Faculty
Member
Ananya
Dutta Gupta
Sr. Lecturer
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Department
English
& OMEL
Areas of Specialisation
English Literature, 1500-1660
| Date of Birth |
1st August 1974 |
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| Qualification | ||
| Year | Degree | College/University |
| 1996 |
B.A. (Hons.) in English | Jadavpur University |
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1998 |
M.A. in English |
Jadavpur University |
| 2001 |
M.Phil. in English Studies |
University of Oxford |
| Research Projects, Papers and Books | ||
"The Idea of Service in Milton's Poetry", Bulletin of the
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, ed. Swami Prabhananda
(Associate Editor: Visvanath Chatterjee), Vol. LIII No.10, October,
2002, pp.424-433. "Contemporary
English Colloquialisms", the Campus Supplement of The Statesman,
11 June, 2002. Three review-items,
respectively titled "Of men and Man", "One-act Sextet"
and "Between Poignancy and Melodrama"
on Indira Goswami's Pages Stained with Blood, trans. Pradip Acharya,
The Rupa Ekanki Series and Feryal Ali
Gauhar's The Scent of Wet Earth in August, commissioned and published
by The Statesman for its weekly Literary
Supplement, between September 2002 and April 2003. 'An Aborted Siege:
Shakespeare's Critique of War in Timon of Athens' in Shakespeare Yearly
Souvenir 2003, ed. Goutam Ghoshal, Santiniketan:
Sri Aurobindo Study Centre, 2003, pp. 27-29. |
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| Teaching Experience | ||
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4 months at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. 6 months at Bangabasi
Morning College, Kolkata. 6.5 months (on lien)
at Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata. 9 months as External
Part-time Teacher in post-graduate evening courses in English at Jadavpur
University, Kolkata. |
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| Awards and other Academic Distinctions | ||
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Awarded a Felix Scholarship in 1999 to read for the M.Phil. degree
at the University of Oxford from 1999 to 2001. Ranked first on the
2002 merit list of candidates selected by the WB College Service Commission
for lectureship under Calcutta University Awarded a Goethe
Institut Scholarship in 1998 to pursue an eight-week intensive course
in Advanced German Language at Goethe Institut,
Bonn, Germany from September to October, 1998. |
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| Other Co-curricular Interests | ||
| Rabindrasangeet, languages, travel writing | ||