Curriculum Vitae

educational qualifications

• PhD., University of Cambridge, 2014

• MPhil., University of Calcutta, 2008

• M.A., University of Calcutta, 2006

• B.A., Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, 2004

teaching experience

• 2020 - present: Associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I.I.T Kanpur. 

• 2014 - 2020: Assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, I.I.T Kanpur.

• 2007-2010: Guest lecturer in the Department of English, Asutosh College (University of Calcutta).

consultancy

• 2023 (October - December) Academic advisor for the project "Max Mueller's Indo-European Legacies: Marking the 200th Birth Anniversary of Friedrich Max Mueller" organised by Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata.

awards and fellowships

• 2023 (22-29 May) Academic Visitor at the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, UK.

• 2022 (April-September) DAAD Guest Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany.

• 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award of IIT Kanpur.

• 2017 Baden-Württemberg visiting fellow at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Germany. 

• 2010-2013 Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship offered by Cambridge Commonwealth Trust.

• 2010 Overseas Endowment Travel Fellowship offered by the University of Calcutta.

• 2004 Nripesh Chandra Guha Memorial Prize for securing highest marks in B.A. exam (with English honours) in Asutosh College.