Faculty Member

Debarati Bandyopadhyay
Reader in English
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Department
English & OMEL

Areas of Specialisation
Nineteenth Century Literature

Classical European Literature

Shakespeare

Tagore

Postcolonial Studies
   

 
Date of Birth 12th January, 1973
Qualification
Year Degree College/University
1993 B.A. (Eng. Hons.)
 Lady Brabourne College, Calcutta University
1995 M.A. Calcutta University
Research Projects, Papers and Books

Research Project
Partially funded Research project for Visva Bharati on "Reader-Response Theory", 2003
Publications in Books
Introduction to "Renaissance : Notes and Papers" by Gautam Ghosal
"Acting Mad, Acting True : Hamlet our Contemporary", published in Shakespeare Yearly Souvenir, 2003,
      Sri Aurobindo study cnetre, Santiniketan
Papers
"Immaterial concerns : Tagore's Views on English Literature", paper read in Kolkata at National Seminar Organised      by Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature, April 2002
"Women as/and Subaltern in Shakespeare's Plays" - paper read in kolkata at International Conference organised by      Shakespeare Society of Eastern India
 Salman Rushdie and Metaphors of Postcolonialism" - paper read at Bhubaneswar, Utkal University at      International seminar organised by IASCL, 2003
 "Teaching Shakespeare : New Contexts" - paper read at National Seminar, organised by Sambalpur University,      2003
 A number of publications in Bengali
Teaching Experience
5 years in Visva-Bharati
Awards and other Academic Distinctions
University Research Fellowship awarded on the basis of M.A. results 1995 at Calcutta University
Other Co-curricular Interests
Writing poems, translation