Faculty Member

Swati Ganguly
Senior Lecturer
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Department
English & OMEL

Areas of Specialisation
Renaissance Drama

Feminist Theory and Women's Writing

Translation Studies

   

 

Date of Birth

16th November 1965

Qualification
Year Degree College/University
1987
B.A in English Jadavpur University Kolkata
1990
M.A. in English Jadavpur University Kolkata
Research Projects, Papers and Books

The Stream Within, Short Stories by Contemporary Bengali Women. Published by Stree, Calcutta, 1999 translated      and edited by Swati Ganguly and Sarmistha DuttaGupta
     ( A selection of thirteen short stories written and published between 1947-1997 and includes writers from Bengal      and Bangladesh. Broadly speaking the stories may be read as feminist fiction)
Pherar Samay, Published by N.E Publishers, Kolkata, 2002 ( A collection of Bengali popular fiction written and      published between 1993 and 2000 in the literary Supplements of Jugantar , Pratidin and in the magazine Sananda)
     Papers/ Essays/ Translations of Stories:
'2002 A Shakespearean Odyssey: Postcolonial Theory and Pedagogy from the Metropolis to the Margins' in For All      Time? Ed Paul Skrebels, Wakefield Press, South Australia. 2002.
'Women and Shakespeare ; 'I am not that I play' in Re-presenting Shakespeare : Text, Performance and Analysis,      Kolkata Macmillan India, 2002
'The Condition of Widowhood' Translation of Baidhvya by Anindita Devi, in Shadow Lives, Writings on      Widowhood, ed Uma Chakravarti and Preeti Gill, Kali for Women, 2001
'Performance and Pedagogy: Shakespeare in Santiniketan' in Colonial and Postcolonial Shakespeares, ed Amitava      Roy et al Avantgarde Press,2001
'The Rice Thief' (Chal Chor) a short story by Salil Chaudhury, Amritabazar Patrika, January 1993
'The Beggars' ( Bharatbarsha) a short story by Ramapada Chaudhury, The Statesman, Sunday Literary Supplement ,      September 1989
Forthcoming
'The Modern Age and the Modern Woman' (Ekal O Ekaler Meyera) an essay by Saratkumari Chaudhurani in a      volume on women's writing to be published by Stree along with Women's Studies, Jadavpur University
Translation of Tagore's short stories Samasyapuran ( Problem Solved ) & Sanskar (Prejudice) in an anthology of      Tagore's short stories to be published by Rupa.

Teaching Experience
9 years in DEOMEL, Visva-Bharati
9 months in Loreto College
Awards and other Academic Distinctions
Awarded the Charles Wallace Fellowship for Translation Studies in1996
Other Co-curricular Interests
Painting and visual arts, theatre, creative writing