Faculty
Member
Abhijit
Sen
Professor
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Department
English
& OMEL
Areas of Specialisation
Renaissance Drama and Theatre
Shakespeare:
Performance Theories
| Date of Birth | 22nd January 1956 | |
| Qualification | ||
| Year | Degree | College/University |
| 1976 |
B.A (Hons) in English | Presidency College, Kolkata |
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1978 |
M.A. in English | Jadavpur University, Kolkata |
| 1988 | Ph.D |
Jadavpur University, Kolkata |
| Research Projects, Papers and Books | ||
Select list of publications :  "Indianisation
of Twentieth Century European Plays on the Calcutta Stage: Some Facts
and Problems", in Twentieth Century
European Drama, ed. Pronoti Sinha, Department of English, Visva-Bharati,
1997 "The English
Text in the Indian Classroom: Some Facts and Problems", paper
read at the Fourteenth Oxford Conference
on Teaching Literature, April 1999, available on the Internet, http://
dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/way/yfk64/oxford99/ "Folk Theatre
and Rabindranath: Setting the Scene"; West Bengal ; Special Number
on Rabindranath Tagore : Vol.XLII ,
nos. 10-11, May 16 - June 1, 2000 ; pages 64 - 69 . "Some Shakespeare
Negotiations in Indian Theatres"; Colonial and Post-Colonial
Shakespeares, Papers and Proceedings
of the World Shakespeare Conference, Calcutta, 2000; eds. Amitava
Roy, Krishna Sen, Debnarayan Bandopadhyay
(Kolkata; Avantgarde Press, 2001) "Shakespeare-er
mancha nirdesh o Hamlet"; Ebong Mushaira; ed. Subol Samanta,
Hamlet Special Issue, 8th year, no.
4, January - March 2002 "From Page to
Stage: Shakespeare in the Theatre"; in Representing Shakespeare:
Texts, Analyses, Performance (Sarbani
Chowdhury ed. Macmillan: Kolkata; 2002) " 'To glad your
ear and please your eyes': Performing the Play on the Renaissance
Stage, in Drama: Literature and Performance",
ed. Srobona Munshi & Jharna Sanyal,Calcutta : University of Calcutta,
November 2002,123-129. " From Page
to Stage: Whose Text is it anyway?", in Interrelations : Literature
and the Other Arts, ed. Indrani Haldar,
Kolkata : Macmillan India, 2003, 60-70. |
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| Teaching Experience | ||
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15 years in Visva-Bharati 7 years in Vijaygarh
Jyotish Roy College, Kolkata
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| Awards and other Academic Distinctions | ||
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Winner of Gold Medal at Jadavpur University for topping the M.A Examinations. Awarded the Charles
Wallace Trust Scholarship for attending the Oxford Conference on "Teaching Literature Overseas" in 1999. |
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| Other Co-curricular Interests | ||
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I have some practical experience of working on the stage, both in
academic and other productions, as an actor and director (of plays in Bengali and English) |
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| Any Other Information | ||
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I have attended and
presented research papers at various national and international level seminars and conferences; I have also coordinated as seminar director in a seminar on the Renaissance Theatre. I have been delivering
lectures as Resource Person at Refresher Courses in English organised
by different universities in West Bengal. |
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