Research Interests: Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Literature, Bengali Literature, Representation of Women in literature, Writing and Composition, Communication
Education:
BA (Hons. English): St. Xavier’s College Calcutta, 1995
MA: University of Calcutta, 1997
MA: University of Houston, 2002
PhD: University of Houston, 2008
Awards:
Teaching Excellence Award, IIT Gandhinagar, 2011
Modern Language Association Travel Grant, 2008
C.W. Moores Dissertation Fellowship, University of Houston, 2006 – 2007
Ella Margaret Hawes Scholarship, University of Houston Women’s Association, 2006 – 2007
Teaching Fellowship, Department of English, University of Houston, Spring 2002 – Spring 2008
Selected Publications:
Finding Her Own Voice: Protham Protisruti, Subarnalata, Shwet Pathorer Thala & Dahan” South Asian Review (Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group), 2019: DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2019.1672441
“The process of translating into Bengali John Banville’s ‘Fiction and the Dream’”, the John Banville Project: The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies. November 2019 https://www.johnbanville.eu/essay/translation/bengali
“Katha O Kahini” Bengali translation of John Banville’s “Fiction and Dream”, the John Banville Project: The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies. July 2018 http://www.johnbanville.eu/essay/translation/bengali (by invitation)
“A Feminist Study of Milton’s Eve in Paradise Lost ” The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies 3.1-2 (2016) 53-64.
“Jane Eyre: A Unique Vision of Feminism” The Atlantic Literary Review 12.1 (2014) 15-26
“Can a Spirit of Our Own be Expressed in the Language of Our Colonizer.” Asiatic IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature 7.1 (2013) 39-55. (Paper cited in The Year’s Work in English Studies 2015, Vol. 94: Issue 1)
“Where Do I Come From? Where Do I Belong? Identity and Alienation in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters and Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake.” South Asian Review 31.1 (2010), 118-140.
Work Experience:
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (July 2009 to present)
Postdoctoral Fellow and Instructional Coordinator, Writing Center, University of Houston (July 2008 – July 2009)
Teaching Fellow, Department of English, University of Houston (Jan 2002 – May 2008)