5th July 1954

UGC Minor Research Grant to work on Indian Writing in English, March 2001

Select list of publications for the last five years:
BOOKS:
Reflections, Refractions and Rejections: Three American Writers and the Celluloid World.
Leeds, U.K.: Wisdom House, 2003. (in press)
EDITED BOOKS:
F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Centennial Tribute (2 Vols). Ed.
New Delhi: Prestige Books, 1997; London: Sangam Books, 1998.
William Faulkner: A Centennial Tribute. Ed.
New Delhi : Prestige Books, 1999.
The Diasporic Imagination: Asian-American Writing.
(3 volumes) Editor. New Delhi: Prestige Books. 2000.
Cross-Cultural Transactions In Multi-Ethnic Literatures Of The United States.
Editors: Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, Vijay Kumar Sharma & Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Prestige: 2002
The American Literary Mosaic. Ed. Somdatta Mandal & T. S. Anand. Wisdom House Press, 2003.
The Ernest Hemingway Companion. Kolkata: Sarat Book Distributors, 2002
Banga-bibhag: Samajik, Sangskritik O Rajnaitik Protifalan (The Partition of Bengal: Cultural and Socio-Political Reflections) Eds. Somdatta Mandal & Shukla Hazra. Kolkata: Pustak Bipani, 2002.

ARTICLES (For the last five years)
1999 a . "The Curious Case of The Alien: Spielberg vs. Ray". Asian Cinema( U.S.A.) Vol.10.2
Spring/Summer 1999.
1999 b. "Hemingway's The Spanish Earth: A Case for a Documentary Film".
Journal of the Department of English, Calcutta University Vol.XXVI no.2, 1998-99.
1999 c. "Alienation vs. Acculturation: Feminism's Third Wave and Asian-American Women's Fiction".
New Waves in American Literature. Eds. A.A.Muttalik Desai & T.S.Anand. New Delhi: Creative
Books.
1999 d. "Satyajit Ray, Science Fiction and Professor Shonku". The Literary Criterion Vol. XXXIV, no.3,
1999:
1999 e. "Word Into Image: Whose Text Is It Anyway?" Gombak Review (Malaysia) April 1999.
1999 f. "From the Periphery to the Mainstream: The Making, Marketing and Media Response to
Arundhati Roy". Arundhati Roy: The Novelist Extraordinary. Ed. R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi:
Prestige Books.
1999 g. "Satyajit Ray's 'Rabindranath': A Case for a Documentary Film."
West Bengal Vol.XLI, nos.10-11. May16 & June 1, 1999 pp.85-92
1999 h. "Ernest Hemingway and Hollywood" Studies in American Literature (Anniversary Edition)
Calcutta: American Literature Study Circle, USIS.
1999 i. "The Itinerant American Traveller: Settings and Locales in Ernest Hemingway's Fiction"
Journal of the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, 1999 ( Special Hemingway
Centennial Number)
1999 j. "Mount Kilimanjaro Revisited: Africa, the Lion's Roar and Ernest Hemingway".
West Bengal (Special Hemingway Number), 1999.
2000 a. Interviews of Makarand Paranjape and Neila Seshachari.
The Diasporic Imagination: Identifying Asian-American Representations in America.
Ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Prestige, Vol. I.
2000 b. "Of Soups, Salads, Chutneys and Masalas: The Asian American Film Experience." Ibid.
The Diasporic Imagination: Identifying Asian-American Representations in America.
Ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Prestige, Vol. III.
2000 c. "From Page to Screen: Hemingway, To Have and Have Not and Hollywood."
Ernest Hemingway: Centennial Essays. Ed. E. Nageswara Rao. Delhi: Pencraft International.
2000 d. "Traffic of Ideas between India and America: A Case Study with special reference to
Rabindranath Tagore". Indian English Poetry and Fiction: A Critical Evaluation. Eds. N.R.
Gopal & Suman Sachar. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors.
2000 e. "Indian Writing in English: The Problematics of Definition."
The Independent (Bangladesh): 4 Nov, 11 Nov, & 18 November, 2000.
2000 f. "American Dream: Representations in Literature and the Hollywood Dream Factories."
The Independent (Bangladesh) , 16 & 23 Dec, 2000.
2001 a. "The Screenplay as Literature: A Case Study of Harold Pinter."
Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta. Vol.XXVII, No.2. 1999-2000.
2001 b. "Reinterpreting the Bard on the Screen: Whose Text is it Anyway ?"
The Independent (Bangladesh): 20 & 27 January 2001.
2001 c. "What Bengal Thinks Today, India Thinks Tomorrow": Bangla Fiction and its Role in Shaping
the Indian National Movement". India: Fifty Years After Independence: Images in
Literature, Film and the Media. Eds. Felicity Hand & Kathleen Firth. London: Peepal Tree
Press.
2001 d. "Tagore's Home and the World as Fiction and Film." Home and the World: Critical
Perspectives. Ed. Rama Kundu. New Delhi: Asia Book Club.
2001 e. "Hemingway: Fiction & Western Films."
The Atlantic Literary Review Quarterly. Vol.2.No.2. April-June 2001.
2002 a. "Is Charlie Chan Really Dead? The Evolution of Asian American Characters and Images in
American Mainstream Media." Cross-Cultural Transactions in Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the
U.S. New Delhi: Prestige Books.2002 b. "Of Defining and Re-Defining the Asian-American Diaspora: A Case Study of Jhumpa
Lahiri The American Literary Mosaic. Eds. Somdatta Mandal & T.R. S. Anand, Wisdom House
Press. Reprinted in Jhumpa Lahiri: The Master Storyteller. Ed. Suman Bala. New Delhi: Khosla
Publishing Co. 17-32.
2002 c. "From the Verbal to the Visual : Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple." Alice Walker's "The
Color Purple: New Perspectives. New Delhi: Khosla Book House.
2002 d. "Rituparno Ghosh: The 'Woman's Director' of Bangla Cinema" in Films & Feminism: Essays
in Indian Cinema. Eds. Jasbir Jain & Sudha Rai. New Delhi & Jaipur, Rawat Publications.
2002 e. "Indian Writing in English: Heralding a New Genre." Pegasus Volume I No.8, March 2002.
2002 f. "From the Periphery to the Mainstream: The Making, Marketing and Media Response to
Arundhati Roy. Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta. Vol XXVIII No.1
2000-2001: 71-88
2002 g. "Indian Writing in English: The Problematics of Definition" in Modern Indian English Fiction
Ed. T.S. Anand. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2002:37-46
2002 h. "The Marginalization of Bengal: Representations of the Partition in Anthologies Written in
English", The Partition of Bengal: Cultural & Socio-Political Refllections.(In Bengali) Eds.
Somdatta Mandal & Shukla Hazra. Kolkata: Pustak Bipani, 2002.
2002.i. "Of 'Women' and 'Relationships' in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: Rituparno Ghosh's
Oeuvre" Asian Cinema (USA)Fall/Winter 2002, pp.85-104
2002.j. "Drama/Theatre and Film: The Dynamics of Exchange" in Drama: Literature and Performance
eds. Srobona Munshi & Jharna Sanyal . Calcutta: UGC Academic Staff College & Department
of English, University of Calcutta. pp.187-205
2002 k. "Ethnic Voices of Asian-American Women with Special Reference to Amy Tan".
The Joy Luck Club: Critical Perspectives ed. With an Intro. By Harold Bloom. Chelsea
Publications. pp.175-184.
2003 a. "Fiction to Film: The Problem of Fidelity" in Interrelations: Literature and the Other Arts. Ed.
Indrani Haldar. Macmillan India Ltd. pp. 83-91.
2003 b. "Of Celebrity Status, Posthumous Publications, Scholar's Choice and the American Novel: A
Case Study of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Trimalchio" in Indian Response to American Literature
Ed. T.S. Anand. New Delhi: Creative Books.
2003 c. "A Border Sisyphus": Transcultural Identity and Performance Texts of Guillermo Gomez-
Pena."In Politics of Location in the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas eds. Anil Raina
& Manju Jaidka. Chandigarh: Arun Publishing House. pp 174-84.
2003 d. "The 'Wild West': Movies and Fiction, Myths and Reality" Pegasus vol II, Dec2002-Jan
2003.pp 10-21
2003 e. "I Carry the World inside me" Interview of Meena Alexander in The Statesman Literary
Supplement 30 March, 2003.