Mid-Month Prime Action Application Window for Interdisciplinary Undergrad Programs Closes on 15th May. Apply Now Download Brochure
Apply Now E-Prospectus
Faculty|  Vidyashilp University
Dr. Jobeth Ann Warjri
Assistant Professor, School of Liberal Arts and Design Studies
Former Guest Faculty, The English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong Campus
Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Hyderabad
Recipient of the Zubaan-Sasakawa
Research Grant for Young Writers from the Northeast
2018-2019 and 2022-2023
Selected Publications
  • "When (and Where) Ritual is Not Romance: Liminality, Gender and Storytelling Among the Khasis”. In Cultural Forms and Practices in North East India edited by Prof. K. C. Baral, Springer, 2023. pp 177-185.
  • "Of Journeys and Transformations: The Natural World in Three Novels” Book Review of Everything the Light Touches by Janice Pariat, Harper Collins, 2022; Where the Cobbled Path Leads by Avinuo Kire, Penguin Hamish Hamilton, 2022; Spirit Nights by Easterine Kire, Barbican Press, 2022. IWE Online. Institute of Eminence, University of Hyderabad March 2023.
  • "Working-class Generations: A Gendered Family History”. Zubaan Publishers. 2019.
  • “Memory and Narratives of Landscape in Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and The Black Hill”. In Narrative Cultures of North East India: Traditions, Texts and Representations. 2021. Edited by Arzuman Ara, Dhurjjati Sarma, Surajit Sen and Bhaskar Jyoti Gogoi. Pencraft International. pp. 51-60.
  • "Origins: Four Re-Imaginings of Khasi Clan Narratives” We Come from Mist: Writings from Meghalaya edited by Janice Pariat, Zubaan Publications, 2023, pp. 156-180. (Short Stories)
  • “Megalomania” The Thief’s Funeral: The Book Review Anthology of Short Stories edited by Sucharita Sengupta, Chadra Chari and Uma Iyengar, Aleph Book Company, 2024, pp. 95-102.
  • “An Overview of Writing in English from Northeast India: The 1980s to the Early 2020s.” IWE Online. Institute of Eminence, University of Hyderabad, March 2024.

Study at VU