RAMMOHAN COLLEGE

FACULTY ACADEMIC PROFILE

Name: DR. BISWANATH BANERJEE

Department: ENGLISH

Email: [email protected]

Academic background: M.A., Ph.D.

Positions: Assistant Professor

Awards/ Honours: Nominated and Worked as a Fellow of the UGC-UKIERI Project coordinated jointly by Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India in 2014-2016

Research interest: Postcolonial studies, Tagore studies, diasporic literature, partition literature, late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indian English writing, Bengal Renaissance and history of science

Ongoing Project: N.A.

Research guidance: N.A.

Selected publications (Last Five):

1. Co-authored a book with Prof. Amrit Sen, The Bengali Chemist: Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and Postcoloniality (ISBN: 978-93- 81640-98-2). The book was published by Karigar in 2017

2. “The East’s Writing Back to the West: Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and Postcoloniality.” The chapter is published in the book Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas (ISBN: 978-81-7522-651-7) in March 2017, pg. nos. 185-98. The book is edited by Tapati Mukherjee, Bashabi Fraser and Amrit Sen and published by Visva-Bharati. 3. “The Debate on Swaraj: Envisioning the Postcolonial Nation in Mahatma Gandhi, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and Rabindranath Tagore.” The chapter is published in the Proceedings of International Conference on Gandhi and the Contemporary World (ISBN: 978-93-84224-47-9) in February 2016, pg. nos. 53-61. The book is edited by Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, and published by Victor Publishers (India), Delhi.

4. “Science, Scientist and Society: Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and Postcoloniality.” This chapter is published in the book, Technology, Science and Society (ISBN: 978-93-80761-88-6) on 17th August, 2015, pg. nos. 90-102. The book is published by the Avenel Press and edited by Amitava Ghosh, Dipankar Sarkar and Tania Chakraborty.

5. “ ‘A New East for the West to Appreciate’: Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray and A History of Hindu Chemistry”. Published in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly (ISSN: 0972-043X), a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal, published by Visva-Bharati, Vol. 23, No. 4 and Vol. 24, No. 1 (January 2015 – June 2015), pg. nos. 93-103.

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