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CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
Shining Star Lyngdoh is an Assistant Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities. He is also a PhD Guide.
SUBJECTS CURRENTLY TEACHING
| Subject | Semester / Year |
|---|---|
| Introduction to Philosophy | |
| Ethics | |
| Self and Other | |
| Research Methodology | |
| Problems of Philosophy | |
| History of Western Philosophy: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy | |
| Modern Day Humanities |
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree | Specialisation | Institute | Year of passing |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Philosophy | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | 2018 |
| MA | Philosophy | North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. | 2012 |
| BA | Philosophy | North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. | 2010 |
Experience
| Institution / Organisation | Designation | Role | Tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Christian College | Assistant Professor | 2018 | |
| IIT Bombay | Research Associate | 2018 | |
| IIT Bombay | Teaching Assistant | 2017 | |
| Union Christian College | Assistant Professor | 2012 |
AREAS OF INTEREST, EXPERTISE AND RESEARCH
Area of Interest
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy with an interest in the oeuvre of Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas. Themes in philosophy such as language, ethics, politics, gender, community, death and finitude, environment and development, social justice, technology… are of interest to me.
The Materiality of the Sign in Khasi Oral Tradition: Derrida’s Linguistic Materialism
2022 Shining Star Lyngdoh
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-022-00279-5
Derrida and the Flesh of Metaphorical Language
2021 Shining Star Lyngdoh
Open Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2021): 466-481. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4236/ojpp.2021.114031
The Possibility/ Impossibility of Ethical Community during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Philosophical Reflection
2021 Shining Star Lyngdoh
Asian Bioethics Review (2021) 13: 235-243. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41649-021-00168-0
Derrida and the Metaphoricity of Language: A Critical Survey
April-September, 2018 Shining Star Lyngdoh
Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 45, No.2-3 (April-September, 2018): 175-198.
Textualized Body, Embodied Text: Derrida’s Linguistic Materialism
2018 Shining Star Lyngdoh
Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 35, No. 1 (2018): 107-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-017-0124-8
Ethical Discourse ha sawdong ka Lyngwiar Dpei:Theorizing Khasis Folktales
2015 Shining Star Lyngdoh
Lokodarpan: A Peer-Reviewed Bilingual Annual Research Journal of Folklore 5, no. 1 (2015): 69-76.
Modern Developmental Philosophy of Nature and Traditional Khasi Ecology: Thinking with Heidegger
2015 Shining Star Lyngdoh
In Environment - Cultural Interaction and the Tribes of North-East India, 119-130. Edited by Banshaikupar L. Mawlong and Marco Babit Mitri. United Kingdom:Cambridge Scholar Publishing
Globalisation and Khasi Youth Culture in Transition: A Critical Reading
2015 Shining Star Lyngdoh
In Culture, Identity and Development: The Global and the Local in Northeast India, 157-78. Edited by Saji Varghese. New Delhi: Abhijeet Publications