Swati Samantaray
Professor
Dr. Swati Samantaray has been associated with Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar since October 1997 and is presently working as a Professor in the School of Humanities. She earned a Ph. D. degree in English from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. Dr. Swati has more than 25 years of experience in teaching Professional Communication and English Literature to UG and PG scholars of KIIT & KISS. She is a recognized Ph.D. Supervisor. Dr. Swati has been conferred the Best Faculty Award by the Honorable Founder of KIIT & KISS Dr. A. Samant and Padma Shri Ruskin Bond in the year 2012. She is actively engaged in research work and is also an editorial board member of reputed international journals. Dr. Swati has authored as well as edited a number of books and also has to her credit numerous research articles and conference papers. Her widely acclaimed books include - The Mystic Flights of Tagore; Lord Jagannath: The Enigmatic Emblem of Cosmic Consciousness, and Mysticism: A Literary Quest for Ultimate Reality. Dr. Swati was also associated with Tata Consultancy Services as a faculty of Soft Skills. She has attended many national and international conferences, seminars, workshops, faculty development programmes organized by various Institutions from time to time. Her field of interests are mysticism, eco-criticism, feminism, existentialism, cultural and film studies, folkloristics, diaspora literature. She is austerely involved in the process of students’ overall and career development and current knowledge updation. She is socially conscious and incessantly espoused to the cause of promoting and providing impetus to humanity.
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (English)
Research Interests
Indian English Literature, British Literature, American Literature, Folkloristics, Culture Studies
Administrative Responsibility
Member of Board of Studies (English); mentoring students of KIIT; squad duty in Girls hostels; referrals to KIMS; committee member of different co-curricular activities as & when assigned
Awards & Honours
Awarded the Best Faculty Award in 2011 which was given by Dr. A. Samanta (Honourable Founder Sir) & Padma Shree, Shri Ruskin Bond at KIIT (Deemed to be University) Bhubaneswar
Memberships
Life member of ISTE - No: LM 59645
Outreach Activity
Vice Chancellor's nominee for different Ph.D. Programmes Teaching at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences [KISS] Associated with Art of Giving Programme, School of Humanities, KIIT Worked as a Faculty in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Bhubaneswar
1. Samantaray, Swati. Demystifying Mysticism: A Comparative Study of the Poetry of William Blake and Rabindranath Tagore. 3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies. Vol. 19, No 2, pp. 41-51. June 2013.
2. Samantaray, Swati & Sahadeb Patro. The Code of Ecomysticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Works: A Critical Appraisal. TRAMES - A Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2018. pp.311-326
3. Mohanty, J.R. & Swati Samantaray. Cyber Feminism: Unleashing Women Power Through Technology. The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. July 2017. Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 318-326.
4. Mohapatra, Guruprasad & Swati Samantaray. From Inner Peace to World Peace: Jagannath Consciousness in the Literature of Odisha. The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. December 2017. Vol. 9, No. 4, pp.169-178.
5. Gupta, Shipra & Swati Samantaray. Perspectives on Violence on Screen: A Critical Analysis of Seven Samurai and Sholay. Journal of Communication: Media Watch. Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2019, pp. 702-712.
6. Samantaray, Swati. Cosmic Mysticism: Quest for the Absolute in the Works of Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature. Vol. 6, No. 1, pp.298-304 January 2017
7. Samantaray, Swati. Voicing Memory through Diaspora Consciousness: A Psychometric Assessment of Rohinton Mistry's Works. The Criterion: An International Journal in English. April 2017. Vol. 8. Issue-2, pp.474-480.
8. Samantaray, Swati. Ecocriticism: Ecological Consciousness in the Works of Thomas Hardy. Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies. Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 11-17, April 2016.
9. Samantaray, Swati. Dystopia: A Critique of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. New Academia: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory. Vol. III, Issue I, January 2014.
10. Samantaray, Swati. A Shared Heritage of Humanity: A Glimpse into the Folklore of Odisha. Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies. Vol. 5, No.1, pp. 31-38 January 2014.
11. Samantaray, Swati. An Existential Examination of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies. Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 185-191, October 2014.
12. Samantaray, Swati. Gender, Race and Class Bias in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Literary Insight. Vol. 4 pp.74-79, January 2013.
13. Samantaray, Swati. The Black as the 'Other': A Critique of Toni Morrison's Novels. International Journal on Multicultural Literature. Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 69-76, January 2013.
14. Samantaray, Swati. Reflections of Feminism and Existentialism in Shobha De’s Novels. Journal of Literature & Aesthetics: An International Journal Devoted to Critical and Creative Writing in English. Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 63-67, June 2012.
15. Samantaray, Swati. The Synthesis of the Oriental and Occidental in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry and Philosophy. Labyrinth: An International Refereed Journal of Postmodern Studies. Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 99-105, October 2011.
15. Samantaray, Swati. The Marginal Poet Bhima Bhoi: The Mystical Elements in His Poetry. Dialogue – A Journal Devoted to Literary Appreciation. Volume VI, No. II, pp.132-138, December 2010.
Books :
1. Mohapatra, Guruprasad & Swati Samantaray. Lord Jagannath: The Enigmatic Emblem of Cosmic Consciousness. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2018. ISBN: 9789387651609.
2. Samantaray, Swati. The Mystic Flights of Tagore. New Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 2010. ISBN No.8176467006.
3. Samantaray, Swati. Business Communication and Communicative English. New Delhi: Sultan Chand & Sons (P) Ltd., 3rd Ed., 2009. ISBN No. 81 86819267
4. Samantaray, Swati Ed. Folklore: A Key to Cultural Understanding. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2019. ISBN: 9789388008457.
5. Khan, Patro & Samantaray Ed. Mysticism: A Literary Quest for Ultimate Reality. New Delhi: Authorspress, 2018. ISBN No. 9789387281127.
[BOOK CHAPTERS] 1. Sahu, Ankita, Swati Samantaray & Hajra Siddiqua. Cyberspace: A Contemporary Path for Religious Education. Book Series title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST), Vol. 2. Springer Nature and Indexed in SCOPUS. ISBN 978-981-32-9689-3
2. Siddiqua, Hajra, Swati Samantaray & Ankita Sahu. The Impact of ICT on Feminism: A Global Phenomenon. Book Series title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST), Springer Nature and Indexed in SCOPUS
3. Gupta Shipra & Swati Samantaray. Tracing the Evolution of Information and Communication Technologies in Cinema. Series title: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST), Springer Nature and Indexed in SCOPUS
4. Samantaray, Swati. "The Search for Identity: An Appraisal of Toni Morrison’s Novels". Multicultural Studies On Three Nobel Laureates- Rabindranath Tagore,Toni Morrison and Alice Munro. Authorspress, pp. 191-201, 2016. ISBN No. 9789352072170