Dripta Piplai (Mondal) did her PhD at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Linguistics, University of Delhi, in 2015. She joined as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 2018. Prior to that, she worked at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, as a Research Associate (2016-2018), as a fellow of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, India (2015-2016), and as a fellow of Wipro Applying Thoughts in Schools (2014-2015).
She primarily works in the domain of language-in-education by using morphosyntactic and sociolinguistic analysis. She worked with the children of several minority and minoritized speech communities in the last few years. Her primary aim is to use the morphosyntactic as well as sociolinguistic analysis of child language data to create materials for classroom use. She believes that the data can also be used to sensitise teachers to understand the problems of language conflict in early literacy and elementary education.
Dripta is also interested in the domain of the language-music interface. She works on ethnomusicology and language vitality from a viewpoint of Endangered Language Research. Another domain of her interest is the discourse of the practice-performance of Tagore songs, which is based on her formal training in Tagore songs since her childhood.
Area of Research: Vernacularization and Dravidian language
Area of Research: Vitality of Kurukh language
Area of Research: Language variation in classroom
Area of Research: Language Policy and Classroom
Area of Research: Diasporic literature
Area of Research: Mother tongue-based multilingual education
Area of Research: Morpho-Syntactic development of the children with language disorder
Area of Research: Crime Fiction
Area of Research: Multilingualism and langauge policy