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Bio Data
Name: Niladri R. Chatterjee Date of Birth: 09.10.1967 Permanent Address: 41/B J. K. Mitra Road Kolkata – 700 037 Official Address (since 1996): Dept. of English University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia – 741 235, West Bengal. Current Designation: Professor Educational Qualifications: B.A. (Hons in English) from University of Calcutta (1988) M.A. (in English) from Jadavpur University (1991) Diploma in French from Alliance Française de Calcutta (1991) N.E.T. Qualified (1992) Ph.D. (2014) Scholarships/Fellowships: Junior Research Fellowship at Jadavpur University (1993-5) Senior Research Fellowship at Jadavpur University (1995-6) Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, U. S. of America (1996-7) British Council-Charles Wallace Fellowship at Downing College, University of Cambridge (1998) Language Teaching Experience: Teacher of English at S.K. Acharya Institute of Law, University of Kalyani (2004-5) Teacher of English at Dept of English Certificate Course in Communicative English, University of Kalyani.(2006) 2
Teacher of English at the MCA Course, University of Kalyani. (2008) Served as External Jury at N.I.D., Ahmedabad. (2006) Taught Communicative English at IIIT, Kalyani from 2015 to 2017. Membership of Scholarly Bodies: Charter Member of Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature, Kolkata
Life Member of IACLALS
Formerly Member of the Editorial Board of ANQ, published by Routledge
External Member of the PG Board of Studies at Dept. of English, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
External Member of the PG Board of Studies at Dept. of English, Burdwan University, Burdwan, West Bengal.
External Member of the Department Research Committee, Dept, of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal.
Publications:
1) The Scholar (Mumbai: QueerInk, 2019) ISBN: 819331893-5. Originally published as
e-book in 2016.
2) “‘Remember, Body’: Homoerotic Textual Intercourse between Roland Barthes’
Incidents and the Poetry of Constantine Cavafy” in Journal of the Department of
English Vol. XXXX (Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 2018) pp. 21-28.
3) “A Queer Triptych: The Poster of Dostana as Public Art” in Connecting Histories:
International Symposium 5-8 February 2017 (Kolkata, CIMA, 2018) pp. 76-81. 3
4) “The pains that will go through me”: Writing Pain in Thom Gunn’s “The Man with
Night Sweats” in Salesian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Vol. VIII, No.
2) Dec 2017. Pp. 25-29.
5) “ ‘Why Do We Have to Know all This?’: Teaching New Gender Studies in the
Postgraduate Class” in Contemporary Perspectives on English Studies Ed. Chandana
John Chatterjee, T. Diana Jacob, Vangeepuram Sreenatha Chary, T.D. Peter (New
Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2017).
6) “ ‘Is There a Hardcopy of the Text in this Class?’: Teaching and Learning Through
Hand-held Devices” in Beyond the Zoned Space: Teaching and Learning English in
the Digital Era Ed. Sukanti Dutta (Kolkata: City College of Commerce and Business
Administration, 2016) pp. 27-31.
7) “You can’t wear these anymore”: Feet and Footwear in Prem Rog” in Insider
Outsiders: Widows in India Ed. Pradipta Shyam Chaudhury. (Kolkata: Levant,
2017).
8) “A film-maker can’t be docile” in The Wire. November 2016.
9) “Chapal Rani/ Chapal Bhaduri: On- and Off-Stage” in Naribhav: Androgyny and
Female Impersonation in India. Eds. Tutun Mukherjee and Niladri R. Chatterjee
(New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2016).
10) “Language That Binds, Language That Frees” in The Wire. 5 March 2016.
http://thewire.in/23952/language-that-binds-language-that-frees/
11) “ ‘We should give each other the chance to bloom’: The Queer in the Plays of
Mahesh Dattani” in Dattani’s Plays: Staging the Invisibles Ed. Bina Biswas and
Koshy A.V. (New Delhi: Access, 2015) pp. 77-90. 4
12) “ ‘Give Me Devotion…Even Against My Will’: Christopher Isherwood and India” in
The American Isherwood Ed. James L. Berg and Chris Freeman (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2015) pp. 171-178.
13) “The Sikh Turban and Corpocentricity in Post-9/11 America” in Different Americas:
Resituating American Identity in the Post 9/11 Third Worldian Classroom Ed.
Mursed Alam, Dhritiman Chakraborty & Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha (New Delhi:
Authorspress, 2014) pp. 73-80.
14) “ ‘On Beauty’: Francis Bacon and Masculinity” in Prose Writings of Seventeenth
Century England and New England Ed. Suparna Bhattacharya (Kolkata: Levant
Books, 2014) pp. 20-25.
15) “Ebar Amar Uma Eley: Durga Puja and the Calcuttan” in Strangely Beloved:
Writings on Calcutta Ed. Nilanjana Gupta (Calcutta: Rainlight, 2014) pp. 328-335.
16) “A Queer Bibliography” in Gay Subcultures and Literatures Ed. Sukhbir Singh
(Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2014) pp. 279-289.
17) “ ‘This is how we are’: Maryada and the Representation of Homosexuality” in Gay
Subcultures and Literatures Ed. Sukhbir Singh (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced
Study, 2014) pp. 55-67.
18) “Corporal Punishment: English and Homosocial Tactility in Postcolonial Bengal” in
Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: Essays on Changing Perceptions Ed. Rohit
K Dasgupta and K. Moti Gokulsing (Jefferson, North Carolina and London:
McFarland Press, 2014) pp. 165-173. 5
19) “Culture, Masculinity and Patriotism: The Caklet Controversy of 1924” in Popular
Masculine Cultures in India: Critical Essays eds. Rohit K. Dasgupta & Steven Baker
(Setu Prakashani, Kolkata, Delhi. 2013), pp. 91-102.
20) “Screening the Nation: Guide and the (Re)production of India”. A Talent for the
Particular: Critical Essays on R.K. Narayan. Ed. Raymond-Jean Frontain and
Basudeb Chakraborti (New Delhi: Worldview, 2011). pp. 133-146.
21) “Slightly Confrontational”: Sunil Gupta’s Postcolonial Homographesis in Mr.
Malhotra’s Party”. JSL: Journal of the School of Language and Literature Studies.
(Jawaharlal Nehru University) Spring 2010: New Series 13. pp. 65-73.
22) “Flaws in the Glass: (W)ri(gh)ting Colonial Masculinity”. Australia and India:
Convergences and Divergences. Ed. Santosh K. Sareen (New Delhi: Mantra Books,
2010) pp. 147-155.
23) “Happy and Khush: Construction of South-Asian Queer Subjectivity in America”. Studies in American Literature. Vol. VI, 2010. pp. 139-145. 24) “Daksha, Music, and Transgressive Identity Formation in “Final Solutions”. Final
Solutions: Text and Criticism. Ed. Angelie Multani (New Delhi: Pencraft
International, 2009) pp. 84-93.
25) “‘Now I’m Chapal Rani’: Chapal Bhaduri’s Hyperformative Female Impersonation”.
Intersections. Issue 22, October 2009.
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue22/chatterjee.htm
26) “ ‘Little Me in China’: Auden and Isherwood as War Correspondents”. Journal of
the Department of English. (Vidyasagar University) Vol. 7, 2007-8. pp. 60-69. 6
27) “ ‘Peace’: Vivekananda’s Subversion of English”. JSL: Journal of the School of
Language and Literature Studies. (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Autumn 2008: New
Series 10. pp. 38-46.
28) “Guiding Star: Christopher Isherwood’s Passage to Calcutta’s Star Theatre”. ANQ:
American Notes and Queries. Vol. 21, No. 2, Autumn 2008. pp. 61-65.
29) M.A. Course material on W.H.Auden. University of Kalyani. 2008.
30) “A Superb Specimen of Humanity”: The Male Body in Mulk Raj Anand’s
Untouchable’. Indo-Anglian Literature: From Past to Present. Ed. Ketaki Datta.
(Kolkata: Booksway, 2008). pp. 1-6.
31) M.A. Course material for Untouchable. University of Kalyani. 2007.
32) M.A. Course material for The Misanthrope. University of Kalyani. 2007.
33) M.A. Course material for The Castle by Franz Kafka. Netaji Subhas Open
University. 2007.
34) M.A. Course material for Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Netaji Subhas Open
University. 2007.
35) ‘“The Great Little Man”: The Body as a Structural Motif in Mulk Raj Anand’s
Untouchable’. Mulk Raj Anand: Untouchable. Longman Study Edition. Ed. Nandini
Bhattacharya. (New Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2007) pp. 205-214.
36) “An intriguing literary event”. Review of Specimen Days by Micheal Cunningham.
The Statesman 8th Day, 4 June 2006. p 16.
37) “I am Barnabas. I am Vithobai”: E.M. Forster’s Narrative of Empire in “The Life to
Come”. Journal of the Department of English. Vol. VI. (Vidyasagar University:
2006) pp. 39-49. 7
38) “Narratives of Resistant Marginality: Patrick White and Firdaus Kanga”. Australian
Literature: Identity, Representation and Belonging Ed. Jaydeep Sarangi, (New Delhi:
Sarup and Sons, 2006) pp. 60-65.
39) Co-edited The Muffled Heart: Stories of the Disempowered Male (New Delhi: Rupa,
2005).
40) “‘Whigger’: The Phenomenon of Eminem” Apperception Vol II, December 2004.
(Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan) pp. 176-181.
41) Entry on Nirad C. Chaudhuri, The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
42) “Huxley and Isherwood: Account of a Friendship”. Aldous Huxley and Indian
Thought ed. Sumita Roy, Annie Pothen and K.S. Sunita. (New Delhi: Sterling
Publishers, 2003) pp. 79-89.
43) “‘Billie’s Blues’, ‘Jimmy’s Blues’: James Baldwin’s Billie Holiday”. Essays and
Studies. (Calcutta: Jadavpur University: Vol. XVI, 2002) pp. 61-70.
44) “1798: The Year in Music”. Thoughts. Calcutta. Calcutta Book Fair Issue: 2001.
45) “Portrait of the Artist a Companion: Interviews with Don Bachardy”, The Isherwood
Century: Essays on the Life and Work of Christopher Isherwood ed. Jim Berg and
Chris Freeman. (Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) pp. 97-107.
46) “‘Fascinating Rhythm’: An Overview of American Songwriting with Reference to
Standards”. Studies in American Literature. (Calcutta. USIS) Vol. I, 1999. pp. 42-55.
47) Entry on Mulk Raj Anand, The Reader’s Companion to Twentieth Century Writers.
Ed. Peter Parker. (London: Fourth Estate and Helicon, 1995) p. 23. 8
48) “ ‘A Siamese Twinship’: Sally Bowles and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Essays and
Studies. Calcutta. (Jadavpur University) Vol. IX, 1995. pp. 51-59.
List of Seminars/Conferences/Symposia Attended /Resource Person at Refresher
Courses:
Seminar Presentations, Lectures, Chairing Sessions:
1. 17 March 2021: "Patriarchies: How Many Are There?" at Sexuality Academy,
organized by Sappho for Equality at Hotel Girish, Diamond Harbour.
2. 17 March 2021: Panelist for an online discussion titled "Fe-MEN-ism 101: Going
Beyond Gender" organised by Inclusion Now, Bengaluru.
3. 4 March 2021: "Queer Theory and Masculinity Studies" at an online Faculty
Development Programme titled "Initiatives for Teaching-Learning Experience in
English Literature" organized by Govt. Dungar College, Bikaner, Rajasthan.
4. 18 February 2021: “The Queer Hybridity of Translation: 2” at Online Refresher
Course organized at North Bengal University.
5. 13 February 2021: “The Queer Hybridity of Translation: 1” at Online Refresher
Course organized at North Bengal University.
6. 30 January 2021: “Masculinities and Popular Culture” online talk organized by
the Dept. of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bengaluru.
7. 21 January 2021: “Why Masculinity Studies is Feminist” online talk at
Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan 9
8. 8 January 2021: “What is the Language of Gender?” at the National Webinar
Series titled “Nexus of Lamguage in Text, Image, and Gender” organized by
Rajagiri College, Kochi, Kerala.
9. 6 January 2021: “The Politics of the Narrative” at One-Day National-Level E-
Conference titled “The Story of Story-Telling: A Study in the Changing Patterns
of Story-Telling” organized by Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Jhargram, and
Gourav Guin Memorial College, Chandrakona Road, West Midnapore.
10. 19 December 2020: “Is There a Binary Between Academia and Activism?” at an
international symposium on Trans Community/ Spectrum of the South Asian
Diaspora” organized as a webinar by Indian Queers’ Collective.
11. 25 November 2020: “Contextualizing the Delhi High Court’s 377 Verdict of
2009” at a webinar titled “Gender, Law, and Society” organized by St. Xavier’s
University.
12. 6 November 2020: “Performing Masculinity: Body, Self, and Identity”, a web
lecture organized by St. Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala.
13. 31 October 2020: Panellist on a Panel Discussion on Gender Equality and Mental
Health organized by an NGO based in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
14. 10 October 2020: “Is Love Gendered?” at a webinar titled “Paradigms of
Literature: Reflections on Life, Culture & Society” organized by Mar Athanasius
College, Kothamagalam, Kerala.
15. 9 October 2020: “Inclusion, But at What Cost?” at webinar titled “Lgbtq
Inclusion in the Society” organized by J.D. Birla Institute, Kolkata. 10
16. 4 October 2020: “Normal Body” A Patriarchal Myth” at webinar titled
“Patriarchy’s Role in Creating Misconceptions About Bodies” organized by
Rotaract Club of Joka.
17. 28 September 2020: “How to Think Gender: An Easy Guide” at webinar titled
“Negotiating Marginalities: Probing Caste and Gender” organized by
Krishnanagar Govt. College.
18. 27 September 2020: “How to Prepare for an Interview” at a Webinar Workshop
of Research and Presentation organized by the Dept. of English, University of
Gour Banga.
19. 26 September 2020: “Queering Cultural Studies” at International Webinar titled
“Cultural Studies: Traits and Perspectives” organized by KIIT Deemed
University, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.
20. 20 September 2020: “Love and the Section 377 Supreme Court verdict of 2018”
at webinar titled “The Politics of Gender Representation in the Media: Critical
Perspectives”, organized by Kandra Radhakanta Kundu Mahavidyalaya.
21. 14 September 2020: “What is the ‘Correct’ Body?”, Special Lecture organized by
Khejuri College.
22. 12 September 2020: “Who is a ‘Woman’?: The New Normativity in Thinking
Gender” at International Webinar titled “Defining Womanhood Through Times of
Crisis: Literary and Cultural Responses”, organized by Women’s College,
Kolkata. 11
23. 6 September 2020: “ ‘Ghrinit Vyadhi’: Pandey Bechan Sharma’s ‘Chocolate’ and
Homophobia in 1920s India” organized by Dept. of Comparative Language and
Literature, University of Calcutta.
24. 5 September 2020: Panellist for a Discussion titled “Online Teaching and its
Ramifications for Higher Education” organized by Swarnamoyee Jogendranath
Mahavidyalaya.
25. 31 August 2020: “Which Mask to Wear Against Patriarchy?” organized by
Bengal Academia for Social Empowerment.
26. 27 August 2020: “Are You Happy in Patriarchy?” at Bethuadahari College.
27. 17 August 2020: “ ‘Parbe Na Tumi Etao Likhe Dite?’: Krishnagopal Mullick-er
Byuhoprobesh at “Third Gender: A Space Within Literature and Society”
organized by Calcutta Girls’ College.
28. 14 August 2020: “Gender, Love, Marriage, and Other Fun Facts of Patriarchy”,
organized by Episteme: Forum for Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and St.
Joseph’s College for Women, Gorakhpur.
29. 13 August 2020: “Masculinity and the Body” at “Musings on the Body”, National
Webinar organized by Dept. of English, Assam University, Silchar.
30. 10 August 2020: “‘Love is Love’?: Disciplining Queerness Through Social
Media” at “Intersections”, Benaras Hindu University.
31. 8 August 2020: “Is the Coronavirus Gendered?” at Webinar titled “Impact of
Covid-19 Pandemic on Women of South Asia”, organized by Ramthakur College,
Agartala, Tripura. 12
32. 4 August 2020: “Queer Theory” at International Lecture Series on English
Literature and Theory, organized by All India Forum for English Students,
Scholars, and Trainers.
33. 3 August 2020: “Finding the ‘Funny’ in Funny Boy”, at International Webinar
titled “Voices in Literature: Texts and Contexts” organized by Panchla
Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal.
34. 27 July 2020: “What Is Gender?” at Webinar, International-Level Online Faculty
Development Programme, organized by Barabajar Bikram Tudu Memorial
College, Purulia, West Bengal.
35. 24 July 2020: “Growing Up Queer: Krishnagopal Mullick’s Byuhoprobesh” at
International Webinar titled “Gender, Sexuality, and Postcolonial Literature:
Trends, Issues, and Perspectives” organized by Sewnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria
College, West Bengal.
36. 24 July 2020: “Is Masculine an Invisible Gender?” at International Webinar titled
“Transforming Disciplines: The Impact of Gender” organized by Hiralal Bhakat
College, Naihati, West Bengal.
37. 22 July 2020: “Different from Others: Difference and Otherness in the World’s
First Queer Film”, at International Webinar titled “World Cinema: Literary
Adaptations and Beyond” organized by Sudhiranjan Lahiri Mahavidyalaya and
Chapra Bangaljhi Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal.
38. 20 July 2020: “Queer: From Adjective to Verb”, Webinar, Dept. of English,
University of Gour Banga. 13
39. 17 July 2020: “The Scholar: Sahapathe, Sahaproshne”, Webinar, organized by
Sahapathshala, West Bengal.
40. 14 July 2020: “Why Do Gender Studies?”, Webinar, organized by S.A. Jaipuria
College, Kolkata.
41. 13 July 2020: “The Scholar and Beyond”, Webinar, National-Level Webinar titled
“The Politics of Representation: A Literary Perspective”, Sudhirranjan Lahiri
Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal.
42. 13 July 2020: “Masculinity Studies”, Webinar, National-Level E-Conference on
“Contemporary Trends in Literature”, organized by Munger University.
43. 11 July 2020: “Diagnosing Patriarchy”, Webinar, International Web Lecture
Series on World Literature and Culture, organized by Panchmura Mahavidyalaya,
West Bengal.
44. 4 July 2020: “‘Esta Noche: The Poetry of Mark Doty”, Webinar organized by
Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal.
45. 27 June 2020: “‘We Two Boys’: Friendship in Walt Whitman”, International
Webinar Series, organized by Gobinda Prasad Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal.
46. 26 June 2020: “LGBTQ+: Categorizing Gender and Sexuality”, Webinar
organized by United States-India Educational Foundation and U.S. Consulate
General, Kolkata.
47. 16 June 2020: “Margins and Centres in Funny Boy”, Webinar organized by
Sewnnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria College, West Bengal.
48. 15 June 2020: “Creative Writing”, Webinar organized by East Calcutta Girl’s
College, Kolkata. 14
49. 5 March 2020: Moderator at a Panel Discussion on “Re-Evaluating Girl Power:
Representation in Media and Popular Culture”, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata.
50. 4 March 2020: “Patriarchies” at Sexuality Academy, organized by Sappho for
Equality, Hotel Girish and Resort, Kolkata.
51. 3 March 2020: “Understanding Patriarchy” at “Dismantling Patriarchy and
Gender Sensitisation”, at Centre for Women’s Studies, Burdwan University,
Burdwan.
52. 15 February 2020: “ ‘Her Fatness’: Name-Calling, Space, Place, and Identity”, at
International Seminar titled “Literature, Culture, and Society” at Berhampore
Girls’ College, Murshidabad.
53. 8 February 2020: Panelist at a Discussion titled “Who Decides What We Read”,
Kolkata Literature Festival, Calcutta Book Fair, Kolkata.
54. 14 January 2020: Panelist at a Round-Table Discussion titled “Presenting Art
Globally”, CIMA Art Gallery, Kolkata.
55. 11 January 2020: Moderator at Panel Discussion titled “Changes in Portrayals of
Crime and Criminals in Different Spheres of Literature”, St. Xavier’s University,
Kolkata.
56. 7 December 2019: “ ‘Who’s the Chulbul Pandey?’: How Not to Do Gender in
Cinema”, at National Seminar titled “Gender and Media”, Satyajit Ray Film and
Television Institute, Kolkata.
57. 23 September 2019: Keynote Speaker and Moderator at “BRIDGING THE GAP:
GENDER ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA”, St. Xavier’s University,
New Town, Kolkata. 15
58. 13 September 2019: “ ‘The man with night sweats grows pale and spectre-thin’:
Thom Gunn and John Keats” at “200 Years of Keats’ Odes” at Jadavpur
University, Kolkata.
59. 9 September 2019: Keynote Speaker at One-Day State-Level Seminar entitled
“Postmodern Spectrum: ‘Truths’ and Beyond” at RKVM Sarada Ma Girls’
College, Barasat.
60. 1 September 2019: Introduction to Masculinity Studies with Reference to
Nationalism. At Sappho for Equality, Kolkata.
61. 17 August 2019: “How to Detect Patriarchy?: Language and Culture” at
Midnapore College, Midnapore.
62. 3 August 2019: “Creativity: Nature or Nurture?”: Convocation Address for the
First Batch of Students awarded Diploma in Creative Writing in English,
Gurucharan College, Silchar, Assam.
63. 2-4 August 2019: Gender Adda, organized by North East India Company, Silchar,
Assam.
64. 24 July 2019: “A Journey into the City of Joy” – lecture to participants of the
Fulbright Hays seminars abroad programme “Exploring Cultural and Social
Diversities in India” at the American Center, Kolkata.
65. 22 June 2019: Two Lectures on the Representation of Masculinity I Poetry at the
Refresher Course titled “Literature: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics” at North Bengal
University, Siliguri. 16
66. 21 June 2019: One lecture on the Visual Representation of Masculinity and one
on Masculinity in Poetry at the Refresher Course titled “Literature: Ethics,
Aesthetics, Politics” at North Bengal University, Siliguri.
67. 8 June 2019: “Gender, Sexuality and the Law” at workshop titled “Media, Gender
and Globalisation: Emerging Issues, Trends and Challenges” at National Institute
of Technology, Durgapur.
68. 16 April 2019: “Purush na Nari? Jana Khub Dorkari?” Public Lecture organized
by Boikalpik and Lions Club of Chakdaha at Chadaha Rabindra Sabha Kaksha,
Chakdaha.
69. 27 March 2019: “This Porous Body: The Failure of Stability” at International
Seminar titled “Redefining the Margin: A Literary Perspective” at Dept. of
English, Rabindra Bharati University.
70. 26 March 2019: “Gender and Literature”. Invited Lecture at Dept of English and
Culture studies, Burdwan University.
71. 16 March 2019: “Smoking, Toxic Masculinity and the Body” at National
Conference titled “Contemporary Issues on Natural and Anthropogenic Effect in
Environmental Crisis” at Govt. General Degree College, Tehatta.
72. 15 March 2019: “Patriarchy” at the Dept of Physical Education, University of
Kalyani.
73. 14 March 2019: “Patriarchies” at Sexuality Academy, by Sappho for Equality.
74. 9 March 2019: “Gender, Language and the Law”. Invited Lecture at Dept. of
English, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. 17
75. 16 February 2019: “If Law Be the Food of ‘Love’: The 2018 Section 377 Verdict”
at ICSSR-sponsored National-Level Seminar titled “Gender and Identity” An
Interdisciplinary Perspective and its Repurcussions in the Education Industry”
B.Ed Dept, at Loreto College. Also Chaired a Session on 15 Feb.
76. 10 December 2018: “Gender and Constitutionality” at State-Level Workshop,
Haringhata Mahavidyalaya.
77. 2 December 2018: Moderator at “Mainstreaming the LGBT Community” at Arth,
A Culture Quest, P.C. Chandra Gardens.
78. 26 November 2018: “Gender and Recent Supreme Court Verdicts”. Invited
Lecture at M.U.C. Women’s College, Burdwan.
79. 19 November 2018: “Thinking Gender/Sexuality as a Research Topic” at
Capacity-Building Workshop for Faculty Members of Social Sciences, NIT,
Rourkela
80. 15 November 2018: “When Exclusion Looks Like Inclusion: The Supreme Court
Verdict on Section 377 and the Indian Print Media” at International Conference
titled “Moving Beyond the Margin: The Politics of Exclusion and Assimilation”
at Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer.
81. 22 September 2018: “Masculinity and the Body”: Special Invited Lecture. St.
Xavier’s University, New Town, Kolkata.
82. 15 September 2018: Introductory Lecture on Kolkata to English Teaching
Assistants from USA, at the USIEF, American Center, Kolkata.
83. 2 September 2018: Interactive Session on Gender and Sexuality at Satyajit Ray
Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. 18
84. 27 August 2018: “Is Gender Just a Word?” Special Lecture at Gender Studies
Forum, Christ University, Bengaluru.
85. 25 August 2018: “Masculinity and Corporeality” Special Lecture at Christ
University, Bengaluru.
86. 18 June 2018: “Thinking Queer, Doing Queer” Workshop at the American
Center, Kolkata.
87. 5 May 2018: “How Not to do Gender Sensitization” Special Lecture at
Chandraketugarh Sahidullah Memorial College, Chandraketugarh, West Bengal.
88. 25 April 2018: “ ‘Woman’: Language, Bodies, and Patriarchy” at “Women,
Society, and Politics: A Study on India and Bangladesh” International Seminar at
Karimpur Pannadevi College, West Bengal.
89. 9 April 2018: “They Look So Weird: Normativity, Identity and the Human Body”
Special Lecture at Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim.
90. 5 April 2018: Chaired a Session at National Seminar on Education and Culture at
Vivekananda College for Women, Kolkata.
91. 26 March 2018: “Rewriting, Restoring, Re-storing, Re-storying: The Progessive
Politics of Counter Narratives” Keynote Address at “Re-writing the Past: Myth,
Memory and History”, National Seminar, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur
University, Gorakhpur, UP.
92. 14 March 2018: Chaired a Session at “Queer Here, Queer There: Bodies, Identity
and Culture” National Seminar, Dept. of English, University of Kalyani. 19
93. 10 March 2018: “Text, Intertext, Internet: Literature as a Network in the Era of
Hypertext” at “Antorjal o Sahitya: Poriponthi na Poripurok?” International
Seminar, Chakdaha College, Chakdaha, West Bengal.
94. 29 January 2018: “Public/Private, Male/Female and Other Unstable
Binarizations” Keynote Speech at “Bodies, Spaces and Power: Perceptions and
Contestations”, State-Level Seminar. Aliah University, Kolkata.
95. 25 January 2018: “Gender, Sexuality and Society” at Sexuality Academy, organized by Sappho for Equality, SEZ, Falta, West Bengal. 96. 16 January 2018: “Why Study Masculinity?” Special Lecture at Charuchandra College, Kolkata. 97. 13-14 January 2018: Four Lectures on Masculinity and Literature at “Reading Literature”, Refresher Course, North Bengal University. 98. 12 December 2017: Panelist for a Discussion on Using Technology to Teach Outside the Classroom, at International Research Symposium titled “ ‘Other Ways of Knowing and Doing’: Globalising Social Science Knowledge in Higher Education” at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. 99. 10 November 2017: Chairperson at National-level seminar titled “Politics of Difference and (Re)locating Marginality: Reflections in Indian Literature” at Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan, organized by Bhasha Bhavana. 100. 30 October 2017: Panelist for a Discussion on Men and Sexuality, at Youth Summit on Gender, Sexuality and Rights organized at IITD, Thakurpukur, Kolkata. 101. 4 September 2017: “Why Masculinity Studies?”: Special Lecture at Dept. of English, Diamond Harbour Women’s University. 102. 24 March 2017: “Mard: Doing Masculinity Studies in India” at UGC- sponsored International Seminar titled “The Body Politic: Gender and the Nation” organized by the Department of English, University of Kalyani. Also Chaired a Session. 20
103. 8 March 2017: “Women, Femininity and Effeminacy as Patriarchal Others” on the occasion of International Women’s Day, organized by IIT, Guwahati, Assam. 104. 22 February 2017: Chaired a Session at the national conference titled “Management, Technology, Innovation and Social Change” organized by Amity University, Kolkata. 105. 12 and 13 February 2017: Conducted Workshop on Masculinities and Gender and Literature at Anuvad Arts Festival, Silchar, Assam. 106. 11 February 2017: Delivered the P. Lal Memorial Lecture at the Anuvad Arts Festival, Silchar, Assam. 107. 8 February 2017: “A Queer Triptych: The Poster of Dostana as Public Art” at “Public Art and Urban Spaces” (held as part of the CIMA AWARDS and Kolkata Arts Festival) organized by CIMA, Kolkata. 108. 30 January 2017: “Doing Masculinity Studies in India”. Special Lecture at Durgapur Govt. College. 109. 7 January 2017: “ ‘It’s Only Words?’: Gender and Literature” at St. Xavier’s College, North Bengal. 110. 6 January 2017: “ ‘The pain that will go through me’: Writing Pain in Thom Gunn’s ‘The Man with Night Sweats’” at IQAC National Seminar entitled “Pen, Pain and Writing: (Re)Thinking Links, Connectives and Negotiations” at Salesian College, Siliguri, West Bengal. 111. 19 December 2016: “ ‘Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota’: Pain and the Male Body” at UGC-sponsored National Seminar entitled “Gender as Perspective: Reflection on Different Disciplines” at Sivanath Sastri College. Also Chaired a Session. 112. 8 December 2016: “Indian Masculinities: The More They Change…?” at ICSSR-sponsored National Seminar entitled “Off the Mark: Marginality, Narratives, and Reclaiming History” at Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University. Chaired two Sessions. 113. 27-28 September 2016: Spoke on Gender and Sexuality and Masculinity Studies at Rachna Books, Gangtok, Sikkim. 21
114. 3 September 2016: Moderator at Panel Discussion on Gender and Sexuality, organized by Indiaree at Mahabodhi Society, College Street, Kolkata. 115. 24 July 2016: Gender/Sexuality Sensitization Programme for the Local Police and Govt. Officials at Mogra. 116. 16 July 2016: “ ‘Is there a Hard-copy of the Text in This Class?’: Teaching and Learning Through Hand-Held Devices” at UGC-sponsored state- level seminar titled Beyond the Zoned Space: Teaching and Learning English in the Digital Era organized by City College of Commerce and Business Administration and Rammohan College, Kolkata. 117. 3 June 2016: “Gender, Sexuality and Society” at Refresher Course, Burdwan University. 118. 8 March 2016: Presentation to mark International Women’s Day, organized by the Centre for Women’s Studies, at the A.P.C. Sabha Kaksha, Kalyani University. 119. 3 March 2016: Panellist for the Fair and Lovely Foundation Scholarship for Girls Selection Committee, Park Hotel, Kolkata. 120. 31 January 2016: “Querying Queer” organized by Kolkata Chapter of Harmless Hugs, in the grounds of Victoria Memorial. 121. 28-29 January 2016: Resource Person at Faculty Development Programme at National University of Studies and Research in Law, Ranchi, Jharkhand. 122. 22 January 2016: Presented paper on Bengali writers writing in English at Bongaon College. 123. 20 January 2016: Chaired a session at the one-day seminar on Film Narrative at the Dept. of English, Kalyani University. 124. 18 January 2016: Resource Person at Workshop organized by Kolkata Rishta at Seva Kendra, Kolkata. 125. 9 January 2016: Presented a paper on Kunal Basu’s novel The Miniaturist at “Emerging Trends: Indian Writing in English” at Hoogly Mohsin College. 126. 9 October 2015: “The White Lie: White as a Marker of Widowhood and Prem Rog” at UGC-sponsored national seminar “The Unwanted Insiders: 22
Representing the Widows in India” at Raja Rammohun Roy Mahavidyalaya, Hoogly, Bengal. 127. 17 April 2015: “Who’s Afraid of Theory” at Ahmedabad University 128. 3 April 2015: “The Male Body Politic” at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University 129. 23 March 2015: “Acharya Brojendranath Seal on Hegel: Aesthetics and Politics” at state-level seminar “The Life and Activities of Acharya Brojendranath Seal” at the Asiatic Society, Calcutta. 130. 22 March 2015: “Rabindranather ‘Ginni’ o Lingabhed” at “Women & History of Bengal: Time, Society & Culture” organized by the Society for Understanding Culture & History in India and History Department, Vidyasagar College, Calcutta. 131. 25 February 2015: “ ‘What do you know of my pain?’: Marginality as Competition with Reference to Queer Politics in India” at UGC-sponsored international seminar “Fractured Modernities” at Jadavpur University. 132. 14 February 2015: Resource Person at “Sexuality Academy” organized by Sappho for Equality. 133. 9 January 2015: Lecture on the Politics of Literary Theory at TWQIP Short-Term Course on Developing and Teaching Literary Theory Courses in 21st Century Academia, at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Guwahati. 134. 8 January 2015: Lecture on the Politics of Literary Theory at TWQIP Short-Term Course on Developing and Teaching Literary Theory Courses in 21st Century Academia, at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Guwahati. 135. 7 January 2015: “ ‘Your words touch me’: Language, Tactility, and Identity” at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Guwahati. 136. 16 December 2014: ““Why do we need to know all this?”: “New Gender Studies” in a Postgraduate Class” at “Loyal Interlopers: Men Doing Feminism in India” at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Patuli, West Bengal. 23
137. 10 December 2014: “The Audacity of Auden: Poetry, Sexuality, Politics” at “Awful Daring: Modernism and Poetry’s Transfigured Moment” at Lal Baba College, Belur Math. 138. 14 November 2014: “Masculinity and Violence” at Jindal Global University. 139. 10 November 2014: Presented a Report on the Kolkata Chapter of the Men and Boys for Gender Justice Workshop at the Second MenEngage Global Symposium 2014 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. 140. 15 October 2014: “ ‘Yaar’: The Floating Signifier of Masculine Affect” at “Unfamiliar Margins in The Social”, Dept. of Sociology, Central Univ. of Hyderabad. 141. 3 September 2014: Chaired a Session at Same Seminar. 142. 2 September 2014: “ ‘The Housewife’: Text, Culture, and Subjectivity in Tagore’s Short Story” at “Transactions: Text, Culture, and Subjectivity” at Dept. of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia. 143. 26 July 2014: Lecture on Gender Studies at the Monthly Colloquium, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. 144. 8 July 2014: Literature and Sexuality at the Refresher Course, Univ. of Burdwan. 145. 4 July 2014: “What is Literature?” at The Summer Training Programme, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Kalyani. 146. 28 March 2014: “ ‘Yaar ki Shaadi’: Marginality, Culture, and Language” at “Alternate Cultures, Alternate Literatures: De-/Re-Constructing the Canon”, Dept. of English, Vidyasagar University. 147. 22 March 2014: A lecture on Gender Studies at Sexuality Academy, Sappho for Equality, Kolkata. 148. 10 March 2014: Gender Studies Lecture at Ph. D course work lecture, Dept. of History, Univ. of Kalyani. 149. 8 March 2014: “Masculinity and Violence”, Ardhek Akash, Presidency University. 24
150. 8 March 2014: A talk on Gender at Maulana Azad College, Dept. of English. 151. 8 March 2014: A talk on Gender at Living Free, Kolkata. 152. 12 February 2014: “Masculinity and Violence” at a workshop organized by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) and Anchita Ghatak. 153. 7 February 2014: “Unworthy alloy: Shelley and Love in Ancient Greece” at the Annual Conference of the Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature, Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature and Presidency University. 154. 30 January 2014: “Queer Studies in India” at “Culture of the Margins”, Refresher Course, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University 155. 25 January 2014: “Queer Theory: Concepts” at “Culture of the Margins”, Refresher Course, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University 156. 21 January 2014: Panelist for the discussion "It's My Life...It's My Choice" organised by ISBM at Crossword Bookstore, Calcutta. 157. 13 January 2014: “Language and Gender” at Capacity Building Workshop for Faculty Members of Social Science and Humanities on “Applications of Quantitative and Qualitative Technique in Social Sciences and Humanities Research”, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. 158. 8-9 January 2014: “Literature and Gender” at “Literature Matters Today”, Refresher Course, Dept. of English, University of North Bengal. 159. 7 January 2014: “Queer Cinema” at “The Moving Image: A Film and Visual Culture Workshop” at Dept. of English, University of Kalyani. 160. 10 December 2013: “Pop Culture: The Case of Lady Gaga” at UGC- sponsored national-level seminar entitled “Popular Culture and the ‘Text’ of Engaging the ‘Masses’ at Netaji Nagar College, Calcutta. 161. 22 November 2013: ‘“Look Ma, No Hands!”: Homosocial Tactility and the Male’ at seminar entitled “Masculinity: The Crafted Nature of the ‘Natural’ at Dept. of English, West Bengal State University. 162. 9 October 2013: “Acharya Brojendranath Seal: A Post-Structuralist Approach” at “Re-discovering Acharya Brojendranath Seal in the New Millenium” at University of Kalyani. 25
163. 22 September 2013: “The Problem of Rituparno Ghosh” at ““Cultural Studies: Theory and Praxes” at Berhampore Girls’ College, Berhampore. 164. 14 September 2013: Chaired a Session at Annual National Conference organized by Sappho for Equality at Jadavpur University. 165. 30 August 2013: Panelist at discussion entitled "Prantik Jounata o Rituparnpo Ghosh" organised by IROM at Jadavpur University.
166. 18 August 2013: Panelist at a seminar on Gender and Violence organised by Slutwalk at Birla Planetarium. 167. 29 July 2013: “Gender and Sexuality in Multiculturalism” at Refresher Course on Multiculturalism, University of Burdwan. 168. 26 July 2013: “Sexuality in Manuel Puig’s Heartbreak Tango” at “Outside the British Canon: Reading Literature from the Former European Colonies” at Barjora College, Bankura. 169. 13 May 2013: ‘“The hour-glass figure”: Body Politics and Women in the Victorian Period’ at UGC-sponsored national level seminar on “The Representation of Women in English Literature” at Ramnagar College, Medinipur. 170. 21 March 2013: ‘“But can she do men?”: The Novel and Gender’ at UGC- sponsored seminar on “New Perspectives on Modern Fiction” at Dept. of English, Rabindra Bharati University. 171. 26 February 2013: ‘“A brown guy making black music for a white audience”: Arjun, “Run Away”, and his diasporic culture’ at UGC-sponsored IQAC international seminar on ““Diaspora and Cultural Exchange” organized by Vidyasagar College for Women, Calcutta. 172. 18 February 2013: “Queering the English Literary Canon: The Text, the Teacher, the Student” at UGC-sponsored national seminar on "Re-mapping the English Literary Canon: Language, Society and Culture", Vidyasagar University. 173. 13 February 2013: Panellist on Colloquium on “Orienting Trainers: Introspecting on Delivery at Personal Contact Programs” at “Building Bridges: Teaching English Literature Through ODL” at Netaji Subhas Open University, Calcutta. 26
174. 17 December 2012: “Queer Theory” at “Theory: Text and Practice” Refresher Course, Dept. of English, University of Calcutta. 175. 12 December 2012: ‘Masculinity Studies with ref. to Untouchable and Death in Venice at “New Critical Theories” Refresher Course, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University. 176. 4 December 2012: “Christopher Isherwood” at “Theory: Text and Practice” Refresher Course, Dept. of English, University of Calcutta. 177. 18 September 2012: “The heart’s honeymoon: Homosociality in Melville and Whitman” at UGC-sponsored national seminar on “Re-Interrogating American Studies: History, Culture, Identity”, Dept. of English, Bankura Christian College, Bankura. 178. 23 July 2012: “Nature and Gender” at “Eco-Criticism” Refresher Course, University of Burdwan. 179. 22 March 2012: “Diasporic Indian Identity in Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s The Exiles” at UGC-sponsored national seminar on “Locating New Indian-ness: A Study of Contemporary Indian Literature in English”, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Calcutta. 180. 15 March 2012: “The Colonial Masculinity of Patrick White” at Patrick White Centenary Seminar at IASA and Heritage Institute of Technology. 181. 1 March 2012: ““We are all exiles”: Self-Representation, Language and Belonging at UGC-sponsored national seminar entitled “Twixt Pillar and Post: Diasporic Identity and in-between-ness in Indian English Literature” at Tufanganj College, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. 182. 17 February 2012: “Gender Studies” at “Gender Studies: Texts and Contexts” at St. Xavier’s College, Rajgunj, North Bengal. 183. 10 February 2012: “Queer as Water: The ‘Invisible Fluidity of Representation” at UGC-sponsored national conference on “Re-writing Culture, Re-telling Narratives: Gender and the Politics of Representation” at Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata (held at ISI, Kolkata). 27
184. 8 February 2012: “The Complex Masculinity of Patrick White” at UGC- sponsored international seminar on Literatures in English in Countries of European Settlement in Asia Pacific at Dept. of English, University of Burdwan. 185. 9 January 2012: “Bengali Masculinity in Subodh Ghosh’s “Sudden Dusk”” at UGC-sponsored national seminar on "Re-Discovering Bengali Identity: English Literature at Home and in the World" at Gour Mohan Roy College, Monteswar, Burdwan. 186. 29 November 2011: “Corpocentric Identity and the Sikh Turban in Post 9/11 America” at UGC-sponsored international seminar on Different Americas: Re-situating American Identity in the Post-9/11 Classroom at Gour College, Malda. 187. 28 November 2011: “Of Beauty”: Francis Bacon and Masculinity at UGC- sponsored national level seminar on Re-reading Seventeenth-Century Prose Writings at Calcutta Girls’ College (held at the American Center, Kolkata). 188. 25 November 2011: “Top Dressing”: Section 377, the Delhi High Court Judgement and Constitutional Morality at National-level seminar on Structures of Exclusion in South Asia at Indian Formation Research Society, University of Delhi. 189. 12 September 2011: Maryada, Phallimagocentricity, and Popular Culture at UGC-sponsored national level seminar on Discourses on Popular Culture at M.U. C. Women’s College, Burdwan. 190. 26 March 2011: “ ‘This is not so much pān, as national integration’: Guide and the National Imaginary” at National Seminar titled “Revisiting the Classics: Text, Context, and (Re)Interpretation” organized by Nirma University and Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, Ahmedabad, Gujarat. 191. 24 February 2011: “The Self and Theory” at UGC-sponsored state-level seminar titled “Teaching Literature in the Classroom: Fiction, Drama, Poetry and Theory” organized by the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. 192. 16 February 2011: “Shake Your Bon-Bon and Your Heteronormativity Too: The Case of Ricky Martin” at International Seminar titled “Postfeminist 28
Postmortems? Gender, Sexualities and Multiple Modernities” organized by the Department of English, Delhi University. 193. 19 January 2011: “The Case of Albus Dumbledore” at UGC-sponsored state-level seminar titled “Songs of Innocence?: Delving into the Adult Concerns of Children’s Literature” organized by Susil Kar College and Asutosh College, Kolkata. 194. 10 May 2010: “Challenging Diasporic Heteronormativity in Bend it Like Beckham” at United States India Education Foundation on “Re-defining the Self: Diaspora and Transnationalism” at Vidyasagar University. 195. 5 May 2010: “Personal is Political: Emotion, Humility and Theory” at UGC sponsored state level seminar on “Teaching English Literature in the Classroom: Challenges and Responses” at Burdwan University. 196. 22 March 2010: Chaired a Session and Participated in a Colloquium at UGC sponsored state level seminar on “Popular Culture, Media and Literature: Genres, Genealogies and Subjectivities” at North Bengal University. 197. 20 March 2010: “‘To Prepare a face’: Masculine Self-Objectification on facebook” UGC sponsored state level seminar on “Popular Culture, Media and Literature: Genres, Genealogies and Subjectivities” at North Bengal University. 198. 15 March 2010: “Discipline and Punish: The Body Political in Contemporary Critical Theory” at UGC-sponsored state-level seminar titled “Texts, Contexts and Critical Theory” Post-World-War-II Scenario” organized by the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. 199. 4 February 2010: “Una vera sposa americana”: The ‘Real’ and the ‘Oriental’ in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at Annual International Seminar of the Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature organised by Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature at Jadavpur University campus. 200. 14 August 2009: “Happy and Khush: Construction of South-Asian Queer Subjectivity in America” (Paper published in Studies in American Literature Vol. VI, 2010 (American Center, Kolkata.) at Annual International Seminar of the ALSC organised by American Literature Study Circle at USIA (The American Centre, Kolkata). 29
201. 19 March 2009: Panelist in a Colloquium at UGC sponsored state level seminar on “Publishing in India” at Dept. of English, Vidyasagar University. 202. 28-31 January 2009: “‘This Monastery is not run by Trappists’: Affective Community in Christopher Isherwood’s A Meeting by the River at 9th Biennial International Conference entitled “Diverse Harmonies: Literary and Cultural Confluences” organised by CLAI, CIIL, Sahitya Akademi at Central University of Hyderbad. 203. 20-21 September 2008: “ ‘Peace’: Swami Vivekananda’s Subversion of English” organised by Sahitya Akademi on “Early Indian Writings in English: Tagore and His Contemporaries” at DEOMEL, Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan. 204. 3-4 March 2008: “ ‘Little Me in China’: Auden and Isherwood as War Correspondents at UGC-sponsored seminar on “Literature, War and the Politics of Representation” at Krishnanagar Govt. College, Krishnanagar, Nadia, West Bengal. 205. 28-30 January 2008: Ramanimohan: Chapal Bhaduri’s Performance of Gender as a Postcolonial Interrogative” organised by IACLALS on “Performing the Postcolonial” at Department of English, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. (Winner of the C.D. Narsimhaiah Prize for Best Paper) 206. 13 October 2007: Guiding Star: Christopher Isherwood’s Passage to Calcutta’s Star Theatre” organised by ASC, JNU on “Orientalism Revisited” at Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta. 207. 27 August 2007: “Making Tea: Performing Spirituality in Christopher Isherwood’s A Meeting by the River” at UGC-sponsored seminar on “Spirituality and English Literature” at Extension Activities Cell, Chanchol College, Malda. 208. 14 March 2007: “Machismo: Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Engagement with Masculinity in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Chronicle of a Death Foretold at UGC-sponsored national seminar on “The Literature of the Americas” at Dept. of English, Rabindra Bharati University. 209. 8-9 February 2007: “ ‘You’re making kachra of my surname’: The Centre-Margin Amorphosity in R.Raj Rao’s The Boyfriend at UGC-sponsored 30
national seminar on “Trends in Contemporary Indian Writings in English” at Sri Guru Govind Singh College, Chandigarh. 210. 22 August 2006: “Oxymorons as Spiritual Signifiers: The Poetry of Vivekananda” at UGC-sponsored national seminar on “Early Indian English Poetry” at University College of Women, Osmania University. 211. 23 Feb 2006: “Narratives of Resistant Marginality: Patrick White and Firdaus Kanga” at UGC-sponsored national seminar on “Australian Literature: Identity, Representation and Belonging” at Seva-Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari, Midnapore, West Bengal. 212. 10 January 2006: “‘Flaws in the Glass: (W)ri(gh)ting Colonial Masculinity” at “Australia and India: Convergences and Divergences” organised by IASA at J.P. Naik Centre for Education and Development, Pune. 213. 9 August 2005: “Translating Contra-Patriarchal Narratives: Three Tamil Short Stories” at National UGC-sponsored seminar on National Seminar on Translation at Thiagarajar College, Madurai. 214. 2 April 2005: “An Overview of 18th Century Western Music” at a state level seminar on “Re-reading 18th Century British Literature” at Vidyasagar University English Teachers’ Consortium, Midnapur. 215. 23 March 2005: Chaired a session at DSA Students’ Seminar organised by UGC at Dept. of English, University of Calcutta. 216. 22 March 2005: “I am Barnabas. I am Vithobai”: E.M. Forster’s Narrative of Empire in “The Life to Come” at UGC-sponsored state-level seminar on “Empire and Literature” at Vidyasagar University, Midnapur. 217. 5 November 2004: “A Double ‘h’ after any name”: Resisting Marginality in Firdaus Kanga’s Trying to Grow at National level seminar on “Marginal Existence: New Trends in Literature” at Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttaranchal. 218. 9 February 2004: “‘The manly love of comrades’: Male bonding in American Romanticism” organised by CSRL on Annual Seminar for the Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature at H.L.Roy Auditorium, Jadavpur Unversity. 31
219. 22 March 2003: “‘Unsightly with Shame’: Translating Subodh Ghosh’s ‘Hothat Godhuli’” at an UGC sponsored National level seminar on Translation and Empowerment at Dept. of English,Osmania University, Hyderabad. 220. 8 January 2003: “Isherwood, Auden and Company: Second World-War Immigrants” at Annual Seminar on Immigration organised by JUSAS, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University. 221. 21 December 2002: “Resistance and Containment in Black American Music” at an International level seminar on “The Dialectics of Protest in Indian Literature in English, Native Australian and Black American Music” at Dept. of English, Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati. 222. 16 December 2002: “ ‘Whigger’: The Phenomenon of Eminem” at an International level seminar on International Seminar “Multicultural America” at Dept. of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva Bharati, Shantiniketan. 223. 22 November 2002: “‘I Can’t Sing Straight’: the Performance of Billie Holiday’” at a seminar on “Performing Arts: Texts, Contexts, Subtexts” at Dept.s of Bengali, English and Sanskrit, South Calcutta Girls College. 224. 10 April 2002: “Code Red: Color-Coding in The Scarlet Letter” at a seminar organised by Dept. of English, Sambalpur University, Orissa. 225. 13 March 2002: “Politics of Pop in The United States” at a seminar organised by JUSAS, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. 226. 30 August 2000: “Pop in the New Millenium” at a National level seminar on “Pop goes the Culture: Images and Counter-Images of American Popular Culture” organised by USIS, Calcutta. 227. 29 February 2000: Panelist at a video conference with US author James McBride organised by USIS, Calcutta. 228. 13 December 1998: “Contemporary British Writing: Fiction” at a National level seminar on Contemporary British Writing at Jamshedpur, sponsored by British Council,Calcutta. 229. 14 November 1998: “Tchaikovsky” at Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature. 32
230. 26 April 1998: “The Fulbright Experience” at a National level seminar on Fulbright National Seminar at USIS, Calcutta. 231. 27 March 1998: The Romantic Period: A Re-evaluation at Dept. of English, Presidency College, University of Calcutta.