 26, no. 4, 2020, pp. 175-85. (SCOPUS & ESCI). 

b.) Book Chapters:

1. Neha Hejaz. “(Un) Naming Depression: A Critical Study of William Styron’s Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Darkness” The Crisis in Humanity edited by Vivek Singh, Authors Press, 2022, pp. 102-110.