Assistant Professor, IIT Bhubaneshwar

Dr. Ashna Jacob

Department : Humanities, Social Sciences and Management

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ashnajacob@iitbbs.ac.in

Publications

1Jacob, Ashna, and Nirmala Menon. “Mythos to Myth to Mythopoeia: A Cyclical Process.” Mythlore: A Journal of JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Charles Williams and Mythopoeic Society. Vol. 42, No. 1(143), Fall/Winter 2023. Southwestern Oklahoma State University Press. p 147-164. https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2997&context=mythlore
2Jacob, Ashna and Nirmala Menon. “Packaging Polytheism as Monotheism: A Study of the Mythopoeic Deity in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion”. Religion and the Arts. 22/04/2020, 24 (1-2), 84-109. Brill. p84–109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02401014
3Jacob, Ashna and Nirmala Menon. “Mythos to Myth: An Implication of Euhemerism in Amish Tripathi’s Shiva Trilogy”. The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 31:3 Fall 2019. University of Toronto Press. p196-207 doi: https://doi.org/10.3138/jrpc.2017-0034
1“The Mythopoeic Deity: A Reading of Deities constructed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s and Amish Tripathi’s Mythopoeias” at Oxonmoot 2015 annual conference hosted by the Tolkien Society, 10-13th September 2015, at St Antony’s College, Oxford University, U.K.
2“Shiva Trilogy- Representing Mythology in Indian Popular Fiction” at Writing Back: Language, Identity, Culture and Difference at Qatar University on 18-19th May 2014, Doha, Qatar.
1“From Susanna Anna Marie Yeats to Susanna Anna Marie Johannes—A Comparative Study of Ruskin Bond’s “Susanna’s Seven Husbands” (both short story and novella) and the movie adaptation 7 Khoon Maaf” at RAWCON 2014, 10-12th September 2014, at University of Hyderabad, India.
2“Chetan Bhagat’s Great Indian Dream as a Nation fetish” at National Young Researcher’s seminar held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India on January 17-18th 2014, Delhi, India.