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RIMLI BHATTACHARYA Associate Professor Department of English University of Delhi India 110 007 Tel (home): +91-11-2766 6287 Email: [email protected] Permanent Address: ‘Disha’, 49/60 PGMS Road, Calcutta 700 033, India. +91-33-2473 9336 (tel: home) _____________________________________________________________ EDUCATION 1986 Ph.D. Brown University, Comparative Literature (English, Russian & French fiction) Dissertation: ‘Narrative Patterns in the Nineteenth-Century Short Story’ 1981 M.A. Jadavpur University, Comparative Literature, First Class First 1977 B.A. Calcutta University, English Honours TEACHING /RESEARCH POSITIONS 2014-2016 Professor, Gender Studies (on EOL from University of Delhi) Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 2001 - Associate Professor, Dept. of English (Permanent Appointment) University of Delhi, Delhi Spring 2008 ICCR Visiting Chair, Dept of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA 1997-2001 Reader, Dept. of English (Permanent Appointment) The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat Spring 2000 Rama Watumull Distinguished Indian Scholar Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA 1994-95 Guest Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature Jadavpur University, Calcutta 1987-90 Pool Officer , CSIR, based at the Centre of Linguistics and English Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi HONOURS / AWARDS / RESEARCH GRANTS Indo-German faculty exchange programme, GOI, Summer 2019 University of Delhi & Potsdam University Annual R&D and Doctoral Grants University of Delhi 2012-2013 1 Annual R&D and Doctoral Grants University of Delhi 2011-2012 Visiting Fellow DEOML, Visva-Bharati March 2012 Visiting Fellow SNDT Women’s University February 2012 (Conference) Travel Grant to Beijing ICCR, Delhi 2010 3 Short-term research grants Eklavya & Sir Ratan Tata Trust 2009-2010 ICCR Visiting Chair Dept of South Asian Studies Spring 2008 Professor of Indian Literature University of Pennsylvania Rama Watumull Distinguished Center for South Asian Studies Spring 2000 Indian Scholar University of Hawai’i at Manoa Senior Research Fellowship Ministry of Human Resources 1996-1998 Development Small Studies Grant for Nehru Trust Summer 1995 Research at Institutions in the U.K. (supplemented and extended to) Summer 1996 Individual Research Grants The Ford Foundation 1993-1995 Vistorship to the U.K. The British Council July 1993 Rockefeller Residency Fellowship Institute on Culture & Spring 1993 Consciousness, University of Chicago General Fellowship Indian Council for 1991-1993 Social Science Research [NMML] Scholarship to Inter-University Inter-University Program, 1986-1987 Program for Chinese Language Stanford University Studies in Taipei Travel Grant to Taiwan Sir Dorabji Tata Trust 1986 Fellowship for Summer Course Institute d’Etudes Francaises Summer 1983 in Advanced French d’Avignon Fellowship for Summer Practicum Columbia University Summer 1982 in Advanced Russian Graduate Studies Fellowship Brown University 1981-1982 University Medal Jadavpur University 1980 First in First Class in MA Medal in paper on Rabindranath Jadavpur University 1980 Tagore in MA 2 RESEARCH AREAS Performance Theory and History Gender Studies Narrative Theory Translation Studies Children’s Literature Primary Education Film and the visual arts Oceanic Humanities CURRENT RESEARCH 1. OCEANIC HUMANITIES: 2018 onwards Partner from India in an international Oceanic Humanities project, based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. (PI: Isabel Hofmeyr, Oceanic Humanities for the Global South). https://www.oceanichumanities.com/about My focus is on trade routes of literature, culture and religion from the coastlines of the Indian subcontinent to South-east Asia and East Africa. I have contributed to workshops and student seminars in South Africa and Mozambique. A manuscript is under preparation. 2. ARCHIVAL WORK ON CHILDREN’S MAGAZINES: 2014 onwards Drawing on the visual archives of CSSSC on children’s fiction in Bangla (book covers, etc, and periodicals) and other libraries such as the National Library and the Sadharon Brahmo Samaj Library located in Calcutta, I am working towards a comparative study of periodicals for children. I am exploring the relationship between science, literature and social reform, with particular emphasis on illustrations. I was invited to present a paper based on this archival material at an invited lecture at Azim Premji University in August 2014 and in Vidya Bhavan Society, Udaipur in February 2019. 3. DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI: 2000 onwards With a view to extend and reconfigure the scope of ‘the national’, I have been working on the substantial oeuvre of Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936), particularly his children’s fiction, written in English, and primarily published in the US in the early decades of the twentieth century. An Occasional Paper (2009) and an article in a refereed journal (2013) have appeared in print, besides ongoing talks (2005, 2008, 2013, 2014) on the subject. A forthcoming book : The Task of the Interpreter: Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s India. RESEARCH SUPERVISION Supervised & Awarded Degree: Hemjyoti Medhi: “The Women’s Question in Colonial Assam: A Case Study of Chandraprabha Saikiani and the Assam Mahila Samiti” (2014) Prachee Dewri: “Bishnuprasad Rava: A Study in Revolutionary Aesthetics” (2016) Garima Rai: “Interrogating Migrant Subjectivity in Indian Nepali Writing from Darjeeling (1950s- 1980s)" 3 Supervision of doctoral dissertation under progress: Bidyut Sagar Boruah: “Reception of Russian Literature in Assamese (1930-2000): Networks of Appreciation, Translation and the Political Milieu” Ranjani Shankar. M: “Critical Literacy and the English Language Curriculum” (Joint Supervision with Prof. Anita Rampal, Faculty of Education, University of Delhi). Anagha BR: ‘Owning The Street In Her Own Way: A Study of the Street Plays Of Women’s Theatre Groups In Kerala’ 2009 – 2011: Project Advisor to a 2-year research project (with Hemjyoti Medhi) entitled “Memory, Movement and the Mahila Samiti in Assam’, Funded by Preserving Social Memory Grant, The Sephis Programme, International Institute of Social History, The Netherlands and Supported by Tezpur University. Supervision of MPhil dissertations from 2005 onwards. 2019 (25,000 words dissertation): Deepanshu Mahajan, Gurpreet Kaur and Debalina Pal 2020 (25,000 words dissertation): Amitrajeet Mukherjee, Vikram Singh Supervision /Publication of independent research projects: 2009 “Sur Pippa: Songs in Many Tongues: Lullabies and Playsongs in Asamiya, Mizo and Kumaoni with translations into English’. Introduction by Rimli Bhattacharya. Project members: Prachee Dewri, Kristina Zama, Padmakshi Patowary and Aditi Chand. 2009 A study of ‘Subject English’ in NCERT textbooks (Classes 3-5), including classroom observation and alternative pedagogies. Introduction by Rimli Bhattacharya and Anuja Madan, with Nivedita Basu & Sreyoshi Sarkar. Published as a monograph. Both projects were supported by Eklavya and the Ratan Tata Trust. External Examiner for Ph.D. theses: University of Hyderabad, Assam University, Jadavpur University, IIT Delhi, University of Delhi, among others. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2001- 2020 University of Delhi M.Phil. Seminars 2004 -2020: ‘Children’s Literature: Childhood, pedagogy and literary forms’ 2018: ‘The “Travelling Gaze” and Spatial Transformations’. 2008: ‘The Body in Performance: Comparative Contexts in the 20th Century’ 2004: ‘Theatrical Formations and the Politics of Spectacle-Making from Mid-19th to Early 20th Century’ 2003 - 2019: ‘The Short Story in Comparative Contexts’ 2014-2016 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta 2015 M.Phil. Seminar: Theorising Performance [Lecture with film analysis] 2014 M.Phil. Seminar: Feminism and the Social Sciences [with colleagues] TEACHING (cont.) M.A. University of Delhi 2019- 2020: M.A. 1st and 2nd years (new syllabi) 16th and 17th Century Drama/ The Long 19th Century / Poetry 1 / Literature of the Americas / Fiction 4 2001- 2013 (old syllabi) New Literatures in English / European Comedy / The 19th Century Novel /The 20th Century Novel Indian Literature (in English Translation) The 19th Century Novel / 19th Century Poetry / Modern Drama Spring Semester 2000 University of Hawai’i at Manoa Graduate Seminar: ‘Modernity and Representations/Contradictions of Faith’ 1997-2001: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda M.A. 1st and 2nd years Perspectives on English & Post-colonial theory / G.B. Shaw’s Saint Joan /Austen, Mansfield Park; Swift, Gulliver’s Travels; Hobbes, Leviathan Modern Indian Poetry / Indian Literature in English: Mohanty: Paraja; Tagore: Home and the World M.Phil. Research Methodology Designed courses on Writing and Communication for the Faculties of Fine Arts & Home Science Spring Semester 2000 University of Hawai’i at Manoa Graduate Seminar: ‘Modernity and Representations/Contradictions of Faith’ 1995 Jadavpur University (Dept of Comparative Literature) Journey to the West / Shakespeare: Hamlet 1988-91 Jawaharlal Nehru University (Centre of English & Linguistics) Modern Drama; Literary Theory: An Introduction; The Novel in America / Politics and Family Relationships in the Novel / The Fantastic Short Story 1983-86 Brown University (as Teaching Assistant) Introduction to Comedy The City and the Arts Vision and Response in Modern Fiction Tales and Tale-makers of the Non-Western World PUBLICATIONS I. Books / Edited volumes Monograph on Children’s Literature in India: Many tongues, many realities,