Faculty Profile

I have completed my M.A and PhD from Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan. I have also done a Post Graduate Diploma course in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics from School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. I was awarded a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship in the year 2013 by Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP), Hyderabad and another Junior UPE fellowship from School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University. I have worked as a researcher in SCTR, JU for 2.4 years and had an exposure to some rare cultural material during the course of my UPE-II project. I have also taught in various colleges in various capacities and my teaching experience is cumulatively close to 15 years. 

• M.A. and Ph.D. from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan
• PG Diploma in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics from Jadavpur University.

• Taught in the capacity of Guest Faculty and Assistant Professor in various colleges, cumulatively acquiring around six years of teaching experience, some of which are listed below: • Taught as a guest lecturer in Michael Madhusudhan Memorial College, Durgapur (from 04.09.10- 05.09.11) and Durgapur Women’s College (from 04.09.10-31.03.11). • Worked as a guest lecturer in THK Jain College, Cossipore, Kolkata (affiliated to University of Calcutta) from 01.09.16 to 12.04.17. • Worked as an Assistant Professor in Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata from 23.07.2018 to 27.12.2019.

• I was occasionally involved in responsibilities assigned to me from time to time in the previous institutions. • Professor-in-Charge of Xavier’s University Debating Society • Officer-in-Charge for Dept. of English for the Examinations (2022- 2023) • Member of Faculty Council • Member of Research and Development Committee

• • (2021) “Idea of
• • (2024) “Borders and Boundaries: Resituating The Tiger Claw in the Current Times” Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature, Springer November 2024. ISBN- 978-981-97-4543-2 https://link.springer.com/book/9789819745432?fbclid=IwY2xjawEeuixleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVg0wloNjORD2dSPrMShWE4t-QkTsHvgeGLLDnZMI2rjNwoWh8I9vvQcoA_aem_8feAECK5XXop_r4RaCbm9g&sfnsn=wiwspwa
• • (2025) “Our lives have become weapons in a rugged political contest”—A Reading of Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend But the Mountains and Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee”, Negotiating Lives: Migration, Displacement and Resistance in Postcolonial Nation-State, Routledge India, 25th February 2025. ISBN 9781032868882 https://www.routledge.com/Migration-Identity-and-Resistance-in-Post-Colonial-Nation-States/Ali-Kundu-Sarkar-Saren/p/book/9781032868882 Article published in Peer-reviewed journals
• • (2023) “Remembrance of Things Past: Feminisation of Narrative in Margaret Lawrence’s The Stone Angel and Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters”, Literary Voice (Dr. T. S. Anand) Vol 1. Issue 1, January (2023), 36-45 (An International Peer Reviewed Journal of English Studies [Online]), ISSN- 2583-8199. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59136/lv.2023.1.1.105
• • (December 2024) “‘Homing’ and the Desire for ‘Homing’: Reading/Teaching Kamila Shamshie’s Kartography through the Migrant’s Experience”—Accepted and forthcoming from Refugee Watch (A Bi-annual UGC Carelisted-II Journal by Calcutta Research Group).

• Awarded for participation in a Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship Project of 4 weeks in OUCIP (Osmania University Centre for International Programmes) conducted from 21st August 2013 to 17th September 2013.
• Worked as a Junior UPE Fellow (Documentation of Cultural Texts Sub-group) in School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University in the program