RJOE | Volume 11, Special Issue 4(2026)

Volume - 11, Special Issue - 4(2026)

One Day National Seminar
Department of English Studies, K.K.S. Women’s College, Balasore, Odisha (Affiliated to F.M. University, Balasore,Odisha)& IQAC K.K.S. Women’s College,
Balasore
Odisha
National Seminar

"Exploring The New Terrians Of Ecocriticism: Concept, Context and Content "(Hybrid Mode)

on 18-03-2026
Patron
Dr. Jhansi Jena
Principal, KKS Women's College, Balasore
Editors
Dr. Narayan Surjit Behera
Assistant Professor of English (Stage-III)
KKS Women's College, Balasore
Shri Jaydev Pramanik
Assistant Professor of English (Stage-III)
KKS Women's College, Balasore
Dr. Niroj Kumar Sethi
Assistant Professor of English (Stage-I)
KKS Women's College, Balasore
Ms. Salini Sethi
Assistant Professor of English (Stage-I)
KKS Women's College, Balasore
Dr. A. Latha
Assistant Professor of English
Coordinator- Shift-II
St. Xavier's College (Autonomous),
Palayamkottai -627 002.
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Conference Proceedings - Contents

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Contents

S.No Paper Title Author(s) Pages
1Eco critical Insights in the Poetry of Robert FrostDr. Ajay Kumar Pradhan1–4
2From Serenity to Somberness: The Interplay of Nature and Human Psyche in Selected Poems of Jibanananda DasAnish Saha5–12
3Of Clouds and Widows: The Hydropoetic Dialectic of Freedom and Constraint in Meghadūta and WaterAuroshikha Mishra13–18
4Rooted Rebellion: Environmental Memory and Resistance to Colonisation in Wide Sargasso SeaAyush Padhi19–25
5Scrutinizing Ecocentric Attitude of Humans: Ecocritical Interpretation in Ruskin Bond’s Select Short StoriesBansi Sing26–31
6Living with the Climate Crisis: Youth, Emotional Resilience and the Politics of HopeDr. Mahesh Chandra Dash32–36
7The Scientific Rape of Nature: An Ecofeminist Reading of Mary Shelley’s FrankensteinDr. Mousumi Mullick37–41
8Reimagining the New Terrains of Ecocriticism: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of the Environmental Imagination in the Works of Amitav GhoshDr. Saroja Mandal42–45
9An Ecocritical Inquiry into Manoj Das’s Short FictionDr. Sushree Smita Raj46–51
10Ecosystem is at the CrossroadDr. Renubala Sundaray52–58
11Nonsense as Ecological Critique: Rethinking Colonial Modernity in Abol TabolIfteshan Firdoush59–68
12Ecofeminism and GenderJagadish Nath69–74
13Eco-Grief, Eco-Anxiety, Solastalgia and Perils of Plastic Waste Explored in the Poems of Margaret AtwoodKrittika Thakur75–79
14Charting Empire at Sea: Maritime Histories and Colonial Capitalism in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis TrilogyKostyanv Gonsalvis
Dr. Srinivas Vooradi
80–83
15Anti-Pastoral Modernity: Ecological Alienation in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell JarLipakshi Panda84–89
16The Eco Maternal: Motherhood and Environmental Consciousness in Kingsolver's Flight BehaviorMonia
Dr. Nitesh Rajpurohit
90–100
17Echoes of the Ancestral Hills: Nature, Conflict, and Cultural Continuity in The Black Hill by Mamang DaiNibedita Mohapatra101–106
18Oceanic Cycles and Temporal Philosophy: A Kalachakra Approach to Riders to the SeaParameswar Behera107–110
19From Himalayan Hermitages to Faerie Realms: Green and Blue Humanities in Kalidasa and SpenserPritilogna S. Mahakud111–118
20The Nature–Mind Interface: Exploring Ecopsychological Elements in Ted Hughes’ PoemsPriyanka Priyadarshini Devi119–123
21Tidal Humanism: Oceanic Relationality and the Ethics of Coexistence in Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the SeaMrs. Prothoma Saha124–128
22Human–Nonhuman Relationship and Multispecies Coexistence: A Reading of The Hungry TideRamesh Chandra Pradhani129–142
23Environment Degradation and Gendered Oppression: An Ecofeminist Analysis of The God of Small ThingsResham Rachita Sahoo
S. B. Manognya
143–149
24Rewriting Nature, Reclaiming Identity: Anti-Essentialist Ecofeminist Insurgency in Dalit Women’s LiteratureRudrani Kumari
Dr. Ramhit Chaupal
150–157
25The Environment and Mind: An Affective Ecological Study of The Blood of LeavesSamiran Mondal158–162
26Robert Frost’s Select Poems: An Ecocritical StudySanchaita Ghosh163–166
27Red Ideology and Blue Water: Communist Betrayal, Subaltern Memory & Ecological Politics in The Hungry TideSatyam Das167–170
28Silenced Rivers and Erasable Gardens: Postcolonial Ecocriticism, Muslim Lifeworld, and the Politics of Environmental ErasureSheema Jilani171–177
29Environmental Literature and Eco-Criticism: A Critical Study in the Works of Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller and Henry David ThoreauSk Abdul Salam
Dr. Ajit Kumar Mohapatra
178–183
30From Habitat to Exile: Environmental Displacement and the Expanding Horizons of EcocriticismSmruti Rekha Biswal184–190
31From the Golden Bird to the Hungry Body: Post-humanism in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Jayanta MahapatraSnehashish Mahakud191–196
32Riverine Cosmologies: Myth, Memory and Environmental Consciousness in Indian and Nigerian FictionSubham Kumar Das197–205
33Environmental Justice and Caste Marginality in Bengali Dalit AutobiographiesSubhra Chakraborty
Dr. Bharat A. Tupere
206–212
34Land, Empire, and Ecological Subalternity: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Gopinath Mohanty’s ParajaSwagatika Pradhan213–219
35The Bay of Bengal as Counter-Archive: Blue Humanities and the Rewriting of Odisha’s Maritime ModernityUrmimala Mohanta220–224
36Entangled Vocality: Probing Displacement in Sperm Whale Codas through Ecocritical and Posthumanist LensesSai Dinabandhu Beuria225–231
37Myth, Nature and Ecological Balance: An Ecocritical Study of Myth RetellingsKumar Shubham232–234
38Frozen Futures: Egg Freezing, Temporal Anxiety, and the Ethics of Deferred Motherhood in Twenty-First Century Women’s FictionAshraful Haque235–240
39Embodied Rumination and Decolonial Memory: An Ecopsychological Study of Industrial Catastrophe in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s PeopleAlankruta Mohanty241–252
40Relevance of Postcolonial Ecocriticism in Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Novel Palli SamajDr. Ajit Kumar Mohapatra253–256
41Social Consciousness in Arundhati Roy’s “The Greater Common Good”Dr. Minati Sethi257–261
42From Climate Crisis to Human Survival: Gender, Environment, and Survival in Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight BehaviorPartha Sarathi Mondal262–271