Sudhanshu Shekhar

Assistant Professor

M.A: Linguistics, JNU, New Delhi
Ph.D: JNU, New Delhi (Pursuing)
UGC NET JRF (Linguistics)

Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Sociophonetics, Endangered languages, Language contact, Discourse analysis, Phonetics, Phonology

Attended the89th Orientation Course at the Academic Staff College, JNUNew Delhi 2014 from 10th of February 2014 to 6th of March 2014.

Attended a workshop held at KMI Institute of Hindi and Linguistics at the Amedkar University, Agra on Workshop on Language Description and Sciences 1 from 8-9 August 2014 as a primary resource person.

1. Taught Introduction to Language and Linguistics and Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in India to M.A. students from 11.06.2013.

1. Worked as the acting coordinator, Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand, Brambe Ranchi.
2. Worked as a member of seminar committee and book exhibition committee during Akhra Tribal India Festival from 28/10/2013 to 30/10/2013.
3.  Worked as a member of syllabus review committee constituted for the center of indigenous culture studies at the Central University of Jharkhand.
4. Nominated by the Central University of Jharkhand for Making a Presentation at the UGC Hqs, New Delhi for the establishment of Centre for Endangered Languages on the 19th January, 2014.
5. Elected as the Election Commissioner in Kaveri hostel, J.N.U in 2008- 2009 and 2010.
6. Elected as Member of the executive committee of JNUDPA for the period of 2008-2010.
7. Elected as the Documentation officer of JNUDPA for the period of 2010-2012.
8. Member, Centre level purchase committee for the procurement of equipmentmeant for language documentation.

Paper Presentations (National)

1. Presented a joint paper entitled “The Sphota Theory and the ShabdaTatva at National seminar in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.
2. Presented a paper entitled ‘BapsiSidwa; Physically Challenged ,Mentally Agile’ in UGC sponsored  national seminar on New LiteratureinEnglish;Issues and Trends  held at B.N. College, Patna(Bihar)
3. Presented a paper entitled ‘Onerous Odyssey of women in Anita Desai’s oeuvre’ in UGC sponsored national seminar on Studies in Feminism organized by dept of English R.L.S.Y college Bakhtiyarpur(Bihar)
4. Presented a Paper entitled ‘The portrayal of sufferings in M.R.Anand’s Oeuvres in an  international  seminar on feminist consciousness in south Asian literature held at university of Luckhnow in 2008.
5. Presented a paper entitled ‘Education: A cornerstone in woman empowerment’ in the 2-days UGC national seminar on “Woman empowerment in the 21st century held at RDM College Patna, 26-27 march, 2009.
6. Presented a paper titled Sarojini Naidu: A renowned Freedom Fighter in UGC national seminar on The role of women in freedom struggle held at the department of History B.D. College Patna. 19-20 March, 2010.
7. Presented a paper titled ‘Improvement of English language learning at the primary level’ at UGC sponsored national seminar on State Quality Mission in Bihar: Challenges and Implications for English Language Teaching in the Context of RTE at R.N. College, Hajipur, 22-23 September 2012.
8. Presented a joint paper titled ‘Linguistic Trajectories of English Language: From a Global to Glocal Perspective’ at the UGC sponsored national seminar on Challenges of Teaching Language and Literature in the age of Globalization held at S.N. Sinha College Magadh University, 7-8 December 2012.
9. Presented a joint paper titled ‘Multilingualism as a Resource in English Language Teaching’ at the UGC sponsored national seminar on Challenges of Teaching Language and Literature in the age of Globalization held at S.N. Sinha College Magadh University, 7-8 December 2012.
10. Presented a paper titled ‘Voices from the Margins: What can We Do?’ at the academic Seminar held during Akhra Tribal India Festival 2013 from 28/10/2013 to 30/10/2013 at the Central University of Jharkhand.

1. Presented a paper titled ‘Sociophonetics of Schwa Fronting in the Speakers of Eastern Variety of Hindi’ at the CROSSLING symposium organized at the University of Esaten Finland, Joensuu, Finland, 28Feb-01March, 2013.
2. Presented a paper titled ‘Prosody of Intonation, Focus and Giveness in Bihari and Malayalam Varities of English at the 2nd workshop on tone and intonation:models, computation and evaluation at the English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad, during 21-22 Feb, 20013. ’
3. Paper titled ‘About Nyishi Language’, presented at the International Seminar on ‘Language Endangerment in South Asia’ held during 13th-15th March 2013 at CAS in Linguistics, Annamalai University.
4. Presented a paper titled ‘ Semantics of classifiers in some Indian languages’ in the Third Students’ conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-3)  held in J.N.U, New Delhi 19th to 21st of February, 2009.
5. Presented a paper entitled ‘An excursion  into the numeral Classifier system in Tagin(a Tibeto-burman language) at  the 4thth International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society at Nehu,  Shilong .
6. Presented a paper entitled ‘typological study of Particle “to” in some Indian languages’ in the 9th International Conference on South Asian Languages at Punjabi University, Patiala.
7. Presented a paper entitled “Exploring the deictic system of Tagin Language” at the 5th International Conference of the North East Indian Linguistics Society in Guwahati, Assam.
8. Participated in the 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium
   J.N.U. New Delhi (Dec 10th-12th, 2010).
9. Presented a paper entitled ‘ Exploring Inflectional Errors in Learners of English as Second Language’ in the 32nd AICL held in the University of Lucknow, Lucknow during 21st  to 23rd of December, 2010.
10. Presented a paper entitled ‘ Her Voice: The Alternate Discourse’ in the 5th students’ conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI)  held from  February 21-23, 2011 at the center for applied linguistics and translation Studies, University of Hyderabad.
11. Presented a paper titled ‘English language syllabi for a multilingual society: A case of Bihar’ at the 10th Asia TEFL International Conference held at  Hotel The LeelaKempinski Gurgaon, during Oct 4-6, 2012.
12. Participated in the  International Seminar on “Prosodic Interfaces”  held on 25-27 November, 2011 in the Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
13. Participated in ‘Brain, Cognition & Behavior’ Symposium organized under the auspices of  Utrecht University, Netherlands in the Center for Linguistics, J.N.U.  New Delhi. (14th to 15th March, 2008)
14. Participated in the 4th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics SymposiumJ.N.U. New Delhi (Dec 10th-12th, 2010).
15. Paper titled ‘Sociolinguistics of schwa fronting in eastern Hindi’  presentedat ICOSAL conference  held from 26th -27th of January, 2014 at Banaras Hindu University.
16.  Paper (single authored) titled ‘Acoustic Cues for Schwa fronting in Eastern Hindi’ presented  at the 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA 30)   held from 6-8th February, 2014 at the Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad.
17. Paper (co-authored) titled ‘'Proverbs- as carrier of caste-culture hegemony'presented at the 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA 30) held from 6-8th February, 2014 at the Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad.

• Got best participant’s award in state level debate competition organized by Hindustan times in 2001 at Youth Club Patna.
• Special achievement award given by NGO Ideal Eyes in Patna.
• Got 10th rank in CSR Essay competition twice.
• Awarded by Patna book fair in 2003 for academic activities.
• Elected as the Chief Election Commissioner in Kaveri hostel, J.N.U  in 2008- 2009 and 2010.
• Elected as Member of the executive committee of JNUDPA for the period of 2008-2010.
• Elected as the Documentation officer of JNUDPA for the period of 2010-2012.
• Nomited as Student representative from JNU to participate in International Convention on Disability to be held in Feb, 2013.
• Volunteered for a two day long workshop titled ‘After Employment, What? A workshop on Challenges faced, negotiations made and policies required for differently abled teachers in institutions of higher education ’ conducted by Equal opportunity office at JNU, 9th – 10th of Nov, 2012

Conferences Organized

• Member of the organizing committee of International Seminar on “Prosodic Interfaces” to be held on  25-27 November, 2011 in the Centre for Linguistics, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• Co-organizer of the 3rd International Students' Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-3) held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi during February 18-20, 2009.
• Academic Seminar on Oral Narratives of Tribal People in the 21st century during Tribal India Festival during 28th-30th October, 2013,
• Winter School of International Folkloristics and Indigenous Culture on  "Tradition, Creativity and Indigenous Knowledge " at the Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi, India (January 12 – 19, 2014)
•  National Seminar on  Language and Culture of Sangam Age and Its Impact on the Indigenous and Tribal Communities in India at the Central University of Jharkhand, during 31st of March- 2nd of April, 2014.

Workshops and surveys attended and organized

1. Organized and helped in writing the report of ‘JNU Langscape’ the linguistic survey of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on multilingualism conducted jointly by the Center for linguistics, JNU and National Translation Mission in JNU held from 15th to 30th of Sepetember 2011.
2. Attended Documentation and Archival Training workshop organized under the auspices of DoBeS , Germany (www.mpi.nl/dobes) in Guwahati Assam.
3. Attended the national workshop on ‘Pronunciation Lexicon Standards for Indic Languages’ jointly organized under the auspices of Center for Linguistics, JNU, DIT GOI and IIT Kharagpur held at the Center for Linguistics, SLL&CS, JNU New Delhi on 4th – 5th May, 2011.
4. Attended a workshop on ‘The use of linguistics for speech technology application ’ led by Dr. Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research Labs, Banglore, and Organized by the JNU Phonetics-Phonology Colloquium, Center for Linguistics, Jawaharlal University New Delhi, 31st October, 2012.

1. ‘Semantics of classifiers in some Indian languages’ published in the proceedings of SCONLI-3 by JNU and CIIL, Mysore in 2011 (ParimalPublications, New Delhi).
2.  Paper titled ‘White Collar Corruption’ published in the proceedings entitled Corruption in Public Life: Causes and cures  of the national eloquence  contest organised under the joint auspices of Rotary Interanational and Sanrachana  edited by Kanhaiya Prasad Singha in 2009.
3. Paper  titled ‘Exploring Inflectional Errors in Learners of English as Second     Language’ published in the proceedings of   the 32nd AICL held in the University of Lucknow, Lucknow in 2011.
4. Article titled ‘BhashiyeVividhtaAur Jharkhand KaSamagraVikash’ published in Hindi daily Khabar Mantra published from Ranchi on dated 15/11/2013.
5. Paper (co-authored) titled ‘'Proverbs- as carrier of caste-culture hegemony'Selected for publication  at the 30th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA 30).
6. Article titled ‘BhashiyeSanskritiyaomSikshaPadati’published in Hindi daily Khabar Mantra published from Ranchi on dated 26/01/2014.
7. Paper titled ‘Nyishi world through words’ selected for publication by Cambridge University Press.
8. Paper titled ‘About Nyishi Language ’Published in the 2nd Volume of Language Endangerment in South Asia.  
9. Got published in the editorial of the Jharkhand daily Khabar Mantra. The Title of the paper was ‘Bhashaiyogyatakasulagtasawal’