Visiting Faculty

Ms Saranya (肖兰雅 )

Visiting Faculty- Chinese Mandarin

Ms Saranya is a Visiting Faculty in the School of Languages, KIIT Deemed to be University, India for Chinese Language and Culture. She is pursuing her PhD at the Centre for Chinese and South-East Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chinese language from the same university. She was awarded a Confucius Institute Scholarship to pursue an Advanced Diploma in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages at Tianjin University, China. Her research interests include domestic politics of China, Sino-Indian ties, Sino-US relations and Indo-Pacific.

Ms Tanwishree Patra

Visiting Faculty- Spanish

Ms. Tanwishree is a visiting faculty in the school of Languages, KIIT Deemed to be University, India for Spanish language, and Hispanic culture. She is finishing her PhD at the Centre for Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She has completed her Bachelors in English from the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Shillong and Masters & M.Phil. in Spanish from JNU. She holds NET-JRF in Spanish. She was awarded the ELE Asia Plus scholarship by the government of Colombia, to be trained in language and culture. She has been teaching Spanish for more than seven years. She has served as a Guest Faculty at Doon University and Delhi University. She has been a visiting faculty at Mumbai University. She also has served as a counsellor at IGNOU.

Ms Amrita Chhotaroy

Visiting Faculty- English & Softskills

Ms Amrita Chhotaroy is a Visiting Faculty in the School of Languages, KIIT Deemed to be University for English Language Training and Soft Skills Development.  She has more than 20 years of training experience in Corporate and University in preparing, designing and delivering course modules on Communicative English, Business English, Voice and Accent Training, Effective Communication Skills, Phonetics, ELT, TESOL, Phonetics, IELTS/TOEFL Training, Career Advisory, Personality Development, Train-the-Trainers etc.  She is a British Council Certified IELTS Trainer. She has studied M.A. and M.Phil. in Linguistics and ELT and is currently pursuing Ph.D. in English.

Ms Prajna De Nandi

Visiting Faculty- Japanese

Ms Prajna De Nandi is a Visiting Faculty in the School of Languages, KIIT Deemed to be University for Japanese Language Training and Proficiency Development. She has studied Japanese from the School of Languages, Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata. She has cleared the N5 & N4 levels of Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) of The Japan Foundation, New Delhi.  She has done her M. A. ( Geography) from Viswa Bharti University. Presently, she teaches Japanese at KIIT International School.

Ms Suchismita Bastia

Visiting  Faculty- English & IELTS Preparatory 

Ms Suchismita Bastia is a Visiting Faculty in the School of Languages, KIIT Deemed to be University for English Language Training and IELTS Preparatory Course. She has 16 years of experience in English Language Teaching, Corporate Training and Content development. She is a British Council Certified IELTS Trainer. She studied M.A. and M.Phil. in English with ‘Linguistics and English Language Teaching (ELT). Current she is pursuing Ph.D. in ELT.

Mr Dupukuntla Rameshbhushan

Guest Faculty (Telugu)

Mr Rameshbhushan is the Guest Faculty (Telugu) at the KIIT School of Languages. He has over 20 years of experience in linguistic research, documentation and teaching of Telugu and tribal languages. He is associated with Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, Mysuru for more than a decade now. At CIIL, he was initially involved with Southern Regional Language Centre in research and teaching Telugu as Second Language at Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels with Telugu Phonetics and Phonology, Structure of Language, Texts & specially focusing on LSRW. Later on he started working as a Senior Resource Person for the project titled Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL) to document the endangered languages and cultures of India under the supervision of CIIL.  He also worked at the Tribal Cultural Research and Training Institute and Directorate of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. He studied M.A. (Linguistics) from Osmania University, Hyderabad and currently under-going Ph.D. in Linguistics University of Mysore, Karnataka.