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Dr. Achyut Chetan

Edited Books

Two books on the historical Santal Rebellion of 1855 comprising invited commissioned articles by eminent scholars and rare primary documents. Published as part of the flagship publication program of SKM University, Dumka.

• From Resistance to Revolution: Hul and its Legacy. Published on behalf the Santhal Academy, Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka. [ISBN: 978-81-8329-923-7] (2018).
• Interrogating the Santal Hul: Texts, Contexts, Interpretations. Published on behalf the Santhal Academy, Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka. [ISBN: 978-81-8329-967-1] (2017).

Articles

• 'Ambedkar and the Constitution: Authoring a Sacred book' in Phalanx: A Quarterly Journal of Review http://www.phalanx.in/pages/article_i0010_the_Constitution.html. ISSN 2320-7698 2017
• 'The Radical Reading Strategies of B.R Ambedkar' in Apperception: Journal of the Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Vol IX July-2016- June 2017, pp 30-40, ISSN 2321-1261.
• "The 'Founding Fathers' and the Women Members of the Constitution: Correcting a historical fallacy" in Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Volume 24 Numbers 2 & 3, 2015. pp 91-101. [ISSN: 0972-043X] ( Print)
• 'The Afterlives of Renaissance Desires: Lennard Davis' The Sonnets' in Apperception: Journal of the Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati. Vol VII: August 2012, pp 78-89. [ISSN: 2321 - 1261]

Dr. Prayag Ray

Grants, Awards, and Distinctions

• Queen’s University Studentship (scholarship) 2014, funding PhD study at Queen’s University Belfast.
• Bankim Niranjan Memorial Prize 2012, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
• Indu Bhusan Putatunda and Shanti Sudha Putatunda Memorial Award 2008, Jadavpur University.

Chapter/Article Published in Books

• (2025) “‘Doomsday Epic’? P. Lal’s The Mahabharata of Vyasa and the Influence of European Modernism” in Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative: Epic of the Moment, eds. Anirban Bhattacharjee and Dhrubajyoti Sarkar. London: Routledge. Pp. 114-125. ISBN: 9781003516408. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003516408.
• (2021) “Exile and Epistemic Violence in Alexander Dow’s Account of Hinduism.” In Strangers and Pilgrims: Spatial Metamorphoses of Religion in the English-speaking Worlds (17th-21st Centuries) [French title: Etrangers et voyageurs: Métamorphosesspatiales du religieux dans les mondes anglophones (XVIIE-XXIe siècle)]. Eds. Rémy Bethmont, Yannick Deschamps and Cyril Selzner. Paris: Atlande. ISBN: 9782350307206.
• (2021) “Virtual Slaves, Real Profits: Commodity Fetishism and the Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game.” In Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives, and Challenges. Eds. Simi Malhotra, Kanika Sharma, and Sakshi Dogra. New Delhi: Springer Nature. Print ISBN: 978-981-15-9933-0. Online ISBN: 978-981-159934-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9934-7_11.
• (2016) “‘Synthetik Love Lasts Forever’: Sex Dolls and the (Post?)human Condition.” InCritical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures. Eds. Makarand R. Paranjape and Debashish Banerji. Springer, New Delhi. Pp 91-112, ISBN: 978-81-322-3635-1.

Article Published in Peer-reviewed Journals

• (2025) “Of Silences and Snow: Forgetting and Remembering the Troubles in New Poetry from Northern Ireland” in Creativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies 2.1. 2025. E-ISSN: 3048-8575. Pgs. 38-64. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15823583.
• (2024) Prayag Ray and Debasmita Das. “The Figure of the Other in Retellings of Indian Folk Tales: Children’s Book Trust in the Early 2000s” in dialog 44 (Autumn) 2024. ISSN: 0975-4881. Pgs. 44-63. URL: https://dialog.puchd.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/4_The-figure-of-the-other_Prayag-Ray.pdf. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15817569.
• (2023) [Review] “Oriental Wells: The Early Romantic Poets and Their Eastern Muse. By Md. Monirul Islam. New Delhi: Bloomsbury. 2021. 277 p. £76.50 (hb). ISBN: 9789389165203.”, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 46(4). Pgs. 523-524. December 2023. ISSN [online] 1754-0208: doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12907.
• (2021) “‘To Unawaken’d Earth’: Paul Carter’s Archipelagic Poetics of Decolonisation” in Postcolonial Studies 24.4 [Taylor & Francis]. 2021. ISSN: 1368-8790 (Print), 1466-1888 (Online). DOI: 10.1080/13688790.2021.1986951.
• (2019) [Review] “The Other Orientalists.” Review of Unfabling the East, by Jürgen Osterhammel, Trans. Robert Savage. In Postcolonial Studies 21.2019. ISSN: 1368-8790 (Print) 14661888 (Online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2019.1649806.

Chapters in Edited Books

• "'Synthetik Love Lasts Forever': Sex Dolls and the (Post?)human Condition." In Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures, eds. Debashish Banerji and Makarand R. Paranjape. New Delhi: Springer. Print. ISBN 978-81-322-3635-1. 2016.

Book Review

• The Other Orientalists." Review of Unfabling the East, by Jürgen Osterhammel, Trans. Robert Savage. In Postcolonial Studies 21. ISSN: 1368-8790 (Print) 1466-1888 (Online). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2019.1649806. 2019.

Non-fiction and Creative Writing

• “Unsent Notes to Friends in Northern Ireland” and “Bus Home, Kolkata 2018” in The Apiary 7 (2024), published by Queen’s Writers’ Society, Queen’s University, Belfast. 8; 69. Print.
• "Pather Panchali (Song of the Road)" in Happy Browsing: An Anthology in Praise of Bookfinders, published by The Lifeboat and The Tangerine, Belfast, 2018. Pp 18, ISBN: 978-0993584176
• "Prince and Princess of Wales in India" in Poetry Ireland Review 122 (2017). Pp. 104. Print. ISBN 978-1-902121-65-9
• Poems by Prayag Ray. Pamphlet. The Lifeboat 27 (2017). Print.
• “Being Colour: Reflections on Being Indian in Belfast.” The Tangerine 1. Dec. 2016: 46-50. Print. ISSN: 2399-7788

Prof. Medha Bhadra Chowdhury

Published Book Chapters/Journal Articles

• “Millennial Women Instapoets: Gender, Culture and Postcolonialism” in Postcolonial Popular Culture in India, eds. Abin Chakraborty, Ramanuj Konar, Sayan Aich Bhowmik, Orient Blackswan, 2025. ISBN: 9789354424410. (2025)

• “Calcutta or Kalkatta?: Revisiting the Spatial Memory of the City through a Reading of Kunal Basu’s Novel” in Journal of Humanities, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata, Vol. 7, December 2024. ISSN: 2394-045X.

• “Child’s Play, Fantasy and the Holocaust” in Holocaust in Popular Literature, eds. Mahitosh Mandal and Priyanka Das, Routledge, India, ISBN: 9781032169774. (2024)

• “Following Cordelia Gray: Gender “Suitability” and Detective Fiction” in Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction, ed.Debayan Deb Barman, Lexington Books, ISBN: 10-179364957X. (2023)

• “The Anglo-Indian Community and Its Cultural Aporia: Reading the Works of Allan Sealy’s The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle” in Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism, eds. Anjum Khan and Shubhanku Kochar, Lexington Books, ISBN: 1666927538. (2022)

• “Gender Trouble and Myth-Making” in Arts and Aesthetics of Modern Mythopoeia: Literatures, Myths and Revisionism, eds. Ritushree Sengupta and Ashish K. Gupta, JCLA (Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics). ISBN: 978-81-945995-1-7. (2022)

• “Queering Postcolonial Identities in the Caribbean: Diaspora and Sexuality in Shani Mootoo’s Valmiki’s Daughter”, in Postcolonial Praxis: Ramifications and Intricacies, ed. Abhilash Kaushik, Notion Press. ISBN: 978-1-63633-496-7. (2021)

• “The Spaces of Myth in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day: Exploring the Intersections of Memory and History” in Ensemble, Vol. 2, No. 2, September 2020. ISSN: 2582-0427. (UGC-Care List I)

• “Migrant Lives and Histories of Travel in the Global South: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island”, in Trends in Postcolonial Language, Literature, and Culture, eds. Abhilasha Phukan, Sukanya Das and Nirupam K. Sinha, Purbayan Publications. ISBN: 978-93-89940-72-5. (2020)

• “Traces of Absence: The Politics and Politicization of Gender Violence through Select Partition Narratives and Present Day Media Reports” in The Text, Vol. 2, No. 2, July 2020. ISSN: 2581-9526.

Articles

• "Woody Allen's God: A Reflection on Absurdity" in Quest, Volume 7, Number 2, Pp 24-27, ISSN:2321-9467. 2019.

Dr. Antara Ghatak

Chapters in Edited Books

• ‘Dismembered Nation, Dismembered Body: Gender and Disability in the Bangladesh Liberation War,1971’in Gender and Sexuality Reader,Routledge.((ISBN9780367421359). 2022.
• 'Embodying the Birangona: Negotiating History and Memory of the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971.Orient Black Swan. 2022.
• 'Birangonas of 1971: Retrospective Reflections'. Revisiting Partition and Bangladesh Liberation War. Akhand Publishing House. (ISBN 978-93-88998-93-2). 2020.
• 'Negotiating the Human and the Non-Human-An Ecocritical Reading of Virgina Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.' Gender in Literature: Some Perspectives. (ISBN 978-93-80761-95-4). 2015.

Articles

• 'Transcreating Place through Remembrance and Forgetting; Memory in Oscar Hijuelos' Empress of the Splendid Season and Sunanda Sikdar's A Life Long Ago.' International Journal of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences. vol.-ii, no.-v. (ISSN 2347-4777). 2015.
• 'Gender and Memory.'Newsletter, Women's Study Centre, Lady Brabourne College. Vol- 6, (ISSN 2395-4299). 2015.
• 'Birangonas beyond the Archives: A Memory Study of the War Heroines of the Bangladesh War of Liberation, 1971.' Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta. Vol. xxxix. (ISSN 2249-4537). 2015.

Dr. Indira Bhattacharya Chakraborty

Chapter/Article published in Books

• (2025) “Our lives have become weapons in a rugged political contest”—A Reading of Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee”, Negotiating Lives: Migration, Displacement and Resistance in Postcolonial Nation-State, Routledge India, 25th February 2025. ISBN 9781032868882 https://www.routledge.com/Migration-Identity-and-Resistance-in-Post-Colonial-Nation-States/Ali-Kundu-Sarkar-Saren/p/book/9781032868882
• (2024) “Borders and Boundaries: Resituating The Tiger Claw in the Current Times” Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature, Springer November 2024. ISBN- 978-981-97-4543-2https://link.springer.com/book/9789819745432?fbclid=IwY2xjawEeuixleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVg0wloNjORD2dSPrMShWE4t-QkTsHvgeGLLDnZMI2rjNwoWh8I9vvQcoA_aem_8feAECK5XXop_r4RaCbm9g&sfnsn=wiwspwa
• (2021) “Idea of "Liberation" and "Sisterhood" in Katherine Mansfield and Alice Walker's Selected Short Stories”,Rendezvous of Repertoire Edited by Ritushree Sengupta, Ukiyoto Publishing, Canada and India. Pp 42-57. [Book, ISBN NUMBER- 9789354902949]
• (2014) “Journey From Praxis to Gnosis: Shifting Terrains in the Notions of Identity in Anita RauBadami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?”, Outside the British Canon: Reading Literatures from former European Colonies,Edited by Sarbojit Biswas, AADI Publications, Jaipur. Pp 75-82, ISBN: 978-93-82630-52-4
• (2014) “Answering the Call of ‘the wretched of the earth’: Interpolation of Fanon’s Discourse in Anand’s ShortStories”,Culture and Identity: Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand, Edited by Aninda Basu Roy, Sarbojit Biswas & Arindam Das,AADI Publications, Jaipur. Pp 36-41, ISBN: 978-93-82630-22-7
• (2013) “Every Little thing... means something…: Individual vs. Global in Shauna Singh Baldwin’s We are not inPakistan”,Text and Theory: Reading and Re-readings, Edited by Sarbojit Biswas, AADI Publications, Jaipur, Pp 56-63, ISBN:978-93-82630-41-8

Articles

• (December 2024) “‘Homing’ and the Desire for ‘Homing’: Reading/Teaching Kamila Shamshie’sKartography through the Migrant’s Experience”—Accepted and forthcoming from Refugee Watch (A Bi-annual UGC Carelisted-II Journal by Calcutta Research Group).
• (2023) “Remembrance of Things Past: Feminisation of Narrative in Margaret Lawrence’s The Stone Angel and Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters”, Literary Voice (Dr. T. S. Anand) Vol 1. Issue 1, January (2023), 36-45 (An International Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies [Online]), ISSN- 2583-8199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59136/lv.2023.1.1.105
• "Music Archiving in the Age of Digital Revolution and their Role in Building National Identity" has been published by "Café Dissensus", A peer reviewed web journal, an alternative magazine dealing in art, culture, literature, and politics. It's based in New York City, USA. We DISSENT. (Link: https://cafedissensus.com/.) ISSN No: ISSN 2373-177X. 2017.
• "A Fine Balance: 'Walk' as a metaphor in Anita Rau Badami's The Hero's Walk" has been published by "Literary Voice", A Bi-annual peer reviewed journal (approved in the list of UGC list of journals, Ed. Dr. T.S. Anand). ISSN 2277 4521. 2015.
• "Journey From Praxis to Gnosis: Shifting Terrains in the Notions of Identity in Anita Rau Badami's Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?" has been published in a book titled Outside the British Canon: Reading Literatures from former European Colonies, ed., Dr.Sarbojit Biswas published by AADI Publications, Jaipur, 2014.
• "Answering the Call of 'the wretched of the earth' : Interpolation of Fanon's Discourse inAnand's Short Stories", Culture and Identity: Re-reading Raja Rao and Mulk Raj Anand, eds. AnindaBasu Roy, Sarbojit Biswas &Arindam Das , AADI Publications, Jaipur. 2014.
• "In search of an 'Illusive' or 'Elusive' Freedom: Contextualizing Post 9/11 Immigrants in Shauna Singh Baldwin's We are not in Pakistan", Efflorescence (ISSN 2278 2378), Volume May 2013, Journal of Dept. of English, Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata. 2013.

Dr Anish Bhattacharyya

Chapter/Article published in Books

• “The Grand Narrative of Science: An Analysis of Select Contemporary Dystopian Fiction”, The Future of the Humanities: Perspectives from South Asian Cultural Studies, Edited by Vivek Singh, 2025, Lexington Books, ISBN: 9781666952568.
• “Journey from Dystopia to Egalitarianism: A Study of Veronica Roth’s Divergent Trilogy through the Postmodern Lens”, Reflection of the Growing Mind: Young Adult Literature and Culture, 2017, Avnel Press, ISBN: 978-93-80736-88-4.

Article published in Peer-reviewed journals

• Bhattacharyya, A. (2024). “Unreal city”: Juxtaposition of Calcutta-past and Kolkata-present in Sarnath Banerjee’s The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2404137 (SCOPUS), ISSN: 2150-4865.
• Bhattacharyya, Anish. Navigating Political Philosophies in Video Games: An Analysis of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag in the Context of Hobbes’ Leviathan and Rousseau’s The Social Contract, in St. Xavier’s University Kolkata Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Vol 2., pg. 131-145.(Peer Reviewed). 2024.
• “Construction of ‘Limbo’ as Resistance: A Reading of Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore”, Journal of Science Fiction, Washington DC, hosted by the University of Maryland Libraries, Vol. 5, Issue 2, EBSCO, ISSN 2472-0837, May 2022.
• “A Portrait of the Artist underneath the Mask: A Study of Satyajit Ray’s Nayak”, Drishti: the Sight Journal, UGC CARE listed, Vol. XI, Issue – I, ISSN 2319-8281, May 2022 – October 2022.
• “Making New the Language of Love: A Comparative Study of Select works of T. S. Eliot and Haruki Murakami”, DUJES Journal, Vol. 30, ISSN 2581-7833, March 2022.
• “Frankenstein and Ackroyd: a Study of the Text as the Monster”, Rupkatha Journal, Scopus Indexed,ISSN 0975-2935, 2018.DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v10n2.21
• “The Scientific Grand Narrative in Select Contemporary American Science Fictions: A Utopian Dystopia”, Lapis Lazuli Journal, ISSN 2249-4529 SPRING 2019.
• “Facebook: The Mirror Projecting the Imagined Self, the Desire for Social Acceptance and the Site of Simulation.” Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, ISSN 2249 4537, 2014-15.
• “Fashion and Roland Barthes: A Study of the Hat Motif in James Joyce’s Ulysses.” New Academia Journal, E-ISSN 2347-2073, Vol VI Issue III July 2017.
• “Rabindranath Tagore’s Treatment of Women and Death in Select Short Stories.” Muse India Journal, ISSN: 0975-1815, Issue 75 Sept – Oct 2017.

Dr Manish Prasad

Chapter/Article published in Books

• (2025) Exploring the pre-colonial cultural orientation through the conflictual structure of the outer self and the inner self through “Ramachander Avishek” (Coronation of Ramachandra) by Bhavaninath, State and Society in India: A Historical Retrospect, Routledge, Taylor and Francis, ISBN 978-10-41292-32-6.
• (2025) Recovering the Identity of Ram as a Symbol of a National Hero through a Select Reading of Suryakant Tripathi Nirala's Ram ki Shakti Puja, Reform through Faith and Devotion: The Story of Bhakti Movement , Sun Beam Publishers, ISBN 978-93-48856-09-8.
• (2024) Understanding the Function of Writings as a Way Out from the Gender Politics: A Case Study of Select Pakistani Writers, Power, Politics and the Issue of Gender Based Violence, Agra Book International, ISBN 978-93-94151-64-2.
• (2023) The colossal saga of re-framing Myth and re-defining Post-human existence of Vampire, Cultural Kaleidosope: The Intersection of Language and Literature, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, ISBN 978-620-7-45089-3.
• (2018) English Translation and Multiple Identity: A Case study of Keshari Nath Tripathi’s Poetry, The Many Dimensions of Keshari Nath Tripathi’s Poetry, Ashadeep, Kolkata, 2019.ISBN 978-93-88868-20-4.
• (2017) Folk-Popular performance outside Gujarat: A Study of Performer’s Perspective in Asansol, Drama Dramaturgy and Indigeneity, Radha Publications, New Delhi, 2017. ISBN 93-86439-17-4.

Article published in Peer-reviewed journals

• (2025) Alternative Shakespeare: Exploring the Cinematic Texts as Co-text of Shakespearean Adaptation in the Malayalam Films, Daath Voyage, Vol. 10 (1), Pp. –65-81, ISSN: 2455-7544
• (2025) Decoding the Unthinkable: Cultural Dynamics and Mythical Representations of Nature in Verrier Elwin’s Select Tribal Folklores, Litinfinite Journal, Vol. 7 (1), Pp. 40–48, ISSN: 2582-0400, DOI: 10.47365/litinfinite.7.1.2025.40-48
• (2025) A Fresh Reading of the Dalit Women’s Context as a Marginalised Voice through a Case Study of Urmilla Pawar’s The Weave of My Life, Jamshedpur Research Review, Vol. 5 (73), Pp. –1-13, ISSN: –2320-2750
• (2024) A Pragmatic Reading of Communism and Gender-based Political Discourse through a Case Study of a Translated Memoir, The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Vol. 15 (VI), Pp. –, ISSN: 0976-8165
• (2023) Re-covering the Problems of Caste and Untouchability in U.R Ananthamurthy’s Samskara, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Sage. ISSN 2456 0502
• (2023) Eco-Translation and Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene, Researcher: A Multidisciplinary Journal Vol. XIX No. 1, 2023 ISSN 2278-9022
• (2023) Challenges and Perspectives of Using Translation as Strategy for Learning English among Selective University students, NSHM Journal of Language, Literature and Communication, Vol. 1, issue 1, June 2023. ISBN: 978-93-87855-88-5
• (2022) The Significance of Print Media in providing an identity to Ms. Indra Nooyi and her memoirs, Vol. 13, issue IV, August, 2022.The Criterion: An International Journal in English, ISSN 0976-8165
• (2020) Dr Harivansh Rai Bachchan: AnuvadkeSidhantikAdhar, Srijan Sarokar, Vol.2, January – March 2020 ISSN 2581-8856
• (2019) Ageing in Bachchan’s Shakespeare: Reading Macbeth and Othello through translations of Omar, Yeats, and the poet’s Autobiography, Labyrinth, Vol.10 – No. 3, July 2019. ISSN 0976-0814
• (2018) Translation of Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Preface to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Bengaluru Review, November, 2018. https://bengalurureview.com/harivansh-rai-bachchans-preface-to-shakespeares-macbeth/
• (2017) Enigma of Translation and Indian Philosophy: A Reading of Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s Madhushala, TranslationToday, volume 11, issue 1, 2017. National Translation Mission, Mysore. ISSN 0972-8740

Dr Nandini Bhattacharya

Projects

• UGC MINOR RESEARCH AWARD for the project entitled Laughter as Subversion; Fantasy as Resistance” researching the rise of fantasy as a genre in colonial Bengal with special reference to TrailokyanathMukhopadhaya’sKonkaboti UGC: 2007-2009 Book titled - The Annotated Kankabati has been published
• UGC National Award, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, vide letter no: f. 30-1/2009 (sa-ii) - title of project: The Mahatma and Modernity. UGC 2009 – 2011
• Co-investigator MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECT - with Prof. Jharna Sanyal, Department of English, Calcutta University: “ Title:-Narratives Of Frailty/ SaratchandraChattopadhayaAndThe Colonial Encounter: An Alternative Mode Of Hindu SelfFashioning Calcutta University, as part of DRS (SAP III) programme 2006-2008 Book published - Narratives of Frailty

Fellowships/Grants

• UGC Travel Grant for attending and presenting paper in Amsterdam Postcolonial Conference (organized jointly by the Amsterdam and Leiden Universities in April 2002), entitled Migrant Cartographies - March 2002

Visiting Fellowships and Special Mentions

• Visiting Fellow - Talk on Women Studies – a comparative Centre for Women Studies: University of South Florida, Tampa, USA: 2006
• Visiting Fellow, Department Of Comparative Literature, State University Of New Jersey, Rutgers, USA: 2006
• Visiting Fellow, Department of English, Vidysagar University Medinipur, West Bengal, India, 2011
• Visiting Fellow, Department of English, Delhi University, New Delhi, India, 2014
• Visiting Fellow, Department of English, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha, India, 2014

Special Mentions

• Invited as Professor and Head of Department of English & Culture Studies and Dean – School of Languages, Central University of Jammu: 2014 – 2016
• Chairperson – SPARSH [Committee for Women Rights and Sexual Harassment – Central University of Jammu, J&K]
• Associate Professor, Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, 2010 – 2012.

Authored Books: (Cover Page Attached)

• R.K. Narayan’s The Guide: New Critical Idioms - in 2004 Monograph, Worldview Publishers – New Delhi ISBN 818642332
• A Lovesong to Our Mongrel Selves: Problematics of identity in the Novels of Salman Rushdie - in 2005 Monograph, Worldview Publishers – New Delhi ISBN 186423702
• Mulk Raj Ananad’s Untouchable – in 2006 Edited, Introduced and Contributed Essay – Penguin Pearson – New Delhi ISBN 8131707253
• Narratives of Frailty: Saratchandra Chattopadhaya and the Colonial Encounter – in 2007 Co-Authored with contribution of 3 chapters - Dasgupta Publishers & Calcutta University ISBN 8182110406 / 9788182110410
• Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora: A Critical Companion – in 2015 Edited, Introduced and Contributed Essay –Primus Publishers – New Delhi - ISSN 978-93-8408242-0
• The Annotated Kankabati: Translated, Introduced and Contributed –Primus Publishers – New Delhi - ISBN: 978-93-84092-03-0
• Strange Familiarities: Tracing Epistolary Cultures in the Subcontinent, 1857-1915 Publishers: Primus Publishers, New Delhi. HB ISBN : 978-93-6883-430-4 Year : 2025

Articles/Chapters in Books

• “A City Visible But Unseen” 273-285 Convergences and Interferences. Rodopi Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands Eds Gyssels, Hoving and Bowers. International ISBN 9042015381
• “What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true: Fictions of factual representations / Facts of Fiction?” 205-220 - Indian Writing In English: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Eds. P. Duttagupta and Sushmita Ray National
• Gendered Identities: A Reading of A House for Mr. Biswas. 61-69 V.S. Naipaul: Critical Essays - Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, Eds. Mohit Roy. National - ISBN 8182110343
• Gendered Identities: A Reading of A House for Mr. Biswas. 61-69 V.S. Naipaul: Critical Essays - Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, Eds. Mohit Roy. National - ISBN 8182110343
• “Polygamy” 88-108 Bankimchandra’s Bangadarshan: Selected Essays in Translation. Dasgupta Publishers and Calcutta University, Kolkata. Eds. Tapati Gupta National ISBN 8182110343
• “In Search of Swaraj: A Gandhian Reading” 202-213 - Anxieties, Influences and After: Critical responses to Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism, Worldview Publishers, New Delhi Eds. Bakshi, Sengupta and Paul. National ISBN 8186423133
• “Till one Greater Man Restore Us: Colonial Masculinities and Indigenous SelfFashionings” Pp. 161-183 Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives: Context, Text and Intertext. Dasgupta Publishers and Calcutta University, Kolkata Eds. Krishna Sen and Tapati Gupta – National ISBN 818211097
• “Gandhi and Romanticism” 137-148 Romanticism and its Legacies - Fine Prints Publishers, Kolkata Eds. Ralla Guha Neogy Regional – ISBN 9788I90688049
• “Reading Gandhian ashram experiments: recasting nation, Remaking Family” – in 2014 Rabindranath Tagore and the Nation. Visva-Bharati University and Punascha: Santiniketan, Eds. Swati Ganguly and Abhijit Sen National ISBN 9788173324826
• “The Islam-English Dynamic: Revisiting Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide” - in 2014 Writing India Anew - Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Edited Krishna Sen and Rituparna Shandilya International ISBN 9789089645333
• “Biopolitics: An Indian Intervention” – in August 2015 - Technology, Science, Culture: Redefining Global Challenges. Eds. Ghosh, Chakravarty and Sarkar. Avenel Press, Kolkata, 2015 - pp. 1-15, National ISBN 9789380781886
• Reading Tagore’s Streer Patra in the light of Epistolary Cultures in Colonial Bengal Tagore And Women Stree-Samya, Kolkata Chakravarty and Kar Chaudhuri - National
• “Translational Politics of Primer Writing in Colonial Bengal” Pp 166-183 Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates - - Edited by M. Sridhar and S Mishra ROUTLEDGE, ISBN: 978-1-138-68705-9 / ISBN: 978-1-31554245-4: E BOOK, PRINT.
• “Cities of Refuge; Republics of Char” in Gorky Chakraborty eds Citizenship in Contemporary Times 55-70: Routledge, London, New York 2023 ISBN 978-1-032-29806-1
• “Matdaan: An anecdotal History of the Junagarh Referendum in times of Subcontinental Partition” in Chanda Chatterjee eds.The Partition of the Indian Subcontinent (1947) and Beyond: Uneasy Borders, 123-142 Routledge, London, New York 2023
• “Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar and Scottish Transactions in Nineteenth century Bengal” in Bashabi Fraser edited Lakshmi’s Footprints and Paisley Patterns: Perspectives on Scoto Indian Literary and Cultural Interrelations, 129-149 Routledge, London and New York 2023 ISBN 981032567433
• “The First English translation of the Mahabharata” in Ed.Tutun Mukherjee and Bharati Harishankar: Epic in India, Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad New Delhi 2023 ISBN 9789354423765
• “Critical framings: How Rassundari Devi's Amar Jiban was read” 52-64, in Anirban Bhattacharya eds. Women's Voices: Representation and Resistance: Worldview Publications Critical Companion Series, New Delhi: 2023 – ISBN: 978-93-82267-98-0

Papers Published in Journals (Select List)

• “Gandhian Translations/Translating Gandhi” - pp 177-201 Translation Today Vol 7. Nos 1 and 2 2010: Eds. P. Giridhar, Dipti Pattnaik, and Paul St, Pierre ISSN 09728740
• “Spiritualism n Colonial Bengal: Imagining Nation, Imagining Conjugality” Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature. Vol 48 Eds. Subha Dasgupta ISSN 0481143
• “Life Beckoning to life: Reading Autobiographies and Auto/biographies Readers” pp. 2245 Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, International and Peer reviewed, Vol V 2015 Eds. Subha Prakash Das ISSN: EISSN: 2231-2773
• “Revisiting Snehalata: The Arrival and the Gendering of the Novel in Colonial Bengal” pp. 59-78 Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, International and Peer reviewed, Special 50th Issue – Commemorative Volume, 2014, Ed. Kavita Panjabi ISSN 0481143
• “Poetics of Embodiment: Revisiting the Great War 1914”. In Global South Cultural Dialogue Project pp 67-82 Journal of Contemporary Thought. Balwant Parekh Centre for Contemporary Thought Baroda in Collaboration with International Lincon Centre, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA. No. 40, Winter 2014 2015. Eds. Prafulla Kar, William Pederson, Nikhil Moro. ISSN 09714731
• “GandhirAnubad / Anubader Gandhi” (BENGALI) Alochona Chakra August 2014 - National and Peer Reviewed ISSN
• “Anglicized: Translational Politics of Primer Writing in Colonial Bengal” pp. 1-24 Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, International and Peer reviewed Vol vi, 2016 ISSN: 22312773
• “Anglicized: Translational Politics of Primer Writing in Colonial Bengal” pp. 1-24 Ravenshaw Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, International and Peer reviewed Vol vi, 2016 ISSN: 22312773