• Ph.D. in English Literature, Osmania University, Hyderabad, awarded in 2007. (Course Study Exam – 70%)
• M.A. in English Literature, Osmania University,1999 – 2001. 60.5%
• M.A. Linguistics, Calcutta University, 1989 – 1991. 55.5%
• B.A. English (Hons), Calcutta University, 1986-1989. 50%
• Executive Programme in ‘Communication Strategies for Corporate Leaders’, IIM Kolkata 2022 (Grade: Exam on Case Analysis – Excellent; Presentation on Storytelling – Good; Group Presentation – Excellent)
• Certificate in Corporate Communication, NMIMS, Mumbai 2020 – 73%

• Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII) Assistant Professor & Coordinator Department of Policy Advocacy Knowledge and Research (Grade 1), 25 July 2019 – 30th September 2024
• Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH) Assistant Professor, July 1st, 2017, till April 30, 2019.
• Amity University Assistant Professor, October 1st, 2016 to June 15, 2017
• VNR VJIET, Hyderabad; Senior Assistant Professor, Humanities & Sciences Department, 1st March 2012 till 20th July2016
• Asian School of Business Management, Hyderabad Assistant Professor, August 2009 to April 2011
• ICICI Manipal Academy, Hyderabad Assistant Professor, Dec 2007 – 2009 Jan
• Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Swami Vivekananda PG College, Secunderabad Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities & Sciences 2004 –Dec 2007
• Birla College of Arts Science & Commerce, Kalyan, Maharashtra Lecturer; English language communication skill, April 1996 – January 1997
• DAV, Bhandup, Maharashtra Lecturer, English Language Communication Skills, 1994 – 1996

Guest Faculty

• aM.B.A. Osmania University, Faculty- Managerial Communication for Foreign Students, 2012
• Asia Graduate School of Business, Faculty- Managerial Communication, 2010
• Osmania University (ELTC; CELT; Distance Education) Resource Person, English Language, and Literature, 2002-05

• Recipient of AICTE’s Lilavati Award 2020- as part of EDII Team: First Runner up

• Strategic Communication and Entrepreneurship

Research Guide

• Supervised and Guided research scholar, in the area of Children’s Literature (Research topic: Elements of Power Play in Children’s Literature: Analysing the Literary Exclusion) – Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune 2023 (degree awarded)
• Supervised and Guided research scholar, Fellow in Management (Thesis Title: Commercialization of Frugal Innovations by Stakeholder Engagement: A Bricolage Perspective”) – Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, 2024 (degree awarded)

Published in Journals

• Mitra, B. (2023). Book review: R. Smilor, Fire in the Classroom: Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and the Craft of Teaching. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 32 (2), 479-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557231186370
• Mitra, B. (2022). Book review: Rebecca J. White, See Do Repeat: The Practice of Entrepreneurship. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 31(2), 458–461. https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557221110318
• Mitra, B. (2022). Book review: Prabhat Kumar, Public Service Ethics—A Quest for Naitik Bharat. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 31(1), 220–225. https://doi.org/10.1177/09713557211073377
• Gupta, J., Mitra, B. and Garg, K. (2021). Technological disruptions reshaping management education: a qualitative study of stakeholder perspectives. International Journal of Management in Education, 15(2), p.179. doi:10.1504/ijmie.2021.113526.
• Mitra, B. (2020). Book review: Jaimin Vasa, Competitive Strategies for Indian SMEs, Lessons from China. The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 29(2), 448–451. https://doi.org/10.1177/0971355720930580
• Mitra, B., Kode, S. and Cheruvu, A. (2015). Mobile Learning: A Pedagogical Framework to Facilitate Distributed Learning through Collaborative Approach for Enhancing English Language Communication Skills. [online] IEEE Xplore. doi:10.1109/T4E.2015.20.
• Mitra, B. (2014). Collaborative Approach through Asynchronous Communication. The Journal of English Language Teaching, Vol. 56/4
• Mitra, B. Gendering the Women: Feminine Aesthetics in Divakaruni’s Writings. Kakatiya Journal of English Studies, Dept. of English, Kakatiya University, Vol: 31, 2012. Print.

Edited Book of Abstracts

• Mitra, B., & Batthini, G. (Eds.). (2023). Fifteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship: Abstracts (February 22-24, 2023, EDII, Ahmedabad). (pp. xxiv,231p). New Delhi: Bookwell. 978-81-958340-3-7

Chapters in Books

• Gender and Identity in Indian Women’s Blog Writing: The Landscape of Digital Diaspora – Accepted to be published by Pencraft International (2024)
• The Magic of the Natural, Beyond Business, Beyond the Beaten Path, page 49-55; 111-116, ed. Gagan Katiyar, Arunaday Sahay, Bloomsbury, 2022, ISBN: 978-93-54355-20-2
• Future of Mobile Learning in Higher Education, Ethics and Responsibility in Human Resources, Leadership and Start-Up Business, page 113 – 121, edited by Hanna Lehtimaki, Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2019, ISBN: 978-93-89449-64- 8
• Disruptive Technologies Radically Reshaping Necessary Managerial Skills: A multidimensional approach, Evolving Business Models in Ecosystem of Disruptive Technologies and Social Media, page 75 – 85, edited by Ajoy Kumar Dey, Hanna Lehtimaki, Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2018, ISBN: 978-93-88630- 07-8
• Light from Heaven: Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Krishna Consciousness, Rajagopalachary, M. and Damodar Rao, K. (2016). Bhakti movement and literature: re-forming a tradition. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, ISBN 978- 81-316-0812-8, Print
• Rohinton Mistry’s Such a long Journey: Perspectives of Multiculturalism and Double Displacement. Multiculturalism in Indian Tradition and Literature, ed. By M. Rajagopalachary, K. Damodar Rao. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. New Delhi. 2016. ISBN: 978- 81-269- 2112-6.
• Negotiating Multiculturalism in JhumpaLahiri’s The Namesake, Flowering of Indian English Literature- New Dimensions, ed. By B. Krishnaiah, Prestige Books, New Delhi 2014.
• Coaching strategies for Leadership Development: A Futuristic Study, Envisioning the Future Business. Excel Books. New Delhi, 2012. Print.

Full Paper in Conference Proceedings

• Mobile Enabled Learning: An Augmented Approach for Sustainability in Higher Education, International Conference, Research and Business Sustainability, IIT Roorkee, Proceedings of International Conference on Research and Business Sustainability, Excellent Publishing House, 978-93-86238-38-2, December 2017
• Globalizing Indian Thought, IIMK, https://iimk.ac.in/research/git2020/GIT2020_Conference_Proceedings.pdf
• Evolving Pedagogy to Enable and Facilitate Distributed Learning, using Mobile Technology for enhancing English Language Communication Skills, International Academic Industrial Research, ISBN 978-93-8. 2014. Conference Proceedings
• Teaching Effectively within an Evolving Technology, Reflections, Shivya Products Lucknow, March 2014, ISBN: 978-81-927441-6-2, Book of proceedings

Working Paper

• “Determinants of Women Entrepreneurship in India: A Scrutiny based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)”, EDI W.P. No. CREED/2021/05, November 2021

Articles in News Media / Magazine

• “Repositioning and Change- in-design for Effective Online Teaching-learning” – published in BW Business World 2020
• “The Emergence of Hybrid Learning in Higher Education – Advantages and Perils”– published in Higher Education Digest 2021
• “She Is the Game-Changer: Women-Entrepreneurship in India” – published in BW Business World, 2021
• “School Entrepreneurship” – published in Divya Bhaskar 2022

Conference Chair (In the recent past)

• 14 Biennial Conference 2020
• 15 Biennial Conference 2022
• MSME-funded Conference on Women Entrepreneurship from Grassroots to Global
• International Conference on Interdisciplinary Study of Memory Studies, Storytelling, and the Impact of Digital Technologies, 2022

Conducted Research Project as Principal Investigator

• Awarded grant and executed UGC funded Minor Project on Mobile-Enabled Language Learning – entitled “Using Mobile Technology to Enable and Facilitate Distributed Learning for Enhancing English Language
• Communication Skills for better employability of undergraduate students” as Principal Investigator, 2014- 2016.
• An Assessment of the Status of Anaemia and Malnutrition among the Women and Children of select Districts in Chhattisgarh – State Planning Commission Government of Chhattisgarh – 2024

• Organised AICTE sponsored ATAL Faculty Development Programme on Women Entrepreneurship – 2022
• Organised AICTE sponsored ATAL Faculty Development Programme on Women Entrepreneurship – 2023
• CBSE supported School Teacher Development Programme in Entrepreneurship Mentoring – 2023 and 2024
• Conducted ITEC sponsored programmes on Women Entrepreneurship in 2022, 2023 and 2024 as programme director

• Conceptualized, Compiled and Edited ‘Odyssey of Excellence’, BIMTECH Coffee Table Book
• Organised and coordinated
  • Virtual Conference on Infusing Competitiveness in Indian MSME 2022
  • International Conference on Women Entrepreneurship from Grassroots to Global 2022
  • Mega Summit on MSMEs’ Competitiveness and Growth
  • EDII 15th Biennial Conference 2023
  • MSME funded Conference on Infusing Technology in the MSME Sector 2023
• Coordinated NCW sponsored 100 Entrepreneurship Awareness Programmes for women across India