Experience

Presidency University - Company

• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Professor, Centre for Performing Arts

  • Jun 2016 - Present



Basanti Devi College, University of Calcutta

• Associate Professor, Dept. of English

  • Jun 2006 - May 2016

  Teaching new texts like Conrad's The Secret Sharer, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Tagore's translated text Home and the World (Ghare Baire). These were introduced in the syllabus reformulation of 2011. As Departmental Head between the years 2011--2012, I invited well known faculty like Professor Ananda Lal and to speak on Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Professor Sumita Chakravarty, to participate in a symposium on Tagore's text. Other invited members, were faculty from the… Show more Teaching new texts like Conrad's The Secret Sharer, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Tagore's translated text Home and the World (Ghare Baire). These were introduced in the syllabus reformulation of 2011. As Departmental Head between the years 2011--2012, I invited well known faculty like Professor Ananda Lal and to speak on Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Professor Sumita Chakravarty, to participate in a symposium on Tagore's text. Other invited members, were faculty from the Department of Bengali. I moderated the entire discussion. In addition, creating question papers for English Honours, Part I, II and III examinations, grading answer scripts, and teaching an average of 20 classes per week. I also remain engaged in writing and researching the 19th century Bengal Renaissance, with special focus on women writers. I am interested in the dialogic interfaces of the many texts and cultural modes of 19th and early 20th century Bengali urban and rural life. Show less Teaching new texts like Conrad's The Secret Sharer, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Tagore's translated text Home and the World (Ghare Baire). These were introduced in the syllabus reformulation of 2011. As Departmental Head between the years 2011--2012, I invited well known faculty like Professor Ananda Lal and to speak on Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Professor Sumita Chakravarty, to participate in a symposium on Tagore's text. Other invited members, were faculty from the… Show more Teaching new texts like Conrad's The Secret Sharer, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Tagore's translated text Home and the World (Ghare Baire). These were introduced in the syllabus reformulation of 2011. As Departmental Head between the years 2011--2012, I invited well known faculty like Professor Ananda Lal and to speak on Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Professor Sumita Chakravarty, to participate in a symposium on Tagore's text. Other invited members, were faculty from the Department of Bengali. I moderated the entire discussion. In addition, creating question papers for English Honours, Part I, II and III examinations, grading answer scripts, and teaching an average of 20 classes per week. I also remain engaged in writing and researching the 19th century Bengal Renaissance, with special focus on women writers. I am interested in the dialogic interfaces of the many texts and cultural modes of 19th and early 20th century Bengali urban and rural life. Show less