Teaching Faculty
Department of English,
Bangabasi Morning College,
Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Executive Editor
Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies
Link: https://consortiumejournal.com/exeediboard.php
West Bengal, India.
Executive Editor
Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities
Link: https://www.entanglements.in/
West Bengal, India.
Aisstant Editor
Literaria: A Journal of the Department of English (WBSU)
https://literaria-ajournaloftheenglishdepartmentwbsu.org/
West Bengal, India.
Former Guest Teaching Faculty
(From Nov 16, 2022 to Dec 31, 2024)
Department of English,
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College,
Betai,Nadia, WB. 741163.
Former Visiting Faculty
(Sep 23, 2024 - Mar 24, 2025)
Department of English,
Kanyashree University,
Krishnanagar, Nadia, WB.
Educational Records and achievements:
Secondary:
1st Division
Raniganj K.C. High School,
Raniganj, Kamaldanga,
Gazole, Malda,
73238, West Bengal, India. 2011
Higher Secondary:
1st Division
Department of Humanities,
Malda Zilla School,
Rabindra Avenue, Malda,
732101, West Bengal, India. 2013
Graduation:
Bachelor of Arts, English (Hons.)
2nd Class
Department of English,
Berhampore K.N. College,
1, Surjyasen Road, Gora Bazar,
Berhampore, Murshidabad,
742101, West Bengal, India. 2016
Masters:
Master of Arts,
English 1st Class
Department of English,
Rabindra Bharati University,
56/A, B.T. Road, Kolkata 700050,
West Bengal, India. 2018
UGC-NET:
Qualified UGC-NET in English – June 2018, December 2018, June 2019, December 2019,
October 2020, June 2021, December 2022, December 2024.
WB-SET:
Qualified for 23rd West Bengal State Eligibility Test
Award:
UGC- National Fellowship-JRF (2 times: 2020, 2021)
M.Phil.:
M.Phil. in English,
1st Class
Title of Dissertation: Death in Language, Theatre and Memory: A Select Reading of Luigi Pirandello and Samuel Beckett.
Department of English,
Raiganj University, University Road, College Para, Raiganj,
733134, West Bengal, India.
Ph.D.:
Ph.D. (Pursuing)
Department of English,
University of Kalyani,
Kalyani, Nadia, &41235,
West Bengal, India.
Research Interests or Interested Areas:
Gender Studies, Masculinity Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Writings, Modernism, Postmodernism, Ecocriticism, and Posthumanism.
Presentations, Seminars, Workshops and Lectures:
Presented a paper titled "Status of the “Second Sex’ed Girl in the Engendered Reality in Bengal and West Asian Perspective" at an International Conference on the Global Status of Girls, organised by the Department of English, Palassey College, and the Department of Women Studies, Kalyani University, in 2018.
Presented a paper titled "The Performativity of Death and Identity in Six Characters In Search of an Author and Breath: A Linguistic Approach" at the 43rd International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India, jointly organised by CIIL, Ministry of Education, Government of India, Mysuru and Linguistic Society of India, Pune, 2021.
Delivered a lecture titled "Documentation and Citation: A Practical Approach" as a resource person in a One-Day Workshop, organised by the Department of English, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College, Nadia, West Bengal, on July 15th, 2022.
Presented a paper titled "The Cyberflâneur and the Discourse of Urban Space and Cyberspace" in the workshop on "Digital Infrastructure and Contemporary Urbanities" at NIT Silchar, Assam, India, on September 16th, 2023.
Given lectures on different topics for UG and PG in the Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal, India, 733134, during the M.Phil. course.
Presented a paper titled "Nurturing Green Minds: Exploring Ecological Consciousness in Popular Bengali Children's Literature" in an International Seminar on The Popular: Culture, Literature and Media, organised by the Department of English, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College, Betai, Nadia, West Bengal, India, on 15th December, 2023.
Presented a paper titled "Posthuman Entanglement in Ahmed Sofa's Pushpa, Brikkha Ebong Bihanga Puran: A Counter Narrative to Anthropocentrism" at a Two-Day International Conference on Posthumanism Condition in the Anthropocene, oraganised by the Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India, on 02-03 March, 2024.
Presented a paper titled "Exploring the Impact of the Anthropogenic Activities on Heritage: A Study of the Select Popular Songs" in an ICSSR-ERC Sponsored Two-Day International Conference on Literature and Heritage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, organised by the Postgraduate Section of Malda College, Malda, WB, India, on 20-21 September 2024.
Presented a paper entitled “Critiquing the Human-Animal Divide: A Posthumanist Gender Studies Perspective” at the One-Day International Symposium on Posthumanism and Animal Question organised by the Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India on 16 December, 2024.
Presented a paper titled “Whose Nation and Whose Mother? The Politics of Marginalisation in Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s Ideation of “Banga Janani”” in a Two-Day International Seminar on Marginal Voices of India: Perspectives on Education, Literature, Politics and Culture, organised by the Department of Education, English, Political Science, and Sociology in collaboration with IQAC, Gazole Mahavidyalaya, Malda, WB, India, on 18-19 March 2025.
Presented a paper titled “Interrogating the Motherland Myth: An Ecofeminist Reading of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s "Bande Mataram”” at the International Conference on Nature through the Lens of Indian English Writing: An Ecocritical Perspective organised by the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, WB, India, on 24 March 2025.
Presented a paper titled “Undoing Speciesism: Posthuman Gender and Ethics of Trans-Species Affection in Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend” in a Two-Day International Conference on ‘Thinking Other-Wise’: Posthumanism and Human-Animal Studies, organised by Bankura University, WB, India, on 03-04 April 2025.
Presented a paper titled ““For having traffic with thyself alone”: Masturbation, Non-Reproduction and Shakespeare’s Poetics of Self-Containment in Sonnets 1, 3, 4, and 9” in a Two-Day Salaam Shakespeare 4.0, organised by the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University, on 23-24 April 2025.
Chaired a Session in a Two-Day Salaam Shakespeare 4.0, organised by the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University, on 23-24 April 2025.
Presented a paper titled “Masculinity, Dharma, and the Nationhood: Exploring Indian Knowledge and the Gendered Body Politic in Indian Nationalism” in the International Seminar on Decolonizing Knowledge: Rediscovering Indigenous Indian Thought, organised by Sripat Singh College in collaboration with Barrackpore Rashtraguru Surendranath College, Sudhiranjan Lahiri Mahavidyalaya, Jangipur College, Subhas Chandra Bose Centenary College and Hazi A. K. Khan College on 10 September 2025.
Presented a paper titled “Infusing the Homoerotic into Indian Nationalist Masculinity: A Queer Reading of Shibram Chakraborty’s Chhele Boyoshe” in the Mini-Melow Conference 2025, organised by MELOW in collaboration with the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Assam, on 20-21 November 2025.
Publications:
Contributed a chapter titled “The Thematic Perspective and Interpretation of Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave. A True History” in the book A New Critical Edition and Response to Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Author Press (New Delhi), ISBN- 978-93-90459-3- 1, P.127-145. 2020
Jointly edited an ISBN book entitled The Rover by Aphra Behn: Text and Criticism, published by Ababil Books, Kolkata, West Bengal, 2022. ISBN- 997-91-80646-7-8
Contributed a chapter entitled "The Rover or The Banish’d Cavaliers: History, Society and Politics in the Representation of England and Continental Europe (Spain and Italy)" in the book The Rover by Aphra Behn: Text and Criticism published by Ababil Books, Kolkata, West Bengal, 2022, ISBN- 997-91-80646-7-8, pp. 221-230.
Contributed a chapter entitled "Exploring Ecomedica and Environmental Activism: A Critical Study with Special Reference to Michael Jackson's “Earth Song” in in the book, Pluralism and Contemporary Global Issues: Critical Practices, published by RED UNICORN (Stockholm) in 2024. ISBN: 978-91-410-0136-7, pp. 01-10.
Contributed a chapter titled “Doing Posthumanism in Questioning the Margin of Being through Samuel Beckett’s Endgame and Breath” in the book Posthumanism and Literary Insights: A Critical Introduction, published by Springer, Singapore, in 2025. ISBN: 978-981-96-6806-9, pp. 45-53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-6807-6_6
Contributed a chapter entitled "Animism and Metaphors of the Mountain in Mamang Dai’s “The Voice of the Mountain”: A Cultural Exploration” in Remapping the Canon: A Journey Across Indian Poetry in English, published by Atlantic Publisher and Distributor (P), Ltd., New Delhi, 2025. ISBN: 978-81-269-3972-5, pp. 53-65.
Jointly contributed an article titled "Relocating “Slow Violence” within the Discourse of Anthropocene in John Bruner's The Sheep Look Up” to the UGC-CARE listed journal, Journal of the Department of English (ISSN: 0973-3671), Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, WB., in Volume 18, 2025, pp. 1-11. https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/7381
Contributed a chapter titled “Let No One Say the Past is Dead”: Relocating the Postcolonial Resistant in Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Select Poems from The Dawn Is At Hand” in the book Postcolonial Literatures Across the Globe: Texts and Contexts, published by Authorspress (New Delhi), in 2025, ISBN: 978-93-6095-500-7, pp. 66-79.
Contributed a chapter titled “Language, Death, and Identity in Six Characters in Search of An Author and Breath” in the book Selected Papers on Language and Linguistics, published by CIIL, Mysuru, in 2026. ISBN: 978-93-48633-98-9, pp. 316-326.
Contributed an article titled “The Cyberflâneur and the Discourse of Gender in Urban Space and Cyberspace” to the UGC_CARE listed journal, IS University Journal of Arts (ISSN 2319-5339) in Volume 15, Issue 1, 2026.