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Name Prof. Indranil Acharya Designation Professor , Head Department Name ENGLISH Office Phone No +91 3222 298-254 / Centrex Extn. 254 Email ID indranil@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in Fax 03222-275329 Mobile No 9735359528 Personal Website Address Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur 721102

Educational Qualification Degree Name Institute Year of passing/awarded Ph.D. VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY 2004 M.A. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 1997 B.A. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 1995 Title of the Ph. D. Thesis The Problematics of Identity in the Poetry of Yeats andEliot

Career Profile / Teaching Experience SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY 04.03.2008-16.11.2009; READER 17.11.2009-16.11. 2012; ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 17.11.2012-16.11.2015; PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY SINCE 17 NOVEMBER, 2015 SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, KRISHNAGAR GOVT. COLLEGE, NADIA & JHARGRAM RAJ COLLEGE, JHARGRAM 09.03.2006- 03.03. 2008 LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, P.K. COLLEGE, CONTAI, 17.11.2000-16.11.2004 SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, P.K. COLLEGE, CONTAI, 17.11.2004-08.03.2006 GUEST FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, NARENDRAPUR R.K.MISSION RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE, KOLKATA, 1998-1999

Specialization/Research Area Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest LITERATURE OF THE MARGINALIZED (DALIT&TRIBAL) IN TRANSLATION Unwritten Languages Oral Literature Tribal Culture Documentation Translation & Analysis of Endangered Folk Drama of West Bengal

Course/ Subject Taught Folklore Studies Eighteenth Century Literature Victorian Poetry Modern Poetry Literary Criticism Australian Literature Indian Writing in English Translation Dalit Literature English Grammar (for CBCS)

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published International Publication Title Published in Year Published by Interpreting the Androgyny: A Statement against Patriarchal Domination in Margaret Atwoods The Year of the Flood International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities; vol.7, issue 6; pp.177-189 2019 SMART MOVES Publication Languages in Danger: A Critical Study of the Threatened Tribal Languages of Bengal JALS Vol.5 Nos.1&2 Jan-Dec 2016;33-49 2016 Bahri Publications Politics of Cultural Amnesia: A Case Study of Machhani Folk Drama Form of Purulia Lokaratna, vol.IX, 2016, 83-95 2016 Folklore Foundation Quest for an Alternative Aesthetic in Bangla Dalit Folk Poetry (book chapter) Proceedings of International Folklore Congress; Bangla Academy, Dhaka, 2015; pp. 129-142 2015 Bangla Academy Dhaka The Aesthetics of Bangla Dalit Poetry Rupkatha: An Online Open Access Journal, Volume VI, Number 2, 2014. 2014 The Department of English, University of Calcutta Marxism, Dalitism and the Politics of Exclusion in Bengal: An Inquest Creative Forum, vol.26, no.1; Jan-June 2013, pp. 84-105 2013 Bahri Publications National Publication Title Published in Year Published by "Sunderban" series of poems translated into English Indian Literature, vol. LXIV, No.6, 109-111 2020 Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi Patriarchal Reinscription in Feminist Discourse : A Study of Margaret Atwoods Maddaddam Trilogy Middle Flight vol.8 no.1 November 2019 pp.184-192 2019 Department of English S.S. Mahavidyalaya Discourse of Marginality and the Indigenous Literature of Australia and India: A Study Middle Flight, vol.6, no.1, pp.131-141 2017 SSM College Negotiating Cultural Translation of Bangla Dalit Literature: Issues and Innovations Litscape, vol.10, no.1, 2017, pp.17-23 2017 VUETC Social Satire and the Cult of Lord Shiva in Two Folk Performances of Bengal and Odisha: A Study (book chapter) Repositioning Folklore and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (edited book), 2016, 289-297 2016 Centurion University, Odisha Representing Indigenous Identity: A Select Study of Australian Aboriginal and Indian Dalit Poetry (book chapter) Indo-Australian Connections: Retrospect and Prospects (edited book), 2016, 150-162 2016 Pinnacle Books, New Delhi Endangered Folk Drama Forms of Subarnarekha Basin: Some Disturbing Revelations Litscape, Vol.9, no.1; 2015; pp.55-61 2015 VUETC The Dynamics of Dalit Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading of ManjuBala’s ‘Dwando’ (Conflict) Middle Flight; vol.4, no.1, 2015; pp.13-23 2015 SSM College Folk Performance and the Politicized Public Sphere: Future of Gambhira in Malda District of West Bengal The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, vol.23, nos. 2&3, July-December 2014, p.no.99 2014 Visva-Bharati University Translated Poems of Bangla Dalit Poet SusilMandal Indian Literature, vol. LVII No.6, Nov/Dec 2014, pp.51-53 2014 SahityaAkademi Hierarchies of Exploitation amongst Adivasi Communities: A Study of Anil Gharai’sThe Almond Flowers Towards Social Change: Essays on Dalit Literature; eds. SP Singha and Indranil Acharya, Orient Blackswan, 2014, pp. 76-84 2014 Orient Blackswan, 2014 Poems of Herbert, Keats, Tennyson and Ramanujan (book chapter) Many Coloured Glass: A Compulsory English Textbook for V.U. (edited by faculty members), Macmillan, 2013, pp. 103-114 2013 Macmillan, New Delhi, 2013 “Aestheticizing without Agenda: A Counter-Reading of the Western Approach to Chhau Dance”. Published in Rupkatha: An Online Open Access Journal, ISSN 0975-2935 Volume V, Number 2, 2013. Rupkatha: An Online Open Access Journal volume-v 2013 Dept. of English, Calcutta University Marxism, Ambedkarism and the Structures of Exclusion in Bangla Dalit Literature Littcrit, Vol.39, No.1, June 2012. ISSN: 0970-8049 2012 P. Ajayakumar Reformulating Public Diplomacy :A Study of the Indigenous Languages of Bengal(book chapter) New Dimensions in Public Diplomacy 2012 SSS Publications, NewDelhi Translated into English DhaniBauri Gets ‘Salvation’ by Sunil Kumar Das (book chapter) Survival and Other Stories; eds. S.P.Singha&Indranil Acharya; Orient Blackswan; New Delhi, 2012, pp.147-153 2012 Orient Blackswan; New Delhi, 2012 “The Diasporic Consciousness in the Fictional Works of JhumpaLahiri”. Litscape: Journal of VUETC (ISSN 0976-9064), 2009 VUETC Other Publication Title Published in Year Published by Re-Interpreting Mahabharata in Bangla Dalit Drama: A Study Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, vol.LXXI No.1,pp.21-25 2020 Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Golpark, ISSN 0971-2755 Dalit Sahitya: KichhuPrasongikBhavna (book chapter) ManabAdhikar: Nana Dik, ed.Yasin Khan, Progressive Publishers, Kolkata, 2015, state level publisher; pp.749-756 2015 Progressive Publishers, Kolkata Situating Folk Performances in the Public Domain: An Evaluation of Gambhira and Mughal Tamasha Journal of the Department of English, V.U., Vol.11, pp.59-67, 2013-14 2014 The Registrar, Vidyasgar University “The Problematics of Gender Identity in the Early Poetry of T.S.Eliot”. Middle Flight: SSM Journal of English Literature (ISSN 2319- 7684), Vol.1, No.1, 2013 SSM College “Politics of Representation in Translation and Publication of Bangla Dalit Writing: A Critique”. Litscape: Journal of VUETC (ISSN 0976- 9064), Vol.8, No.1, March 2013. 2013 VUETC Translated into English two Dalit poems of Anil Gharai Journal of the Department of English, vol.10, 2012-13; pp.164-165 2013 Registrar, Vidyasagar University “Resistant Subalternity: Re-reading Indigenous Writings of Australia and India”. Journal of the Dept. of English, V.U., Vol.9 (ISSN 0973-3671), 2012 VU Nation and the Politics of Language of its Tribal Populace: A Case Study of the Indigenous Languages of West Bengal(book chapter) Nation and its Tribal People; eds.R.Chakrabarti&K.Chatterjee; 2012 Books Way, Kolkata, 2012 state level publisher Translation of three poems of Anil Gharai. Journal of the Dept. of English, V.U., Vol.8 (ISSN 0973-3671), 2010 VU Books Published Title of the Book Published by Year Role Janajati Darpan volume 7, ISBN 978-93-82158-74-5 Multi Books 2020 Editor Disaster, Holocaust and Dystopian Literature, ISBN 978-81-946799-3-6 Upanayan Publications, New Delhi 2020 Contributed the Foreword The Languages of West Bengal; PLSI Vol.31, part-2,ISBN: 978-93-5287-841-3 Orient Blackswan 2019 Co-editor Revisiting Indigenous Identity in Santal Folktales: A Critical Study; by Arpita Raj Authorspress, New Delhi 2019 Contributed the General Introduction Janajati Darpan volume 3 ISBN:978-81-932737-8-4 Knowledge Bank Publishers and Distributors 2019 Editor Janajati Darpan volume 2(ISBN:9788193273746) Knowledge Bank Publishers & Distributors 2018 Editor 8.PASCHIMBANGER BHASHA Peoples Linguistic Survey of India (ISBN: 978-81-250-6251-6); vol.31, part-3 Orient Blackswan 2017 co-editor 7.Smritibiloper Pore (After Amnesia by G.N.Devy) ISBN:978-93-86689-59-7 Orient Blackswan 2017 translator (Bengali) 6.Janajati Darpan volume 1(ISBN:978-81-932737-4-6) Knowledge Bank Publishers and Distributors 2017 editor 5.Listen to the Flames: Texts and Readings from the Margins Oxford University Press 2016 co-editor 4.Towards Social Change: Essays on Dalit Literature (ISBN 978-81-250-5344-6). Orient Blackswan 2014 co-editor 3. Many Coloured Glass: A Compulsory English Textbook for V.U. (co-edited). New Delhi: Macmillan, 2013 (ISBN 935-0596-15-6). Macmillan, 2013 co-editor 2. Survival and Other Stories: Dalit Bangla Fiction in Translation (co-edited). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012 (ISBN 978 81 250 4510 6). Orient Blackswan 2012 co-editor 1. “Beyond a Sense of Belonging: Race, Class and Gender in the Poetry of Yeats and Eliot”. New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2011 (ISBN 819022827-7). SSS Publications, 2011 sole author

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence Ongoing / Submitted Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar Representation of Class, Caste and Gender in the Select Plays of Non-Dalit and Dalit Playwrights None Ongoing 2023 Pratima Das Shakespeare in Hindi Translations: A Study of Select Plays Dr Sanjay Kumar Jayswal Ongoing 2023 Dipasree Roy The Unconscious in the Colonial Experience of Rudyard Kipling: A Study of Select Texts Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhyay Ongoing 2020 Koutuk Dutta Towards An Alternative Canon: A Study of Select Works of Verrier Elwin and G.N.Devy   Ongoing 2019 Koushik Roy Margaret Atwood Maddaddam Trilogy and Old English Elegies: A Cross-Chronological Study Prof. Sankar Prasad Singha Ongoing 2019 ArpitaBhowmik Representation of Indigeneity in the Works of Verrier Elwin Dr Amal Chakraborty Ongoing 2019 Sandeep Chattaraj Representation of Pain and Suffering in Select Indigenous Folktales of India: A Study Dr Joyjit Ghosh Ongoing 2019 Amitava Pal Art and Power-play in Tom Stoppard Plays: A Re-appraisal   Ongoing 2019 Awarded Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Supromit Maiti (M.Phil.) Manifestation of the Unconscious in Select Novels of Haruki Murakami None Awarded 2020 AninditaSen Discourse of Human Rights in Testimonio Writings: A Select Study   Awarded 2019 Riya Dutta (M.Phil) Representation of Women in Contemporary Tribal Literature: A Select Study   Awarded 2019 Tanmoy Singha (M.Phil.) Poetics of Resistance: Representation of Marginal Women's Voices in the Select Works of Bama and P.Sivakami   Awarded 2018 Souparna Roy (M.Phil.) Formation of Dalit Identity through Suffering and Resistance: A Study of Select Dalit Autobiographical Narratives   Awarded 2018 Aditi Mahapatra (M.Phil.) A Comparative study of Indian Dalit Feminism and African-American Feminism with special reference to Bama and Toni Morrison   Awarded 2018 Arpita Raj Representation of Indigenous Identity in Santal Folk Narratives: A Study Dr Ratan Hembram Awarded 2018 Ujjwal Panda Sense of Place in the Poetry of Larkin and Heaney   Awarded 2017 Tajuddin Ahmed Rediscovering Early Indian Muslim Novelists Writing in English: A Study of Iqbalunnisa Hussain and Zeenuth Futehally Prof. Sankar Prasad Singha Awarded 2015

Project Work Completed Project Works Project title Worked as Funding Agency Amount in Rs. Duration in years Period Year to Year Status UGC Innovative Research Project Colonial to Post-Colonial: Re-Visiting the Cultural Cartographies of Adivasi Communities in West Bengal Principal Investigator UGC 260000 2 year and 6 months 2015 2017 Completed Principal Investigator of UGC Major Research Project [F.No. 5-97/2013 (HRP); dated 11.03.2013] entitled “Documentation, Translation and Analysis of Bengali Folk Drama in the Context of Endangerment”. Total grants: 9.35 lakhs Principal Investigator UGC 935000 2 years 2013 2015 Completed Deputy Coordinator in the ongoing UGC SAP-III DRS-I Project (2009-14) till 06.03.2013; thrust area: documentation and translation of Dalit and tribal literature in West Bengal. Total grants: 35.5 lakhs Deputy Coordinator UGC 3550000 5 years 2009 2014 Completed Completed one UGC MRP entitled “Black Words, White Page: A Historical and Critical Survey of Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction of Australia”; completed by December, 2008; grants received: Rs.75,000/- Principal Investigator UGC 75000 2 years 2007 2009 Completed

Invited Lectures  Title Organized by Venue Year Literature from the margins: An Indian Indigenous Context Folklore Foundation, Bhuvaneswar, 23rd May 2021 Zoom online platform 2021 Indigenous Literatures of Australia and India: A Comparatist Perspective in the Context of Endangerment, 22 January 2021 Calcutta Comparatists 1919, the University of Calcutta Streamyard online platform 2021 English Studies and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: A Study of Ethnographic Methods Department of Comparative Literature under the aegis of UGC HRDC, Jadavpur University, 08.01.2021, refresher course Google Meet online platform 2021 Promotion of Tribal Languages and Scripts- Academic Perspective Tata Metaliks Limited, Regional Samvaad, 31st March, 2021 Streamyard online platform 2021 Aesthetics of Dalit Literature Department of English, Jadavpur University, 7&8 April, 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Quality Research and Citation in Humanities Vidyasagar University Teachers Association 7 July 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Field Survey and Documentation of Dalit and Tribal Cultural Texts Bhatter College Dantan 4 July 2021 Zoom online platform 2021 Redefining Language in the Modern Digital Era Ambedkar College Tripura 1 July 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Comparative Literary Study of Indigenous Languages in the context of Endangerment UGC Refresher Course organised by the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Calcutta, 13 March 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Online lecture on "Translation of Dalit and Adivasi Literature: Issues, Challenges and Strategies " Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi, 2nd June 2020 Google Meet platform 2020 Online lecture on "Dr Ambedkar and the Idea of Untouchability in Indian Society" Midnapore College Autonomous, 11th June 2020 Google Meet platform 2020 Online lecture on "Dalit Literature: An Overview" Kharagpur College PG Section and Egra SSB College, 24th June 2020 Google Meet platform 2020 Indigenous Languages, Oral Literature and Tribal Culture Pune Writers Group on 20th June 2020 Zoom Platform 2020 Theory of Cultural Marginality and the Study of Dalit Literature National Webinar on Cultural Theory organised by Scott Christian Autonomous College, M.S.University Tamil Nadu on 30.07.2020 Zoom Online platform 2020 Australian Aboriginal Writings and Indian Indigenous Literature: A Study in the Context of Endangerment Faculty of Arts Communication and Indic Studies, Sri Sri University, Odisha, 13 August 2020 Zoom Online platform 2020 Reflections on the Poetry of W.B. Yeats Nabagram Hiralal Pal College on 29.09.2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Literature from the Margins: An Indian Indigenous Perspective Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan, 21 October 2020 Zoom online platform 2020 Politics of Indigeneity in the Indian Context: Some Literary Reflections International Webinar organised by Jhargram Raj Govt. College, Girls Wing 14 October 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Recent Trends in Indigenous Languages and Literature: A Study of DNT Literature UGC HRDC The University of Burdwan organized Refresher Course, 14th December 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Translation of Bhasha Literature: Some Reflections Centre for the Translation of Indian Literature(CENTIL) Jadavpur University 27th September 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Literature of the Marginalised: A Study in the Indian Context Department of English, University of Gour Banga, Malda, September 02, 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Marginalised Literature: An Overview Department of English, SBSSM College on 26th September 2020 StreamYard online platform 2020 Tribal Language and Literature: An Introduction Amity University, Institute of English Studies, Kolkata, 02.07.2020 Microsoft Team platform 2020 Childhood and Intersectionality in the context of Indian Dalit Literature in ICSSR sponsored national webinar H.M.Memorial College Dakshineswar, Kolkata, 13 September 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Dalit Literature: An Introduction Midnapore City College, September 16, 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Earnest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Netaji Subhas Open University ICT Enabled Lecture Series; 20 April 2019 NSOU Salt Lake Campus 2019 1. Linguistic Ecology of India, 2. Endangered Languages of West Bengal, 3. Translation Studies UGC HRDC Ranchi University; 01& 02 August 2019 Ranchi University Jharkhand 2019 Translation of Indigenous Literature CENTIL,Department of Comparative Literature, 25 January 2019 Jadavpur University 2019 Multilingualism and Translation: Issues and Innovations Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies University of Hyderabad , 13 November 2019 2019 Seneca Thyestes Ancient European Classics series, Audiovisual Lecture Netaji Subhas Open University, 31 October 2019 Media Centre, NSOU Salt Lake campus 2019 Endangerment of Minor Language Literature in the Post-Colonial Era Human Resource Development Centre, Burdwan University;UGC Refresher Course; 21st December 2019 The University of Burdwan 2019 Critical Theory: Recent Trends in English Studies Department of English, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha; 05 November, 2018. Department of English, Ravenshaw University 2018 Henry Fielding and the early 18th Century English Novel T.S. Eliot and English Literary Criticism Department of English (PG), Midnapore College (Autonomous); 21st August, 2018 Midnapore College 2018 Translation of Dalit Literature Hijli College, Midnapore, 7th March Hijli College, Midnapore 2018 Understanding Our Time SAMAS 2018; Dakshinayan 29&30 January Wardha and Nagpur, Maharastra 2018 Question of Identity and the Endangered Tribal Languages of Bengal: An Inquest School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, 15&16 March Department of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2018 Bangla Dalit Literature Debra College, Midnapore, 8th January Department of English, Debra College 2018 Future of Printed Book in the Age of E-book The Times of India Group Press Corner, Kolkata International Book Fair 2018 Endangered Languages of West Bengal & Language Documentation UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, the University of Burdwan; 12th July, 2018 Burdwan University Summer School 2018 1. Endangered Languages and Cultures 2. Language Documentation UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, Ranchi University, Jharkhand; 9th August, 2018; invited Resource Person Ranchi University 2018 Dalit Literature in the Curriculum Government College, Dantan-II, Midnapore, 21st December Government College, Dantan-II, Midnapore 2017 Folklore Studies: A Threatened Discipline in the Indian Academia Indian Folklore Congress, 16-18 November Manipur Central University, Imphal 2017 Writing the Margins: Negotiating the Politics of Translating Dalit Literature Routledge and West Bengal State University Barasat Department of English, West Bengal State University, 22-24 November 2017 Dr Ambedkar and Bangla Dalit Writing Department of English and Cultural Studies, the University of Burdwan The University of Burdwan 26&27 December 2017 Mother Tongue Education at Primary Level- A Case Study of West Bengal Ghuman Bahubhasha Sahitya Sammelan, 4th April Ghuman, Beas, Punjab 2016 Unwritten Literature/Oral Tradition Central Sahitya Akademi, 18&19 February Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2016 Language Documentation Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 17-21 October Department of Linguistics, Manipur Central University 2016 Tribal Language Endangerment and Extinction: Towards a New Paradigm Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University,Purulia, 7-8 December Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University, Purulia 2016 Bangla Dalit Literature Oxford University Press India International Centre, New Delhi, 7th April 2016 Endangered Languages of Bengal Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 10-12 February Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2016 Dalit Literature and Endangered Tribal Languages British Council, Kolkata, 4th November British Council Library, Kolkata 2016 Literary Interpretation of Nature NSS Unit, Vidyasagar University, 11th August Department of Sociology, Vidyasagar University 2016 Endangered Folk Drama of Bengal Academic Staff College, Banaras Hindu University, 06-26 December physical presentation did not happen; sent ppt & documentary for screening 2016 Quest for Identity in the Poetry of Yeats and Eliot SBSS College, Goaltore, 23rd September Goaltore, Midnapore 2016 Politics of Exclusion in Indian Folk Theatre: A Study of some Endangered Forms of South Bengal Aliah University Kolkata, 14 January, 2016 Aliah University Kolkata 2016 Threatened Languages of West Bengal Tata Steel Jamshedpur & Bhasha Baroda, 15-18 November Jamshedpur, Tata Steel Tribal Conclave 2015 Peoples Linguistic Survey of India and the Role of G.N.Devy Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, July 25 Baroda 2015 Language in Education Policy and Practice in India: The Case of West Bengal State Council of Educational Research & Training, C.G., 21-23 February Raipur, C.G. 2014 Documentation of community ethnography and eco-cultural study in West Bengal Bhasha, Baroda, IGNOU &Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi, 5-7 September IGNOU& Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2013 Orienting Trainers: Introspecting on PCP Delivery Netaji Subhas Open University NSOU, Kolkata 2013 West Bengal languages in global languages meet BHASHA, Baroda Baroda 2012 Translation, Ideology and Politics in the 21st Century IGNOU New Delhi 2012 international conference on Public Diplomacy in theory and practice Deakin University and Rajdhani College, university of Delhi India International Centre, New Delhi 2011 West Bengal languages Central University of Rajasthan Ajmer 2011

Membership of Learned Society  Adviser, Central Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi Member on the Committee constituted by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt of India for Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum Member of the National Editorial Collective of People’s Linguistic Survey of India conducted by Bhasha Research Centre, Baroda, which is a Centre of Excellence, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India. Member of Indian Association for the Study of Australia Life Member of Comparative Literature Association of India Executive Member of Indian Folklore Congress Member of Executive Committee on Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network Life Member, English Studies Association Member of the international Dalit research network External Member on the Advisory Committee of Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh, Baroda, first meeting on 04.02.19

Association with Professional Bodies Type of Professional Activity Period committee member of VUTA Silver Jubilee conference 2010 to 2011 committee member of VURSA international conferences 2009 to 2011 committee member of first VUAA conference 2008 to 2009 Convener, Publication Committee, Vidyasagar University Alumni Association 2019 to 2019 Member VUTA since 2008 2008 to 2018 Souvenir Committee Joint Convenor Vidyasagar Yuva Mahotsava 2016-17 2016 to 2017 External Member, PG Board of Studies, University of Kalyani 2019 to 2020 External Member, PG Board of Studies, University of Gour Banga, Malda 2019 to 2020 External Expert Member, Board of Research Studies, University of Burdwan 2020 to 2020

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended/Organised Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop Year Role Held at and Organiser Virtual Assessors Orientation Programme 2021 Invited participant NAAC Bangalore organized on Cisco Webex platform 12 and 13 July 2021 Allure of the Archive: A Study of the Select Neo Victorian Novels 2020 External Expert Department of English, University of Burdwan, 22 January 2020, Open Seminar cum PhD viva voce Baul Tradition: An Eternal Journey towards Mysticism 2020 Invited speaker India International Centre, New Delhi; Centre for Cultural Studies and Development; 15th February, 2020 National Folklore Conference 2020 Keynote Speaker S.P. Jain Auditorium, South Campus, University of Delhi, organised by Department of English, University of Delhi, 28-29 February 2020 International Conference on Gandhi after 150 years 2020 Plenary Speaker and Session Chair S.P. Jain Auditorium, South Campus, University of Delhi, organised by the Department of English, Delhi University, 4-5 March 2020 Open Interactive Workshop on Ethnographic Research Methods in English Studies 2020 Visiting Resource Person North Campus, University of Delhi, organised by the Department of English, University of Delhi, 3rd March 2020 International seminar on "Hul Revisited- The Santal Rebellion of 1855" June 29&30, 2020 2020 Active participant Online seminar; RUSA 2.0 Jadavpur University International Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities 20-22 August 2020 2020 Invited resource person cum session chair Zoom online platform Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in collaboration with IIT Patna and Shiksha Anusandhan University, Odisha MPhil Viva voce and open seminar on Translation Theory 2019 External Expert University of Hyderabad, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, 14 November 2019 Dalit Literature: Texts and Contexts 2019 Invited Presenter University of Delhi; Department of English, DU, 13-15 March, 2019 Gandhi inspired literature; 30 and 31 January 2019 2019 Invited Presenter Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Dharwad, Karnataka Open seminar and viva voce for MPhil dissertation on folk literature for the children 2019 External expert Vidyasagar University via Skype Centre for English Studies, JNU, 07.02.19 PhD open seminar and viva voce on Ethnic Identity and Revivalism: Compiling, Translating and Analysing Meitei Folktales 2019 External Expert Held via Skype in the Computer Centre, VU; organised by Centre for English Studies, JNU National seminar on Humanism and after: Literatures journey from humanism to cyber culture and other forms of post humanism 2019 Invited session chairperson Department of English, Midnapore College; 25 September, 2019 PhD final viva voce and open seminar on Folklore, Ecology and the Plays of J.M.Synge 2019 External Expert Department of English Aliah University, Kolkata27th December 2019 MPhil viva voce and open seminar on crime and globalisation in South Asian Fictions 2019 External Expert Department of English, the University of Burdwan; 11 September, 2019 Performance workshop on Banabibi Pala under the aegis of UGC SAP III DRS II Research project 2019 Co-Investigator; 11&12 Jan, 2019 Sajnekhali Sunderban; Bhai Bhai Jatra Sangha, Sajnekhali, Gosaba, Sunderban PhD Open seminar and viva-voce on Chinese American Immigrant Fiction 2019 External Expert Scott Christian (Autonomous) College, NagercoilManomanian Sundernar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, 22.01.2019 Performance Workshop on Kora Tribal Jatra 2019 Co Investigator Kora village near Jhargram; Kora Samaj; 25 March 2019 Field based research workshop with Birhor and Kharia Sabar tribal communities; 30&31 March 2019 2019 Co- Investigator Baghmundi and Bandwan blocks in Purulia district; organised by UGC SAP-III,DRS-II Department of English, Vidyasagar University Workshop on New Humanities and Academic Social Responsibility 2019 Invited Resource Person Buddhadev Basu Sabhagriha Jadavpur University; organised by CENTIL, Department of Comparative Literature; 13 June 2019 M.Phil viva voce and seminar presentation on the Naha Culture of Kurbati Irani Community 2019 External Expert Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 13 June, 2019 Performance and the Prospects of the Tribal Folkloric Traditions of Eastern India 2018 Session Chair APJ Abdul Kalam Hall, Vidyasagar University; organised by SAP-III,DRS-II, Department of English, Vidyasagar University; 20&21 March, 2018 National Workshop on Translation of Border Literature in Bangla 2018 Resource Person Department of English and Culture Studies, the University of Burdwan; 05&06 December, 2018 Workshop on Writings from the Sunderbans 2018 Resource Person Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University; Centre for Translation of Indian Languages (CENTIL) Project Anuvad;20th December PhD pre-submission seminar lecture 2018 External Expert Department of English Aliah University, Kolkata M.Phil. Viva-Voce Presentation 2018 External Expert Jadavpur University Department of English M.Phil. Viva-Voce Presentation 2018 External Expert University of Calcutta Department ofEnglish Literary Translation: Problems, Poetics and Politics 2018 Resource Person Jadavpur University; Sahitya Akademi and CENTIL, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 24 September 2018 84th PEN Congress on Truth, Freedom and Diversity- Language Diversity and Language Rights 2018 Resource Person Savitribai Phule Pune University; PEN South India, Bhasha Baroda & Pune University; 27-29 September 2018 International Workshop on the Regional Variations of the Mahabharata 2018 Resource Person Odisha Tourism Development Corporation Complex; organized by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India and Ministry of Culture, Govt. of Odisha; 27-28 August, 2018 International Workshop on Academic Social Responsibility; 26&27 July, 2018 2018 Resource Person Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur UniversityOrganised by Project Anuvad UGC UPE2 and University of East Anglia, United Kingdom M.Phil. Viva-Voce and seminar presentation 2018 External Expert Department of English Central University of Sikkim Gangtok, Sikkim 20 November, 2018 Changing Contours of Adivasi Society and Culture: Crises and Negotiations; 22-24 March,2017 2017 Paper presenter Innovative Research Project, Vidyasagar University Dalit & Tribal Identities, the Nation & Globalization; 29.03.17 & 30.03.17 2017 Chaired sessions UGC SAP-III, DRS-II, Dept. of English, Vidyasagar University National seminar-cum-workshop on Language Documentation; 17-21 October, 2016 2016 Paper presenter Manipur University and Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Imphal, Manipur Change for the Worse? Revisiting Adivasi Languages of South Bengal 2016 Paper presenter Vidyasagar University Innovative Research Project 27-28 April Bridgewater International Poetry Festival; 15-18 Jan, 2015 2015 Paper presenter Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA Skype presentation Fractious Modernities: The (Dis)Contents of the Now; 24-26 Feb 2015 2015 Paper presenter Jadavpur University Department of English South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable 14-16 May, 2015 2015 Paper presenter Lancaster University, United Kingdom Lancaster Language and Development 18-20 Nov 2015 2015 Paper presenter British Council The Lalit, New Delhi national consultation on the completion of PLSI Volumes, 19-20 April 2014 Chaired sessions Bhasha, Baroda and IGNOU New Delhi Indian Association for the Study of Australia Biennial Conference 2014 Paper presenter University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Indian Folklore Congress 2014 Paper presenter Manipur University, Imphal Indian Folklore Congress; 19-21 December 2014 2014 Paper presenter Centurion University, Odisha Parlakhemundi, Odisha Literature and Marginality 20-22 February 2013 2013 Paper presenter IGNOU, New Delhi Remapping the English Literary Canon 18 & 19 Feb 2013 2013 Paper presenter Dept. of English, Vidyasagar University Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised Title of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop Year Role in the Event Funding Agency National Webinar on Online Education in the Changing Times: Problems and Prospects 2020 Convener VUTA International Folklore Conference & International Workshop on Translation of Cultural Texts; 19& 20 March, 2019 2019 Joint Convenor UGC(SAP-III, DRS-II) Film and Literature Interface 2018 Joint Convenor UGC (Unassigned Grant) Workshop on Documentation and Translation of Tribal Cultural Texts, 03 December 2018 2018 Joint Convener UGC SAP-III,DRS-II Changing Contours of Adivasi Society and Culture: Crises and Negotiations; 22-24 March,2017 2017 Joint Convenor UGC (Innovative Research Project) Environmentalism and Literature, 21.03.17 2017 Joint Convenor UGC (Unassigned Grant) Children Literature 2016 Joint Convenor UGC (Unassigned Grant) Coloniality and Postcoloniality: Adivasi Society andCulture in Transition 2016 Joint Convenor UGC (Innovative Research Project) Writing on Women, Writing by Women 2014 Joint Convenor UGC UGC SP-III DRS-I National Workshop on Documentation of Oral Literature 2013 Deputy Coordinator UGC International conference on Historicizing Sub-Regional Co-operation in South Asia: Society, Culture and Politics in Bangladesh and Eastern India; VU& MAKAIAS, Kolkata 2012 Joint Convener MAKAIAS & VU UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Seminar on Translation of Dalit and Tribal Literature 2012 Deputy Coordinator UGC and Sahitya Akademi UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Workshop on Translation of Dalit Literature August 2011 2011 Deputy Coordinator UGC UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Seminar on Documentation of Tribal Literature 2011 Deputy Coordinator UGC UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Seminar on “Translation of Dalit Literature: Problems and Prospects” 2010 Deputy Coordinator UGC International Seminar titled “The Role of Publication Houses in the Promotion of Literature”; UGC 2009 joint director UGC

Awards Award Name Awarded By Year Visiting Professor University Grants Commission (Department of English, Delhi University) 2020 Excellence in Book Production to Smritibiloper Pore- second prize in the regional language category Federation of Indian Publishers; New Delhi 2018 2018 Excellence in Book Production to Paschimbanger Bhasha, second prize Federation of Indian Publishers New Delhi 2017 PLSI Felicitation Bhasha Research and Publication Centre 2017

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