European Romanticism, Nineteenth century Bengal.

Department of English, Jadavpur University.

Area of Research: Romanticism, Nineteenth Century Bengal studies, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies

Home and the World: The Voice of Woman in the Emerging Consciousness of Nineteenth Century Bengal.

Books

Authorship

1. 1. Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Return of the Native’: A Critical Appraisal (Kolkata: Books Way, 2010) ISBN 978-93-80145-40-2

Edited Volumes

2. 2. Symposium (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015), the journal of the Department of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata; Peer reviewed with ISSN number 2320-1452.
3. 3. Souvenir (2014 January) editor marking the Sesquicentenary of St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College.
4. 4. Conference Proceedings for the UGC Sponsored National Conference titled Locating New Indianness: A Study of Contemporary Indian Literature in English. The Conference was organised jointly by The Deparments of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College and that of City College of Commerce and Business Administration, Kolkata and held on 21 and 22 March 2012. 

1. 5. Co-edited with Malini Bhattacharya, Romanticism in Bengal (1881-1922): An Anthology of Articles from Bangla (Kolkata: Papyrus, 2003). ISBN 81-8175-000-4.

Articles

In Journals

1. 1. ‘Mahesh Dattani and a few Questions on Identity’ in Shrimoyee Guha Thakurta and Varbi Roy (eds.) journal of humanities and social sciences (An International Refereed Journal), Theme: Postmodernism and its Critique, pp. 9-22, September 2016, ISSN 0973-8738, Number 13. A journal published annually by Scottish Church College Kolkata.
2. 2. ‘Culture of Consumption: Rabindranath Thakur and his Inner Life’ in Sumita Naskar (ed.) and Sanjukta Dasgupta (ed.) Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, pp. 23 – 34, February 2016, ISSN 2249-4537, 2014-15 Vol. xxxix.
3. 3. ‘The Crises of Identity as a Postmodernist Feature’ in Dr. Naina Dey (ed.), Uttaran: Academic Journal of Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, pp. 84 – 95, 2016, ISSN 2395-2415.
4. 4. ‘Shakespeare the Poet: Patron – ized’ in Dr. Anasuya Bhar (ed.), Symposium, pp. 18-28, December 2015, ISSN 2320-1452.
5. 5. ‘Asutosh Chaudhuri’s “Kabya Jagat”: An Instance in the Reception of British Romanticism in Nineteenth Century Bengal’ in Dr. Anasuya Bhar (ed.), Symposium, pp. 92-97, December 2013, ISSN 2320-1452.
6. 6.  ‘Family Relations in Rabindranath’s Ghare Baire and Jogajog’ in Dr. Sk. Makbul Islam (ed.), Folklore and Folkloristics, (e-journal) Volume 4, No.1, June 2011.

1. 7. ‘Twelfth Night Or, What You Will: A ‘faithful mirror of manners and of life’, or a Romance?’ in Anasuya Bhar (ed.), Symposium, 2010 (Dept. of English, St. Paul’s C.M. College, Kolkata), pp. 21-26.
2. 8.  ‘India and the World Today: A Reappraisal’ in Siddhartha Biswas (ed.), The Seminar Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored Seminar (April 10, 2008) on Ideology, Culture and Society: India and the World Today, (Kolkata: St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, 2009), pp. 36-38.

In Edited Volumes and Anthologies

1. 9. ‘Memory is Poetry, Poetry Memory – A Study in the Nuances of the Mind’ in Dr. Syeda Ayesha Ali and Ms. Tayana Chatterjee (eds.) Interpretation of Memories: Literary, Psychological, Cultural and Historical Aspects (Kolkata: Rohini Nandan, 2017), pp. 129-134. ISBN 978-81-933615-8-0.

10. 10. ‘The Myth called Hamlet’ in Santanu Das and Subhabrata Sinha Ray (eds.) Shakespeare Reconsidered: A collection of papers presented in an International Conference on Shakespeare (Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University, 2016), pp. 52-64. ISBN 978-81-903618-8-0
11. 11. ‘Romanticism in Nineteenth Century Bengal’ in Pradip Ranjan Sengupta (ed.) Romanticism and Romantic Poetry (Kolkata: Avenel Press, 2016), pp. 58-74. ISBN 978-93-80736-29-7
12. 12. ‘A Part for the (W)hole?: An Analytic Study of Midnight’s Children’ in Tapan Kumar Ghosh and Prasanta Bhattacharyya (eds.) Mapping out the Rushdie Republic: Some Recent Surveys (UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016), pp. 108-123. ISBN 978-1-4438-9784-6
13. 13. ‘Writing her Voice: Autobiography as Expression of the Self in Nineteenth Century Bengal’ in Aparna Bandyopadhyay and Krishna Dasgupta (eds.) The ‘Other’ Universe: An Anthology of Women’s Studies (Kolkata: Setu Prakashani and Women’s Studies Centre, Lady Brabourne College, 2015), pp. 121-134. ISBN 978-93-80677-73-6
14. 14. ‘The Relationship Game in A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Pradip Ranjan Sengupta (ed.), Summer? Night? Or Dream? A Collection of Critical Essays on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Burdwan: Avenel Press, 2014), pp. 58-67. ISBN 978-93-80761-49-7
15. 15. ‘Ideas, Thoughts and Letters in The Japanese Wife’ in Ketaki Datta (ed.), Literature in Translation (Burdwan: Avenel Press, 2014), pp. 11-18, Conceptualized and Sponsored by Bidhannagar Government College.  ISBN 978-93-80761-54-1
16. 16.  ‘ “Once Upon a time there was a bride, a ‘Robber Bride’ …” – A Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride’ in Ketaki Dutta (ed.), New Literatures in English: Fresh Perspectives (Kolkata: The Book World, 2011), pp. 320-326. ISBN 978-81-909991-6-8
17. 17.  ‘Gendering Roles: An Analysis of the ‘temperament’ and ‘mood’ in Macbeth’ in Pradip Ranjan Sengupta (ed.), Macbeth: Re-Explored (Burdwan: Avenel Press, 2011), pp. 50-57. ISBN 978-93-80761-09-1

1. 18.  ‘A Study of Four Indian Short Stories’ in Ketaki Dutta (ed.), Indo-Anglian Literature: Past to Present (Kolkata: Books Way, 2008), pp. 110-119.
2. 19.  ‘Folk Art in India’ in Dr. Sheikh Makbul Islam (ed.) Folkloristics: In Search of Root (Kolkata: Bangiya Sahitya Sansad, 2008), pp. 113-122.

Translations (Bengali to English) in Journals and Edited Volumes

20. In Dr. Awadhesh Misra (ed.), Kala Dirgha – International Journal of Visual Art, October 2013, Vol. 14, No. 27, ISSN 0976-1500, ‘Life’s Experiences find Expression in Art’ – Prasanta Daw (Translated by Anasuya Bhar from Bengali to English), pp. 53-56.

1. 21.  In Shaheen Akhtar and Moushumi Bhowmik (eds.) Women in Concert: An Anthology of Bengali Muslim Women’s Writings, 1904-1938, (Kolkata: Stree, 2008):

(a) ‘Khairunnesa Khatun: The Educationist’ pp. 51-64
(b) ‘Mrs. M. Rahman (1885-1926): A Portrait of Courage’ pp. 65-88.

1. 22. In Malini Bhattacharya and Anasuya Ghosh (eds.), Romanticism in Bengal (1881-1922): An Anthology of Articles from Bangla, (Kolkata: Papyrus, 2003):
2. (a) ‘Literature of Despair’ – Hirendranath Dutta, pp. 107-115
3. (b) ‘The Poetry of Keats’ – Hemendra Prasad Ghose, pp. 125-130

Contributions to texts of Netaji Subhas Open University

23. For the undergraduate course in English Honours.

1. (a) Reading Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, Paper 1 Module 2, Units 17 to 21, pp.40-104 in 2000.
2. (b) Enlightenment Thought, Paper 4 Module 13, Unit 68, pp. 93-113 in 2002.

1. English Study Centre
2. Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature                                  

sb_stpaul@rediffmail.com

Presidency College and University of Calcutta

International Publications:

• Published an article titled ‘Adopting The Dumb Waiter: Negotiating Form and Content’ in ed. Katie Kahle and Imke Bindels, Norwich Papers, University of East Anglia, UK, 2009
• Published an article titled ‘Mission Translation: Impossible’ in ed. Lina Glede and Chloë Somers, Norwich Papers, University of East Anglia, UK, 2007.
• Published an article titled ‘Translating Pinter into India: A Question of Cultural Transformation’ in In Other Words, journal (issue number 29, Summer 2007) of the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
• Two articles on T.S.Eliot and Arthur Miller were published in the book The Essentials of Literature in English, post 1914 edited by Ian Mackean and published by Hodder Arnold, London, 2005.

National Publications:
Books:
               In English

• Edited Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, published by Books Way, Kolkata, 2005 (ISBN 81-89293-30-3).
• Edited J.M.Synge’s Riders to the Sea, published by G.J.Book Society, Kolkata, in 2001, second edition 2003 (ISBN 81-8923-26-5).

           
               In Bengali

• Translation of Invisible Man into Bengali, published by Lekhani in January 2000.
• Translation of Frankenstein into Bengali, published by Lekhani in January 1996.
• Translation of William Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice into Bengali, published by Monfakira in 2014 (ISBN 978-93-80542-63-8)
• Translation of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night into Bengali, published by Monfakira in 2014 (ISBN 978-93-80542-62-1)

Articles:
               In English
               In Books

• Wrote the Descriptive Bibliography of Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta’s articles in the Autumn Annuals of Presidency College Alumni Association in the book Professor Subodh Chandra Sen Gupta: Scholar Extraordinary, edited by Kajal Sengupta, published by the Subodh Chandra Sengupta Foundation in 2000.
• Published an article titled ‘Vanquishing the Tiger: Martel’s Manual of Migration’ in The Diasporic Dilemma: Exile, Alienation and Belonging, edited by Pradipta Mukherjee and Sajalkumar Ghosh, published by Creative Books, New Delhi, 2014 (ISBN 978-81-8043-111-1)
• Published an article titled ‘Sea of Poppies and the Narrative of Exclusion’ in In Pursuit of Amitav Ghosh: Some Recent Readings, edited by Tapan Kumar Ghosh and Prasanta Bhattacharya, published by Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad, 2013 (ISBN 978-81-250-5166-4)
• Published an article titled ‘Reconstruction of Violence in The Shadow Lines: Negotiating History’ in Indian Fiction in English: Mapping the Contemporary Literary Landscape, edited by Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Arnab Kumar Sinha and Himadri Lahiri, published by Creative Books, New Delhi, 2014 (ISBN 978-81-8043-108-1)

   In Journals

• Published an article titled ‘The Art of Popular Cinema: Text, Context and Subtext’ in Pegasus (April 2015, ISSN 0975-8488)
• Published an article titled ‘Syncretic Theatre in India: Propagating Postcolonial Paradigms’ in Symposium, Journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s C.M. College (2014, ISSN 2320-1452).
• Published an article titled ‘The Romantic Dark: Frankenstein and the Other Within’ in Symposium, Journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s C.M. College (2013, ISSN 2320-1452).
• Published an article titled ‘Makbool and the Limits of Theatrical Adaptation’ in Litscape, Journal of Vidyasagar University English Teachers’ Consortium (Volume 8, No. 1, 2013, ISSN 0976-9064).
• Published an article titled ‘Reviewing Autobiography: Charles Dickens and David Copperfield’ in Symposium, Journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s C.M. College (December 2012, ISSN 2320-1452).
• Published an article titled ‘Violence in Post-War Drama: Osborne, Pinter and Bond’ in Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University (Volume 9, 2011-12, ISSN 0973-3671).
• Published an article titled ‘The English Absurd’ in Symposium (August 2011), the journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s C.M. College.
• Published an article titled ‘Elizabethan Sonnets’ in Pegasus, August 2011 (ISSN 0975-8488).
• Published an article titled ‘Pirates of the Caribbean and the Economics of Elizabeth’s England’ in Symposium (April 2010), the journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s C.M. College.
• Wrote an article titled ‘The Satirical Pope’ in Impressions (2007-08), the journal of Department of English, Vivekananda College for Women.
• Wrote an article titled ‘The Stately Tent of War: A Brief Look at Marlowe’s Edward II’ in the Annual Journal (2006) of the Department of English, Rishi Bankim College for Women.
• Wrote an article on Tim Supple’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the June 2006 issue of Connecting (the British Council East India Newsletter) titled ‘So Supple is Shakespeare’.
• Wrote an article on Harold Pinter in the December 2005 issue of Connecting (the British Council East India Newsletter) titled ‘Pinter without a Pause’.
• Published an article titled ‘Huckleberry Finn and the American Dream’ in Pegasus, June 2004.
• Published an article titled ‘Period of Transition’ in the departmental journal of St Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Department of English called Explorations, in January 2003.
• Published an article titled ‘The Strain of Melancholy in Twelfth Night’ in Pegasus, April 2001.
• Published an article titled ‘Keats and the Romantic Other‘ in Pegasus, November 1999.

1.      ‘Desire and Dreams in the Diasporic Consciousness of Amitav Ghosh’ pub in The Diasporic Dilemma: Exile, Alienation and Belonging edited by Pradipta Mukherjee and Sajal Kuma Bhattacharya, pub by Creative Books, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-8083-111-1. (pub in 2014)

2.      ‘“There is always the other side, always”: Silencing the Other in Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea’ pub in Symposium, Journal of the Department of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata (December, 2014)

3.       ‘(Missing) the Presence of the Governess in Jane Austen’s Works’ published in Symposium, Journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata (December 2013)

4.        ‘Of Shadows and Margins: (Over) Looking the Marginalized in Amitav Ghosh’ pub in Journal of Higher Education and Research Society, A Refereed International (Online Journal), ISSN 2321-9432, Vol-1/Issue-1 October 2013

5.        ‘ “Go, my Love”: Cinematic Elements in Andrea del Sarto’  pub in Symposium, Journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata (2012)

6.         ‘Viewing the Veil: Muslim Women and the Hijab’ pub in Musalman Samaj: Aitijer Pratibimba; a book of essays and criticism on ‘Muslim Society: Image of Tradition’ edited by Dr. Sk Makbul Islam, pub by Faruque Ahamed, Udar Akash, P.O. B-Gobindapur, P.S. Bhangar, Dist: Sout 24 Parganas, Pin 743502, ISBN: 978-93-82042-19-8 (pub in 2012)

7.          ‘“Silence!” Unconventional Relationships in the plays of Vijay Tendulkar’ pub in the proceedings of Two Day UGC National Seminar titled ‘Locating New Indianness: A Study of Contemporary Indian Literature in English’ held on 21 and 22 March, 2012 organized by St Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata and City College of Commerce and Business Administration, Kolkata. (pub in 2012)

8.        ‘“That was not my aim in Life. I had other aims”: Marriage versus vocation in the lives of R.K. Narayan’s fictional women’ pub in  Symposium, Journal of the Department of English, St Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata (2011)

1. (a) Jadavpur University Society for American Studies (JUSAS)
2. (b) English Study Centre

Part-Time Guest Lecturer                   

Full-Time Lecturer            

1. Essay entitled ‘From the Circle to the Smoke: Amitav Ghosh’s Literary Journey’ in Collection 6 (October 2012) of the journal Pegasus, edited by Dr. Siddhartha Biswas and Dr. Sukanti Dutta. ISSN no.: 0975-8488
2. Essay entitled ‘The “master theme” in Prometheus Unbound’ in Symposium, the Journal of the Department of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, edited by Dr. Anasuya Bhar.ISSN no.: 2320-1452

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