Romanch: A Refereed Journal of UMED RASA is a scholarly journal affiliated with UMED RASA (the University of Mumbai English Department Researchers' Association for Scholarly Activities), also known as the Research Club. The objective of UMED RASA is to offer up-and-coming researchers an opportunity to engage with experts, exchange ideas with their peers, and develop research skills and experience through the process of composing and publishing academic papers.

Romanch thus offers researchers whose abstracts were selected for the annual TABULA RASA Conference a platform to develop those abstracts into a research paper and pursue publication in our journal for M.A. and Ph.D. students. It publishes papers in the fields of English Studies and adjacent fields, ranging from literature and linguistics to cultural and film studies, while providing a new theme for submissions each year. The journal is published annually, with the 2026 volume on Koham: Narratives of the Self and the Other being its first, and is open to all research scholars who participated in the TABULA RASA Conference of that year. Romanch employs a blind peer review process following an initial stage of screening, and publishes all the selected papers in an online format at the official website of the Department of English, University of Mumbai.

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Prof. Dr. Sachin Labade

MANAGING EDITOR

Xavier Menezes

EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS

Jeremy Varghese

Karthik Meenakshisundaram

Nayantara Karkhanis

Drishya Bajpai

PUBLISHER

Department of English, University of Mumbai

EDITORIAL BOARD

Prof. Dr. Sachin Labade

Professor & Head, Dept. of English, University of Mumbai

Dr. Rajesh Karankal

Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Mumbai

Dr. Bhagyashree Varma

Associate Professor, Dept. of English, University of Mumbai

Prof. Dr. Sucharita Sarkar

Professor and I/C Principal, D.T.S.S. College

Dr. Kirti Nakhare

Associate Professor, Dept. of Business Communication, S.I.W.S. College of Commerce and Economics

Dr. Anusha Ramnathan

Assistant Professor, Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE), School of Education (SoE), TISS

Dr. Deepti Mujumdar

Visiting Faculty, Dept. of English, University of Mumbai

Dr. Udayan Chakraborty

Assistant Professor of English and Communication Skills, NMIMS Deemed to be University

Dr. Kranti Doibale

Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, R.D. National

Dr. Ritika Banerjee

Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Centre of Online Education at CHRIST (Deemed to be) University

Nagarjun Wadekar

Director I/C, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, YCM Open University, Nashik

Avanti Lele

Visiting Faculty, Dept. of English, University of Mumbai

Elloit Cardozo

Writing Tutor, Centre for Writing and Communication (CWC), Ashoka University

Anmol Dutta

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies, Western University, London, Canada

Hridaya Ajgaonkar

DAAD doctoral candidate, Dept. of South Asian Studies and the Bonn International Graduate School - Oriental and Asian Studies (BIGS-OAS), Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University

Xavier Menezes

Junior Research Fellow, Dept. of English, University of Mumbai

The guidelines for submission of a research paper are as follows:

1. Papers based on abstracts presented at the TABULA RASA Conference shall be considered for publication in this journal.

2. Submitted papers shall be subjected to blind peer review in order to identify research that is original, scholarly and critical with a high standard for references and creativity.

3. Submitted manuscripts must be in the range of 3000-4000 words with an adequate amount of citations.

4. Manuscripts must be written in Times New Roman, Font Size 12, double-spaced lines, and with citations as per the MLA Format, 9th Edition.

5. The manuscripts shall be uploaded in PDF format through a Google Form.

6. Personal details and references to the author must be removed from the PDF to facilitate the blind review process.

7. Manuscripts shall be run through a plagiarism checking and A.I. detection software to verify originality. Those with a high percentage of unoriginal or A.I. generated content are liable to be rejected.

Queries regarding the journal or submission details are to be directed to umedrasa@gmail.com.

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Sachin Ramesh Labade.

Contact Number: 7021452937

Address: Department of English, Ranade Bhavan, Vidyanagari Campus, University of Mumbai, Santacruz (East), Mumbai-400098