Qualification

PhD

Qualifications M.A. N.E. T.
Area if Interest Children’s Literature, Philosophy of Religion, Science Fiction, Fantasy Literature
Date of Joining 24.3.2017
Awards/Achievements – Senior Research Fellow Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship
– ‘Academic Achiever NEHU-2009’ 1st Class 2nd Position- English Honours- St.Edmund’s College, Shillong.
Research Projects:
– Module Writer and Video Presenter on “Postmodernism and Performance” for UGC E-PG Content for Comparative Literature of Performance Studies.
– Research Associate and Content Writer for The Photo Essays and Coffee Table Book Project, 2015 for North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society.
Publications:
– Dunai, M. (2017).‘Translating Worldviews: Biblical Truth Claims and their Relevance in Contemporary Society’in Translation: Transcending Barriers(eds) BobinaWanniang, Dr. M.N. Bhattacharjee, Dr. A. Nongbri, L.D. Marak and Dr. Shruti Pandey. EBH Publishers, Guwahati, India. ISBN: 978-93-86302-27-4.
– Dunai, M. (2016). “The End as Beginning: Reshaping Worldviews in the Narnia Series”. Paper published in Handmaiden of Death: Apocalypse and Revelation. ISBN: 978-1-84888-413-7
– Dunai, M. (2016). “The Weight of Forgiveness: A Critical Exposition of Sin in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”. Paper published in The NEHU Journal January-June 2016, pp.87-104.Issue. ISSN 0972-8406.
– Dunai, M. & A. Lyngdoh (2016). ‘Development and Forced Migration: Dam Construction and Issues of Human Rights in Arundhati Roy’s Essay ‘The Greater Common Good’’ in Human Migration in South Asia: Dynamics and Implications (ed) K. Nongrum and A. P. Warjri.Akansha Publishing House, Daryaganj, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-8370-474-8.
– Dunai, M. (2015). “‘Re-viewing’ the Child” – Children’s Literature (Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature), Second Edition by M.O. Grenby, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978 0 7486 4902 0.’ Book Review published in The NEHU JournalJanuary-June, 2015Issue. ISSN 0972-8406.
– Dunai, M. (2015). ‘Man and Nature: Spiritual Communion and Conflict with Special Reference to Khasi Folktales’in Environment Cultural Interactions and the Tribes of North-East India(eds) Mawlong, Banshaikupar L. and Marco BabitMitri. Cambridge Scholars Publishing Limited, New Castle, United Kingdom. ISBN: 978-1-4438-7836-4.
– Diengdoh B. H, L.M. Lyngdoh& M. Dunai (2014). ‘Climate Induced Migrants and Displaced Persons: A Study of the Definitions and Concepts of Environmentally Affected Individuals’. The Political Anvil Journal. ISSN -2319-7528

Conference/Seminar/Workshop Presentations
– “Interculturalism as Pedagogy: Children’s Cultural Exposure”. National seminar on Re-interpretations of the Past: The Discourse of Cultural Identity in South Asia organised by the Dept. of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong held from 17th March – 18th March, 2016.
– “The End as Beginning: Reshaping Worldviews in the Narnia series”. International seminar organised by Inter-Disciplinary.Net on The Apocalypse Project: Rescheduled 4th Global Meeting held at Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom held from 1st August – 2nd August, 2015.
– “The Wages of Sin: The Creator’s Sacrifice in C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” International Seminar on “Religion and Literatures” organised by Osmania University Centre for International Programmes, Osmania University, Hyderabad held from 29th January to 31st January, 2015
– “Translating Worldviews: Biblical Truth Claims and their Relevance in Contemporary Society” National Seminar on “Translation: Transcending Barriers” organised by the Literary Circle, Shillong College, Shillong held from 20th to 22nd of November, 2014.
– Development and Forced Migration: Dam Construction and Issues of Human Rights in Arundhati Roy’s essay The Greater Common Good.Interdisciplinary International Seminar: Human Migration in South Asia: Dynamics and Implications held on the 9th-10th October, 2014 at Synod College, Shillong, Meghalaya.
– “Man and Nature: Spiritual Communion and Conflict with Special Reference to Khasi Folktales”.National ConferenceonThe North East Umbrella – Environment-Cultural Interaction and Tribes in the Region organised by the Department of History and Political Science, Union Christian College, Umiam held from 29th May – 30th May, 2014.
Books Published
– Handmaiden of Death: Apocalypse and Revelation. Eds. Alexandra Simon-Lopez and Mankhrawbor Dunai. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Priory House 149B Wroslyn Road Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR United Kingdom. ISBN: 978-1-84888-413-7

Others
– Co-ordinator of the Research Forum for English Studies, NEHU, Shillong.
– Executive member of the Shillong Academic Society.
– Executive member Meghalaya Cycling Shillong