Nimisha Upadhyay

Areas of Interest & Expertise

  • English Language Teaching in multilingual classrooms
  • Language assimilation, linguistic diversity and identity
  • Scholarship of teaching and learning
  • Intermediality: Literature, film and the arts
  • Post-colonial and diaspora literature

Biography

Nimisha is a part of the Academic Resource Centre in Bhopal.

She has an MSc in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her dissertation compared phonological patterns in Hindi scripted and unscripted speech. She also has an MA in English from Indira Gandhi National Open University and a BA (Research) degree in English and Communications from Shiv Nadar University.

Prior to her current position at the University, she worked with non-profit institutions in the field of education, developing curriculum for both village schools and university students. She has also worked as a Senior Administrator with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) at the University of Edinburgh. 

Currently, she is researching the implications of the proliferation of AI in language classrooms as well as working on a paper looking at second language assimilation in immigrant populations.

Publications

Conference papers

  • Upadhyay, Nimisha. (2019, April 5 – 6). Performing Identity in the University Space: An Arts-based Research Project. [paper presentation]. 3rd Undergraduate Research Conference, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India.
  • Upadhyay, Nimisha. (2018, April 6 – 7). The Barthesian Reader’s Revival in Modern Interactive Fiction. [paper presentation]. 2nd Undergraduate Research Conference, O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India.
  • Upadhyay, Nimisha. (2017, April 11 – 12). Contextualising the History of Indian Classical Dance: Censorship and Nationalist Ideology. [paper presentation]. Seminar on Censorship and Contemporary India: Histories, Texts and Contexts, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
  • Upadhyay, Nimisha. (2016, July 14 – 15). Discrimination in Education: Creation of Unequal Worlds – State Sponsored Discrimination in Iran. [paper presentation]. Project E‑QUAL: Third Student Conference, European Commission and the British Council India, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.