Sakshi Yadav and Sushila Shekhawat. Environmentalism Beyond man-made Borders: An Exploration of eco-cinematic Narratives through a Transnational Framework. Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Taylor and Francis Group. 2025. Q1 (Accepted for Publication)
Sakshi Yadav and Sushila Shekhawat. Indigenous women as agents of environmental change: A study of selected Indian Ecodocumentaries. Feminist Media Studies. Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group. 2024. Q1 ranked, Scopus, ProQuest, EBSCOhost Indexed. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2395973
Pooja Chatterjee, Sushila Shekhawat and Sangeeta Sharma. Women in Refugee Camps: Reel Representation of Marginality in the Extremes. Feminist Media Studies. Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group. 2022. Q1 ranked, Scopus, ProQuest, EBSCOhost Indexed. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2200469
Shrija Srinivasan and Sushila Shekhawat. A Procedural's Procedure: The Narrativity of Phyllis Dorothy James White. Literary Voice. A Peer reviewed Journal of English Studies. Number 17, Volume1, March 2022.ISSN:2277-4521. pp.13 to 18. (Indexed in Web of Science)
Neerja, Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Statistical Style Analysis of Hindi Biopics: Exploring the Genre Conventions in Recent Years. Quarterly review of Film and Video. September 2021. Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2021.1980364.((Q2 ranked by Scimago, Scopus, EBSCO, ProQuest Indexed)
Shrija Srinivasan, Sushila Shekhawat and Somdatta Bhattacharya. “Mapping the Evolution of Crime Fiction as a Genre: Eighteenth Century to the Contemporary Times”. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. Vol 12. No. 6. December 2020. pp. 1-12. DOI: 10.21659/Rupkatha.v12n6.13
Srinivasan, Shrija and Sushila Shekhawat. " India In-Between: Culture and Nation Representation in Jean Renoir's Film The River (1951)". Quarterly review of Film and Video. Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group. DOI: 10.1080/10509208.2020.1838864 (Q1 ranked by Scimago, Scopus, EBSCO, ProQuest Indexed)
Shekhawat,Sushila and Sangeeta Sharma.'Inculcating Life Skills Among College Students through Films. IUP Journal of Soft Skills. (A Division of the ICFAI Society), Volume, XIV, Issue no-3.2020. (indexed in Cabell’s Directory, EBSCO and Proquest database.)
Sangeeta Sharma & Sushila Shekhawat (2020). Learning Soft Skills through Group Discussion, The IUP Journal of Soft Skills, 14 (4). (Indexed in Cabell's Directory, EBSCO and ProQuest)
Shekhawat, Sushila and Neerja Vyas. Contemporary Hindi Films: A Tool for Women Empowerment. European Journal of Social Sciences. (EJSS).2019. Vol 1, No:2.(Indexed in EBSCO,SSRN, DOAJ, Ulrich's , Cabell's Directory) DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.29198/ejss1904
Shekhawat, Sushila and Virendra Singh Nirban. Developing communication Competence in the students through Face to Face Conversation. The IUP Journal of Soft Skills. IUP Publications. (A Division of the ICFAI Society). March 2019. Vol.XIII, No.1.pp-56-62. (Indexed in Cabell’s Directory, EBSCO and Proquest database.)
Shekhawat, Sushila. Shifting Images of Women in Contemporary Indian English Feminist Fiction and Indian Hindi Cinema. Literary Voice. A Peer reviewed Journal of English Studies.Number 10, Volume1, March 2019.ISSN:2277-4521. pp.81 to 85.(Indexed in Web of Science).
Shekhawat, Sushila and Geetha B. Teaching Soft skills to Engineering students:A case study of BITS,Pilani.The IUP Journal of Soft Skills.IUP Publications(A Division of the ICFAI Society).March 2017.Vol.XI,No.1.pp-29-34 (Indexed in Cabell’s Directory, EBSCO and Proquest database.)
Sharma, Sangeeta, Sushila Shekhawat and Giridhar Kunkur. Language and Communication Skills Training for the Library Staff: The Dire Need of the Time. University News. A Weekly Journal of Higher Education; Association of Indian Universities.Vol.56. No.32. August 6-12, 2018, pg.13-14.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Portrayal of Women in Shashi Deshpande’s The Binding Vine and Small Remedies. The International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism. Issue No.16.October 2017.ISSN:0976-1608.126-135
Shekhawat, Sushila. How a Genius Views Another: An analysis of Satyajit Ray’s Documentary on Rabindranath Tagore. LENSIGHT: A Quarterly Journal of Film and Media. October-December 2016.ISSN:2395-4604.
Shekhawat, Sushila and Neerja Vyas. Shakespeare and Contemporary Indian Politics: An Analysis of Haider by Vishal Bhraradwaj. The International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism. Issue No.14.October 2016.ISSN:0976-1608.
Vyas.Neerja and Sushila Shekhawat. Reviewing Film Narrative Theory: A Historical Account of the Theoretical Development. LENSIGHT: A Quarterly Journal of Film and Media. October-December 2015.ISSN:2395-4604.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Cinematic Exploration of the Changed Realities in the Projection of Gender Specific Roles. GSTF: JLSS (Journal of Law and Social Sciences. Vol 2. No.2 2013. (EBSCO Indexed.)
Geetha, B and Sushila Shekhawat (2013). Integrating Humanities and Liberal Arts in Engineering Curriculum: Need, Experiences and New Directions. Pertanika: JSSH.Vol.21(2). (Indexed in Scopus)
Rathore, Sushila and Devika (2012)."Depiction of Individual Ideology against the backdrop of philosophy in the Movies of Alfred Hitchcock, Orsen Welles and Jean Renoir". Literary Insight: Refereed International Journal. Volume 3. 41-45
Rathore, Sushila and Devika. (2012)."Tumultous Ordeal of Women to Self-Assertion in Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters and Married Woman”. Contemporary Discourse. Refereed International Journal. Volume 3. Issue 1.113-118.
Nirban, V. S., Devika and Sushila Rathore (2011). "Language Alterations in Internet Relay Chat Discourse". IJRMT Vol.1, No.2, 93-96.
Rathore, Sushila and Meenakshi Raman. (2006). Sustenance of Female Psyche in the works of Shashi Deshpande. Atlantic Literary Review, Vol-7, No-2, April-June, Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors,.102-113.
Devika and Sushila Rathore (2006). Media Miracles: Subtle Shift in Identity. International Journal of Communication. Vol. 16, No. 1-2.145-154.
Devika, V. S. Nirban and Sushila Rathore (2011). "Enhancing Communication Through Vocabulary Building", ELTAI Journal, 3-9.
Rathore, Sushila and Devika (2011). “Self-Assertion of Hester Prynne and Pilate for Sexual Liberation in The Scarlet Letter and Song of Solomon” Indian Journal of Humanities: A Multidisciplinary Quarterly Refereed Research Journal 1.3, 65:69.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Silence as an Extended Metaphor in the Delineation of Introspective women in Shashi Deshpande's Novels. Literary Voice.Volume1. No.2 2013. (Indexed in Web of Science)
Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Feministic Undertones in Rabindranath Tagor’s Punishment, Vision and Garibala. Literary Voice. Volume 1. No 5. March 2016. (Indexed in Web of Science)
Rathore, Sushila (2012)."Dexterous Projection of the Feminine Sensibility: A Study of Anita Desai’s Works". The Literati: A Peer Reviewed Journal of Language and Literature. 5-14.
Book Chapters, Conference Proceedings and others (19)
Vibha and Sushila Shekhawat.Is it a Kitchen or a temple? The Performativity of Sita ki Rasoi in Online Spaces. The Feminine and the Folloresque. Edited by Caitlyn Harris and Christopher Flavin. 2025. (Accepted for publication)
Vibha and Sushila Shekhawat. Uncertain Memories, Competing Identities and Generation X: Reading South Asian Diasporic Fiction from 1990’s to Present. Palimpsests of Identity and Memory. Edited By Roshni Sengupta. UK:Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing.2025.(Accepted for publication).
Shekhawat, Sushila. Enhancing Employability Skills of Engineering Graduates. In: Sangwan K., Herrmann C. (eds) Enhancing Future Skills and Entrepreneurship. Sustainable Production, Life Cycle Engineering and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44248-4_26 (Published by Springer, Scopus Indexed)
Srinivasan, Shrija and Sushila Shekhawat. Infinite Memory Loop: Trapped in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Interdisciplinarity: Vignettes on Contemporary Knowledge, Education and Research. Eds. Nirban, VS,Shukla, Tanu, Yadav Anupam and Choubisa Rajneesh. New Delhi:Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd.pp.295-303.
Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat.Ethics and Hindi Biopics in the book Media, Culture and Ethics. Eds. Sharma, S, Shekhawat S and Yadav A. New Delhi:Macmilan Publishers Pvt Ltd. .pp184 -187.
Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Cultural Value and Questions of Morality: The Bollywood Biopic in Philip Drummond et.al (eds.)Questions of Cultural Value: The London Film & Media Reader 5, The London Symposium 2017 / ISBN 978-0-9573631-7-5, pp 115-123
Shekhawat, Sushila and Neerja Vyas. Revelation of real life Identities on Screen: An Exploratory Study of Biopics and Documentaries in Indian Cinema.(2017)Ed. Rajshree Ranawat. New Delhi: Sarup Book Publishers(P) Ltd.191-199.
Shekhawat, Sushila. A Comparative Study of Identity Formation and Selection of Choice in Recent Women Writings. (2015). Lotus Wine: Critical Responses to Indian Literature in English. Ed. Binod Mishra and Prashant Mishra. Adhyayan Publishers and Distributors.171-189.
Chasul and Sushila Shekhawat (2013). "Techniques for Enhancing Vocabulary " in 'Language, Technology and Culture', Ed. PushpLata, Devika and G S Chauhan. New Delhi: Jain Brothers.
V.S. Nirban and Sushila Shekhawat (2013). "Functional and Language Usage in Online Media: Study of Blogs, Twitter and Facebook". Enhancing English Classroom”. Prakasham Publishers: Jaipur.
Devika, Sushila, Rathore and Virender Singh Nirban (2012). "Unobtrusive Dissemination of the Didactic Teachings through the Indian Folklore". New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors.95-109.
Rathore, Sushila and Meenakshi Raman (2008). “Shifting Images of Woman in Anita Desai’s Cry the Peacock”. Studies in Women Writers in English. Ed. Mohit K. Ray and Rama Kundu. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors.144-155.
Raman, Meenakshi and Sushila Rathore (2008). “Inner Progression of a Repressed Psyche in Anita Desai’s Fasting Feasting.”New Urges in Post-Colonial Literature. Ed. Sunita Sinha. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors.132-142.
Rathore, Sushila (2005). Reflection of Reality through Symbolism in Death of a Salesman. Critical Perspective in American Literature, Ed. Meenakshi Raman. APD, Delhi.147-161.
Rathore, Sushila (2005). Travails of an Immigrant: A Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Namesake’ Indian Writings in English Ed. B. Mishra & Sanjay Kumar. APD, Delhi. 148-163.
Shekhawat, Sushila."Variegated Shades of a Female in Indian Films: A Study of Mirch Masala and Arth". Language, Literature and Linguistics (l3 2012).Ed. Prof. Daniel Newman. Conference Proceedings. Singapore: Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF), 2012. 343-348. (Indexed by EBSCO, CrossRef, Proquest. Scopus, Cabell's Directories and Ulrichweb. http://dl.globalstf.org).
Nirban,Virender Singh and Sushila Rathore. Functional and Language Usage in Internet Based Communication: A Study of Blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Empowering the English Language Classroom. Ed. Dr. Preeti Bhatt and Mrs. Nanny Tripathi. Conference Proceedings. Jaipur: Malviya Institute of Technology.2013. 278-282.
Vyas, Neerja and Sushila Shekhawat. "Films as a pedagogical tool for language teaching". Proceedings of UGC sponsored national seminar on "Development of communication skills among the under privileged students of rural colleges" 1-2 Feb 2014. Jaipur: S.K Jain and Sons, 59-71.
Vyas, Neerja and Sushila Shekhawat. Delineation of a Transnational Identity of Women: A Study of Jug Mohan Mundra’s Provoked. Indian/Punjabi Diasporic Cinema: Representations of Transnational Experience. Publication Bureau Punjabi University, Patiala. Ed. Manjit Inder Singh and Tejinder Kaur.280 to 284. February 2016.
Other Publications(Poems):
Sushila Rathore(2005). Change in Face. Musings, Vol: IV, pp.34
Sushila Rathore(2009). A Ray of Hope. Musings, Vol: VIII, pp.13
Sushila Rathore (2011). Thanks to Her. Musings, Vol: X, pp.95
Papers Presented at Conferences/Seminars:(34)
Pankaj Bharti and Sushila Shekhawat. Fragmented Narratives and What if: Important Tools in Ecological Pedagogies. International Conference on Ecological Humanities and Social Sciences Pedagogies in Higher Education: Theory and Praxis at the KK Birla BITS Pilani, Goa Campus from 17-18 February,2025.
Sakshi Yadav and Sushila Shekhawat. Constructing Indigeneity through Visual narratives: A Study of Tribal filmmaking in India. International Conference on Intersections of Knowledge: Exploring Discourses and Beyond in Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS Pilani during 23-24 February,2024.
Pankaj Bharti and Sushila Shekhawat. Evaluating Responses towards Science and Technology Communicated through Images in SF/SFP Stories. International Conference on Intersections of Knowledge: Exploring Discourses and Beyond in Humanities and Social Sciences at BITS Pilani during 23-24 February,2024.
Pankaj Bharti and Sushila Shekhawat. Using Science Fiction Prototyping to improve Cognitive and Problem Solving Skills in Indian Students at the Second International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (ICON 2023) organized By Teaching Learning Centre at BITS,Pilani, Pilani Campus during 9 to 11 February,2023.
Sakshi Yadav and Sushila Shekhawat. Exploring Ecology through Indigenous lenses at The View from the Anthropocene: Exploring the Human Epoch from Post Anthropocentric Perspectives an Interdisciplinary conference at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Debrecen, Hungary during 15-16 October,2022.
Vibha and Sushila Shekhawat. Hashtag This, Hashtag That: Case Study on Rise of Digital Platforms as New Arenas of Censorship at the international memory studies conference Memory in a Digital Age organized by the Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras from 23-25 August 2022.
Sakshi Yadav and Sushila Shekhawat. Environmentalism of Women: A Study of Selected Indian Ecofeminist Documentaries at the International Conference on Redrawing the Boundaries of Eco critical Discourse: Literary Environmentalism and Plurality of Voices organized by the Department of English, Central University of Jammu in collaboration with the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment ASLE, India during 21 to 22 July ,2022.
Vibha and Sushila Shekhawat. Shushing up Sita: Ideological Adaptations of a Mythical Heroine at the 17th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference (In)visible Adaptation: Diversity and Inclusion at School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, on 23-25 June, 2022.
Shrija Srinivasan and Sushila Shekhawat, “Understanding Island Spaces through Culture Studies: Practices and Representations” paper presentation in a Themed Session at the Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences “The Opportunities of Crisis: Resilience and Change in World History”, from 20th - 23rd July 2021, at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Dissemination of Health News through Media during the Global Pandemic: An Indian Perspective at the Fourteenth Global Studies Conference on Life After Pandemic: Towards a New Global biopolitics at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, from 4-5 June 2021.
Shrija, Srinivasan and Sushila Shekhawat. “A Palimpsest of City and Country: Larksoken Headlands in 1989” in the seminar “Crime Fiction, Global Mapping and Grand Narratives, Sec. 2” during the 2021 ACLA Annual Meeting held virtually during April 8-11, 2021.
Shrija, Srinivaan and Sushila Shekhawat. Where are they? Position of Women in Law Enforcement in the Online National Conference on Sustainable Development Goals jointly organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, MNIT Jaipur and National Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand in academic collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society, New Delhi on 10 – 11 September, 2020.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Enhancing Employability Skills of Engineering Graduates at the 3rd Indo-German Conference on Sustainability in Engineering: Enhancing Future Skills and Entrepreneurship during September, 16-17, 2019 organized by the Indo-German Center for Sustainable Manufacturing, a joint venture of Birla Institute of Technology & Science Pilani, India and Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Fictional Narratives and Question of Ethics at the 5th World conference on Media and Mass Communication. -MEDCOM 2019.” Change in Media, Media for Change. Looking for New Paradigms” during 5 to 7April,2019 at Kualalumpur, Malaysia.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Globalization and Cinema: Exploration of the Shifting Paradigms of Cinematic narration in Indian Films at the International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus during 8 to 9 February,2019.
Srinivasan, Shrija and Sushila Shekhawat. Infinite Memory Loop: Trapped in the Cabinet of Dr Caligari at the International Conference on Interdisciplinarity of Knowledge, Education and Research organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus during 8 to 9 February,2019.
Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Ethics and Hindi Biopics at the International Conference on Media, Culture and Ethics organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani, Pilani Campus during 9 to 10 February,2018.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Contemporary Hindi Films: A Tool for Women Empowerment at the Empowerment in the third world conference on WOMEN’S STUDIES: Investing in New Generations: Women and Girls at Amity university, Noida in collaboration with World Center for Women’s Studies (world-cws) and College of Arts & Sciences, University at Buffalo, Suny, U.S.A. during 12-13 October 2017.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Identity Formation through Food as a Mataphor in Popular Culture:A Study of Indian Films at the International Conference on Literature as Cartography of Emotions: Ways of Being and Belonging Organized by the Department of English, St. Xavier’s College, Jaipur during 27 to 28 January,2017.
Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Creation of identity on Screen and its Impact: Biopics of the Living at the International Conference on Literature as Cartography of Emotions: Ways of Being and Belonging Organized by the Department of English, St. Xavier’s College, Jaipur during 27 to 28 January,2017.
Shekhawat,Sushila. Revelation of real life Identities on Screen: An Exploratory Study of Biopics and Documentaries in Indian Cinema at the National Conference on History Reconstrued through Literature: Nation, Identity and Culture organized by Department of English, Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur during 1 to 2 February,2017.
Shekhawat,Sushila. Deconstructing Media representation of Women Through Contemporary Hindi Films at the International Seminar on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment: Dimensions, Directions and Challenges organized by Jai Narain Vyas University in Jodhpur during 25 to 26 November 2016.
Neerja Vyas and Sushila Shekhawat. Cultural value and Questions of Morality: The Bollywood Biopic, at the Fifth Annual London Film and Media Conference on Questions of Cultural Value held in London during 7 to 9 July 2016.
Nidhila S and Sushila Shekhawat. Language as a Social Paradigm: Reading Jagmohan’s Uravidangal in the National Student’s Conference, RAW.CON 2015 held from 9 to 11 September at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Shakespeare and Contemporary Indian Politics: An Analysis of Haider by Vishal Bharadwaj at an International Conference on “Shakespeare in Indian and European Languages: A Postmodern Review organized by Jai Narain Vyas University and Shakespeare Association, India during 16-18 November, 2015.
Shekhawat, Sushila. Teaching English language through a Universal Language of Cinema at the International Conference on Methods, Aesthetics and Genres in English Communication organized by Centre for Professional Communication, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, UK, during 4-5 April 2014.
Virender Singh Nirban and Sushila Rathore. Functional and Language Usage in Internet Based Communication: Study of Blogs, Facebook and Twitter at the International Conference on Empowering the English Language Classroom organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, MNIT, Jaipur from 18 to 19 January 2013.
Shekhawat, Sushila (2012). Variegated Shades of a Female in Indian Films: A Study of Mirch Masala and Arth at the Annual International Conference in Language, Literature and Linguistics at Singapore during 9-10 July 2012.
Shekhawat, Sushila Use of multimedia Language Laboratory for Teaching Business Communication at the third International ElTAI Rajasthan Conference on Interface of Language, Technology and Culture at BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan,8-9 October 2012.
Chasul and Sushila Shekhawat. Techniques for Enhancing Vocabulary at the 3rd International ElTAI Rajasthan Conference on Interface of Language, Technology and Culture at BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan,8-9 October 2012.
Rathore, Sushila and V. S. Nirban (2011). Developing Communication Competence in the Students through Face to Face Conversation at the 'International conference on Transcending Disciplinary Decadence: Exploring Challenges of Teaching, Scholarship, and Research in the Humanities and the Social Sciences” at IIS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 18–21 December 2011.
Rathore, Sushila and Geetha B (2011). Teaching Soft Skills to Engineering Students: A Case Study of BITS Pilani at the International Conference on Embracing Glocal English organized by ELT@I Rajasthan, Jaipur Chapter at Jaipur during 4 to 5 November, 2011.
Geetha. B & Sushila Rathore, Integrating Humanities and Liberal Arts in Engineering Education: Need and Future Directions at the International Conference on Role of Humanities & Social Sciences in Holistic Development of Future Technocrats (RHSSFT 2011), Waknaghat Solan, 23-24 September,2011.
Nirban, V. S. and Sushila Rathore (2011). Using Internet Applications as Online Platforms for Language Learning, at the 'International Conference on Web Based Learning and Library Management', Jaipur Engineering College and Research Center, 30-31 January, 2011.