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Personal Details
NameDr Vaibhav Shah
DesignationAssociate Professor
DepartmentLiterature, School of Liberal Studies
EmailVaibhav.Shah@sls.pdpu.ac.in
Educational Qualifications
  • Ph.D (The Fictional World of Orhan Pamuk: A Thematic Study of Select Novels, Department of English, MLSU, Udaipur, Rajasthan), 2010
  • M.Phil. (Waiting for Godot and the Caretaker: A Study in Existentialism, Department of English, MLSU, Udaipur, Rajasthan), 2008
  • M.A. (English Literature, Department of English, MLSU, Udaipur, Rajasthan), 2006
    Professional Affiliation
    Life Member of Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, MELUS-MELOW Chandigarh, RASE, Rajasthan.
    Awards
    A Major Research Project on Reconceptualizing Bhakti: A Semantic Analytical Study (rs 500000) has been awarded by Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi for a period of 3 years (2021-2024).
    Publications / Articles / Conference
    Articles/Chapters Published in the books
  • 'Batch Reverse Osmosis: Evolution from the Concept to the Technology', Springer, Sep 2024
    Published Papers in Journals
  • 'Examining Rogerian empathy in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment', Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences, pp. 193-206, Nov 2025, DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.17484461
  • 'Ethics as a way of life: Self-Cultivation as Moral Framework in the Igbo Universe of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart', Agathos: An International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences, pp. 9-26, Nov 2025, DOI : 10.5281/zenodo.17471746
  • 'Reconstructing Ethical Conflict in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God', Journal of Arts, pp. 373-388, Mar 2025, DOI : N.A.
  • 'Representation of Ethical Dilemma in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease', Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, pp. 142-162, Dec 2024, DOI : N.A.
  • 'Re-Examining Indigenous Ethical Worldview in Nigerian Tradition: A Study of Wole Soyinka’s The Interpreters', Journal of Rajasthan Association for Studies in English, pp. 84-95, Dec 2024, DOI : N.A
  • '“The Mahabharata and the Politics of Persuasion” ', The Vedic Path: Vedic, Indological and Scientific Research, Jun 2018
  • '"Toward the Ethics of Non-Reductive Equitarian Ontology of Object and Subject: A Reappraisal of Select Literary Works"', Journal of Literature & Aesthetics, Jun 2018
  • '“Is the Crisis in Humanities Escapable? Rethinking Martha Nussbaum’s Curricular Reforms in the Light of Indian Higher Education System”', Littcrit: An Indian Response to Literature, Jun 2018
  • 'Faith VS Reason: Christianity, Rational Egoism and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment', English Forum: Journal of the Department of English Gauhati University, Jun 2018
  • '“Quest for Academic Autonomy and the Making of Public Intellectuals: Some Reflections on Martha Nussbaum’s Humanity Project"', Dialogue Quarterly, Mar 2017
  • '“Poetry as a Powerful Tool in Communication Skill Classrooms: A Case Study” ', International Journal of Humanities in Technical Education, Jan 2016
    Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia

  • 'Active Love as Praxis: An Inquiry into Anna Grigoryevna's Formative Influence on Dostoevsky's Literary Worldview with Reference to the Brothers Karamazov', India and Russia: Building Bridges between Societies Through Language, Literature, Translations and Culture, Nov 2025
  • 'Story and Diplomacy: Situating Katha as an agent of Cultural Diplomacy', BRICS-RI International Conference 2025, sep 2025
  • 'Reading Dostoevsky Today: Rationality and its Discontents in the Age of AI', International Conference on Beyond Words: Artificial Intelligence’s Transformative Role in Linguistics, Literature and Learning, may 2025
  • 'Raskolnikov's Sorry State: Readerly Empathy and Crime and Punishment', International Conference on "Stories Matter: (Re)thinking Narratives, Aesthetics and Human Values, Dec 2024
  • 'Tradition as Knowledge: Philosophical Innovation of Tulsidas', The European Conference on Arts & Humanities, jul 2024
  • '“Would Dostoyevsky embrace AI? A Study at the Intersection of Religion, Ethics and Technology Today.”', International Conference on Religion and Technology in an Era of Rapid Digital and Climate Change., Nov 2023
  • 'An Examination of Authenticity in the Life and Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky', International Young Researchers’ Conference on Russian Studies Today: Emerging Trends in Language, Literature and Culture., aug 2023
  • 'Shraddha as Non-Epistemic Disposition: A Conceptual Enquiry', Global South Asians: Transformative Experiences , Nov 2022
  • 'Reconceptualizing Bhakti: A Semantic-Analytical Study', 1st Faculty Research Review Symposium, Mar 2021
  • 'Representation of Ethical Questions in the Narratives of Colonial India: A Discourse Analysis of Select Novels', 1st Faculty Research Review Symposium, Mar 2021
  • 'Bhajan as a Cultural Form of Knowledge Transmission in Indian Oral Tradition', Mapping Oral Traditions: Folklore of India with Special Reference to Vagad Region, Feb 2021