Faculty Profile

Shalini Harilal

Assistant Professor

Qualification : MA, NET, JRF, PhD Thesis submitted

Experience : 3 Years 1 Months

Specialization : Narratology, Videogames, Thanatology

Email : shalini.eng@allsaintscollege.ac.in

  • A paper titled “Playing in the Continuum: Moral Relativism in The Last of Us” was published in [SIC] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation -ISSN – 1847-7755 - (Scopus and Web of Science indexed journal) in December, 2018.
  • A paper titled “Play as Subversion: Videogames in the Age of Transhumanism” was published in LLIDS – Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies - ISSN 2457-0044 (ERIH PLUS and DOAJ indexed) in December 2019.
  • A paper titled ““Uncanny” Signifiers in Heavy Rain” was published as part of conference proceedings in Exploring the Macabre, Malevolent, and Mysterious: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Mathew Hodge and Elizabeth Kusko, by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in the year 2020.
  • A paper titled “Non-linearity in Open-World Games: The Agonistic Principle in Ritual and Play” was presented at the international conference “Play, Masks and Make-believe: Ritual Representations” held at Birkbeck, University of London, on 16 November, 2019, an event organized by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies
  • A member of the Peer-review board at LLIDS - Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, ISSN 2457-0044 (ERIH PLUS and DOAJ indexed) since 2020.
  • A paper titled “Symbolic Healing: Identification through Ritualistic Play in Papo & Yo” was accepted in October, 2019 by NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) for its 51st Annual Convention, 2020.
  • A paper titled ““Uncanny” Signifiers in Heavy Rain” was accepted for presentation at the conference “Performativity in Contemporary Culture” organized by Eotvos Lorand University Budapest in 2019.
  • A paper titled ""Uncanny" Signifiers in Heavy Rain" was accepted for presentation by the Humanities Centre at Texas Tech for their conference in Lubbock in April, 2019, and by Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest for their ‘Performativity in Contemporary Culture’ conference in 2019.