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Name Dr. Joyjit Ghosh Designation Professor Department Name ENGLISH Office Phone No +91 3222 298-255 / Centrex Extn. 255 Email ID joyjitghosh@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in Fax - Mobile No 9434321580 Personal Website Address Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur 721102

Educational Qualification Degree Name Institute Year of passing/awarded Ph.D Vidyasagar University 2006 M Phil Jadavpur University 1996 MA Vidysaagar University 1992 Title of the Ph. D. Thesis A Study of D.H. Lawrence's Letters and their relevance in Lawrence Scholarship

Career Profile / Teaching Experience Professor of English since November 2016 Associate Professor of English since November 2013 Former Lecturer in English, Mahishadal Raj College,Currently Assistant Professor of English, Vidyasagar University since 4 March, 2010

Specialization/Research Area Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest The novels and letters of D.H.Lawrence Indian English poetry Translation Studies Bangla Dalit Literature, Eco-critical Studies, Rabindranath Tagore Diaspora Studies Animal Studies

Course/ Subject Taught English 1. Middle English Drama 2. Romantic and Victorian Literary Criticism in English 3. Modern English novels and poems 4. Indian English poems and novels 5. Marathi and Bangla Dalit Literature in English Translation 6. American Literature 7. New Literatures in English 8. Contemporary Literary Theory 9. Research Methodology

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published International Publication Title Published in Year Published by Critiquing Nation as a Goddess: A Study of the Representation of Nationalism in The Home and the World Gitanjali and Beyond. Critical Essays on Ghare Baire, Issue 4, Special Edition. Guest ed. Md Rezaul Haque and Gillian Dooley 2020 The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), based at Edinburgh Napier University. ISSN 2399-8733 Translation as a Cultural Dialogue between the East and the West - Re-reading The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by Tagore Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol.11, No. 2, July-September 2019. E-ISSN 0975-2935,Indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, ERIHPLUS, EBSCO, PP.1-8 2019 Aesthetics Media Services, Kolkata “The Interface between Education and the ‘Rural Uplift Work’: Re-reading Tagore’s Letters, Lectures and Addresses” Gitanjali and Beyond. Vol.2 (2018): Tagore and the Environment, ed. Bashabi Frazer & Christine Kupfer. Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies, Edinburgh Napier University. ISSN 2399-8733 2018 The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), based at Edinburgh Napier University. The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence: Poetry of the Eternal Present Etudes Lawrenciennes 48 (Time and Temporalities) 2017 Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre,France Lawrence response to Futurism in the letters vis-a-vis his representation of "what the woman is" in "The Rainbow" Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 147-154 2017 Aesthetics Media Services, Kolkata National Publication Title Published in Year Published by Book Review: Shirley Bricout, "Politics and the Bible in D.H. Lawrences Leadership Novels". Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Mediterranee, 2014, ISBN 9782367811048 Journal of the Department of English,Vidyasagar University,Volume 12, 2014-15, 171-76 2017 Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal "I search for my tongue": Exploring the Interface between Language and Diaspora in the poetry of Sujata Bhatt Litscape: Journal of VUETC, Vol.10, No.1, pp.87-97 2017 Vidyasagar University English Teachers Consortium, Midnapore, West Bengal Swaraj, Charkha and the Dream of "Economic Pradise": Debate between Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi Rabindranath Tagore on Economy, Politics and Society: Contemporary Discourses, ed. Sebak Jana, pp.136-148 2017 Dey Book Concern, Kolkata The Letter of Shelley to the Editor of the Quarterly Review: A Study in "the unfortunate subject" Middleflight, Volume 5, Number 1, pp.53-58 2016 Sukumar Sengupta Mahavidyalaya, Keshpur, Paschim Medinipur War, Politics and the betrayal of humanity: The debate of Tagore with Noguchi The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Volume 25 Number 1 (April 2016-June 2016), pp.33-40 2016 The Registrar, Visva-Bharati "My Story" by Kamala Das: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman Women Autobiography in India: Theory and Practice (Proceedings of the National Seminar), ed. K.Purushotham and B. Deepa Jyothi 2016 Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal,Telengana Letters of Rabindranath Tagore and the Art of Communication: Critical Perspectives The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Volume 23 Number 4 & Volume 24 Number 1 (January 2015 - June 2015) 2015 Dr D.Gunasekharan, Registrar, Visva-Bharati Translation of the Poems by Manohar Mouli Biswas ("In the Temple of God", "Rap","Give water", "Childhood collage", "Shadow", "Procession of Peace", "Want to get back","In search of light" The Wheel Will Turn, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi, pp.50-57 2014 Cyberwit.net, Allahabad RE-READING "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" AS A HUMAN TALE MIDDLEFLIGHT,VOL 3,NO 1,PP:66-73 2014 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SUKUMAR SEN GUPTA MAHAVIDYALAYA Translation: Select poems of Kalyani Thakur ("A Poem Against War", "Chandalinir Kobita 38", "My Own Images" Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Vol.11, 2013-14 2014 Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal TRANSLATION: POEMS OF BEETOSHOKE BHATTYACHARYA-"DEWALI","SIGN" INDIAN LITERATURE: SAHITYA AKADEMI,VOL:LVII,NO 6,PP:74-75 2013 SAHITYA AKADEMI CONTEMPORARY BANGLA DALIT POETRY: A READING IN ALTERNATIVE AESTHETICS MIDDLEFLIGHT,VOL 2,NO 1 2013 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SUKUMAR SEN GUPTA MAHAVIDYALAYA TRANSCENDING TRAUMA AND EMPOWERING THE SELF:A STUDY IN "MY STORY" OF KAMALA DAS PROCEEDINGS OF U.G.C SPONSORED NATIONAL SEMINAR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGE PP.38-44 2013 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGE CANONIZING A BLACK VOICE: RACE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE POETRY OF LANGSTON HUGHES JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY vol:10,PP.58-66 2013 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSIT "PTERODACTYL,PURAN SAHAY,AND PIRTHA" BY MAHASWETA DEVI:A READING IN DALIT RESISTANCE TO DEVELOPMENT MARGINAL WRITINGS IN ENGLISH: BENGALI AND OTHER REGIONAL LITERATURES(BOOK),PP:81-89 2013 AUTHORSPRESS, NEW DELHI NATURE AS WOMEN AND WOMEN AS NATURE IN THE POETRY OF D.H LAWRENCE LITERARY INSIGHT PP.70-74 2012 SUDHIR NIKAM AND MADHAVI NIKAM REPRESENTATION OF TRAVEL AND MOVEMENT IN THE LETTERS OF D.H LAWRENCE JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY VOL 9,PP.75-85 2012 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY WRITING A NATION WITHIN A NATION:THE SELECT NOVELLAS OF MAHASWETA DEVI NATION,REPRESENTATION AND INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE,PP:61-70 2012 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,P.K.COLLEGE, CONTAI RECOGNISING THE "OTHER": A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BLACK AMERICAN POETRY AND BANGLA DALIT POETRY APPROPRIATIONS,VOL.8,PP.91-101 2012 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,BANKURA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE READING ‘BANALATA SEN’ IN TWO TRANSLATED VERSIONS Litscape: Journal of V.U.E.T.C., Vol. 7, No.1, pp. 90-99 2012 VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY ENGLISH TEACHERS’ CONSORTIUM BOOK REVIEW:- ANXIOUS NATION : AUSTRALIA AND THE RISE OF ASIA 1850-1939 BY DAVID WALKER JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ,VOL:8 2011 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY "THE LOOKING GLASS" BY KAMALA DAS: A WOMANS WRITING RECRITIQUING WRITING OF WOMAN IN ENGLISH,VOL:1(IN COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR S.P.SINGHA ) 2009 SUNRISE PUBLISHERS, JAIPUR THE LETTERS OF D.H.LAWRENCE: A STUDY IN THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THREE EDITIONS ESSAYS AND STUDIES,X1X-XX,PP:43-59 2006 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY Other Publication Books Published Title of the Book Published by Year Role The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, ed. Laura Wright Routledge 2021 Co-author of a chapter on Vegan studies in the disciplines - religion The Languages of West Bengal; PLSI Vol.31, Part-2, ISBN 978-93-5287-841-3, ed. G.N. Devy, S.P. Singha & I. Acharya Orient BlackSwan 2019 Contributor to two (02) Chapters - Mundari & Kurmali IMAGING D.H LAWRENCE: HIS MIND AND ART IN LETTERS AUTHORSPRESS,NEW DELHI 2012 AUTHOR

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence Ongoing / Submitted Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Sandip Chattaraj Representation of Pain and Suffering in Select Indigenous Folktales of India Prof. Indranil AcharyaProf. Joyjit Ghosh Submitted   SK Tarik Ali Approaching Environmentalism in India: A Study of the Representation of Nature in Select Narratives of Amitav Ghosh and Mahasweta Devi Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhyay Ongoing   Mir Ahammad Ali The Psychopathology of Traumatic Violence in Partition Fiction: A Study of Select Works of Sadat Hasan Manto and Bhishan Sahni Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhyay Ongoing   Awarded Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Jyoti Doley From Roots to Routes: A Study in the Problem of Identity in the Selected Works of Hanif Kureishi Prof. Tirthankar Das Purkayastha Awarded 2021 Beetoshoke Singha Self-Reflexivity in the Select Writings of Rudyard Kipling: A Postcolonial Review Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhya& Prof. Joyjit Ghosh Awarded 2020 Samit Kumar Maiti From Nationalism to Universal Humanism: A Study of the Select Writings of Rabindranath Tagore Nil Awarded 2020 KRISHANU MAITI RETHINKING THE ANIMAL: A CRITICAL STUDY OF SELECT POEMS OF D.H. LAWRENCE AND TED HUGHES PROF. DEBASHIS BANDYOPADHYAY Awarded 2019 ADITI JANA Exploring the Diasporic Identity in the poetry of Meena Alexander, Sujata Bhatt, Uma Parameswaran and Shanta Acharya Nil Awarded 2019 Subrata Sahoo Poetry and Prose Works of Kamala Das:A Study of Writing as Liberation NIL Awarded 2016

Project Work Completed Project Works Project title Worked as Funding Agency Amount in Rs. Duration in years Period Year to Year Status Interrogating Nationalism: Critical Perspectives on the Letters of Rabindranath Tagore Principal investigator U.G.C 150000 1 year and 6 months 2012 2014 Completed

Invited Lectures  Title Organized by Venue Year "The Poetry of Kamala Das and the Poetics of Subjectivity" Department of English, Kharagpur College & Department of English, Egra S.S.B College Online 2020 "I wished he would come back" - Re-reading "Snake" of D.H.Lawrence Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous) Online 2020 Women and Law: Addressing Some Questions in the Present National Scenario Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University 2020 English poetry over the Ages - An Eco-feminist Analysis Winter School presentation organized by Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University 2019 "The Chandalini speaks": A reading of the poetry by Kalyani Thakur International Seminar on "Culture in Modern Bengal: Traditions and Transformations" organized by Khejuri College, Purba Medinipur Khejuri College 2018 Translating Bengali Life Writings National Workshop on Translation organized by UGC SAP DRS Phase 3, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 2018 Raising the Voice for Gender Equity: A Study of Indian English Poetry by Contemporary Women Poets Winter School presentation organized by Womens Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University 2018 "We break the long silence": Depiction of the female body in Sujata Bhatt's poetry State Level Seminar organized by Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata Aliah University (Park Circus Campus) 2018 Personality Development and the Role of the English Language National Seminar organized by K.D. College of Commerce & General Studies in collaboration with VTT College, Midnapore K.D. College of Commerce & General Studies, Midnapore 2017 Writing as an act of liberation - Voices of Women from Eastern India National Level Seminar organized by Sahitya Akademi (Eastern Region) in collaboration with Bhatter College, Dantan Bhatter College, Dantan 2016 LECTURE IN THE CERTIFICATE COURSE ON "TRANSLATION AS A SKILL" CENTRE FOR TRANSLATION OF INDIAN LITERATURE,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 2014 "PROSODY AND PHONETICS: AN INTERFACE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,DEBRA THANA S.K.S MAHAVIDYALAYA DEBRA THANA S.K.S MAHAVIDYALAYA 2014 MODERN ENGLISH POETRY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DYLAN THOMAS DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGE 2013 The poetics of protest - A study in an alternative aesthetics of contemporary Bengali Dalit poetry National Seminar orgnanized by The Department of English, Panskura Banamali College in collaboration with Vidyasagar University English Teachers Consortium Panskura Banamali College 2012

Membership of Learned Society  The D.H.Lawrence Society, UK

Association with Professional Bodies Type of Professional Activity Period MEMBER,CLAI 2012 to 2017 The D.H.Lawrence Society, U.K. 2015 till date

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended/Organised Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop Year Role Held at and Organiser International Webinar on Imagining Catastrophe: Literary and Cultural Representations of Environmental Disaster 2021 Resource Person Department of English & IQAC, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Jhargram D.H. Lawrence, Distance and Proximity: An International Virtual Symposium 2021 Invited Speaker Susan Reid 1st International Conference on Recent Advances in English Studies (Virtual) 2021 Resource Person in Plenary Round Table Session PG Department of English, Bhatter College International Conference on "Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene" 2019 Plenary Speaker Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha 33rd International D.H. Lawrence Conference on D.H. Lawrence and the Anticipation of the Ecological Turn 2019 Invited Speaker University of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre. Organised by the Centre de Recherches Anglophones. National Level Seminar on Women's Writing and Writing about Women: Rewriting Gender and Identity in Indian English Literature 2019 Invited Speaker Department of English, Egra SSB College in collaboration with IQAC International Conference on Translation across Cultures - Dissolving Boundaries- Creating Harmony 2018 Invited Speaker Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP during 4-6 October 2018 The 14th International D.H.Lawrence Conference on "London Calling: D.H.Lawrence and the Metropolis 2017 Invited speaker Organized by New College of the Humanities in association with CCILC, DHLSNA,and D.H.Lawrence Society, UK. Held at New College of the Humanities, London International Winter School for Literary Translation 2017 Translator Organized by CENTIL, Jadavpur University, in collaboration with Writers Centre, Norwich & British Centre for Literary Translation. Held at Jadavpur University National Seminar on Question of Identity in the Literature of Indian Diaspora in English 2017 Invited speaker Department of English, Egra College, Purba Medinipur, WB National Level Seminar on Documentation and Digitization of cultural Texts and Languages - Problems and Prospects 2016 Invited Speaker Department of English, Vidyasagar University. Organized by DRS SAP Phase II, Department of English, VU International Conference on Dalit Literature and/in Translation 2015 Invited speaker University of East Anglia, U.K. National Seminar on War, Literature and Humanity: Rethinking English Literature in the Context of World War I 2015 Invited speaker P.K. College, Contai, Purba Medinipur, WB International Conference on Time, Temporalities and D.H. Lawrence 2014 Invited Speaker University of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre. Organised by the Centre de Recherches Anglophones. THE JOURNEY OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:INDIA AND BEYOND 2013 PAPER PRESENTER DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, JOINTLY ORGANISED BY CLAI AND DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY A MAN OF LETTERS: RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND HIS EPISTLES 2013 PAPER PRESENTER BISVA-BHARATI,RABINDRA BHAVAN SHANTINIKETAN NATIONAL SEMINAR ON INDIAN ENGLISH PROSE AND POETRY:NEW PRESPECTIVE 2012 PAPER PRESENTER DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MIDNAPORE COLLEGE Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised Title of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop Year Role in the Event Funding Agency International Folklore Conference on Locating Folk Narratives in the Literary/Cultural Genres of Eastern India 2019 Joint Convenor UGC International Conference on Performance and the Prospects of Folkloric Tribal Culture of Eastern India organized by SAP III, DRS Phase II in collaboration with The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies 2018 Deputy Coordinator, DRS UGC National Conference on Dalit and Tribal Identities, the Nation, and Globalization 2017 Head, Department of English, VU & Deputy Co-ordinator, DRS UGC ALTERNATIVE CULTURE,ALTERNATIVE LITERATURE:DE/RE-CONSTRUCTING THE CANON 2014 JOINT COORDINATOR U.G.C RE-THINKING THE DIASPORIC IMAGINARY 2012 COORDINATOR U.G.C

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