MADRI KAKOTI

Permanent Add: Fauzdari Patty, Gurudwara Road, Nagaon Assam 782001

Add for Correspondence: 33B, Badshahbagh, University of Lucknow, Lucknow 226007
Ph. No. 9971831787, madrikakoti@gmail.com, DoB: 25th March 1986

Education:

 ABD Scholar in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (with coursework completed in 2012 with
8.25 CGPA on a scale of 9).
 M.A in Linguistics from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, completed in 2011 with 7.5
CGPA.
 M.A in International Relations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with 6.3
CGPA completed in 2009
 Bachelor of Arts from the Indraprastha College for Women, University of Delhi in English
Literature with a first class and aggregate of 61.6%
 10+2 from Kendriya Vidyalaya Nagaon, Assam under CBSE board with Maths, English,
Biology, Chemistry and Physical Education with an aggregate of 90.0%
 10th from Kendriya Vidyalaya Nagaon, Assam under CBSE board with Maths, Science,
Social Science, English and Hindi, with an aggregate of 92.4%

Projects:

 Co-investigator in Prof. Kavita Rastogi led project Development of sustainable economic

initiatives rooted in the traditional knowledge of Raji community, funded by the Shrikant
Joshi Endowment Grant, awarded by the Keystone Foundation in April, 2019.
 Co-investigator in Prof. Kavita Rastogi led project Revitalising Raji: A workshop series to
re-introduce script and encourage its usage, funded by Foundation for Endangered
Languages, UK in April, 2018.
 Co-investigator in Prof. Kavita Rastogi led project An Evaluation of Raji Revitalisation
Program, funded by Society for Endangered and Lesser Known Languages in October,
2017.

Academic Achievements:

 Awarded the Fulbright Fellowship in the Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant

category in the New York University, for the year 2014-15

 Awarded the Young Investigator Travel Grant for participation in the XX World
Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders, held in Geneva, Switzerland from
8th-11th December, 2013.

 Qualified the UGC-JRF in Linguistics, in June 2010.

 Awarded the Anuradha Bhardwaj Memorial Prize for the third consecutive year for
Consistently Good Performance in English Literature in Indraprastha College for
Women (2007).

 Awarded the Smt. Chandrani Devi Kapoor Memorial Prize, the highest honour in the
English Department of Indraprastha college for Women for being the highest scorer in the
College for the three years combined, with an aggregate of 61.6% in 2007.
  Awarded the ‘Most Versatile Student’ of the College for the year 2006-07 in Indraprastha
College for Women.

 Awarded the ‘Vidyalaya Blue’ for the best student of Kendriya Vidyalaya Nagaon, Assam
in the year 2004.

 Awarded the Certificate of Excellence by the Central Board of Secondary Education for
being among the top 0.1% scorers in Hindi with a 97/100 in AISSCE in 2002.
Employment:

Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, University of Lucknow, since

May 2016.

Primary Instructor of HIND5800—Language, Culture and Society, taught in Fall, 2016 in the
Masters Program of Hindi/Urdu Pedagogy in Kean University, New York (online engagement
only).

Chief Copy Editor for Newsd, a news and media curation and development company during June
2015- April 2016.

Invited as Resource Person in Tezpur University, Department of English and Foreign Languages, in
November, 2015.

Language Teaching Assistant in New York University under the Fulbright Language Teaching
Assistant Fellowship, 2014-15.

Guest Faculty in the Linguistic Empowerment Cell, Jawaharlal Nehru University from February,
2012 to August, 2014.

Guest Faculty in Centre for Linguistics, Jawaharlal Nehru University from August 2012 to July
2013.

Consortium Member of the Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics, Netherlands sponsored

project—Evolution of Semantic Systems from July, 2012-July, 2014.

Linguistic Resource Person for the Mother Tongue Survey of India conducted by the Office of
the Registrar General of India, from December, 2012-December, 2013.

Workshops/Conferences/Seminars:

 Presented Raji Revitalisation: Preserving traditional knowledge of the Raji community, co-
authored with Dr. Kavita Rastogi, Dr. Vishnu Singh and Ajeet Chaudhary at the LCP 2019
organised by RILCA, Mahidol University, Thailand during 17-18th December, 2019.

 Invited as Alumni Representative to the Fulbright Mid Year Conference held at Washington
DC during 11-15 December, 2019.

 Special talk at Department of English and Linguistics in English and Foreign Languages
University, Lucknow, as a former Fulbright fellow about life and responsibilities as a
Fulbrighter by the United States India Education Foundation on 7th August, 2018.
 Presented Revitalising Raji: A Step Ahead, co-authored with Dr. Kavita Rastogi at the 3 rd
International Conference on Documentary Linguistics, DLAP-3 held in Mahidol University,
Bangkok, Thailand during July 23-24, 2018.

 Special talk in Isabella Thoburn College as a former Fulbright fellow about life and
responsibilities as a Fulbrighter by the United States India Education Foundation on 25 th July,
2017.

 Interacted with students of Department of English and Department of Linguistics in

University of Lucknow as a former Fulbright fellow about life and responsibilities as a
Fulbrighter, organized by the United States India Education Foundation, on 25th July, 2017.

 Participated in a 5 day Testing, Evaluation and Paper Setting Workshop organized by the
National Testing Service, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, in the Urdu
Teaching and Research Centre, Lucknow, from 17th July, 2017 to 21st July, 2017.

 Served as a Resource Person in Hands on Training on Linguistic Tools, a workshop

organized by the Department of Linguistics, University of Lucknow, specifically for its
Masters and PhD students, trained the students on how to use PRAAT, a linguistic tool for
voice sample analysis, from 29th May, 2017 to 4th June, 2017.

 Presented a paper titled Designing the Right Material for the Hindi Classroom: A review of
Industry Best Practices in the International Seminar on Linguistics and Teaching of Hindi
and Other Indian Languages as Foreign Language held at University of Delhi, during
February 27th-28th, 2017.

 Presented a paper titled Distorting “translation”: An examination of J-Horror Manga

‘Tomie at the 38th International Conference of the Linguistics Society of India, held at IIT
Guwahati, during November 10th-12th, 2016.

 Presented a paper titled A Descriptive Study of Acoustic Space of Male Heritage HFL
Learners in Comparison to Male Native Speakers of Hindi at the International Conference on
Hindi Studies, held at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations, Paris,
from September 14th-16th, 2016.

 Selected to give oral presentation and chair a session in the Nationl Council of Less
Commonly Taught Languages, Atlanta, Georgia for the paper Using response time to
grammaticality questions as a diagnostic and assessment tool in April, 2016.

 Presented a paper titled Behavioural vs Clinical: Ethical Issues in Research Involving

Subjects with Parkinson’s Disease in the XX World Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and
Related Disorders held in Geneva, Switzerland from 8 th December, to 11th December, 2013
with the Young Scientist Travel Grant covering full travel and registration fee.

 Presented 2013 MEESO International Conference, Luthor University, Yongin— si,

Republic of Korea, held during 11th-13th July, 2013, for the paper Language Through Music:
Increased Recall Value Through Rhyme and Rhythm.
  Presented the paper Tracing the Grammaticalisation of Assamese verb ‘luwa’ (to take) from
Lexeme to CaseMarker ‘loi’ 5th Austrian Students’ Conference of Linguistics (V.
Österreichische Studierendenkonferenz der Linguistik – ÖSKL 2012),Vienna, Austria.

 Gave oral presentation for the paper A comparative Study of Bangla and Assamese Classifier
System co-authored with Diti Bhadra, in the international Students Conference of
Linguistics in India-4, in Mumbai 2010. The paper was published in the conference
proceedings.

 Selected to give oral presentation for the single authored paper Micro-linguistic Areas of
South Asia in the 32nd All India Conference of Linguists, in Lucknow 2010. The paper was
published in conference proceedings.

 Selected to give oral presentation for the single authored paper Tomie: From Paper Pages to
Web Pages in the international conference Language, Literature and Linguistics, 2012
held in Singapore by the Global Science and Technology Forum.

Publications

 Translating the MMSE into Assamese: Suggestion for Culture and Language Appropriate
Sentence Prompt published in Vaakmanthan, Vol 3, Issue II, ISSN 2426-2149

 Examining acoustic space of vowels as a corresponding value to language proficiency level:

A case study of the heritage learner of Hindi, published in Ghanshyam Sharma (ed.)
Advances in Hindi Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, LINCOM Europa (2018).
ISBN 978-38-62889-02-0

 Stop and Fricatives in the Verbal Repertoire of Hindi, Korean Bilinguals: A Study of
Phonological Development in Bilinguals, published in Misra, Gupta (ed.) Perspectives on
Applied and General Linguistics, Vijaya Books, India (2016). ISBN 978-93-81480-99-1

 Ethical Violations in Research Involving Human Subjects in Popular American TV Series

‘Fringe’, published in Misra, Gupta (ed.) Perspectives on Applied and General Linguistics,
Vijaya Books, India (2016). ISBN 978-93-81480-99-1

 Introducing Elvis to ESL Learners: Teaching Language through Music, included in Narang
(ed.) Issues in Learning Theories and Pedagogical Practices, Orient Blackswan, India (2013)
ISBN 9788125049913

 Grammaticalisation of the ‘take’ verb in Assamese, in Indian Journal of Linguistics, ISSN

0378-0759

 Acoustic space in Kashmiri vowels published in Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics,

ISSN 09743421

 Language Through Music: Increased Recall Value of Vocabulary Through Rhyme and
Rhythm, included in the conference proceedings of MEESO 2013 International Conference.

 From Butterflies to Typhoons: Why India needs a Slut-walk, published in Women’s

Perspectives, Arindom Borkotoky (ed.), LB publications, Assam (2012).
  Micro-linguistic Areas of South Asia, published in the conference proceedings of 32nd All
India Conference of Linguists, in Lucknow 2010.

Extracurricular Activities:

 Appeared as a Resource Person/Expert in the live radio program Gyan Vani conducted
by IGNOU on the topic of Multilingualism in India: Viewing English Language Teaching in
the Indian Context.

 Designed an optional remedial English course titled English Appreciation for the students
of class X, XI and XII of the Ramanujam Junior College, Nagaon, Assam. Have taught the
same during summer vacations (for a period of 50 days) every year since 2008.

 Held the post of the Editor-in-Chief of the College magazine Aaroh in the Indraprastha
College for Women, University of Delhi.

 Represented the School in the National Level Teri Science Olympiad, National level
Social Science exhibition in English Elocution and secured the first rank in North East
Region and 9th rank all over India respectively.

 Won the first prize for the Best Entry in Assam in the National Competition of Rank and
Bolt Awards for Excellence in the Field of Education organized by Indian Airlines in
2004.

 Won several prizes in intra and inter college music, choreography, essay writing, dramatics
and creative writing in University of Delhi as well as Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Sports and Athletics:

 Served as Convenor, JNU Taekwondo Club.
 Awarded the Yellow belt in Taekwondo in March, 2013 and awaiting the Green belt
certificate.
 Awarded the flying certificate for a Sky-diving Expedition completed under the ‘Genting
Sky Venture Institute’ in Malaysia
 Certificate course in Para Sailing under the Air Force Base of India in Tezpur, Assam.
 Reached the semi-finals of the All Assam Nurul Amin Tennis Tournament held in
Nagaon Tennis Club in 2000, 2002 and 2003s

References:

Dr. Kavita Rastogi

Professor, Department of Linguistics
University of Lucknow, Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh-226007
Ph. No. +919454998566
krastogi1960@gmail.com

Prof. Pradeep Kumar Das

Center for Linguistics,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi-110067
pradeep11@hotmail.com

Prof. Gabriela Nyk Ilieva

Clinical Professor
222 W 4th Street,
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
New York University
gni1@nyu.edu