The IUP Journal of English Studies

Volume 20, Issue 4, October-December 2025

ISSN :0973-3728

Impact Factor: 2.33; Acceptance rate: 15%; Turnaround time: 2-2 1/2 years

A 'peer reviewed' journal indexed on Scopus (Elsevier Group) and UGC-CARE List Group-II, and also included in EBSCO and ProQuest (Part of Clarivate) Database

It is a quarterly journal for informed critical evaluations of various areas of Literature, English Language Teaching, Translation studies relating to emerging and established genres. A fresh and invigorating evaluation of the contributions of writers and their significant writings are on offer in the Journal. Also deals with Linguistics and literature, Literary and literary theory, Bhasa studies, etc.

Focus Areas

  • British Literature   |  
  • American Literature   |  
  • Commonwealth Literature   |  
  • Indian Writing in English   |  
  • English Language Teaching   |  
  • Comparative Literature   |  
  • Translation Studies   |  

Current Issue

Volume 20, Issue 4, October-December 2025
Exploring the Role of Mythology in Shaping the Plot of Marlon James’s Black Leopard, Red Wolf: A Theoretical Inquiry Through Wole Soyinka’s Myth, Literature, and the African World

Author: Uzma Shafi

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.5-14

Keywords: African mythology, Speculative fiction, Wole Soyinka, Narrative structure, African epistemologies, Oral traditions

Magical Realism as a Subversive Strategy in Vijaydan Detha’s ‘The Thakur’s Ghost’

Author: Ritu Sharma

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.15-27

Keywords: Subversion, Transgression, Magical realism, Conventional, Postmodern, Philosophy, Parody

Bara Rani’s ‘Home’ and Bimala’s ‘World’: A Feminist Critique of Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World

Author: Tarala Deshpande

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.28-34

Keywords: Emancipation, Empowerment, Widow, World, Zenana

Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl: The Colonial Legacies of African Women

Author: Siva R and Ramesh M

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.35-42

Keywords: Missionary, Slave girl, African woman, Igbo, Slavery, Postcolonialism

Resisting Amnesia: The Politics of Commemoration in Temsula Ao’s ‘The Jungle Major’

Author: Dharmendra Kr. Baruah

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.43-50

Keywords: The Naga, Amnesia, Memory, Women, Commemoration

A Postmodern Ecocritical Analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes

Author: Asha S and Vineeth Radhakrishnan

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.51-61

Keywords: Native American, Mothering, Culture, Communities, Folktales

Mindful Learning: The Effectiveness of Metacognitive Strategies in Second Language Reading Comprehension

Author: Bonala Kondal and Swamy Bairi

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJEs/2025.20.4.62-85

Keywords: Mindful learning, Metacognitive strategies, Second language reading comprehension, ESL, Cognitive development

Enhancing ESL Students’ Academic Writing Skills Through Collaborative Learning

Author: Amit Kumar

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJEs/2025.20.4.86-110

Keywords: Academic writing, Collaborative learning, Process approach to writing, Peer-feedback

Online Assessment Strategies in English Literature: Challenges and Adaptations in the Covid-19 Era

Author: Ashma Shamail

Published Online: December, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.111-129

Keywords: Online assessments, Adaptations, Challenges, English literature, Covid-19 pandemic, Saudi Arabia

Archives


Volume 20, Issue 3, July-September 2025
‘On [Your Marriage] Depends My Honor’: A Study of Patriarchal Power Politics and Honor Killing with Reference to Bapsi Sidhwa’s The Pakistani Bride

Author: R Mohammed Anish* and J Michael Raj

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.5-14

Keywords: Honor killing, Family honor, Neo-patriarchal, Othello’s syndrome, Power politics

Situating the Diseased Self: Eating Disorder in Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Author: Rashmi Das

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.15-26

Keywords: Eating disorder, Health humanities, Food and nonfood, Fictional pathography, Diseased self, Narrative medicine, Art therapy and Magical control

‘I’m sick, aren’t I?’: Dismantling Queer Sexuality Through Ecological Imagery in Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name

Author: Manshi Yadav and Palak Arora

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.27-35

Keywords: Literature, Queer, Text, Gay identity, Ecology, Narrative

Tracing Ecofeminist Concepts in Children’s Literature Through the Narratives of Mitra Phukan and C G Salamander

Author: Mallika Katoch and Bhavya Raj

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.36-46

Keywords: Children’s literature, Ecofeminism, Gender plurality, Nature and adventure, Perception and imagination

Draupadi’s Mahabharata: Revisioning Myth in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions

Author: Suchitra Rani Mahato, Rajiv Bhushan and Maninder Kapoor

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.47-60

Keywords: Subversion, Patriarchy, Gender discrimination, Myth, Identity

Unusual Collocations and Cultural Identity: A Stylistic Study of Sudha Murty’s Fiction

Author: Rahul Ramesh Kale, Jayashri Nalkar and Swapnil Prakash Shirsath

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.61-71

Keywords: Sudha Murty, Indian English, Collocation, Stylistics, Cultural linguistics, World Englishes

Fooled by Their Own Kind: Pharmakon and the Many Masked Tricksters in Chesnutt’s “The Goophered Grapevine”

Author: Christopher E Koy

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.72-82

Keywords: Charles Chesnutt, Trickster figures, Voodoo, Pharmakon, African American fiction

Masculinities and (Im)politeness: A Study of the American Sitcom The Big Bang Theory

Author: Namrata Paul, Sanjukta Ghosh and Kavya Krishna K R

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.83-97

Keywords: Masculinity, (Im)politeness, Interpersonal male-male communication, Social variables, American English

The Performative Traditions of Kutiyattam and the Biting Satire of Bhagavadajjukam: Fusion to the Fore

Author: K Geethanadani and Akaitab Mukherjee

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.98-105

Keywords: Kutiyattam, Prahasana, Bhagavadajjukam, Mahendravarman, Pragya pravesham

Saga of Survival in Post-Apocalyptic Novels: The Dog Stars and Bird Box

Author: Saranya R and Evangeline Priscilla B

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.106-116

Keywords: Post-apocalyptic, Catastrophe, Survival strategies, Gender analysis, Human resilience

Teaching English in Rural and Semi-Urban India: Challenges and Solutions

Author: Vijay Kumar Roy

Published Online: September, 2025

DOI: 10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.117-125

Keywords: Challenges for the teachers, Urban and rural divide, NEP 2020, Professional development