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PARTICULARS OF THE CANDIDATE

NAME OF THE CANDIDATE DAPHINDA FANCON WAR

DEGREE DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

DEPARTMENT ENGLISH

TITLE OF DISSERTATION A SPACE OF ONE’S OWN: A

SELECT STUDY OF SANDRA
CISNEROS’S FICTION, SHORT
FICTION AND POETRY

DATE OF ADMISSION 6-6-2008

APPROVAL OF RESEARCH

PROPOSALS:

BPGS 26-3 2009

SCHOOL BOARD 6-5-2009

REGISTRATION N DATE 6-5-2009

EXTENSION EXTENTION granted for 2yrs

upto 5-5-2016.
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BRIEF BIO-DATA

Name DaphindaFancon War

Date of birth 2- 3 1975

Educational Qualification MA (English)/ M phil

Present Status Assistant Professor

St. Edmund’s College

Shillong 793003

Works Published:

“Nature Ripped of its Beauty and Splendour”,

Solutions toEcological Challenges.(2014) ISBN
978-81-926370-2-0

“Transformation of a Woman from Innocence to

Experience”, Perspectives(2014).2320-0855

“A Quest for Selfhood”,Perspectives(2013).ISSN

2320-0855

“The Voice of Women”, Life Cycle and Folklore.

(2007)

“Pleasant Dreams”, IndianFolk Life (2007)ISSN.

0972-6470

“Feminism and the Structures of Selfhood”, The

NEHU Journal(2006).ISSN. 0972-8406

Papers Presented:

National Seminar on Transcending Barriers:

“Tracing History through a Rebozo”. 2014
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Interim Conference of the International Society for

Folk Narrative Research: “Place: Sites of Belief”.
2011

National Seminar on National Discourse: “There

are only three things to be done to a Woman”.
2006