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Curriculum Vitae Personal Details Name- Dhritiman Chakraborty Date of Birth- 28.02.1987 Assistant Professor Department of English Raiganj Surendranath Mahavidyalaya, University of Gour Banga, West Bengal, India. Email- [email protected] Cell- 9832303721 Research Interests and Specialization He has submitted his doctoral thesis at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) under the joint supervision of Dr. Maidul Islam of the Center and Prof. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya from Center for Political Studies, JNU. The title of this thesis was ‘Dilemmas of Postcolonial Development: An Enquiry into the Politics of Two Dissident Movements’. In this thesis, he has dealt with postcolonial political where he has looked into how by appointing newer literary and cultural methodologies, a new cartography of resistance politics is possible in India. He is interested in Indian intellectual and social thinking, postcolonial studies, gender in India, critical theory, world literature and political philosophy. Academic Positions Assistant Professor (Full-time Position) 25 February, 2015- Department of English, Raiganj Surendranath Mahavidyalaya, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, India. Assistant Professor in FDP (Contractual Position) August 2013 - February 2015 Department of English, Pakuahat Degree College, Malda. Assistant Professor in FDP (Contractual Position) September, 2011- July, 2013 Department of English, Gour Mahavidyalaya, Malda. Full Time Lecturer (Contractual Position) August, 2009-September, 2011 Department of English, Postgraduate Section Malda College, Malda. Education Ph.D. pursuing in Cultural Studies Center for Studies in Social Scinces, Calcutta (CSSSC). M.A in English Literature with specializations in Modern Drama, Postmodern Theory, Michel Foucault, Many Feminisms, Diaspora Literature and American Literature. Jadavpur University, India B.A. with English Honors (specialization in American Literature). Malda College University of North Bengal, India. Research Experience He was a joint-investigator in a UGC Funded Minor Research Project (MRP, UGC) in the year 2011 to 2013 to investigate on a folk art form named, Gambhira. He was selected as Research Assistant in Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata to work under Prof. Ranabir Samaddar in a project on migration. But due to prior teaching appointment, he could not join. Seminar and Conference Organizer He jointly organized a UGC sponsored national seminar on Re-Reading American Identity After 9/11 in 2011 at the department of English, Gour Mahavidyalaya. Geraldine Forbes, New York, OSWEGO, gave the key-note address. He organized a State-Level Convention on To Kill or Not To Kill? Rethinking Capital Punishment, Governance and Justice on 28 September, 2015, at the Raiganj Surendranath Mahavidyalaya, Raiganj. He acted as an Organising Secretary in the 1st National Folk Congress, 2015 at the Raiganj Surendranath Mahavidyalaya, Raiganj, in May, 2015. He convened a Regional-level Workshop on ‘Reading Indian English Poetry’, on 28 November, 2015 at the Raiganj Surendranath College, Raiganj. He organized and started a series of Occasional Lectures in the Department of English, Raiganj Surendranath Mahavidyalaya, where the first Lecture was given by Dr. Amitranjan Basu, former Research Fellow, IIAS and author. The talk was on “Psychoanalysis after Globalisation”. Participation in Workshop 1. Took Part in the Annual Conference and Meet of Postcolonial Studies Association of Global South (PSAGS) at the Netaji Subhas Open University (NSOU) in Kolkata, 2019. This yesr the conference focused on Postcolonial Unreason: Nation, Calibanization and Silence. 2. Took part in the Global Initiative for Academic Networks funded workshop on Digitized Humanity: The “Contractual” Ethico-Political Dimensions of the “Machinic” Networks at IIT, Kharagpur in 2016. 3. Took part in the “Winter School”, on Critical Thinking, Reading and Writing Skills organized by AICTE in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2010. 4. Took part in the workshop organized by Global South, SEPHIS at Jadavpur University, India, 2013. The title of the Workshop was Comparative Gesture. Publications Book 1. Jointly edited an anthology titled, “Different Americas: Resituating American Identity in the Post 9/11 Classroom”, Authors Press: New Delhi, 2013. ISBN 978-81-7273-751- 1 Chapters in Books 1. A Chapter titled, ‘What is left of Left in West Bengal? The New Left and the ‘World of the Third’ is published in a volume on Secular Sectarianism, edited by Ajay Gudavarthy, Sage, 2019. 2. A Chapter titled, ‘Who is Afraid of Postcolonial Theory? Development, Accumulation and the Spectre of Outside’ is published in an anthology titled, Left Politics in South Asia: Reframing the Agenda, edited by Ravi Kumar, Aakar Books in December 2018. 3. A jointly written chapter titled, ‘From Antagonism to Agonism in the Republic of Hunger: Towards an Indian Democratie-a-venir’ is published in an anthology, Democratic Governance and Politics of Left in South Asia edited by Subhoranjan Dasgupta, Aakar: New Delhi, 2015. ISBN 978-93-5002-319-8 4. A jointly written chapter on ‘A Caged Phoenix? Politics of Affection and Identity for Women Medics in Colonial Bengal’, in an anthology titled, Imperial Maladies: Literature on Healthcare and Psychoanalysis in India, edited by Debashis Bandyopadhyay and Pritha Kundu, Nova Press, New York, 2017. ISBN 978-1-53611- 863-6. 5. A Chapter on Translation of Bengali Periodicals is published in the reader entitled Shaping the Discourse: Women Writings in Bengali Periodicals 1865-1947 edited by Ipshita Chanda and Jayeeta Bagchi. Stree: Kolkata, 2014. ISBN- 978-81-906760- 5-2. 6. A chapter on ‘Poor Economy to Politics of the Governed: Changing Paradigms of Postcolonial Development’ in India is published in an edited anthology Dynamics of Development and Discontent, Bookwell: New Delhi, 2014. ISBN 978-93-80574-65- 3 7. A chapter named, ‘Imperial democracy, Homo Sacer and Arundati Roy’s resistance of Bare Life’ is published in a volume titled, Indian Writing in English: Critical Perspective from Aavishkar: Jaipur, 2011. ISBN-978-81-7910-344-9. 8. A chapter titled, ‘Spousal Friendship, Empowerment and the Third Alternative: The Subjection of Women in Retrospect’ is published in the book, DE-CODING THE SILENCE! Reading John Stuart Mill’s The Subjection of Women. AADI Publication: Jaipur, ISBN978-93-82630-51-7. 9. A chapter named, ‘Whitman at Ground Zero: Revisiting the preface to 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass in Indian Classroom’ is published in a volume, Different Americas: Resituating American Identity in the Post 9/11 Classroom, Authors Press: New Delhi, 2014. ISBN 978-81-7273-751-1 10. A chapter titled ‘The Argumentative Media(?): Local Media, Local Public Sphere and the Future of Democracy’ is published in a seminar proceeding, Communication: A Need for Community Development, 2013. ISBN- 978-81-920386-2-9. 11. A chapter named, ‘Observing the Adieu: Detailed Summary of And Relevant Critical Commentary on “A Farewell to Arms”, in a volume named, Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms: A Critical Appraisal, Books Way: Kolkata. ISBN- 978-93- 81672-12-9 12. A jointly written chapter titled, ‘Eastwords, Postcolonialism and the Politics of Adaptation: Towards forming a New Praxis’ is published in an anthology Postcolonial Approaches to Literature: Text, Context, Theory, edited by S. Bhattacharya and et. all, Authors Press: New Delhi, 2015. ISBN 978-93-5207-119-7 Peer-reviewed International and National Journals 1. ‘Refolutionary Inflectional Zones of Democracy: Rethinking Post-civil Society Resistance’ in Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2016. ISSN 2581-7361. (co-authored with Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Mursed Alam). 2. ‘Bengali Women’s Writings in the Colonial Period: Critique of Nation, Narration, and Patriarchy’ in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Vol. 66, Issue 1, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa-2018-0004 (co-authored with Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty). 3. ‘Politics, Possibility and Utopia: A Tete-a-tete with Ajay Gudavarthy on India and the Emergent Political’ in Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2016. ISSN 2581-7361. 4. ‘Multitude, Living Labour and Dead Labour’ in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) Vol. 49, Issue 38. Sep, 2014. (Co-authored with Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das). 5. ‘Revisiting the Karachi Resolution: The Genealogy of Reintroducing Capital Punishment in India’ in Caffe Dissensus, New York: 2014. (Co-authored with Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty). 6. ‘Reclaiming Dissident Collectivities/Political Community Through the Matrix of Gambhira, An Eastern Indian Folk Form’ in Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (AJRSCH), Vol-3, Issue-1, ISSN-2249-7315. (co-authored with Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Mursed Alam). 7. ‘Imperial Capital, Comprador Democracy and Subaltern Justice’ in Subalternspeak: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol-III, Issue-III, 2015. ISSN 2347- 2013. (Co-authored with Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Mursed Alam). 8. ‘Indian Modernity at Crossroad: The Aporetic Panoroma of Social Loss in Mahesh Dattani’s Theater’, in New Academia, Special Mid-Year Issue, August, 2012. ISSN- 2277-3967. 9. ‘When Mr. Pirzada Creates ‘Anuranan’: A Study of Home Through the Bong Connection’ in The Criterion, Vol-2, Issue-2, June 2011. ISSN-0976-8165. 10. ‘The Tsunamic Hatred on the Hinterland of Bharat: An Appraisal of Anand’s The Untouchable’ in Symposium: A New Literary