Umesh Patra

@mgcub.ac.in

Assistant Professor [Academic Level 11] at Department of English
Mahatma Gandhi Central University

Assistant Professor in Department of English at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari

EDUCATION

Ph.D. from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Literature and Literary Theory
7

Scholar Citations

1

Scholar h-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Ecology of Plight: Reading of Selected Bangla Dalit Short Stories
    U Patra, S Jana
    Pollution and Poverty: Environmental Casteism and Dalit Literature, 87-98 , 2026
    2026
  • Existential Humanities in the Multicultural Language Classroom
    U Patra
    Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature in India , 2026
    2026
  • Lost Prediction IV
    U Patra
    Public Anthropologist Journal Blog , 2025
    2025
  • TEACHING ONLINE AN ABSURD PLAY: MAKING SENSE OF IONESCO'S THE CHAIRS
    U Patra
    et Cetera 81 (3), 346-356 , 2024
    2024
  • THE INDIAN QUEER: For Lack of a Better Term
    U Patra
    MAPPING WORLD ANGLOPHONE STUDIES, 229-242 , 2024
    2024
  • The Untragic Indian Stories
    U Patra
    Summerhill: IIAS Review 29 (2), 55-60 , 2023
    2023
  • River and the Floating Child in Indian Mythology
    U Patra
    Sarita Sutrakatha: Riverine Cultures in Indian Narratives, 105-119 , 2023
    2023
  • Would Caliban Have Renounced English After Prospero Had Left
    U Patra
    Economic and Political Weekly 57 (22) , 2022
    2022
  • Suspended Action and Its Psychological Impact: A Study of Select Short Stories of Manoj Das
    U Patra
    The Journal of Odisha Association for English Studies 12 (1), 139-149 , 2022
    2022
  • ELT or Literature: Dilemma of an English Teacher
    U Patra
    Teresian Journal of English Studies 13 (4), 64-70 , 2021
    2021
  • The Evolution of a Hybrid Deity: Religious Syncretism in the Pālā Theatre of Odisha
    U Patra
    De Natura Fidei: Rethinking Religion Across Disciplinary Boundaries 2, 389-409 , 2021
    2021
  • Book Review of Sylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends by Maithreyi Karnoor
    U Patra
    Muse India , 2021
    2021
  • English Departments and the National Education Policy
    U Patra
    National Education Policy 2020: Conspectus, 94-98 , 2020
    2020
  • Can Speech and Translation be part of Academic Writing?
    U Patra
    Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 7 (1), 78-97 , 2020
    2020
  • Tracing the History and Evolution of Pala
    U Patra
    Lokaratna 10, 37-52 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 7
  • Odia Lakshmi Purana: Questions of Feminism, Dalit Aesthetics and Localisation
    U Patra
    Muse India , 2015
    2015
  • The Kids Are All Right: Same-Sex Family Values and the Pursuit of Normalcy
    U Patra
    The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (Online, Open-Access … , 2015
    2015
  • Original Sin of The God of Small Things
    U Patra
    The Golden Line 1 (2), 45-49 , 2015
    2015

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Tracing the History and Evolution of Pala
    U Patra
    Lokaratna 10, 37-52 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 7
  • Ecology of Plight: Reading of Selected Bangla Dalit Short Stories
    U Patra, S Jana
    Pollution and Poverty: Environmental Casteism and Dalit Literature, 87-98 , 2026
    2026
  • Existential Humanities in the Multicultural Language Classroom
    U Patra
    Teaching and Learning English Language and Literature in India , 2026
    2026
  • Lost Prediction IV
    U Patra
    Public Anthropologist Journal Blog , 2025
    2025
  • TEACHING ONLINE AN ABSURD PLAY: MAKING SENSE OF IONESCO'S THE CHAIRS
    U Patra
    et Cetera 81 (3), 346-356 , 2024
    2024
  • THE INDIAN QUEER: For Lack of a Better Term
    U Patra
    MAPPING WORLD ANGLOPHONE STUDIES, 229-242 , 2024
    2024
  • The Untragic Indian Stories
    U Patra
    Summerhill: IIAS Review 29 (2), 55-60 , 2023
    2023
  • River and the Floating Child in Indian Mythology
    U Patra
    Sarita Sutrakatha: Riverine Cultures in Indian Narratives, 105-119 , 2023
    2023
  • Would Caliban Have Renounced English After Prospero Had Left
    U Patra
    Economic and Political Weekly 57 (22) , 2022
    2022
  • Suspended Action and Its Psychological Impact: A Study of Select Short Stories of Manoj Das
    U Patra
    The Journal of Odisha Association for English Studies 12 (1), 139-149 , 2022
    2022
  • ELT or Literature: Dilemma of an English Teacher
    U Patra
    Teresian Journal of English Studies 13 (4), 64-70 , 2021
    2021
  • The Evolution of a Hybrid Deity: Religious Syncretism in the Pālā Theatre of Odisha
    U Patra
    De Natura Fidei: Rethinking Religion Across Disciplinary Boundaries 2, 389-409 , 2021
    2021
  • Book Review of Sylvia: Distant Avuncular Ends by Maithreyi Karnoor
    U Patra
    Muse India , 2021
    2021
  • English Departments and the National Education Policy
    U Patra
    National Education Policy 2020: Conspectus, 94-98 , 2020
    2020
  • Can Speech and Translation be part of Academic Writing?
    U Patra
    Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 7 (1), 78-97 , 2020
    2020
  • Odia Lakshmi Purana: Questions of Feminism, Dalit Aesthetics and Localisation
    U Patra
    Muse India , 2015
    2015
  • The Kids Are All Right: Same-Sex Family Values and the Pursuit of Normalcy
    U Patra
    The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (Online, Open-Access … , 2015
    2015
  • Original Sin of The God of Small Things
    U Patra
    The Golden Line 1 (2), 45-49 , 2015
    2015