PROF. AJAY KUMAR GANGOPADHYAY NAME : Ajay Kumar Gangopadhyay FATHER’S NAME : Late Jaharlal Gangopadhyay MOTHER’S NAME : Mamata Gangopadhyay DATE OF BIRTH : 20th January, 1969 ADDRESS : ‘ANANDAM’, JIBANANANDA SARANI, DESHBANDHU ROAD, -723101. e-mail ID : [email protected]

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

B.A. with Honours in English from Raj College,Burdwan University, 1990. M.A. in English from Burdwan University, 1992. Registrared for Ph D. under S.K.B. University, Purulia on 3rd February, 2016.

PROFESSIONAL DETAILS:

• Date of joining: 07/10/1996 • Associate Professor Dept. of English in J.K. College, Purulia. • 20 years’ Teaching Experience in the Department of English (Degree Level Hons. & Pass) • Erstwhile Coordinator, IGNOU Study Centre (2807), J.K.College, Purulia.

SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED IN THE COLLEGE AS CO-ORGANIZER:

1) UGC Seminar on Teaching Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom organised by the Dept. of English, J.K. College, Purulia, in collaboration with Shakespeare Society of Eastern India, 11-12 November 2000.

2) International Seminar on T.S. Eliot and American Poetry, organised by the Dept. of English, J.K. College, Purulia, & conducted by Prof. Huck Gutman, University of Vermont, U.S.A., 19th December, 2000. 3) International Seminar on Re-Reading Renaissance organized by the Dept. of English, J.K. College, Purulia, in collaboration with the Shakespeare Society of Eastern India, 6-8 December, 2002.

4) International Seminar on Service-Learning conducted by the International Partnership for Service- Learning and Leadership (IPS-L), 16th January 2004. 5) One-Day Seminar on 17th & 18th Century Literature in J.K. College, Purulia, 2015.

SEMINARS ATTENDED AS RESOURCE PERSON / PRESENTED PAPER:

1) UGC Seminar on Postcolonial Literature and Indian English Writing, Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 2006. 2) UGC Seminar on Marxist and Feminist Literary Criticism, Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 2007. 3) Two-Day International Seminar on The World of Shakespeare and Workshop on Communicative English, Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 2012. 4) Tw0-Day UGC Seminar on Text, Culture, Subjectivity, Dept. of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia on September 2 and 3, 2014. 5) One- Day Workshop-cum- Celebration of 150th Birth Anniversary of W.B.Yeats, Dept. of English, B.T. M. College, Barrabazar, Purulia on September 22, 2015. 6) Delivered a series of lectures on Modern Fiction and James Joyce on 28th and 29th September, 2015 in the Dept. of English and Foreign Languages in Shri Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. 7) “The Swordsman and the Saint: W.B.Yeats and Gerontology” on 1 September, 2016 in Nistarini College, Purulia. 8) Extension Lecture on Milton’s Paradise Lost on 30 March, 2017 in Government General Degree College, Boroh, Purulia. 9) Delivered lectures as resource person in UGC Refresher Course on ‘Language and Literature’ in Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur on 30.05.2017 and 31.05.2017 on following topics: 1) Introduction to the Recent Fictional World. 2) A Portrait of the Artist as a Youngman: Experimentation & Euphoria. 3) The Inscrutable American: A Postmodernist Reading. 4) Ice-Candy-Man: Re-Reading Partition. 10) Delivered lecture on ‘Cilappatikaram’: Themes & Issues in the District-Level Curricular Workshop on Indian and Westwrn Classics organized by Udatta, Purulia in collaboration with Department of English, Nistarini College, Purulia. 11) A Two Day International Seminar on ‘Women in Texts’, organized by Dept. of Bengali, English, Sanskrit and Philosophy, Jhargram Raj College, and Sponsored by Dept. of Higher Education, Science and Technology & Bio Technology, 15-16 March, 2018. 12) Attended MA Final Viva-Voce for the Dept. of English, Gokul Das Hindu Girls’ College, Moradabad, under Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, UP, on 6 April, 2018.

OTHER SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED AS OFFICIAL DELEGATE :

1) UGC Seminar on Macbeth & As You Like It, organized by Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 26-27 November 1998.

2) Workshop on Phonetics and Linguistics, sponsored by Burdwan University, & organised by the Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 12-13 August 2000.

3) UGC Seminar on Teaching Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom, organised by the Dept. of English, J.K. College, Purulia, in collaboration with Shakespeare Society of Eastern India, 11-12 November 2000.

4) International Seminar on T.S. Eliot and American Poetry, conducted by Prof. Huck Gutman, University of Vermont, U.S.A., &organised by the Dept. of English, J.K. College, Purulia, 18th December 2000.

5) Approaching Modern English Language and Literary Texts, Dept. of English, Raghunathpur College, 2002. 6) International Seminar on Service-Learning, conducted by the International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership (IPS-L), & organized by J.K.College, Purulia, 16th January 2004.

7) International Seminar on Victorian Literature, conducted by Dr. Kalyan Ray, Professor of English and Philosophy, Morris College, New Jersey, USA, &organised by the Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, on 21st August 2004.

8) Workshop on Grammar and Linguistics, conducted by Prof. A.K. Hui, University of Burdwan, organised by the Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, on 12-13 January, 2006.

9) Seminar on Women’s Rights, conducted by Dr. Jashodhara Bagchi, Chairperson, Women’s Commission, organised by the Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 9th April 2007.

10) Seminar on Manik Bandyopadhyay : A Centenary Commemoration, organised by the Dept. of Bengali, Nistarini College, Purulia, 25th – 26th July 2008. 11) Workshop on UGC- Proposed CBCS Syllabus in English for Under-Graduation under S.K.B. University on 24 March, 2017 in Nistarini College, Purulia.

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS: - 1) Indian English Literature: A Historical Survey, United Book Agency, Kolkata, 2007. 2) An Anthology of English Poetry (Honours), Part I, B.U. and S.K.B.U., New Aharani , Kolkata, 2012.

PAPERS: - 1) Indian English Poetry: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading, Heteroglossia, Vol. IV, Dept of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 2007. ISBN: 0975-167X 2) OtheringWomen(!): Whose Strategy is This?, Heteroglossia, Vol. V, Dept. of English, Nistarini College, Purulia, 2008. ISBN: 0975-167X 3) Laughter: Theorization and Pragmatics, J.K. Times, Vol. VI, J.K. College, Purulia, 2013. 4) The Gothic Romanticized: Re-visiting the Weird World of Tagore’s The Hungry Stones, J.K. Times, Vol VIII, J.K. College, Purulia, 2017. 5) Antinatalism in English Poetry : A Study of Blake, Hardy and McNeice, Heteroglossia, Vol VIII, Nistarini College, Purulia, 2018. ISBN: 0975-167X

OTHER ACADEMIC/EXTENSION ACTIVITIES:

1. Examiner, Burdwan University & SKB University, West Bengal. 2. Paper-setter in Vidyasagar University & SKB University, West Bengal. 3. Guest Lecturer in English Department, Raghunathpur College, Purulia (1996), Kashipur Michael Madhusudan College (2006), Purulia, and Nistarini College, Purulia (at sporadic phases upto 2016). 4. Academic Counsellor (UG & PG) of IGNOU, J.K.College Study Centre, Purulia. 5. Member, Board of Studies, Dept. of English, S.K.B. University. 6. Secretary, Udatta, Purulia, a registrared socio-cultural organization from 2014. 7. Member of the Paschim Banga Vigyan Mancha. 8. Trained Resource Person in the National Literacy Mission. 9. Member, Managing Committee, Barrabazar Bikram Tudu College, Purulia (2008-2011); and Kashipur Michael Madhusudan College, Purulia (1998-1999). 11. Member, Governing Body, Nistarini College, Purulia. 12. President, Games Sub-Committee, J.K. College, Purulia from 1998 to 2008. 13. Secretary, Teachers’ Council, J.K. College, Purulia from 2013 to 2017. 14. Life Member, Haripada Sahitya Mandir, Purulia. 15. Life Member, District Sports Association, Purulia. 16. Member, District Library, Purulia.