Dr Joydeep Bhattacharyya

Designation: Assistant Professor of English (Stage 3)

Email: b_joydeep31@rediffmail.com

Contact No. : 6296258920 (Office)

Ph.D: English, University of North Bengal,

Date of Award: 30.08.2014.

Ph.D. Topic: “The Plays of Vijay Tendulkar and Girish Karnad: Critiquing Post-Independence Indian Society”

M.Phil. : English, University of North Bengal, 2000.

UGC-NET: Month & Year – December, 2000.

M.A: English, University of North Bengal, 1998.

B.A: English, A.B.N. Seal College / University of North Bengal, 1996.

Areas of specialization: American Literature (at the Master’s); Indian drama/theatre.

Area/s of research interest: Indian drama in English & translation, postcolonial theory, (Issues of special interest – history, politics, religion, gender/sexuality, family, environment and urbanism).

Professional Experience:(Chronological order)

2005 – to date: Assistant Professor (Stage 3), Kurseong College.

Memberships of Learned Societies: (National/International Bodies, Academy, Organizations)

1. Member: MELOW (The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World), Chandigarh, Punjab.
2. Member: Association for English Studies of India (AESI).

Number of Publications: Journal articles:- 11; Book:- 01; Book chapters:- 06

Sample Publications (journals & books) (in chronological order of year)

Journal Articles:

1. “Postmodern Co-existence of Multiple Identities for Women: A Multicultural Approach”, Journal of the School of Language, Literature & Culture (JSL-Jawaharlal Nehru University), Spring 2007: 46-49. ISSN 0972-9682.
2. “Girish Karnad’s Naga-Mandala and Varsha Adalja’s Mandodari: Rethinking the ‘woman’ and devising strategies of resistance”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 8.4 (2016): 194-202. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v8n4.23] ISSN 0975-2935.
3. “Interrogating the state and its discourse of governance in Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal”, Langlit, 3.1 (2016): 47-53. ISSN 2349-5189.
4. “Language ‘heard as sung or spoken': Robert Frost’s sound of sense in Mending Wall and The Death of the Hired Man”, Modern Research Studies, 3.3 (2016): 533-547. ISSN 2349-2147.
5. “Vijay Tendulkar’s Encounter in Umbugland: A Critique of the Statist History of Progress”, The Criterion, 8.3 (2017): 280-290. ISSN 0976-8165.
6. “Asghar Wajahat’s Unborn in Lahore and Salman Khurshid’s Sons of Babur: Rehistoricising the Hindu-Muslim Rivalry”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 9.4 (2017): 109-121. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v9n4.11 ISSN 0975-2935.
7. “Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal and Encounter in Umbugland: Pluralising History, the Past and the Present”, Littcrit, Issue 85, 44.1 (June 2018): 104-114. ISSN 0970-8049.
8. “The Demythicised Middle Class in Vijay Tendulkar’s The Vultures and Girish Karnad’s Wedding Album”, Literary Endeavour, 9.4 (2018): 225-232. ISSN 0976-299X.
9. “Convergence of social domains in Vijay Tendulkar’s Kamala: Performing the home and the society, the private and the public”, Lapis Lazuli: An International Literary Journal, 9.1 (Spring 2019):180-187. ISSN 2249-4529.
10. “Vijay Tendulkar’s A Friend’s Story and Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps Around the Fire and On a Muggy Night in Mumbai: Reperforming Gender”, The IUP Journal of English Studies, 14.3 (Sep 2019): 7-20. ISSN 0973-3728.
11. “Datta Bhagat’s Routes and Escape Routes and Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan: Critiquing the Dalit”, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, [article selected for publication on 21 January 2019; to be published on Vol. 13, No. 2, 2021] ISSN: 2456-0502.

Book:

Robert Frost: The ‘Dramatic’ in Poetry. Authorspress: New Delhi, 2017. ISBN 978-93-86722-15-7.

Book Chapters:

• “When Life becomes a Tragic Irony: Oedipus Rex”, Studies in Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex. Ed. N. Saha, Booksway: Kolkata, pp. 135-147, 2010. ISBN 978-93-80145-82-2.
• “Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan: Negotiating Social ‘Truth(s)’”, Indian Drama in English. Ed. K. Chakravorty, Prentice Hall Learning: New Delhi, pp.82-95, 2011. ISBN 978-81-203-4289-7.
• “Interrogating Orientalism: The Dreams of Tipu Sultan”, Turn of the Century/Indian Writing in English/Emergent Themes and Subjectivities. Eds. A. Bhattacharya & B. Khan, Imprint Publisher: New Delhi, pp. 44-48, 2012. ISBN 978-81-923902-1-5.
• “Girish Karnad’s Flowers: Contesting the ‘Code of Piety’”, Contemporary Indian Drama in English. Ed. J. Sarkar, Delta Book World: New Delhi, pp. 75-83, 2013. ISBN 978-81-926244-0-2.
• “From Partly Living to Living: A Study of the Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral”, T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral: A Critical Spectrum. Ed. N. Saha & S. Ghosh, Booksway: Kolkata, pp. 94-100, 2014. ISBN 978-93-81672-74-7.
• “Rethinking Gender: Vijay Tendulkar’s A Friend’s Story and Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire”, Postcolonial Indian Drama in English and Translation. Eds. U. De & J. Sarkar, pp. 222-239, 2017. ISBN 978-93-5207-560-7.

Self-Learning / Instructional Material:

“Matthew Arnold: Poet”, DDE, University of North Bengal, Block 6, Unit 26: 2010, pp. 45-67.

Papers presented at Seminars/Conferences:

1. “Deconstructing the Dalit Identity: Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan”, paper at State level Seminar Indianness in Indian Writing in English, University BT & Evening College, Cooch Behar. Dec 19-20, 2005.

2. “Postmodern Co-existence of Multiple Identities for Women”, paper at National Seminar Readings and re-readings in Contemporary American, British and Indian English Literatures: 1950 – the Present, Dept. of English, North Bengal University. March 23-25, 2006.

3. “The Dreams of Tipu Sultan: Karnad’s Postcolonial Appraisal”, paper at State level Seminar Post-Independence Indian Writing in English, Cluny Women’s College, Kalimpong. Nov. 24-25, 2007.

4. “Karnad’s Re-reading of Tipu Sultan: Negotiating History”, paper at International Seminar Literatures in English in Asia and the Asia Pacific: Reconfiguring the Cultural Map, Burdwan University. Feb 17-18, 2010.

5. “Rethinking the Dalit: A Study of Datta Bhagat’s Routes and Escape Routes and Vijay Tendulkar’s Kanyadaan”, paper at International Seminar Post-colonial Voices in South Asian Literatures & Cinema, Dept. of Languages, Garden City College, Bangalore. Feb 7-8, 2014.

6. “Girish Karnad’s Naga-Mandala and Varsha Adalja’s Mandodari: Strategy of Resistance”, paper at International Seminar Transitions: Literature, Language and Culture – post-1980, Dept. of Languages, Garden City College, Bangalore. 6-7 Feb 2015.

7. “Rethinking gender: Vijay Tendulkar’s A Friend’s Story and Mahesh Dattani’s Seven Steps around the Fire”, paper at International Seminar Changing Directions of the Postcolonial Indian Theatre, University BT and Evening College, Cooch Behar. 29-30 Sep 2015.

8. “Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal: Critiquing the state and society”, paper at International Seminar Towards Praxis: Literature, Society and Politics, MELOW, & GGSI University, Dwarka, New Delhi. 19-21 Feb 2016.

9. “Vijay Tendulkar’s Encounter in Umbugland: A critique of the state politics of power”, paper at International Seminar Contemporary Developments in Social and Basic Sciences in times of Global Crisis, Surya Sen Mahavidyalaya, Siliguri. 28-29 March 2017.

10. “Boiled Beans on Toast: Development, environment and the urban space”, paper at International Seminar Environmentalism, Globalism, and Morality, The Institute of Cross-cultural Studies & Academic Exchange, NC, USA, CBPB University, Cooch Behar, & Alipurduar College. Jan 10-12, 2018.

11. “Rethinking Kashmir: Abhishek Majumdar’s The Djinns of Eidgah”, paper at International Seminar Literature, History, Politics and Philosophy, Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalaya & District Information & Cultural Office, Govt. of West Bengal. 21-23 Feb 2019.

12. “Girish Karnad’s Boiled Beans on Toast: Mapping the urban potpourri of utopia and dystopia”, paper at International Seminar Sunny Pleasure Domes and Caves of Ice: Utopias and Dystopias in World Literature, MELOW, & Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. 15-17 March 2019.

Invited Lecture

1. “An overview of Indian theatre: From Classical to Post-Independence”, at the Department of English, Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Alipurduar, 8 Sep, 2018.