Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 2005 Jadavpur University

Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Modern South Asian Literature and Culture

Comparative Literature: Concepts and Trajectories, Research Methodology, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Comparative Modern Indian Literatures, Digital Humanities

Comparative Literature: History and Pedagogy, Translation Studies, South Asian Literature and Culture, Comparative Modern Indian Literature

Teaching Experience 16 years of postgraduate and undergraduate teaching. Also taught as guest lecturer at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Visva-Bharati, West Bengal State University, and Rabindra Bharati University. Also taught courses as guest lecturer for the School of Languages and Linguistics, Jadavpur University. Industrial Experience Head, Department of Comparative Literature (2019 February till date) Joint Director, School of Media, Communication and Culture (2019 August till date) Coordinator, Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (2019 till date) Jadavpur University Secretary, Comparative Literature Association of India (2010 till date) Member. Advisory Board (English), Sahitya Akademi (2018 till date) Member, Editorial Board, Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature (British Comparative Literature Association) (2014)

Title of the paper Conference Year Role Vol Number-Page Name Krishnabhavini Das Englondey Bangamahila International Comparative Literature Association Conference, University Paris Sorbonne, Classiques Garnier 2017 -507-518 Engaging with the Oral: Translating Lepcha and Tamang Traditions National Seminar on Route to Oral Literature 2016 Sayantan Dasgupta and Shradhanjali Tamang - In Black and White and Colour: Tintin Travels to the Congo Palaver: Proceedings of the Forum for the Scholars of African Studies Volume 4. Kolkata: Centre for Studies in African Literatures and Cultures, Jadavpur University 2016 -57-68 The Spiritual Economy of Caste and the Politics of Inversion: A Theme-based Study of Three Dalit Narratives in Bangla in Discoursing Minority: In-Text and Co-Text. Jaipur: Rawat Publication International Conference on Minority Discourses across Cultures organized by the Central University of Rajasthan in association with the Comparative Literature Association of India 2014 -153-160 Writing Resistance, Righting Repression: A Reading of Three Stories by Provas Ray, Manoranjan Bapari and M6anohar Mouli Biswas UGC-sponsored National Seminar on Writing as Resistance: Bengali and Other Dalit Writings in English 2013 -39-47

Book Title Publisher Name Year Role Happily Ever After: Bangla Stories of Marital Magic, Misunderstanding and Misadventure Grassroots 2007 First Author Shyam Selvadurai: Texts and Contexts Worldview Publications 2007 First Author A South Asian Nationalism Reader Worldview Publications 2007 First Author Indian English Literature: A Study in Historiography Jadavpur University 2006 First Author Sabda Khoje Edesh Odesh: Pakistan, Sri Lanka O Bharatvarsher Galpo Abobhas 2005 First Author More

Awarded By Award Name Year Erasmus Plus award for Staff Mobility for Teaching with Institute of South and Centraql Asia, Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia 2020 University of East Anglia Vice-chancellors Global Challenges Research Award 2019 UGC-UKIERI award (member, Jadavpur University team in collaboration with St Andrews s University, Scotland) 2015 Travel grant for Wales-India International Translation Winter School from Mercador Institute, Aberystwyth University 2015 Charles Wallace India Trust Charles Wallace Fellowship 2010 More

Program Name Name Of The Collaborator Year Translating Bodo Short Stories The Asiatic Society 2020 Kolkata: Literary Representations in Various Indian Languages Sahitya Akademi 2019 Translation: Poetics and Politics Sahitya Akademi 2018 Literary Translation Salesian College 2017 Translating 19th Century Women s Writing and Writing for Women Bhawanipur Education Society College 2016 More

Title Comparative Literature Association of India International Comparative Literature Association

Type of Professional Activity Period Member, International Comparative Literature Association 2010 to Till date Secretary, Comparative Literature Association of India 2010 to Till date Editor, Sahitya (journal of Comparative Literature Association of India) 2010 to 2019 Member, Advisory Board (English) of Sahitya Akademi 2018 to 2022 Back To Top

Coordinator of Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (CENTIL), Jadavpur University. Member of Editorial Board, Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature (JJCL)