Sourav Das

Assistant Professor

Department of English & Literary Studies

Brainware University, Barasat, West Bengal, 700125


"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before"

Qualifications

  • Doctoral Scholar, Migration and Transnational Studies, St. Xavier's University, Kolkata.

  • B.Ed (English), WBUTTEPA, 2019.

  • MA (English), Maulana Azad College, Calcutta University, 2016.

  • BA Hons (English), SA Jaipuria College, Calcutta University, 2014.

Research Interest

  • Postcolonial Literature and Theory, Diaspora, Migration and Transnational Studies.

Publications

  • "Saadat Hasan Manto and his treatment of the Debased Feminine" -- Ashvamegh International Peer Reviewed Online Literary Journal (ISSN-2454-4574)

  • "A Postcolonial re-reading of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot" -- Langlit an International Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal (ISSN-2349-5189)

  • “Joyce and the Irish Stagnation: A Journey To Persia and Back” – IASET International Journal of Linguistics and Literature (ISSN Print:2319-3956; ISSN Online:2319-3964)

  • “The Body and Its Scars: The Stigma Texts of Saadat Hasan Manto” - Erothanatos, A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Journal on Literature, Vol. 3 Issue 2 April 2019 (E-ISSN 2457-0265) .

  • "The Search for the Female Identity in Literature: The Quest for a Voice" -- Feminism: Text and Context (ISBN-978-81-922645-6-1)-Page 201-209.

  • The paper “Narratives of Return and Caribbean Literature” has been accepted as a Book Chapter in the anthology Marginalisation in Literature: Critical Perspectives edited by Dr. Bhaskar Chandra Sarkar.

Other Professional Activities

  • Presented the paper "The Us and the Them: Conrad’s Ushering of the new Century" at the International Seminar RETHINKING MODERNITY:INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES conducted by Aliah University in collaboration with the Byanjanbarna Foundation in August 2019.

  • Presented the paper “Displacement and Derogation: Mapping Partition Violence in Saadat Hasan Manto” in the National Seminar on BANGLA & OTHER INDIAN LANGUAGES: LINGUISTICS & CULTURAL RELATIONS organized by The International School of Dravidian Languages, Kerala in March 2020.

  • Presented the paper “The Post-Colonial Condition: Situating the Pathos of Caribbean Diasporic Identity” in the International e-Conference on RETHINKING THE POSTCOLONIAL: TEXT & CONTEXT organized by New Literaria: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities in Collaboration with Assam University in September, 2020.

  • Presented the paper “Where Selves Collide: The Caribbean and the Diasporic Pathos” in the 2nd DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 2020 organized by St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata in October 2020.