1. Name: Dr. Arnab Baul 2. Academic Qualification: M.A., Ph. D. 3. Designation: Assistant Professor 4. Department: English

5. Specialization: Modern European Drama 6. Teaching Experience: 21 Years at the UG level and 16 Years at the PG level 7. E mail: [email protected] 8. Area (s) of interest: • Violence and Societal Issues • Science, Literature and Culture • Literature and Resistance • Postmodern Spirituality • Trans-appropriation of Shakespeare

9. Details of Major/Minor Projects/Ph. D. Supervision: Completed one UGC-Sponsored Minor Research Project titled The idea of violence in Shakespeare: A study of ‘Titus Andronicus’, ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Macbeth’ 10. Ph. D. Research Area: Dr.Baul’s broad area of research is Shakespearean adaptations and appropriations. How Shakespeare’s specific tyrant figures are recycled by the modern playwrights in the context of post- World War II socio-cultural upheavals, forms the substance of his research. 11. Publications: Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals:

1. Coriolanus Recycled: Osborne Adapts Shakespeare in The Atlantic Critical Review, vol.5, no. 2(April-June 2006), New Delhi, pp- 43-53. ISSN:09726373 2. Recycling Text and Ideology: From Shakespeare’s King Lear to Edward Bond’s Lear in The Atlantic Critical Review, vol.5, no. 3(July-Sept 2006), New Delhi, pp- 1-13.ISSN: 09726373 3. Experiencing Postmodernity, Practicing Spirituality, in Bulletin of the Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vol.LVIII, No.5(May 2007), Kolkata.pp-229-232.ISSN:09712755 4. Imagining Nation: Tagore’s Concept of Nationa;lism in TasherDesh ,in The Atlantic Literary Review, vol.8, no. 2 (April-June 2007), New Delhi, pp- 100- 113.ISSN:09723269 5. Appropriating Culture: Whose English is it Anyway? In The Quest, Vol.21, No. 1,(June 2007), Ranchi.pp-67-72.ISSN:09712321 6. Art of Minimalism in Beckett’s Later Plays, in The Atlantic Critical Review, Jan- March, 2008.ISSN: 09726373 7. Problematics of Power in Shakespeare, in Reassessing British Literature Vol.2, edited by A. Prasad, and,Sarup and Sons, New Delhi,2008. ISBN:9788176258791 8. Silence of the Subaltern: Why the Subaltern cannot speak, A Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable, in Atlantic Literary Review , New Delhi.Vol:10, January-March 2009.ISSN:09723269 9. Negotiating Postmodernism: Idea of the West/the Other in“In an Antique Land” in The Atlantic Critical Review, New delhi.Vol:8,No: 3, July- September 2009. ISSN:09726373 10. Dialectics of identity in Techno-Society (pp.149-158)in Salesian Journal Of Humanities and Social Science, Ed. Vol.IV, No.I, May 2013, Salesian College Publication, Siliguri. ISSN 0976-1861

11. Violence Metamorphosed: Reading Shakespeare in the Twenty First Century (pp.33-45) in Research and Criticism, Journal of Department of English,Ed.R.N.Rai, Pencraft International (New Delhi) for BHU, Varanasi, 2011.ISSN:22293639

12. Theology and Postmodern Imaginings: Transfiguring God(s) in The Indian Review of World Literature in English,Vol:13.No.2, July-September : 2017 http:www.worldlitonline.net

13. The Body that Writes: Rape and Resistance of Lavinia in Titus Andronicus in Texture: A Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol:1, No.1 : 2017 ISSN : 2456-9917 http://barjournal.online/Archive.php

Articles in Seminar Proceedings/Book Chapters/Articles

1. The Idea of nation/Nationalism in Tagore’s Poetry, in the book, Indian Literature I English Vol.1, edited by A. Prasad, and A .Srivastaba,Sarup and Sons, New delhi,2007. Pp- 1-11.ISBN:8176257656 2. Problematics of Power in Shakespeare in the book ,Reassessing British Literature Vol:II, edited by S.K.Paul& A.N. Prasad,Sarup& Sons, New Delhi,2008.Pp.14-26.ISBN:978-81-7625-879-1 3. Experiencing Postmodernity, Practicing Spirituality in Bulletin of the Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture,edited by Swami Prabhananda, Kolkata:2007,pp.229-232 4. Politics of Power in Tagore’s The Land of Cards (pp.57-75),in A. Bhattacharjee edited Unmasking Power: Subjectivity & Resistance in Indian Drama in English, Papyrus: Guwahati,2014,ISBN: 978-93-81287-40-8

5. Rape & Resistance: Lavinia in Titus Andronicus (pp.167-170)inSumitaPandit Ed. Women Empowerment in the New Millennium: Where India Stands, National Seminar Proceedings 2013, ISBN:978-81-924184-1-4 6. Albert Camus O Rangamancha(Bengali)in Mallar Little Mag, 15:I, 2014, Ed. SubhomoySarkar, , Siliguri, (pp.252-264) ISSN:2347-5811

7. Cloning and the Problematic of Identity in Caryl Churchill’s A Number (pp.1009-1017) in Modern Trends in Social and Basic Science, Eds. S.Debnath,SMisra. International Seminar Proceedings, pub.Reader’s Service: Kolkata 2015 for . ISBN:978-93-82623-51-9

8. Caryl Churchill’s A NumberTezpur University Distance M.A. Course Material 2015, MEG 302 (Contemporary British Drama II: Modern & Contemporary) Submission ID: 507413541

9. Moduleon Popular Culture for UGC E-Siksha Project, Coordinator Dr.D.Roy, Head, Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University,2015

10. Module on Ideology, Discourse& Identity for UGC E-Siksha Project, Coordinator Dr.D.Roy,Head, Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University,2015

11. Violence from Stage to Screen: The case of Julie Taymor’sTitus,Tezpur University International Conference Proceedings (In Press)

12. Sokoler Shakespeare (Bengaki)in Mallar Little Mag, 17:I, 2014, Ed. SubhomoySarkar, , Siliguri, ISSN:2347-5811

13. Batikromi Atmajiboni: TaslimaNasriner Amar MeyBela O Utol Hawa(Bengali) in Prabahaman Banglacharcha, ed.by Sanat Kumar Naskar, International Seminar Proceedings (Selected), pub.PrabahamanBanglacharcha: Kolkata 2017 for Alipurduar College. ISBN:978-93-82094-05-0 Book

1. The Dialectics of Violence in Shakespeare: A Study of 'Titus Andronicus', 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth', Quintus, London,Kolkata,2016,ISBN13 9789380905747

Papers in Seminars International:

1. Presented paper titled Recycling Text and Ideology: Shakespeare to Bond at International Seminar on Renaissance in Performance: Theatre and Ideology held at the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, VisvaBharati, Santiniketan,India, from 6 to 8 December,2001. 2. Presented paper titled Spirituality Reconditioned: Postmodern Theology and its Offshoots at International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Knowledge,Reality and Value, held in Kolkata, India under the aegis of Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion(USA) from January 3-5 2013. 3. Presented paper titled Violence from Stage to Screen : The Case of Julie Taymor’s Titus ( in absentia) at International Seminar on Cultural Studies: Global and Local Perspective organized by the Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India,during 7-9 February,2015 4. Presented paper titled Not Too far Away: Caryl Churchill’s Far Away and Ecological Dystopia at International Seminar on Planet earth and its Preservation organized by the Maynaguri College, India, during 25-26 March,2015. 5. Presented paper titled Cloning and the Problematic of Identity in Caryl Churchill’s ‘A Number’at the International Conference on Modern Trends in Social and Basic Sciences organized by Alipurduar College, , India, during 27-28 March,2015. 6. Presented paper titled Globalization Denounced:Damaged Ecology and Ravaged Self in Caryl Churchill’s ‘The Skriker’ at International Conference on Ecology, Globalization and Human Rights organized by Institute of Cross Cultural Studies & Academic Exchange, NC,USA in Collaboration with Maynaguri College, India, during 8- 10January,2016. 7. Presented paper titled BatikramiAtmajiboni: TaslimaNasriner Amar Meyebela O Utal Howa(Bangla)at International Conference on Contemporary Bengali Literature organized by Bangla Charcha in Collaboration with Alia University,Kolkata,Indiaon 23 January,2017. 8. Presented paper titled Call of the Valley: Kashmir as the theme of Agha Shahid Ali’s Poetryat International Seminar on UGC-Assisted International Interdisciplinary Seminar on “Contemporary Developments in Social and Basic Sciences in Times of Global Crisis”, March 28-29, 2017 at Surya Sen College, Siliguri, India. 9. Presented paper titled Toward a Totalitarian Future?: A Study of Edward Bond’s Chair Plays in International Seminar on Environmentalism, Globalism and Morality organized by Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange, Elon,NC,USA January 10-11, 2018 at Alipurduar College, Alipurduar, India. 10. Presented paper titled Valley of Desire: Kashmir and the Radical Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali in International Seminar on Changing Worlds, Changing Scenario: Challenges and Developments in Contemporary Times, organized by Islampur College, Islampur, India, March 27-28, 2018 National/ State Level

1. Participated UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar on “Peace Education” held at Bongaigaon College on March 24,2002 Assam 2. Presented paper at the UGC sponsored State level Seminar on Cultural Globalism and Ethnic Identity held at P.G.Department of English, Bongaigaon College on 29 January,2006. Assam. 3. Presented paper on Tagore and Nationalism at a National Seminar on “Theory in the Indian Contaxt:Generating New Dynamics” held at the Department of English, Tezpur University on 27,28 April, 2006.

4. Participated at a National seminar on Rabindranath Tagore: A Milestone of Indian Culture, organized by Department of Bengali from 23-24 September,2007 at Bongaigaon College, Assam., 5. Participated at a National seminar on Indian Novel Today, organized by Department of English, Rajib Gandhi University, Itanagar from 16-18 November, 2007. 6. Presented paper on Amitabh Ghosh’s ‘In An Antique Land’,titled, “In an Antique Land” as an exemplar of Postmodern India, at a National Seminar on “Post-Modernism in the Indian Context” held at the Department of English, Bijni College on 27,28 September, 2007. 7. Presented paper on Beckett’s Later Plays at a National Seminar on “Breaking ‘new’grounds:Remembering Ibsen and Beckett” held at the Department of English and OMEL, VisvaBharati on 21 January, 2007.

8. Presented paper on TaslimaNasrin’s autobiography Amar Meyebela at a National Seminar on “Life-writing and self Fashioning in India” held at the Department of English Department of English, Tezpur University on 21 and 22 February, 2008. 9. Presented paper titled Dialectics of Identity in a techno-society at a National Seminar on “Technology in Society: Challenges and opportunities” held at the Salesian College, Siliguri on 5-6 October, 10. Presented paper titled Performing Power: People and Politics in TasherDesh at a National Seminar on “Tagore and Difference” Organised by the Department of English, the University of North Bengal, Siliguri on 21 February,2011, 11. Participated at an workshop on Open Educational Resource for Distance Mode of Learning held during 11-12 March,2011 at the University of North Bengal. 12. Presented paper titled KhomotarNabamulyan O TasherDesh at a National Seminar on “RabindranatakerPrasangikata: Path ,Somalachona O Projojonai” Organised by the Department of Bengali, Maynaguri College, Maynaguri, W.B. during 2,3 December,2011, 13. Presented paper titled Rape & Resistance: Lavania in Titus Andronicus at National Seminar on Women Empowerment in the New Millennium- Where India Stands Organised by the Women’s Study Cell, Maynaguri College, Maynaguri, W.B. during 8-9 February,2013. 14. Presented paper titled Dickens and Shakespeare: A Theatrical Rendezvous at National Seminar on Reviewing Dickens Bicentenary Organised by the Department of English , University B.T. and Evening College, Cooch Behar 22 March 2013. 15. Presented paper titled Postmodern Theology and Vivekananda at State Level Seminar on Understanding Swami Vivekananda in Contemporary Perspective Organised by the Department of Philosophy and Political Science ,K.N.College, Behrampore, W.B. during 23-24 August,2013. 16. Presented paper titled Uttor Adhunik Dharmatatta O Sahityak Vivekananda at National Seminar on Vivekananda O banglaSahityaOrganised by the Department of Bengali , Maynaguri College, Maynaguri, W.B. during 27-28 September,2013.

17. Participated at a State Level Seminar on “Environment and Human Health” held at on November 20, 2015 Workshops: 1. Attended Workshop on Restructuring the Undergraduate Syllabus based on CBCS Organised by Council for UG Studies , NBU, 2017

Organization of Conference / Workshops/ Programmes: 1. Joint Organising Secretary of International Seminar on transformation of Folk –Songs: Ekush held at , Siliguri, February 20, 2018.

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