{"id":41,"date":"2026-06-19T12:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hpu.ac.in\/centre-for-aus-and-nz-studies\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:29:55","slug":"ph-d","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hpu.ac.in\/centre-for-aus-and-nz-studies\/ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Ph.D"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"inner-area\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>\n\t<strong>Research Undertaken<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" class=\"table table-hover table-striped table-bordered table-theme table-grid-view\">\n<caption>\n\t\tPh.D Scholars :<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\tSr.No<\/th>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\tName<\/th>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\tYear<\/th>\n<th>\n\t\t\t\tTopic<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t1<\/td>\n<td mishra=\"\" nisha=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tNisha Mishra<\/td>\n<td 2017=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t2017<\/td>\n<td a=\"\" and=\"\" australian=\"\" existential=\"\" k.=\"\" of=\"\" pankaj=\"\" prof.=\"\" quest=\"\" select=\"\" short=\"\" social=\"\" spaces:=\"\" study=\"\" supervisor-=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\u2018Existential Quest and Social Spaces: A Study of Select Australian Short Fiction\u2019 (Supervisor- Prof.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t-Pankaj K. Singh)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t2<\/td>\n<td sharma=\"\" td=\"\" veena=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tVeena Sharma<\/td>\n<td 2017=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t2017<\/td>\n<td and=\"\" identity=\"\" in=\"\" k.=\"\" louis=\"\" of=\"\" pankaj=\"\" plays=\"\" politics=\"\" prof.=\"\" supervisor-=\"\" td=\"\" the=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\u2018Culture, Identity and Politics in the plays of Louis<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNowra\u2019(Supervisor- Prof. Pankaj K. Singh)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t3<\/td>\n<td akshay=\"\" kumar=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tAkshay Kumar<\/td>\n<td 2016=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t2016<\/td>\n<td and=\"\" beyond:=\"\" culture=\"\" history=\"\" in=\"\" kirsty=\"\" narratives=\"\" of=\"\" quests=\"\" s=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\u2018Children\u2019s Quests and Beyond: Narratives of History and Culture in Kirsty Murray\u2019s Novels\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t4<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tHemrajBansal-<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t2015<\/td>\n<td a=\"\" aboriginal=\"\" australian=\"\" of=\"\" study=\"\" survival:=\"\" td=\"\" three=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\u2018Protest, Reconstruction, Survival: A Study of Three Australian Aboriginal Dramatists\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t5<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tKuldeep Raj<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t2015<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\tHistory, Politics and the Individual: A Study of PeterCarey\u2019s Fiction\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t6<\/td>\n<td subhashverma=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tSubhashVerma<\/td>\n<td 2015=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t2015<\/td>\n<td and=\"\" art=\"\" dramatic=\"\" individual:=\"\" of=\"\" society=\"\" td=\"\" the=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tPolitics, Society and the Individual: The Dramatic Art of<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tHannieRayson\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t7<\/td>\n<td shiwanikhatri=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tShiwaniKhatri<\/td>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t2014<\/td>\n<td a=\"\" and=\"\" andaboriginal=\"\" australian=\"\" canadian=\"\" comparative=\"\" in=\"\" kim=\"\" king=\"\" native=\"\" of=\"\" reclamation=\"\" resistance=\"\" study=\"\" td=\"\" thomas=\"\" writers:=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tResistance and Reclamation in Native Canadian andAboriginal Australian Writers: A Comparative Study of Thomas King and Kim Scott\u2019<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t8<\/td>\n<td shwetasood=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tShwetaSood<\/td>\n<td 2010=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t2010<\/td>\n<td a=\"\" and=\"\" commitment=\"\" comparative=\"\" dorothy=\"\" in=\"\" judith=\"\" livesay=\"\" of=\"\" p=\"\" poetry=\"\" self-expression=\"\" social=\"\" theselect=\"\" wright:=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\u2018Self-Expression and Social Commitment in theSelect Poetry of Dorothy Livesay and Judith Wright: A Comparative Study\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n\t\t\t\t9<\/td>\n<td ishmeetkaur=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\tIshmeetKaur<\/td>\n<td 2009=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t2009<\/td>\n<td and=\"\" diverse=\"\" existentialism=\"\" granth=\"\" hemispheres:=\"\" inguru=\"\" linking=\"\" patrick=\"\" sahib=\"\" td=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t&#8216;Linking Diverse Hemispheres: Existentialism inGuru Granth Sahib and Patrick White\u2019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t<strong>&nbsp;Research under progress<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tAditya Singh Dulta- \u2018Breaking the Silence and Representing Aboriginals and<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Aboriginality: A Study of Seven Memoirs by Aboriginal Women\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tSunil Kumar- &#8216;Aboriginal Women&#8217;s Autobiographies: A Select Study of the<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Narratives of &#8216;Stolen Generation&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tVandana Kaundal- &#8216;Cultural Hegemony, Violence and Identity in Select Fiction of<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Paula Morris&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tMegha Katoria- &#8216;Dynamics of History, Culture and Identity: A Study of Select<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Young Adult Novels of Kirsty Murray and Ted Dawes&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Undertaken &nbsp; Ph.D Scholars : Sr.No Name Year Topic 1 Nisha Mishra 2017 \u2018Existential Quest and Social Spaces: A Study of Select Australian Short Fiction\u2019 (Supervisor- Prof. -Pankaj K. 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