Kalyani University :: Faculty Members

Dr. Pralay Kumar Deb Professor
Academic Qualification	M.A., Ph.D. (Calcutta)
Telephone No.	(033) 2351 4473 (R)
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	Classical and English Drama Literary Theory
ii) Research	Renaissance and Restoration Comedy
Research Projects	"The Matrix of Postmodernism : A Study of John Fowles" "The Spirit of the Gothic in the Novels of the Bronte Sisters" "Feminist Approaches to Shakespearean Comedy" "Impact of the Industrial Revolution on the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlkotte Bronte"
Recent Significant Publications	Book Articles • "Shakespeare in the Classroom", 2002 Seminar Booklet, Behala College, Kolkata • "Lago's Motive[s]", 2002 Re-presenting Shakespeare : Interpretations and Translations, University of Kalyani • "The Witches and Lady Macbeth : Points of View", Re-presenting Shakespeare : Text, Performance and Analysis, 2002 University of Kalyani • "Shakespeare's Tragic Vision : Studies in Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth," Studies in Shakespeare, Burdwan University, 1999 Journal Articles "Comedy in Johnson and Congreve", Literature and Critism, 2001

Dr. (Ms.) Nila Das Professor
Academic Qualifications	M.A., Ph.D. (Visva-Bharati)
Telephone No.	(03463) 262778 / (033) 2582 3881
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	Classical Greek Drama Renaissance English Drama Twentieth Century English and European drama Indian Literature in English and in English translation Romantic Poetry
ii) Research	Twentieth Century Drama (English, European, American) Twentieth Century American Literature, including Native American, Asian American, Chicano poetry, novel and short stories Indian Literature in English and in English Translation
Research Projects	Post Sixties Native American Literature Indian (Asian) American Womens' Writing Indian Literature in English and Translation
Recent Significant Publications	Book • "The Double Bind : Identity Politics in Contemporary North American Indian literature" Politics of Location in the Multi-ethnic Literatures of the Americas, 2003. Ed. Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka. Amn Publishing House : Chandigarh. MELUS (India) publication. • "Crossing Cultural Borders : New Voices in Indian American Literature" Jhampa Lihiri : The Master Storyteller. A Critical Response to Interpreter of Maladies, 2002. Ed. Suman Bala. New Delhi : Khosla Publishing House. • "Experiments in Cultural Politics in Thomas King's Green Grass Running Water and Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows." Cross-Cultural Transactions in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US 2002. Ed. Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, Vijay K. Sharma. Prestige Publication. MELUS (India) publication. • "Novels on Amerika' Vietnam War : On the Edge of Cultural Political Frontier", Rediscovering America : American Studies in the New Century. 2001. Ed. Kousar Azam, New Delhi : South Asian Publishers. (Indo-American Centre for International Studies Conference papers). • "Male Space in Female Perspectives : Decoding Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve and Possession". • Indian Writing in the New Millennium 2000. Ed. R.K. Dhawan. Indian Association for English Studies Publication. • "Image and Ideology in Some Contemporary American Indian Short Stories", Ideology and the American Novel, 2000. Ed. Sukhbir Singh. R.B. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi 2, (ISBN 81-7646 - 171 - 7) (American Studies Research Center publication) Journal • "Returning to the Folk : Three Contemporary American Plays" The Indian Journal of English Studies. 20. 2001. Vol. XXXVII

Dr. Sarbani Chaudhury
Professor

Academic Qualifications

M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D. (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)

Recent Significant Publication

"Anticipating the English Reformation in Popular Culture : Simon Fish's A Supplication for the Beggars." Revista Atenea 23.2 (December 2003) 25-38. Department of English, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.
"A Post-Colonial Reading of the Garden Scene in Richard II" Contemporary Literarcy Criticism : Theory and Practice. Vol. 1. Ed. N.D. R. Chandra, Delhi : Authors Press, 2003. 284-99
"Englishing the Colonies in Shakespeare's Henry V" Re-presenting Shakespeare : Interpretations and Translations. Ed. Sarbani Chaudhury. Kalyani : University of Kalyani, 2002, 41-52. [ISBN 81-901525-1-3.]
"Authority and Subversion in Shakespeare's Henry IV" Critical Theory, Textual Application. Ed. Shormistha Panja. Delhi : Worldview Press, 2002, 213-246. [ISBN 81-86423-76-1.]
"The Making and Breaking of Nations in Shakespeare's Henry V", Creation / Recreation. Compiled John Lambert and Mitzi Anderson Unisa : University of South Africa, 2002. 30-48. [ISBN 1-86888-239-X].
"The Other Face of Romanticism : Class, Empire and Gender in the Literature of 1788-1832", International Studies : Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal 4.2 (2002) : 109-126. Lodz : Lodz, University Press.
"Shakespeare and Us", Journal of the Department of English 28. 2 (2000-2001) : 17-24. Kolkata : University of Calcutta, 2002.
"Aaron and the Textuality of Experience in Titus Andronicus", Colonial and Postcolonial Shakespeares. Eds. Amitava Roy, Krishna Sen and Debnarayan Bandyopadhyaya, Kolkata. The Shakespeare Society of Eastern India and Avantgarde Press, 2001, pages 374-82.
"Interface in Marginal Romantic Literature", Journal of the Department of English. 6 (2000-2001) Re-assessing Romanticism : Millennial Perspectives (Kolkata : Rabindra Bharati University, 2001) : 75-100
"The Utopian Paradox of Saint Thomas More", The Atlantic Literary Review 2.2 (April-June 2001) : 45-66
Othello : An Indian Approach", Studies in Shakespeare. Ed. Kalyan Kumar Chatterjee Burdwan : Burdwan University, 1999, pages 40-50

Books

• Edited Re-presenting Shakespeare : Text, Performance and Analysis, Kolkata : Department of English, University of Kalyani and Macmillan, 2002
• Study Material Elective English, Honours - Shakespeare : The Merchant of Venice. Kolkata : Netaji Subhash Open University, 2000. Annotated Macmillan College Prose ed. T. Sriraman, Kolkata : Macmillan, 2001.

Dr. Debiprasad Bhattacharya Professor
Academic Qualifications	M.A., Ph.D. (Calcutta)
Telephone No.	(033) 2411 1859 (R)
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	18th and 19th Century English Literature Indian Writing in English and in Translation Australian Literature
ii) Research	Victorian Fiction Indian Writing in English
Recent Significant Publication	"Amitabh Ghosh's The Shadow Lines : A Re-View", Calcutta University Departmental Journal, 2003. "Robert Browning and The Dramatic Monologue", Literary Responses, Calcutta University, 2001 Evangelicalism, Utilitarianism and Victorian Fiction, "Literary Space, Burdwan : Burdwan University, 2001 "Ovid Revisited : A Reading of Imaginary Life", Journal of Australian Literature (2001) The Middle Class in Dickens : A Study of His Major Novels. Calcutta : Minerva Associates, 2000

Dr. Basudeb Chakraborty Professor
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (University of Calcutta & University of Texas at Houston USA), M.Phil (Nagpur University), Ph.D. (University of Kalyani), PGDTE (CIEFL,Hyderabad) Doctoral Thesis on Thomas Hardy
Telephone Nos.	(033) 2421 7897 (R), 033-24818553
E-mail:	basudeb_c@rediffmail.com basudeb_c@vsnl.net
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	Linguistics Indian Writing in English 19th Century English Literature Translation Study
ii) Research	Indian Partition Literature in English
Recent Significant Publication	Books - 1) Thomas Hardy's view of Happiness : A study of his major novels and short stories 1997 2) Some Problems of Translation :A study of Tagore's Red Oleanders 2005. 3)"What Translation Really Means"Studies in Translation. 2002 2) "Girish Ghose's Re-presentation of Shakespeare in Bengali : A Study of Act One, Scene One of Macbeth" in Re-presenting Shakespeare Interpretations & Translation, ed. S. Chaudhury Dept. of English, University of Kalyani, 2002 • "Context : A Comparative Study of Jumpa Lahiri's A Temporary Matter and Shubuta Ghosh's Jatugriha in The Journal of Indian Writings in English, ed. G.S. Balarama Gupta, Vol. 30 January 2002 No.1, Gulbarga Karnataka (pp. 23-29) • "What a Translation Really Means" in Studies in Translation, ed. Mohit K. Ray, New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2002 (pp 41-50) • "A Pakistani Women's Quest for Self Identity and freedom", Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, 1999-2000 (pp. 18-31) • "Context : Tehmina Durrani's Blasphemy and the Sufi Shrine Myth", Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, 2000-2001 (pp.89-109) • "Hermingway's Short Story 'The Undefeated': A Study of its Theme and Language", West Bengal. December 1999 • "Context : Tagore Criticism and Translation Text of Raktakarabi", West Bengal, May 1999

Mr. Tirthankar Chattopadhyay Reader
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (University of Calcutta), M.A. (Leeds)
Telephone Nos.	033 2441 2066 (R)
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	English Literature (20th century) European Romanticism Latin American Fiction Autobiography
ii) Research	Bengali Poetry (Post-Tagore) Autobiography English Poetry : Arabian Mitchell, Toni Harrison, English Novel : E.M. Forster, V.S. Naipaul, European Fiction
Recent Significant Publication	"Sudhindranather Goddo : Swagata" Paschim Banga Academy Patrika, 2003. (In Bengali) Chief Editor, Ekdin Shatabdir Sheshey : Jibanananda Smarak Shankalan. Calcutta : WBCUTA, 2000.

Mr. Shankar Chatterjee Reader
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (University of Calcutta)
Telephone No.	(033) 2441 5604 (R)
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	Renaissance Literature Cricital Theories
ii) Research	19th Century British Literature

Mr. Ashok Sengupta Reader
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (Jadavpur University, Kolkata)
Telephone No.	(033) 2288 6944
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	20th Century and the Contemporary Novel in English American Literature
ii) Research	20th Century and the Contemporary Novel in English American Literature and Culture Cultural and Film Studies
Recent Significant Publications	Include essays on the British and American novel of the 20th century, film, science fiction and popular culture.

Ms. Sharmila Majumdar Lecturer
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (University of Kalyani) .
Telephone No.	033 2472 8583 (R)
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	American Literature Women's Writing
ii) Research	Indian Writing in English American Literature
ii) Recent Significant Publication	"The Local Color Movement and the Development of the Short Story in America". The Literary Society of India. Vol. 2, No.1. 2002

Ms. Kavita Mukherjee Lecturer
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (University of Calcutta) M. Phil. (Jadavpur University, Calcutta)
Telephone No.	033 2412 5890 / 098302 35350
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	18th Century English Literature Post-Colonial Literature Women's Writing
ii) Research	"The Diction of Browning's Poetry"

Dr. (Ms.) Sinjini Bandyopadhyay Lecturer
Academic Qualifications	M.A., Ph.D. (University of Calcutta)
Telephone Nos.	(033) 2359 5378 / (033) 2337 5234
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	Twentieth Century Fiction New Literatures in English
ii) Research	Twentieth Century British Fiction Autobiography / Biography
Recent Significant Publications	Minor Research Project 2002-2003 "Autobiographical Writings by Women in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal"

Ms. Nandini Saha Lecturer
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Telephone Nos.	033 2582 3828 / 098305 03709
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	Women's Writing Indian Writing in English Fiction
ii) Research	20th Century British Fiction

Mr. Niladri Ranjan Chatterjee Lecturer
Academic Qualifications	M.A. (Jadavpur University)
Telephone Nos.	033 2556 8177 / 098302 48750
E-mail:
Area of Interest
i) Teaching	European Literature Latin American Literature Women's Writing Indian Writing in English 20th Century Fiction
ii) Research	20th Century Fiction Popular Culture
Recent Significant Publications	"Billie's Blues, 'Jimmy's Blues' : James Baldwin's Billie Holiday", Essays and Studies. Jadavpur University, 2003 "1798 : The Year In Music", Thoughts. Calcutta : Book Fair Issue, 2001 "Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood : The Account of a Friendship", Aldous Huxley and Indian Thought. Eds. Sumita Roy and Annie Pothen, Delhi : Sterling, 2003 "Portraint of the Artist As Companion : Interviews with Don Bachardy," The Isherwood Century. Eds. Jim Berg and Christopher Freeman. Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2000 "'Fascinating Rhythm' : An Overview of American Songwriting with Reference to Standards, "Studies in American Literature, 199. United Stated Information Service.