Professor, Department of English
Jadavpur University Kolkata 700032
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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 1998 JNU M.A. 1990 JNU

Name Of The Institution Position Held Period Jadavpur University Associate Professor 2006 to Present Jadavpur University Reader 2003 to 2006 Jadavpur University Senior Lecturer 1998 to 2003 Jadavpur University Lecturer 1993 to 1998

Psychoanalysis and Literature

UG: Criticism (Core) Modernist Prose Drama of Ideas Edgar Allan Poe PG: Literary Theory and Cultural Studies (Core) Literature and Psychoanalysis Special Author: James Joyce Structure, Sign and Play The Theban Plays of Sophocles M.Phil.: Research Methodology

Reading European or Bengali literary works with works of psychoanalysis. Responses of European and Bengali authors to Freud &/or psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis in theory and psychoanalytic literary theory. Clinical psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation.

Teaching in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, since 1993. Practicing Psychoanalysis in Kolkata since 2012.

Title of the paper Conference Year Role Vol Number-Page Name A Literary Introduction to ‘Lituraterre’ The Literary Lacan: From Literature to Lituraterre and Beyond, Santanu Biswas (ed.) 2012 Author London, Calcutta: Seagull Books-173-195 The Signification of Desire in Lacan Signification In Language and Culture, Harjeet Singh Gill (ed.) 2002 Author Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study-291-330 Jacques Lacan, Doctor Faustus and the Polyneices Complex of Man Signs and Signification, Harjeet Singh Gill and Giovanni Manetti (eds.) 2000 Author Volume II, New Delhi: Bahri Publications-269-292

Title of the paper Journal of publication Year Role Vol Number-Page Name Locating and Annotating the Expression “The Later Teaching of Lacan” Psychoanalysis Lacan, Russell Grigg (ed.) Forthcoming in 2014 Author Vol 1, Australia, Forthcoming in 2014- Repetition and Death Instinct in Subarnarekha The Golden Thread of Ritwik Ghatak, Manas Ghosh (ed.) Forthcoming in 2014 Author Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan-Forthcoming in 2014 The Poinçon (<>) in Lacan (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies, Ellie Ragland (ed.) 2011 Author Volume 6, Missouri: University of Missouri, Spring 2011-135-147 Lacanian Lessons in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter,’’ Moneta’s Veil: Essays on the Nineteenth Century, Malabika Sarkar (ed.) 2009 Author New Delhi: Pearson, 2009-121-143 Rabindranath Tagore and Freudian Thought (Reprinted) Freud Along the Ganges: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the People and Culture of India, Salman Akhtar (ed.) 2005 Author New York: Other Press, Chapter 3-53-78 More

Book Title Publisher Name Year Role The Literary Lacan: From Literature to Lituraterre and Beyond Seagull Books 2012

Awarded By Award Name Year Deakin University, Australia Visiting Research Fellowship 2010 Deakin University, Australia Visiting Academic Fellowship 2005

Name Of The Scholar Title Of The Thesis Co-Superviser Status Year Sarbani Banerjee Man and Woman in Marriage: A Lacanian Approach to the Life and Works of Robert Frost Complete 2011

Name Of The Scholar Thesis Name Co-Superviser Year Gautam Basu Thakur Shelley’s Metaphysics: A Study of Shelley’s Thought, Poetry and Poesis 2003 Saurav Dasthakur Construction of Sexuality in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s and its Reflection in Selected Literary Works of this Period 2002 Sayandeb Chowdhury Etruscan Politics of the Hieroglyphic Body: A Mythopoetics of the Postcommunist Subject 2002

Title Organised By Venue Year Introduction to Lacan through Literature Department of English, Presidency College, Kolkata Presidency College, Kolkata 2008 Lacan and Literature Department of English, Loreto College, Kolkata Loreto College, Kolkata 2007 Psychoanalysis-er Paribhasha [The Terminology of Psychoanalysis] Department of Bengali, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2007 Later Lacan Friday Seminar, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2006 Introduction to the Reading of Lacan Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur Univeristy Jadavpur University 2003 More

Title Honorary Member, Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia, since 2005. Member, Editorial Board, (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies, Ellie Ragland (ed.), Missouri-Columbia, USA. Joint Editor, Culture/Clinic, Jacques-Alain Miller & Maire Jaanus (eds.), Departement de Psychanalyse, Universite de Paris VIII, France, & Columbia University, USA. Member, Editorial Board, Psychoanalysis Lacan, Russell Grigg (ed.), Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia.

Program Name Organised By Venue Year Refresher Course on Literature and Thought (Co-ordinator) Department of English, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2009 Refresher Course on Literary Theory (Participant) Department of English, University of Lucknow University of Lucknow 2005 Refresher Course on Gender and Sexuality (Participant) Women's Studies Jadavpur University 2004 Lectured in 15 Refresher Courses as Resource Person Jadavpur University & University of Calcutta English, Film Studies & Bengali, JU, & Pol. Sc., CU 1994-2014

Program Name Organised By Venue Year Type Of Participation Seminar on the Psychoses Deakin University & Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia 2012 Presented a paper Conference on Psychoanalysis Deakin University & Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia 2011 Presented a paper Seminar on Transference Deakin University & Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia University of Melbourne, Australia 2011 Presented a paper Seminar on the Formations of the Unconscious Deakin University, Australia La Trobe University, Australia 2010 Presented a paper Seminar on Ordinary Psychoses Departement de Psychanalyse, Universite de Paris VIII, France Universite de Paris VIII, France 2008 Presented a paper More

Program Name Session Title Organised By Venue Year International Conference on War, Words and the World: Re-presenting the Great War Department of English & CAS, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2014 International Seminar on Nineteenth-Century Literature Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature, Kolkata Jadavpur University 2010 International Seminar on the Road: Writing, Travel and Travellers Department of English, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2008 International Seminar on Other Voices, Other Cultures: Rereading Orientalism Department of English, Jadavpur University Jadavpur University 2004 Back To Top

Correspondence with Jacques-Alain Miller published in Anne Poumellec (ed.) Lacan Quotidien, Nos. 4, 60 & 65, Paris, Aout to Octobre 2011. The essay 'Rabindranath Tagore and Freudian Thought' has been translated into French (2011), Spanish (2011) and Italian (Forthcoming in 2014).