1 | P a g e SAITYA BRATA DAS CURRICULUM VITAE CONTACT Associate Professor, Centre for English Studies School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067 AREAS OF INTEREST - Philosophy and/ of Literature - Political Theology - Contemporary Continental Thought (Phenomenology, Deconstruction, Martin Heidegger) - German Idealism (Schelling) -Contemporary Jewish Thought (Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig) EDUCATION 2007. Post Doc Fellow, UFR Philosophie, Université de Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. 2005. Ph. D in Jawaharlal Nehru University. Dissertation: Ecstasy, Death and Disaster: Ethics and Aesthetics at the Limit of Philosophy. 2000. M.A in English, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 1997. B.A in English, Gauhati University. AWARDS AND HONORS 2009. Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 2000. Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, 2000. Email:
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[email protected], Tel: 91-11-26704246, 26704231 https://jawaharlalanehrunewdelhiindia.academia.edu/SaityaBrataDas,http://sbdas.webs.com/. 2 | P a g e ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2013. Associate Professor, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2012. Assistant Professor, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. 2001. Assistant Professor, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University. RESEARCH SUPERVISION PH. D SUPERVISION - Aatreyee Ghosh, History, Memory and the Immemorial in Amitabh Ghosh’s Fiction (submitted), co-guided with Prof. G.J.V. Prasad. - Jomy Abraham, Thanatowritings: Death , Self and Writing in the Farmers’ Suicide Notes from Vidharbha ( in progress). -Priyanka Das, The Stark Image of Violence: A Study of “The Game of Thrones” ( in progress). - Arunima Sen, “ A Citizen of Law: Sovereignty and its Representations in Colonial Bengal During the 19th Century”, co-guided with Prof.