IEC University, established under THE IEC (INDIA EDUCATION CENTRE) UNIVERSITY (ESTBLISHMENT AND REGULATION) ACT, 2012 is a venture of already well-established IEC Group of Institutions spread over 100 acres of land in Northern India. We are based in Baddi, an industrial town in Himachal Pradesh, located around 32 Kms from Chandigarh. Our 14.5 acres of sprawling campus situated against the backdrop of beautiful Shivalik Mountains offers safe and attractive environment to study with the best quality resources and facilities. Our University aims to deliver multi-disciplinary world class education through effective and efficient processes so as to make it accessible to all sections of society. Ours is a vibrant, multicultural, multiethnic campus promoting a culturally pluralistic environment.

Library
IEC University has a well-equipped library comprised of text and reference books, journals, periodicals, magazines and newspapers related to journalism profession. Thousand of books and magazine related to the field of journalism and mass communication are available for students and staff remembers. The University also provides computer facility to its students with internet connectivity and latest software along with a collection of different equipments related to the field of Journalism. Liberty has unique Air Conditioned and Natural light sections where students can sit according to their convenience and comfort.

Extensive Digital Library
Beautifully designed Digital Library has over 30,000 books, 100 journals and magazines on different subjects. It has a seating capacity to accommodate 200 students with cubicles for faculty and research students. It also has subscription to national & international-journals like IEEE/IEE, Springer, ACM, ASCE Emerald Management Xtra through membership of INDEST Consortia of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (an active member of Developing Library Network (DELNET) for resource sharing).

Computing Facilities
250 Pentium-IV workstations running on Windows 2010, Windows XP Pro, Linux and SCO Unix. All classrooms and offices are operational with 24x7 Internet connectivity at the speed of 150 Mbps leased line. Classroom and conference room fitted with LCD projection facilities and LAN. Common Computer lab is equipped with 600 systems for common purpose. Separate computer lab for each school and department with specialized software are also available.

Wi- fi Enabled Modern Classroom:
School of Humanities and Social Sciences has wi-fi enabled modern class rooms enabling uninterrupted access to high speed internet 24x7. Outfitted with the latest technology, spacious classrooms equipped with all the necessary presentation facilities and also have video conferencing facility. Special classroom and conference room is fitted with LCD projection facilities and LAN. Lectures are typically augments by multimedia.

Other facilities for the students
Hostel Facility: - Students desirous of availing hostel facility may apply to the concerned authority of School of Humanities and Social Sciences , IEC University at the time of admission to the course. Students availing hostel facility shall have to pay hostel charges and security separately in addition to fee and other charges as per norms fixed by the Government of Himachal Pradesh from time to time. The hostel accommodation shall be allotted strictly on merit basis, subject to availability.

Bus Facility: - Students desirous of availing bus facility may apply to the concerned authority of IEC University at the time of admission to the course. Students availing bus facility shall have to pay transport charges as per IEC University Rules.

Gymnasium Facility: - Students desirous of availing this facility may apply to the concerned authority/ In charge of IEC University. Students availing this facility shall have to pay nominal charges as decided by the IEC University.

Sports and NSS Facilities: IEC University has its own play ground within the campus and University organizing various sports activities round the clock throughout the year as per University schedule. IEC University has one unit of NSS.

Health Centre: IEC University has its own health Centre within the campus.

Canteen: - IEC University has its own Multi- cuisine canteen within the campus, spread over an area of 10,000 square feet with modern cooking appliances. Can accommodate 400 students at a single point of time.

1) Sood, Shachi and Samiksha Sharma. “Reversing Patriarchal Hegemonic Ideology in Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls.”Research Chronicler: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal. ISSN: 2347-5021 (Print and Online) vol.4, Issue No. 2. Mar, 2016.

2) Sharma, Samiksha. “Indian Theatre, Indian Women and Indian Women Playwrights.” Contemporary Discourse: A Peer Reviewed International Journal. ISSN: 0976-3686 (Print) vol.8, Issue No. 2. July, 2017. (UGC Approved Journal No. 48954)

3) Sood, Shachi and Samiksha Sharma. “Quest for self in Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are Not the Only Fruit.” Labyrinth: An International Referred journal of Post Modern Studies. ISSN: 0976-0814 (Print) Volume-8 Issue No. 2. July, 2017. (UGC Approved Journal No. 41765)

4) Sharma, Samiksha.“Visiting the Corridors of Caste System and Tapping the Suffering of the Untouchables in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.” RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary. e-ISSN: 2455-3085 (Online)Volume-2 Issue-10 Oct-2017. Impact Factor: 4.184 (UGC Approved Journal No. 44945)

5) Sharma, Samiksha. “Dissecting PoileSengupta’sThus SpakeShoorpanakha, So Said Shakunias a Postmodern Play.” Chronicle of Humanities and Cultural Studies: A Bimonthly Refereed International Journal. ISSN: 2454-5503 (Print) Volume-4 Issue No. 2. Feb, 2018. Impact Factor: 4.197 (UGC Approved Journal No. 63716)

6) Sharma, Samiksha. “Retrieving the Mythical Women Sita in Kamilini Mehta’s play Sita.” IJELLH (International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities). ISSN: 2321-7065. (Print and Online) vol. 6, Issue. 12, Dec 2018. Impact Factor: 5.7 (UGC Approved Journal No. 43979)

7) Sharma, Samiksha. “Representation of Religious Fanaticism and Rivalry in BapsiSidhwa’s Ice Candy Man. Praxis International Journal of Social Science and Literature: Peer Reviewed, Refereed, Indexed Journal. ISSN: Vol. 2, Issue. 3, March 2019. Impact Factor: RIF 1.886.

8) Kumar, Parveen and Samiksha Sharma. “Conversation with Nature: An Ecocritical Study of Anita Desai’s Cry The Peacock.” International Journal of Research in Social Sciences. Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Refereed Open Access International Journal. vol. 9, Issue 4(1), April 2019. ISSN: 2249-2496. Impact Factor: 7.081

9) Sharma, Samiksha. “Representing the Muffled Voices in the Plays of ManjulaPadmanabhan and Dina Mehta.” Studies in Indian Place Names. Vol. 40, Issue. 3, Feb 2020. Impact factor: 5.3 (UGC Care Approved)

10) Sharma, Samiksha. “ ‘Woman’ on Stage: Locating Women in the Plays of PoileSengupta and Tripurari Sharma.” DogoRangsang Research Journal. vol. 10, Issue. 03, March 2020. ISSN: 2347-7180. Impact Factor: 7.12 (UGC Care Approved)

Book Chapters

1) Sharma, Samiksha.“Tracing Gender Inequality and Patriarchal Hegemony: A Feminist Study of ShashankKhaitan’s film Badrinath Ki Dulhania” published in the book titled Literature and Cinema edited by Swapna K. Jadhav. ISBN-978-93-5291-910-9. Year of Publication 2018. Chapter No. 35. Pages: 144-146.

2) Kour, Sumit and Samiksha Sharma. “Social Media Addiction and its Manifold Consequences” published in the book titled Impact of Social Media on Youth edited by Manmohan Gupta. ISBN 978-81-937496-1-6. Eureka Publications. Year of Publication 2018. Chapter No. 9. Pages: 73-77.

3) Sharma, Samiksha. “When the Subaltern React and Create a Space of Their Own: Re-locating Identity in Arvind Adiga’sThe White Tiger” published in the book titled Postcolonial English Literature: Theory and Practice edited by DipakGiri. ISBN 978-93-87651-98-2. Authors Press. Year of Publication 2018. Chapter No. 7. Pages: 80-86.

4) Sharma, Samiksha. “From Alienation to Self Realization: Highlighting the Theme of Identity Crisis in JhumpaLahiri’sThe Namesake” published in the book titled Indian Women Novelists in English: Art and Vision edited by DipakGiri. ISBN 978-93-87966-83-3. Vishwabharati Research Centre. Year of Publication 2018. Chapter No. 7. Pages: 88-93.

5) Sharma, Samiksha and SumitKour. “Dalit Movement and Dalit Consciousness in the Writings of BaburaoBagul” published in the book titled Ouintessence of Dalit Literature: Rebel Narratives edited by Ashish Kumar Gupta and Soni Sharma. ISBN 978-93-81416-88-4. Akhand Publishing House. Year of Publication 2018. Chapter No. 24. Pages 219-226.

6) Sharma, Samiksha. “Indian Womanhood in the Select Poems of Smita Aggarwal: A Feminist Study” published in the book Envisioning the Indian Muse: Essays on Contemporary Indian Poets Writing in English edited by GoutamKarmakar. ISBN 987-1-946460-18-9. Transcendent Zero Press. Year of Publication 2019. Chapter No. 17. Pages 165-170.

7) Sharma, Samiksha. “Race, Gender and Sexuality: A Critical Study of Intersectionality of Oppressions in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” published in the book Glass Ceiling and Ambivalent Sexism edited by Sarita Jain and Ashish Gupta. ISBN 978-53-88797-67-2. Books Online. Year of Publication 2019. Chapter No. 18. Pages 154-161.

8) Sharma, Samiksha. “Myths and Oral Tradition of Ao-Naga People” published in the book Society, Literature and Culture edited by DrShubhraJamwal and Kr. Abhimanyu D.S Billawaria. ISBN 9-789388-761673. Cape Comorin Publication. Year of Publication 2020. Chapter No. Pages 64-68.

Book Reviews

1) Sharma, Samiksha. “Book Review of the Poetry of Vihang A. Naik – New Literary Dimensions.” Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations. vol. 7, Issue II, May 2019. ISSN 2320 – 6101.

Books Published

1) Sharma, Ashish Kumar and Samiksha Sharma. Basics of Research Methodology and Report Writing. Scholars’ Press. ISBN 9786138950943. Year of Publication: 2021.

Workshops Attended

1) Attended Five Day National Workshop on “Research Methodology & Current Research Trends” organized by the School of Languages and Literatures, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra (J&K) during 22-26 January, 2018.

International Conferences

1) Presented paper titled “A Journey from Religious Patriarchy to Religious Freedom in Alice Walker’s The Color purple” at International Conference on Religion, Literature and Culture held at Dyansagar Institute of Management & Research, Pune, India on 15th and 16th September 2017.

2) Presented paper titled “Dissecting PolieSengupta’s Thus Spakeshoorpanakha, So Said Shakuni as a Post-Modern Play” at One Day International Conference on Recent Advances in Languages, Literature and Social Sciences held at MaulanaAbulKalam Azad Research Centre, T.V. Centre Road, Aurangabad, Maharashtra on 17th February 2018.

3) Presented paper titled “Highlighting the theme of Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora” at Two Day International Conference on Role of Literature & Journalism in Context of Nationalism in Pre-Independence India held at Shri Kadasiddheshwar Arts College & H.S Kotanbari Science Institute Vidyanagar, Hubbali on 7th and 8th September, 2018.

4) Presented paper titled “Assessing the Impact of Globalization on Human Relationships in reference to ManjulaPadmanabhan’sHarvest at Two Day International Conference on Island Literature and Environmental Humanities held at Estuary Island Resort, Poovar, Kerela organized by Department of English, Malankara Catholic College and Lavender Literary Club on 21st and 22nd February, 2019.

5) Presented paper titled “Exposing Gender Politics: Analyzing the Selected Plays of Indian Women Dramatists from the Lens of Feminism” at IOAC Sponsored Two Day International Conference on South Asian literature, Culture and Society held at Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College, Purulia, West Bengal organized by Department of English and Department of History on 27th and 28th February, 2019.

6) Presented paper titled “Courtesan Onstage: A Feminist Study of Tripurari Sharma’s AzizunNisa: A Tale of 1857” at International Conference on Multi-Disciplinary Research Inculcating Human Values Through Art, Literature, Culture, Management and Technology held at Mumbai on 3rd and 4th Feb, 2020.

National Conferences/Seminars

1) Presented paper titled “Casteism in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things” at Two Day National Conference on Interdisciplinary Sciences and Humanities held at Govt. P.G College, Rajouri on 15th and 16th March 2017.

2) Presented paper titled “Subaltern Study of AravindAdiga’sThe White Tiger” at National Conference on Routing the Rootless: Exploring the Literatures of Indigenous Cultures held at GDC, Udhampur on 1st and 2nd December 2017.

3) Presented paper titled “Tracing Gender Inequality and Patriarchal Hegemony: A Feminist Study of ShashankKhaitan’s film Badrinath Ki Dulhania at One Day National Level Seminar on Literature & Cinema at Shree SharanNuliyaChandayya Dr. B.R. Ambedkar First Grade Arts & Commerce College, Gangadhar Nagar, Hubbali -20, Karnataka on 20th January 2018.

4) Presented paper titled “Reversing Patriarchal Hegemony in Manju Kapoor’s Difficult Daughters” at National Conference on Multidisciplinary Approach to Gender Studies held at GCW, Udhampur on 29th and 30th January 2018

5) Presented paper titled “Emergence of Feminist Theatre in India: An Overview” at National Conference on Interdisciplinary Sciences and Humanities held at Govt. P.G College, Rajouri on 22nd March, 2018.

6) Presented paper titled “Retrieving the Mythical Women Sita in Kamilini Mehta’s play Sita.” at UGC Sponsored Two Day National Seminar on Indian Literature: Texts and Contexts held at The Madura College, Madurai

7) Presented paper entitled “Trauma Studies and its Contemporary Relevance: Some Reflections” at National Conference on Recent Trends in Science, Social Sciences & Humanities held at Govt. P.G College, Rajouri on January 19-20, 2019.

8) Presented paper entitled “An Eco-Marxist Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World” at National Conference on Recent Advances in Science, Literature and Humanities held at Govt. Degree College, Surankote on March 26, 2019.

9) Presented paper titled “Nostalgia and Belongingness: Diasporic Reading of the Selected Poems of Bashabi Fraser at National Seminar on Contemporary World Literatures in English : A Cultural Study held at University of Jammu on 10th December, 2019.