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2016 - Professor and Chairperson, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India
Aug 2012 - 2016 Associate Professor, Centre for English Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India
1998 - Aug 2012 Assistant Professor, H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India
2003- 2010 Examiner for Speaking and Writing Modules, IELTS, India and Nepal
1998 Ad-hoc Lecturer, Motilal Nehru College, New Delhi, India
1998 Teaching Assistant, Centre for Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
1996 Teaching Assistant, Centre of Linguistics and English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

2012 IATEFL Ray Tongue Scholarship for Speakers at IATEFL Annual Conference and Exhibition, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
2010 UGC Research Associateship, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India.
2009 Regional English Language Office, US Embassy Scholarship for 'Critical thinking Skills: E-teacher course', University of Oregon, USA.
2008 Regional English Language Office, US Embassy Scholarship for 'English as a Foreign Language/ English as a Second Language Assessment', Indiana University, USA
2005 British Council-Hornby Trust Scholarship for MA in 'ELT and Multimedia', University of Warwick, UK.
2004 National Teacher Educator Award for Innovative Practice by INTEL Corporation, India.
1997 UGC Junior Research Fellowship (UGC-JRF) Eligibility for Lectureship in English, India
Assistant Director to a Film Production titled The Work of Art for Panhandle Productions at the University of Warwick, UK, 2006.
Awarded the Gaurav Chinha (Medal of Honour) by Charutar Vidya Mandal in 2004 for adapting and directing a one act play that was awarded the 3^rd Prize in the National Inter University Youth Festival, India, 2003 - 04

(2017) "Institutional Discourses, Technology-mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective". English Paradigm in India: Essays in Language, Literature and Culture. Eds. Shweta Rao Garg and Deepti Gupta. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan.
(2017) "Dialoguing the Web: Digital Technologies and Pedagogy". Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Texts, Culture and Society: Pluralism and Dialogue through History. Eds. Lakshmi Bandlamudi and E.V. Ramakrishnan. Springer
(2017) "The Insectesimal Tall-tale: Historical catachresis and ethics in the science fiction of Premendra Mitra". Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Taylor and Francis. pp. 1-13. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2017.1332676)
(2015) "Reading Skills: Is it required for technical education?" International Journal of Humanities in Technical Education 1/1. pp. 82-90.
(2014) "Own Maps/ Imagined Terrain: Emergence of Science Fiction in India". Extrapolation 55/3 (Winter). Liverpool University Press. pp. 277-297. (doi:10.3828/extr.2014.16)