Faculty Profile

Dr Shibu Gorai is an Assistant Professor of English at St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at Abacus Institute of Engineering and Management (JIS & Techno), West Bengal, and as a Teaching Assistant in Communicative English at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur. He obtained his PhD in English from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Durgapur. During his doctoral tenure at NIT Durgapur, he received the UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Senior Research Fellowship (SRF).  His research has been published in reputed Scopus- and Web of Science-indexed journals and edited volumes, and he has presented papers at several national and international conferences. His research interests include Indian English literature, literary and cultural theory, disability studies, and literature–cinema intersections.

• Ph.D. in English, National Institute of Technology Durgapur
• M.A. in English, The University of Burdwan
• B.A. (Honours) in English, The University of Burdwan

• Assistant Professor in English, Xavier School of Engineering and Technology, St. Xavier's University (July 2026- present)
• Assistant Professor in English at Abacus Institute of Engineering and Management (JIS & Techno Group)
• Teaching Assistant in Communicative English, NIT Durgapur, West Bengal

• Member of the Research and Development Cell at Abacus Institute of Engineering and Management (JIS & Techno Group) (01/09/2025-14/07/2026)

• “The Shifting Terrains of Disability and Gender: Investigating the Delineation of Women with Disabilities in Hindi Films,” International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Scope (Scopus Indexed), Volume 5, Issue 3, Year 2024.
• “Precarious Lives of the Proletariat: Exploring the Human-Induced Catastrophe in the web series The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 (2023),” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (Web of Science Indexed), Volume 16, Issue 2, Year 2024.
• “Nationalism and Religiosity: Relocating the History of Indian Freedom Struggle in Shoojit Sircar’s film Sardar Udham (2021) and S.S. Rajamouli’s RRR (2022),” in the edited book Nationalism in Indian Cinema (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom), Year 2023.
• “Disability and Life Narratives: Critiquing the Different Shades of Violence,” Anhad Lok, (A UGC-CARE Listed, Peer-Reviewed Journal), Volume 9, Issue 5, Year 2023.
• “Reconfiguring the Subaltern Consciousness in Saptadwipa Adhikari’s The Ghat of the Palm Tree and Panchi’s Sense Organs,” in the edited book Dalit Feminism and Dalit Women Narratives (Akhand Publishing House), Year 2021.

• UGC NET JRF, 2020