Dr. Mhasileno
Peseyie
Education
Academic background
Ph.D., English
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Bachelor of Education
SCTE, Nagaland University
M.A. English Literature
Pune University
B.A. English Literature (Honours)
Baptist College, Nagaland University
Academic achievements
Fellowship
MHRD Research Fellowship
2020 – 2025
Grant
ICSSR Award for International Conference Grant
2023
Qualification
UGC-NET for Assistant Professor
December 2017 & July 2018
Research
Publication records
2025
Journal
Masculinity beyond the warrior 'savage': (re)thinking warriors as elite indigenous masculinity in select Angami folktales
Peseyie, M., & Gaur, R. — Contemporary South Asia, 33(3), 419–431
2025
Journal
Traditional ornament as everyday objects in select folktales of the Nagas of Northeast India
Peseyie, M., & Gaur, R. — Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, 16(1), 85–97
2024
Journal
Reimagining of the Angami collective cultural identity: kenyü and customary law in the select Angami folktales
Peseyie, M., & Gaur, R. — Asian Ethnicity, 25(4), 738–757
2023
Book Chapter
Folk narratives and broken environmental clocks of the Nagas
Peseyie, M., & Gaur, R. — In Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Issues, Challenges and Coping Mechanisms, ed. Lonshibeni N. Kithan. Kalpaz Publications, 81–92
2022
Book Chapter
Angami oral narratives as a site of resilience
Peseyie, M. — In Folk Traditions and Forms in India, ed. Saroj Kumar Mahananda. SLC India Publishers, 204–215
Outreach
Conference & seminar presentations
6–8 Mar 2026
"Vernacular ecosophies: Naga folktales as living epistemologies of ecological care"
3rd International Young Folklorist Conference on Vernacularity and Folk Practices — CFSR & CFCS, University of Hyderabad
27 Feb – 1 Mar 2025
"Kemenga in context: Sin-consciousness and the practice of belief in Naga folktales"
International Conference on Indian Linguistic Tradition and Indigenous Knowledge System — ICPSL, CIHCS Arunachal Pradesh & ICSSR NERC Shillong
6–9 Nov 2024
"The oral narratives and silencing years among the Nagas of Northeast India"
136th Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
7–10 Jun 2023
"Changes and dominance in the retold Naga warrior folktales"
SIEF 16th Congress: Living Uncertainty, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
12–13 Apr 2023
"Oral narratives and memory of Angami Nagas"
Recuperation & Voices Unheard: An Approach to Indigenous Indian Literature — Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee
18 Nov – 2 Dec 2022
"The traditional ornament as everyday objects of the Nagas from Northeast India"
'Folk' Cultures in Everyday Objects, Seminar Series — Design History Society, Oxford University
11–12 Mar 2022
"Silencing Angami oral narratives"
International Conference on Folk Traditions and Forms in India — Dept. of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
25–27 Oct 2021
"Folk narratives and the broken environmental clocks of the Nagas"
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change: Issues, Challenges and Coping Mechanisms — Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi
Contact
✉ mhasileno.peseyie@iiitdwd.ac.in ◉ ORCID: 0000-0003-2450-4310