Midnapore College

Faculty Profile

Degree NameInstituteYear Of Passing
Ph.DJadavpur University 
M.A. 2004
B.A. 2002

Monograph:

  • Writing Religious Resurgence: Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions. Routledge: London, New 2024.

Edited Books :

  • Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific, Springer, 2024.
  • Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Rowman & Littlefield. 2024.
  • Literature and the War on Terror: Nation, Democracy and Routledge: London, New York. 2023.
  • Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys. Routledge: London, New 2022.
  • Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Routledge: London, New York. 2021.

Papers published in Peer- Reviewed/ Scopus indexed Journals / Edited Books

  •  “Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice: Reading Qurbani in the post 9/11 climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil.” Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies published by the University of Florida 2024.
  • “The Muslim Problem: A Majoritarian Concern in India”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Taylor and Francis.
  • “Mapping Modernity and Tradition: Rushdie’s Vision of Indian Nation-State in “TheFree Radio” Indian Writing in English, Edited by Anurima Chanda and Arunima Ray. Worldview, New Delhi. 2023.
  • “Writing Rights: Women and Community in Sharmila Seyyid’s Ummath.” In Muslim Womens Writing from across South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa 2022.
  • “Orientalist Revulsion: A Joycean Tryst with Modernity in Ulysses”. Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University.
  • “Shakespeare in Jerusalem: Post-Orientalism and the Counter-Appropriation of the Shakespearean Canon in the Geo-Political Discourses in the Middle East”. Yearly Shakespeare,
  • “Islam and Gender: Major Issues and Debates”. Journal of Postcolonial London. Taylor & Francis. 2021.
  • “The Silenced Annals of Partition Historiography.” Book Review of Refugees, Borders and Identities: Rights and Habitat in East and Northeast India by Anindita Ghoshal. Journal of Migration Affairs III(2): 112-114 , 2021.
  • “Multispecies Ecology of War in The Blind Man’s Garden: A Study in the Instruments of Warfare”, in Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene edited by Shruti Das, Authors Press, 2020.
  • “Surviving Theory: A Portrayal of Indian Muslim Women In Select Stories of Saleem”, Muse India, ISSN-09751815. 2018.
  • “Muslim Women Writers in English Today” in The Representation of Women in English Literature edited by K. Mahapatra, Kalpaz Publication, New Delhi. 2018
  • “Modernity and Monaj Das” in Annya Janala edited by S. Jana, Kabitika Publication, Paschim 2018.
  • “Dalitness of Muslim communities in Bengal: A Study”, Muse 2017.
  • “The Politics of Representations in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, in Popular Narratives: Texts and Contexts edited by Ankur Konar, Avenel Press,
  • “When the terrorist speaks out: Topography of silence and democracy in Kamila Shamsie’s Home ” Postcolonial Text, 2023.
  • “Subscribing to the Whitmanian crowd: Membership and belonging in Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland ” Wasafiri, 2024.
  • “The Representations of Faith and Belonging: Surveying Sri Lankan Muslim Women in Ameena Hussein’s The Moon in the ” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 2024.
  • “Beyond Piety and Into Identity: Locating the Muslim Women Resistance in Shaheen ” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
  • “Imagining Indian Nation-State: Rereading Qurratulain Hyder’s Select Novels in Contemporary ” SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English: Universiti Malaya.

Public Writings

  • “Modernity and Provincial Writing: The Case of Manoj Das”. Orissa Post (TheSunday Post), Newspaper from Bhubaneswar, India (August 6 2017).
  • “Online Education and the Crisis in Our Classrooms” Cafe Dissensus (OnlineMagazine), August 31 2020.

E-learning Pedagogies

  • “Culture, Ideology and Technology: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Jonathan Dollimore”, G.C. E- Pathsala. 2017.
  • “John Milton: Poems, Themes and Legacy” G.C. E- Pathsala, 2017.

Research Papers presented in Seminars/ Conference and Symposia

  • “Resurgence of Religion in Robin Yaasin-Kasab’s The Road from Damascus:A Proposition on Islamophobia”, Jadavpur University,
  • “Modernity and Manoj Das”, Midnapore College, March 11
  • “Dalitness in Bengali Muslim Community”, Vidyasagar University, March 29
  • “Surviving Theory: Portrayal of Indian Muslim Women in the Select stories of Sa- leem”. Ravenshaw University, of English, 16th& 17th January 2015.
  • “The Nursian way of Commentary on the Quran and the Discourse of Faith for anIdeal Society”, Aliah University, Department of Arabic, 12th& 13th 2015.
  • “The Sense of Community; Identity and Resistance in the Fictions of Randa Abdel Fattah’s Does My Head Look Big In This? and in Fadia Faqir’s My Name Is Salma after 9/11”, H.U. Dept. of English, 05th & 06th March 2014.
  • “Muslim Women Writers in English Today”, Ramnagar College, 13th& 14th May

Invited Lecture/Session Chaired in Seminar

  • Delivered a Special Lecture on “Orientalism post 9/11: Reimagining Religious Faith, Culture and Modernity in Select Contemporary Fiction” on 13″ July,2023 during the two-week workshop on “Emerging Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies”, organised by the Departmental Quality Assurance Cell, Department ofEnglish, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi,
  • Delivered a Special Lecture on “Looking Beyond Homogeneous Contact Zones: Islam, Transnational Migration, and Internal Colonisation in M.G Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets” at Dhupguri Girls’ College, India. 2023.
  • Chaired a session at the International Conference on The Global Indian Diasporas organized by the Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University ofGujarat and GITAM, 2023.
  • Delivered a Special Lecture on “Theorizing Wounds, Reading Displacement: The (im)possibility of being in Select Migrant ” SNDT University, Mumbai.2023.
  • Delivered a lecture on “The Phantasmagoria of the Nation-State: Rushdie, Portrayalsof Margins and Alternative Communities” for the Indigenous Society for the Promotion of English Language & Literature (iSPELL) on November 13 2022.
  • Chief Speaker in the Postgraduate Lecture Series seminar on “Homi K. Bhabha: TheOther Question” on Saturday, March 13, Organized by the Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature.
  • Delivered a Special Lecture on “Decolonizing European Modernism: The Avant- Garde and its Transmodern “Others” for the students of G. 4th Semester(English), organized by the Department of English, Cooch Behar College, Cooch Behar, held onJuly 13 2021.
  • Delivered a Special Lecture on “Imagining Post-secular India: A Socio-religious Perspective” on August 31 2020, Dept of English, DR. B.R Ambedkar College, West Bengal,
  • Keynote Speaker in One Day State Level Webinar on Feminism and Literature, entitled “Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: A Feminist Perspective,” jointly organized by the Department of English and History in collaboration with the IQAC, held on September 30 2020, Pandaveswar College, West Bengal,
  • Keynote Speaker in One Day State Level Webinar on Modernist Novel: A Reading of Joyce, Richardson and Woolf on August 24 2020, organized by the Department of English Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal,
  • Chaired a Session at the Golden Jubilee International Conference conducted byBharata Mata College, Kerala, India, on Digital Humanities on July 28 2020.
  • Special Lecture on “Fiction and Economics: A 9/11 Perspective” at Calcutta Comparatists 1919, on October 2 2020.
  • Delivered a lecture on “Overcoming the English Language Barrier in Academia: Ways to Facilitate Better Teaching and Research Skills through Language Acquisition” at the F.D.P. programme organized by Govt D.S.V. Sanskrit College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, affiliated to Pt Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur. 2020.
  • Delivered a Special Lecture on “Shakespeare Criticism” on April 8 2019, for the students of A Sem II, P.G. Dept of English, Bhatter College, West Bengal, India.

Organized International Conference/ Invited Lectures

  • Convene an International Conference on “Death in Contemporary Culture and Literature” at Midnapore Professor Ankhi Mukherjee was a Keynote speaker from Oxford University in 2023.
  • Convene an Invited Lecture at Midnapore College on “Subaltern?” by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, ColumbiaUniversity,
  • Convene an International Conference on “Negotiating Lives: Migration, Displacement, and Resistance in Postcolonial Nation-State”. Professor Rashmi Varma from Warwick University was a Keynote speaker,