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Personal Details
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| Name | Dr Vaibhav Shah |
| Designation | Associate Professor |
| Department | Literature, School of Liberal Studies |
| Email | Vaibhav.Shah@sls.pdpu.ac.in |
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Educational Qualifications
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| 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 |
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Professional Affiliation
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| Life Member of Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, MELUS-MELOW Chandigarh, RASE, Rajasthan. |
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Awards
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| 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). |
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Publications / Articles / Conference
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| Articles/Chapters Published in the books |
| 'Batch Reverse Osmosis: Evolution from the Concept to the Technology', Springer, Sep 2024 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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