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BANKURA UNIVERSITY Colour Photograph FACULTY ACADEMIC PROFILE/ CURRICULUM VITAE 1. Name: SARBOJIT BISWAS 2. Designation: PROFESSOR 3. Date of Birth : 22 June 1976 4. Specialization(s): Post-Colonial Theory and New Literatures, Comparative Literatures – Poetry and Drama, Modern Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Australian Fiction 5. Contact Information: Contact Address: D-111, CHAFFE STREET, SECTOR 2B, BIDHANNAGAR, DURGAPUR, WB., INDIA. PIN-713212 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] 6. Academic qualifications: College/ University from which the Abbreviation of the degree degree was obtained The University of Burdwan Bachelor of Arts The University of Burdwan Master of Arts (English) The University of Burdwan Master of Philosophy (English) The University of Burdwan Doctor of Philosophy 7. Academic Experience: Currently employed at Bankura University, Bankura, West Bengal, India as Professor of English from May 27, 2018 Employed at Bankura University, Bankura, West Bengal, India as Associate Professor of English from May 27, 2015 to May 26, 2018. Was employed at Barjora College, Barjora, Bankura, West Bengal, India as Assistant Professor in English from April 01, 2010 to May 26, 2015 Was employed at Hiralal Bhakat College, Nalhati, Birbhum, West Bengal, India as Assistant Professor in English from July 17, 2003 to March 31, 2010 Was employed at The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, West Bengal, India as Guest Lecturer from August 26, 2010 to September 19, 2013 Was employed at Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, West Bengal as Part Time Lecturer in English from August 1, 2001 to July 15, 2003 Page 1 of 13 Was employed at Michael Madhusudan Memorial College, Durgapur, West Bengal as Part Time Lecturer in English from November 11, 2001 to July 15, 2003 Was employed at IMS (Institute of Management Studies) Durgapur, West Bengal and IMS (Institute of Management Studies) Dhanbad, Jharkhand as Faculty of English from July 1, 2001 to July 15, 2003 8. Administrative Experience: Head, Department of English, Bankura University from 08 August 2017 to 08 August 2019 Finance Officer (Additional Charge), Bankura University from 16 February 2018 to 07 August 2018 Controller of Examinations (Additional Charge), Bankura University 22 July 2019 onwards 9. Research Interests: Culture Studies Scottish Studies Australian Studies Gerontology Studies Environmental Humanities 10. Research Guidance / Supervision: Number of researchers pursuing Ph. D: 04 11. Research Projects: Completed projects: INTERNATIONAL Sl. Funding Agency & Title of Project Period Designation No Amount University of New “Response to Climate South Wales, Co-researcher, workshop Change in Coastal Sydney, Australia participant and author within Communities: Case & the International Waterways 2010- 1. Studies of Waterways in The University of Programme hosted and 2013 India, Thailand, Burdwan financially supported by the Bangladesh and $60,000 University of New South Wales, Australia” (Australian Sydney, Australia dollars) Page 2 of 13 University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia & Associate Researcher in AMRF, Dhaka, international collaboration team “Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh 2012 - involving the University of New 2. Bangladesh and West & 2015 South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Bengal” The University of The University of Burdwan, India Burdwan and AMRF, Dhaka, Bangladesh $60,000 (Australian dollars) Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA), Associate Researcher & Awardee College of Human of UKIERI (UK INDIA EDUCATION and Health AND RESEARCH INITIATIVE) Sciences, “A Gerontology Thematic Partnerships 2014 in Swansea Research Centre for the collaboration with Swansea University, Study of the Impact of University, Wales, U.K. Wales, United 3. Population Ageing, [Indian Project Team Leader: Kingdom Migration, 2013 - Prof. Deb Narayan & Environmental and 2014 Bandyopadhyay, The University of Social Change on Older Vice Chancellor, Bankura Burdwan People and their University & ex Professor of (Indian Families in India” English, The University of Institutional Burdwan] Grant of Rs10,43,560/- only) Completed projects: NATIONAL Sl. Funding Agency & Title of Project Period Designation No Amount ICSSR “Discoursing the (Indian Council for 1. Homeless Elderly: Social Science 2016-2018 Project Director Tropes, Desires and Research), New Containment” Delhi, India Rs. 7,20,000/- Page 3 of 13 12. Select list of publications: a) Journals / Online Journals: Whether Refereed Whether Journal/ Title with Name of ISSN/ No. of you are Sl. Other page no. and date the ISBN Co the No. Reputed of publication Journal No. author- main Journal. author Impact factor, if any “Re-reading ‘Mandala’ Motif: Lyceum: e-journal Identity formation in Refereed 1. of Dept. of English, N.A. YES White’s The Solid --- Journal Bankura University Mandala”; 25-31; 2018 “Resisting the ‘truth’: English Forum: Modes of protest in Journal of the Dalit and Australian Refereed 2. Department of 22790446 N.A. YES Aboriginal Poetry” ; Journal English, Gauhati 71-86; March 2016- University 17 “Imagining the Future Appropriations: in the Past: Reading Journal of the Refereed 3. Kim Scott’s Benang; Department of 09751521 N.A. YES Journal 156 – 168, December English, Bankura 2009 Christian College “Interrogating the Past: Conscious Journal of the Racism, Identity De- Department of Refereed 4. orientation and -- N.A. YES English, Rabindra Journal Unconscious Revolt in Bharati University Kim Scott’s Benang; 80 -91’ 2008 b) Books / book chapters / E-book: Details Level of Whether No. Title of the Publication ISSN Publishers you are Sl. of subject book (Text/ / ISBN (International the No Co- with page no. Reference/ No. / main author Subject National/ author Page 4 of 13 Books/ State /Central Chapter in Govt/ other Books local Publisher “Introduction” -- 978-93- Objective Illumination! A Chapter in 83292- 1. Study of T.S. Eliot’s Prose National N.A. YES Books 38-7 Writings ; (2018) 01 - 13 “Contributory factors of homelessness: Studying the homeless seniors in 978-93- Australia and India” -- 82630- Chapter in 2. The ‘Asian Century’: 86-9 National One YES Books Australia and the Trans- Asian Cultural and (2016) Strategic Diplomacy ; 166-173 “Being Human to our Cultural Heritage: Contrasting Environmental Impacts on 978-93- Victoria Memorial Hall, Chapter in 81672- 3. Kolkata & Sydney Opera National N.A. YES Books 11-2 House” – (2012) Australian Studies: Re- inventing in Australian Literature and Culture; 36 – 48 “Posting AIC beyond academic / cultural restrictions: Future 978-81- proposals – Chapter in 902282- 4. National N.A. YES New Directions in Public Books 2-0 Diplomacy: Indo- (2012) Australian Experiences; 107 – 114 978-81- Reference 89293- 5 Language Analysis National N.A. YES Book 89-5 (2012) “Unearthing the first native-born Australian 1-4438- Chapter in 6 novelist: Reading 2632-4 International N.A. YES Books Wanderings in India and (2011) Other Sketches of Life in Page 5 of 13 Hindostan as a cross- cultural text” – Landscape, Place and Culture: Linkages between Australia and India; 149-159 “A Prophetic Vision: Re- telling history through allegory in Tharoor’s The 978-93- Great Indian Novel” – Chapter in 80145- 7 National N.A. YES Colonial Spectre and Books 83-9 Beyond: Studies in Indian (2011) Writings in English; 88-96 “Environmental activism: simple steps towards a universal cause” – Chapter in N.A. 8 National N.A. YES Biodiversity, Conservation Books (2010) and Sustainable Development, Np “Seeking the ‘Free’ Self: Time and Space Narrative 978-81- in Amitav Ghosh’s The Chapter in 89293- 9 Shadow Lines” – National N.A. YES Books 71-0 Indian English Fiction: A (2009) Reader; 111 -118 “Kim Scott’s Benang & Doris Pilkington’s Towards the Rabbit-Proof Fence: 978-81- Conscious racism and Chapter in 269- 10 identity de-orientation" – National N.A. YES Books 1200-1 Reconceiving (2009) Postcolonialism: Visions and Revisions; 56 – 67 “Plotting margins of habitational space: a study of Indianness in the 978-81- works of R.K. Narayan” – Chapter in 7273- 11 National N.A. YES Indian Legendary Writers Books 482-4 in English: ANAND, (2009) NARAYAN AND RAO; 91-100 Page 6 of 13 c) Edited volumes: Details Level of Publication Publishers Whether (Text/ No. Title of the ISSN (International / you are Sl. Reference/ of subject book / ISBN National/ the No Subject Co- with page no. No. State /Central main Books/ author Govt/ other author Chapter in local Publisher Books 978-93- Objective Illumination! Reference 83292- 1. A Study of T.S. Eliot’s National One YES Book 38-7 Prose Writings (2018) The ‘Asian Century’: 978-93- Australia and the Trans- Reference 82630- 2. National Two No Asian Cultural and Book 86-9 Strategic Diplomacy (2016) De-coding the Silence! 978-93- Reading John Stuart Reference 82630- 3. National One YES Mill’s The Subjection of Book 51-7 Women (2015) Outside the British 978-93- Canon: Reading Reference 82630- 4. National One YES literatures from former Book 52-4 European colonies (2015) 978-93- Text and Theory: Reference 82630- 5. Reading and Re- National One YES Book 41-8 readings (2015) 978-93- Culture and Identity: Reference 82630- 6. Re-reading Raja Rao National Two YES Book 22-7 and Mulk Raj Anand (2014) Colonial Spectre and 978-93- Beyond: Studies in Reference 80145- 7. National One YES Indian Writing in Book 83-9 English (2011) 978-81- Indian English Fiction: A Reference 89293- 8. National N.A. YES Reader Book 71-0 (2009) 13. Membership of Learned Societies: Page 7 of 13 Life Member of