Curriculum Vitae Saitya Brata Das Associate Professor Email:
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[email protected] School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies Tel: 91+11+2670 4246 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi -110067 Web: www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/sbdas/cv.pdf Areas of Interest - Aesthetic Theories, Tragedy and Philosophy, Political Theology (Jacob Taubes, Carl Schmitt, Erik Peterson), 20th Century French thinking (Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe), German Idealism ( Schelling), Martin Heidegger and Franz Rosenzweig. Education - Ph. D in Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2006. “Ecstasy, Death and Disaster: Ethics and Aesthetics at the Limit of Philosophy”. - M.A in English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2000. - B.A in English, Gauhati University, 1997. Awards - Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 2009-2011. - Post Doc Fellow, UFR Philosophie, Université de Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, 2006-07. - Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, 2000. Academic Employment - Associate Professor, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, September 2013 onwards. - Assistant Professor, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, from November 2012 to September 2013. - Assistant Professor, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, Sept. 2001-Nov. 2012. Ph. D Research Supervision - Aatreyee Ghosh, History, Memory and the Immemorial in Amitabh Ghosh’s Fiction ( work in progress), co-guiding with Prof. G.J.V. Prasad. - Soumana Biswas , Workings of Postmemory: Reading Recent Partition Fiction (work in progress), co-guiding with Prof. G.J.V. Prasad. - Arunima Sen, “ A Citizen of Law: Sovereignty and its Representations in Colonial Bengal During the 19th Century”, ( work in progress), co-guiding with Prof. G. J.V.