Pinaki Roy 2. Designation and Department

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RAIGANJ UNIVERSITY

EMPLOYEE’S BIO-DATA

1. Name: Pinaki Roy

2. Designation and Department: Associate Professor of English, Raiganj University

3. Office-address: Department of English, Raiganj University, Collegepara, Post Office: Raiganj – 733 134, District: Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal, India, Phone: (Mbl.) + 91 73188 91078, E-Mail: [email protected]

4. Residential-address: 880, Zamini Majumdar Sarani, Hili More, Narayanpur, Post Office: Balurghat – 733 101, District: Dakshin Dinajpur, West Bengal, India

5. Date of Joining Raiganj University: 9 September 2016

6. Nationality: Indian

7. Sex: Male

8. Mother’s and Father’s Name(s): Mrs. Ratna Roy, and (Late) Mr. Bamdeb Roy

9. Marital Status: Married (to Mrs. Sreeparna Roy (Chattopadhyay) of Raiganj)

10. Educational qualifications (in ascending order):

Name(s) of Year Board/Universi Percentag Division/Cla Subjects Examinations( of ty e of Marks ss offered s) passin obtained, passed/qualifie g marks d obtained A.I.S.S.E. 1995 C.B.S.E., New 79 (395 1st English, Delhi marks out Bengali, of a total of Social 500) Science, Mathematic Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 2

s, and Science A.I.S.S.C.E. 1997 C.B.S.E., New 67.2 (336 1st English, Delhi marks out Physics, of a total of Mathematic 500) s, Chemistry, and Biology B.A. (Honours) 2000 Visva-Bharati, 58 (464 2nd English, (in English) Santiniketan marks out Alternative Examination of a total of English, 800) General English, and Politics M.A. (in 2002 Visva-Bharati, 60.5 (484 1st English English) Santiniketan marks out (with Examination of a total of specialisatio 800) n in American Literature) Ph.D. (in 2006 University of Title of Humanities; North Bengal, thesis: subject: Raja “Detectives English) Rammohunpur in White and Brown: A Comparativ e Study of Sherlock Holmes and Byomkesh Bakshi” 11th S.L.E.T. 2006 W.B.C.S.C. , English Kolkata N.E.T. 2006 U.G.C., New English Delhi M.A. (in 2014 I.G.N.O.U., New 59 (472 2nd History History) Delhi marks out (with Examination of a total of specialisatio 800) n in Western and Indian thoughts)

11. Professional Experience (in descending order):

Designation Nature of post Name(s) of the Date of Date of institution(s) Joining Leaving Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 3

Associate Substantive Raiganj 19 January Till date Professor of University, 2018 English Raiganj

Assistant Substantive Raiganj 9 September 18 January Professor of University, 2016 2018 English Raiganj

Assistant Substantive Cooch Behar 2 July 2014 8 September Professor of Panchanan 2016 English Barma University, Cooch Behar Assistant Substantive Malda College, 4 July 2008 1 July 2014 Professor of Malda English Assistant Substantive Kalikapur High 25 March 2006 3 July 2008 Teacher School, Bara (P.G./Hons. Kashipur, category) Dakshin Dinajpur Full-time Contractual Malda College, 1 September 24 March 2006 Lecturer (in Malda 2005 English) Part-time Part-time, Balurghat 3 August 2004 31 August 2005 Lecturer (in contractual College, English) Balurghat Full-time Contractual I.T. Centre, 13 August 2003 31 July 2004 Lecturer (in University of English) North Bengal Guest/Part-time On invitation I.T. Centre, 20 May 2003 12 August 2003 Lecturer (in University of English) North Bengal

Besides, Counsellor for P.G. and U.G.-level students (in English) for D.D.E. – U.N.B. (at University of North Bengal), I.G.N.O.U., and N.S.O.U. (at Balurghat College-study centre, and Malda College-study centre) at various times (after 2002); took classes as Visiting Faculty at Raiganj University and Malda College (2015-16)

12. Date of birth: 04.01.1980 Friday ------

13. Research, Publications, and Academic Contributions:

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A) Published Papers in Journals (partial-list – from July 2008 onwards):

Sl. Title and page nos. Journal, with Vol. andCo -authorsU.G.C ISSN/ISBN No. Issue numbers . No. Recog nition Numb er 1 “Memories Mean More to Us The Atlantic Literary 45307 I.S.S.N. than Anything Else: Review Quarterly, 9 and 0972- Remembering Anne (3), July-September 46941 3269; Frank’s Diary in the 21st 2008 I.S.B.N. Century” (pp. 11-25) 978-81- 269- 1057-1

2 “The Minds at War: The Atlantic Literary 45307 I.S.S.N. Sensibilities in Select Review Quarterly, 9 and 0972- Vietnam War Novels” (pp. (4), October- 46941 3269; 121-37) December 2008 I.S.B.N. 978-81- 269- 1091-5

3 “The Pities of War: A Brief The Atlantic Critical 44195 I.S.S.N. Overview of the First World Review Quarterly, 9 0972- War British Poets and (1), January-March 6373; Poetry” (pp. 40-56) 2010 I.S.B.N. 978-81- 269- 1421-0

4 “Non-Seulement un The Atlantic Literary 45307 I.S.S.N. Correspondant a Visage Review Quarterly, and 0972- Poupin: Detecting Hergé’s 11(1), January- 46941 3269; Ideologies in the Tintin March 2010 I.S.B.N. Albums” (pp. 111-24) 978-81- 269- 1420-3

5 “Hearts Divided: Indo- Exploring History, 42508 I.S.S.N. Anglian Writers and the 1(1), July-December 2230- Partition” (pp. 54-61) 2010 8490

6 “Schriftsteller aus der Labyrinth, 2(3), July 41765 I.S.S.N. Marge: German Poets of the 2011 0976- Two World Wars” (pp. 47- 0814 59) 7 “Bosnian War Requiems: The Atlantic Critical 44195 I.S.S.N. Snippets of the Balkan Review Quarterly, 0972- Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 5

Commemorations” (pp. 95- 10(4), October- 6373; 115) December 2011 I.S.B.N. 978-81- 269- 1675-7

8 “Einer Ruhigen Labyrinth, 2(4), 41765 I.S.S.N. Literarischen Kreuzzug October 2011 0976- gegen den Krieg: Rereading 0814 Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front” (pp. 173-81) 9 “Here’re the War Poets: The Atlantic Literary 45307 I.S.S.N. Keith Douglas and Other Review Quarterly, and 0972- English Versifiers of the 12(4), October- 46941 3269; Second World War” (pp. 23- December 2011 I.S.B.N. 36) 978-81- 269- 1674-0

10 “Vagissements a Partir d’ Labyrinth, 3(2), April 41765 I.S.S.N. Un Terrain Occupe: A Very 2012 0976- Brief Overview of 0814 Resistance Literature” (pp. 26-39) 11 “Epiphanies: Reading Yearly Shakespeare – 48927 I.S.S.N. Select Characters in 2012 , 10, April 2012 0976- William Shakespeare’s 9536 Twelfth Night” (pp. 53-60) 12 “Das Bewusstsein fur die The Atlantic Critical 44195 I.S.S.N. Wand: A Very Brief Review Quarterly, 0972- Overview of German 11(2), April-June 6373; Partition Literature” (pp. 2012 I.S.B.N. 157-68) 978-81- 269-1747- 1

13 “The Seismic Shift: A Very The Atlantic Literary 45307 I.S.S.N. Brief Review of Chetan Review Quarterly, and 0972- Bhagat’s Oeuvre” (pp. 68- 13(2), April-June 46941 3269; 80) 2012 I.S.B.N. 978-81- 269-1751- 8

14 “A Portrait of Hemingway The Atlantic Critical 44195 I.S.S.N. as a Young Man: Rereading Review Quarterly, 0972- Fiesta” (pp. 68-81) 11(3), July- 6373; September 2012 I.S.B.N. 978-81- Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 6

269-1789- 1

15 “Rereading Ian McEwan’s The Atlantic Literary 45307 I.S.S.N. Amsterdam” (pp. 27-38) Review Quarterly, and 0972- 13(3), July- 46941 3269; September 2012 I.S.B.N. 978-81- 269-1788- 4

16 “Against Barbarism: A Very Labyrinth, 3(2), April 41765 I.S.S.N. Brief Survey of Holocaust 2012 0976- Poetry” (pp. 52-60) 0814

17 “Escritores Apasionados del Labyrinth, 4(1), 41765 I.S.S.N. Combate: English and January 2013 0976- American Novelists of the 0814 Spanish Civil War” (pp. 44- 53) 18 “Poet in Khaki: Alun Lewis War, Literature, and 45951 I.S.S.N. and his Combat Writings” the Arts – U.S. Air 1046- (U.R.L.: Force Academy, 6967 http://wlajournal.com/24_ 24(1), 2012 1/pdf/Roy.pdf) 19 “Dear Diary: Teaching Theatre 49202 I.S.S.N. Shakespeare through International, 5, 2012 2278- Henslowe’s Entries” (pp. 2036 166-75) 20 “Reinterpreting Geraldine: Literary Insight, 4(1), 49248 I.S.S.N. Wollstonecraft’s ‘New January 2013 0975- Woman’?” (pp. 49-55) 6248

21 “All the World’s a Stage: Yearly Shakespeare – 48927 I.S.S.N. Remembering the 2013 , 11, April 2013 0976- Prominent Renaissance 9536 London Playhouses” (pp. 24-32) 22 “Mahasweta Devi’s Mother Labyrinth, 4(1), 41765 I.S.S.N. of 1084: Rereading the January 2013 0976- Narrative of Protest” (pp. 0814 12-22) 23 “Encountering the West: A Journal of Higher 48102 I.S.S.N. Very Brief Overview of Education and 2321- Indian Diasporic Novelists” Research Society, 9432 (U.R.L.: 1(1), October 2013 http://herso.org/vol-1- issue-1-oct2013/) Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 7

24 “Reviewing Steamies: The Labyrinth, 5(1), 41765 I.S.S.N. Literary Steam of 21st January 2014 0976- Century Feminism” (pp. 68- 0814 77) 25 “Love in Times of War: The Visva-Bharati 40833 I.S.S.N. Amorous English Poems of Quarterly, 21(3&4) 0972- the Second World War” (pp. and 22 (1&2), 043X 142-55) October 2012- September 2013 26 “Sidney Sheldon: Reviewing The Atlantic Critical 44195 I.S.S.N. his Oeuvre” (pp. 1-14) Review Quarterly, 12 0972- (3), July-September 6373; 2013 I.S.B.N. 978-81- 269-1902- 4

27 “A World Turned Colder: A The Atlantic Literary 45307 I.S.S.N. Very Brief Assessment of Review Quarterly, 14 and 0972- Korean War Literature” (3), July-September 46941 3269; (pp. 39-53) 2013 I.S.B.N. 978-81- 269-1903- 1

28 “Who’s the Man?: A Brief Yearly Shakespeare – 48927 I.S.S.N. study of Ambiguous 2014 , 12, April 2014 0976- Gender-roles in Twelfth 9536 Night” (pp. 46-55) 29 “Reading The Lowland: Its Labyrinth, 5(3), July 41765 I.S.S.N. Highs and its Lows” (pp. 2014 0976- 153-62) 0814

30 “Of the Tiger-ly and the Muse India 41275 I.S.S.N. Flowing River: A Very Brief (Journal), 57, and 0975- Rereading of Debesh Ray’s September-October 41457 1815 Teesta Parer Brittanto” 2014 (U.R.L. http://www.museindia.com /focuscontent.asp?issid=57 &id=5130)

31 “Sidney Keyes: The War- War, Literature, and 45951 I.S.S.N. poet who ‘groped for Death’” the Arts (U.S. Air 2169- (U.R.L. Force Academy), 26 7914 http://wlajournal.com/wla (1), 2014 archive/26/Roy.pdf) Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 8

32 “Alternative History: A Indian Journal of 45858 I.S.S.N. Postcolonial Rereading of Multidisciplinary 2347- Naikar’s The Queen of Academic Research, 9884 Kittur” (pp. 105-15) 1(2), August 2014 33 “Schriften des zum Journal of Higher 48102 I.S.S.N. Verurteilt: First World War Education and 2349- German Poetry” (pp. 249- Research Society, 0209 59) 3(1), April 2015

34 “What’s in a Frame?: The Yearly Shakespeare – 48927 I.S.S.N. Perplexing Multiplicity of 2015, XII, April 2015 0976- Shakespeare’s Portraits” 9536 (pp. 7-13) 35 “Fair-well and Arms: A Theatre 49202 I.S.S.N. very brief Assessment of International, 8, 2015 2278- the presentation of War 2036 TI and Sexuality in Select Shakespearean Plays” (pp. 37-50) 36 “Damit Wir Nicht English Forum: 41272 I.S.S.N. Vergessen!: A very brief Journal of the 2279- Survey of Select Holocaust Department of 0446 Plays” (pp. 113-31) English, Gauhati University, 4, March 2015 37 “Expatriated Union: Journal of Higher 48102 I.S.S.N. Hemingway’s Fiesta and Education and 2349- Appleton and Burnett’s Research Society, 0209 Everybody Comes to Rick’s 3(2), October 2015 in Literature and Film” (pp. 408-15) 38 “The Modernisation of the Exploring History, 7 42508 I.S.S.N. Indian Army from 1947 to (2) and VIII (1), July- 2230- the Early-21st Century: A December 2015 and 8490 Brief Review” (pp. 170-80) January-June 2016

39 “A Sister in Grey: Yearly Shakespeare – 48927 I.S.S.N. Rereading Isabella of 2016, XIV, May 2016 0976- Measure for Measure” (pp. 9536 105-10)

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40 “Much Ado about Politics: A Yearly Shakespeare – 48927 I.S.S.N. Very brief Survey of 2017, XV, July 2017 0976- England’s Tumultuous 9536 History during Shakespeare’s Lifetime” (pp. 16-24) 41 “The English Trench- Labyrinth, 8(2), July 41765 I.S.S.N. writers of 1914-18: A very 2017 0976- brief Review” (pp. 83-95) 0814

42 “Amorous Evil Angels: A Theatre 49202 I.S.S.N. Brief Study of the Effect of International, 10, 2278- Love on select July 2017 2036 TI Shakespeare’s Protagonists” (pp. 36-46) 43 “Mormon Writings: A Indian Journal of 45858 I.S.S.N. Proposal for Research” (pp. Multidisciplinary 2347- 77-81) Academic Research, 4 9884 (2), December 2017

B) (i) Articles / Chapters published in Books (partial-list; July 2008 onwards):

Sl. Title with page nos. Book Title, Editor & ISSN/ISB No. Publisher N No.

01 “Rereading Lydia Bennet: The Jane Austen’s ‘Pride I.S.B.N. New Woman in Pride and and Prejudice’: A 81-89293- Prejudice” (Pp. 498-508) Critical Appraisal (Ed. 59-1 Sarkar, S.), Kolkata: Books Way, 2009 02 “Against the English: Rereading Studies in R.K. I.S.B.N. R.K. Narayan’s The English Narayan’s ‘The English 978-93- Teacher as a Postcolonial Teacher’ (eds. Sarkar, 80145-00-6 Reaction” (Pp. 116-120) J., and N. Saha), Kolkata: Books Way, 2009 03 “Crusoe’s Colonial Crusade: Daniel Defoe’s I.S.B.N. Rereading Defoe’s Imperial ‘Robinson Crusoe’: 978-93- Ideology in Robinson Crusoe” Context, Text, and 80145-18-1 (Pp. 356-62) Criticism (eds. Sarkar, J. and N. Saha), Kolkata: Books War, 2009 04 “The Summers of Calcutta: Kamala Das and her I.S.B.N. Detecting Traces of Poetry (ed. Sarkar, J.), 978-93- Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 10

Postcoloniality in Kamala Das’s Kolkata: Books Way, 80145-19-8 Selected Poems” (Pp. 65-74) 2009

05 “Insignificant Squeakers and Fantasy, Escape, and I.S.B.N. Twitterers: The Multiple Beyond: Rereading 978-93- Choruses in Aristophanes’s The Aristophanes’s ‘Frogs’ 80145-79-2 Frogs”, and “Adults’ Guides: (ed. Sarkar, J.), Rereading Aristophanes’s The Kolkata: Books Way, Frogs as Literary Criticism” (Pp. 2010 147-51, and 152-55) 06 “Unravelling Oedipus Rex: The Studies in Sophocles’s I.S.B.N. Plot of Sophocles’s Tragedy” (Pp. ‘Monument(s) of 978-93- 122-26) Unageing Intellect’: 80145-82-2 ‘Oedipus Rex’ (ed. Saha, N.), Kolkata: Books Way, 2010 07 “The Chick Factor: A Brief The Postcolonial I.S.B.N. Survey of the Indian Chick-lit Woman Question: 978-93- Novels” (Pp. 213-23) Readings in Indian 80145-84-6 Women Novelists in English (eds. Ray, G.N., and J. Sarkar), Kolkata: Books Way, 2011 08 “Telephone Conversation: New Literatures in I.S.B.N. Conversing Resistance”, and English: Fresh 978-81- “Diasporic Trauma: Ice Candy Perspectives (ed. Datta, 909991-6-8 Man as a Partition Novel” (Pp. K.), Kolkata: The Book 128-40, and 141-50) World, 2011

09 “Inside Tiger’s Jaws: Rereading Booker-Prize-Winning I.S.B.N. Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger” Indian Novelists: A 978-81- (Pp. 164-78) Kaleidoscopic Study 7910-341-8 (eds. Nawale, A., and V. Bite), Jaipur: Aavishkar Publishers, 2011 10 “Dramatised Chronicle: Christopher Marlowe’s I.S.B.N. Rereading Christopher ‘Edward the Second’: 978-93- Marlowe’s blending of History Text and Criticism (eds. 81672-07-5 and Fiction in Edward the Sarkar, J. and S. Second” (Pp. 177-90) Mandal) Kolkata: Books Way, 2012 11 “Coming Home: Passage from Post-modern Indian I.S.B.N. Anglophilia to Indocentrism in English Fiction: Some 978-93- Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Perspectives (ed. 80902-81-4 Lines” (Pp. 62-77) Kaushik, A.S.), Jaipur: Aadi Publications, 2012 Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 11

12 “A Brief Introduction to A Hemingway’s ‘A I.S.B.N. Farewell to Arms”, and Farewell to Arms’: A 978-93- “Interpreting the Adieus: A Brief Critical Appraisal (ed. 81672-12-9 Analysis of the Title of A Roy, P.), Kolkata: Books Farewell to Arms” (Pp. 3-16, and Way, 2012 84-88)

13 “Extravagant Genius: Indian Poetry in I.S.B.N. Madhusudan Dutt and his English: Critical Essays 978-81- Oeuvre” (Pp. 15-30) (ed. Mitra, Z.), New 203-4571-3 Delhi: Prentice Hall India, 2012 14 “The First Man of the Third Insights into Indian I.S.B.N. Theatre: Badal Sircar” (Pp. 164- English Fiction and 978-81- 81) Drama (ed. Nawale, A.), 921254-3-5 New Delhi: Access- Authors Press, 2012 15 “Fairly Powerful: The Post-1990 Turn of the Century – I.S.B.N. Indian-born Diasporic Women Indian Writing in 978-81- Novelists” (Pp. 72-77) English: Emergent 923902-1-5 Themes and Subjectivities, 1990- 2010 (eds. Khan, B., and A. Bhattacharyya), New Delhi: Imprint, 2012 16 “Postmodern Diasporic Indian English Fiction: I.S.B.N. Sensibility: Rereading Jhumpa Postmodern Literary 978-81- Lahiri’s Oeuvre” (Pp. 90-109) Sensibility (ed. Bite, 7273-677-4 V.), New Delhi: Authors Press, 2012 17 “The Inheritance of Loss: A Brief World English I.S.B.N. Rereading” (Pp. 13-29) Literature: Bridging 978-81- Oneness (eds. Nawale, 7273-705-4 A., and P. Roy), New Delhi: Authors Press, 2013 18 “Dramatic Chronicle: A Very Indian Drama in I.S.B.N. Brief Review of the Growth of English: Some 978-81- Indian English Plays” (Pp. 272- Perspectives (ed. 269-1772-3 87) Kaushik, A.S.), New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd., 2013 19 “Crusader against Hegemonies: Contemporary Indian I.S.B.N. A Brief Study of Badal Sircar” Drama in English: 978-81- (Pp. 23-42) Trends and Issues (ed. 926244-0-2 Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 12

Sarkar, J.), New Delhi: Delta Book World, 2013 20 “Incarcerated Fantasies: Women Portrayal of Women in I.S.B.N. in Nazisploitation Films” (Pp. Media and Literature 978-93- 23-33) (eds. Nawale, A., S. 82647-01-0 Vashist, and P. Roy), New Delhi: Access, 2013 21 “Comrades-in-Arms: A Very Twentieth-century I.S.B.N. Brief Study of Sassoon and British Literature: 978-93- Owen as Twentieth-Century Reconstructing Literary 81030-47-9 English War Poets” (Pp. 61-78) Sensibility (eds. Nawale, A., Z. Mitra, and A. John), New Delhi: Gnosis, 2013 22 “Mother of 1084: A Chronicle of Mahasweta Devi’s I.S.B.N. Deadly Times” (Pp. 45-56) ‘Mother of 1084’: 978-93- Critical Readings and 81672-54-9 Rereadings (eds. Sarkar, J, and S. Debnath), Kolkata: Books Way, 2013 23 “Mahesh Dattani’s Final Mahesh Dattani: His I.S.B.N.978 Solutions: A Brief Rereading” Stagecraft in Indian -81-7273- (Pp. 111-24) Theatre (ed. Bite, V.), 737-5 New Delhi: Authors Press, 2013 24 “Murder in the Cathedral: T.S. Eliot’s ‘Murder in I.S.B.N. Revisiting the History of the Cathedral’: A 978-93- Becket’s Assassination” (Pp. 45- Critical Spectrum (eds. 81672-74-7 52) Saha, N., and S. Ghosh (Sanyal)), Kolkata: Books Way, 2014 25 “Patriots in Fremden Landern: Writing Difference: I.S.B.N. 1939-45 German Émigré Nationalism, Identity, 978-81- Literature” (Pp. 367-90). and Literature (eds. 269-1938-3 Ray, G.N., J. Sarkar, and A. Bhattacharyya), New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd., 2014 26 “Unmasking the Indian Power: A Unmasking Power: I.S.B.N. Postcolonial Rereading of Subjectivity and 978-93- Gurcharan Das’s Larins Sahib” Resistance in Indian 81287-40-8 (Pp. 101-21) Drama in English (eds. Sarkar, J. and A. Bhattacharyya), Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 13

Guwahati: Papyrus Publishers, 2014

27 “Reflections on the Art of Images of Life: Creative I.S.B.N. Producing Travelogues” (Pp. and Other Forms of 978-93- 111-29) Writing (ed. Mullick, 81231-03-6 S.), Kolkata: The Book World, 2014

28 “Multicultural Differences: A Sahitya Akademi I.S.B.N. Brief Rereading of Rupa Bajwa’s Award-winning English 978-81- The Sari Shop” (Pp. 272-86) Collections: Critical 7273-728-3 Overviews and Insights (ed. Datta, K.), New Delhi: Authors Press, 2014 29 “Lurie’s Lurid Quest: A Brief Re- Gender and I.S.B.N. reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Commonwealth Studies 978-93- Disgrace” (Pp. 21-30) (eds. Kunda, A., and A. 5225-029-5 Bhattacharyya), Kolkata: Books Way, 2015 30 “Indian English Poetry: A very Contemporary Indian I.S.B.N. brief History” (Pp. 11-29) Poetry in English (eds. 978-93- Sarkar, J., and S. 5207-113-5 Mondal), New Delhi: Authors Press, 2016 31 “A Tale of History: Rereading Charles Dickens’s ‘A I.S.B.N. Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities” Tale of Two Cities’ (eds. 978-93- (Pp. 405-12) Sarkar, J., and J. 2552-036-3 Mukherjee) Kolkata: Books Way, 2016 32 “Bifurcated Memoirs: A very The Broken Pens: The I.S.B.N. brief Review of the Major (Indian) Partition in 978-93- Partition-Narratives in English” Literature and Films 82630-75-3 (Pp. 5-24) (eds. Roy, P., and A.K. Sarkar), Jaipur: Aadi Publications, 2016 33 “Bratya Basu’s Boma: Bombing Postcolonial Indian ISBN 978- the Coloniser-supervised Drama in English and 93-5207- Chronicle” (pp. 287-300) English Translation: 560-7 Reading Themes and Techniques (eds. De, U., and J. Sarkar), New Delhi: Authors Press, 2017

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(ii) Full Papers in Conference Proceedings:

Sl. Title with page nos. Details of ISSN/IS No. Conference BN No. Publication

1 “Rereading Communality: Mahesh Contemporary Trends Dattani’s Final Solutions” (Pp. 63- in Indian Drama: 68) Theory, Practice, and Criticism (ed. Sarkar, S.), Naihati: R.B.C. College Press, 2012 2 “Rereading Walt Whitman’s Different Americas: I.S.B.N. Construction of American Identity Resituating American 978-81- in Post-9/11 Milieu” (Pp. 81-92). Identity in the Post- 7273-751- 9/11 Third Worldian 1 Classroom (eds. Purakayastha, A.S., M. Alam, and D. Chakraborty), New Delhi: Authors Press, 2014 3 “Black Peepers who charged: Modernity of India: I.S.B.N. Remembering the British-Indian Ambiguities and 978-93- Military Personnel of the Two Deformities (eds. 80677-68- World Wars” (Pp. 181-96) Sarkar, A.K., K. 2 Chakraborty, and M. Dutta), Kolkata: Setu Prakashani, 2014 4 “Bodice-ripper and Feminism: A Gender Issues in I.S.B.N. New Perspective” (Pp. 6-13) India: Challenges and 978-93- Strategies (ed. Som, 81669-69- S.), Kolkata: Rupali, 2 2017

(iii) Books published as single author or as editor:

Sl. Title(s) Type of Book and Publisher No. Authorship & ISSN/ISB N.

01 The Manichean Investigators: A Postcolonial New Delhi: Postcolonial and Cultural Rereading criticism; single- Sarup and of the Sherlock Holmes and Byomkesh authorship Sons Bakshi Stories (2008) (I.S.B.N. Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 15

978-81- 7625-849- 4) 02 The Scarlet Critique: A Critical War-literature New Delhi: Anthology of War Poetry (2010) criticism; single- Sarup Book authorship Publishers Pvt. Ltd. (I.S.B.N. 978-81- 7625-991- 0) 03 Hemingway’s ‘A Farewell to Arms’: A American novel- Kolkata: Critical Appraisal (2012) criticism; edited Books Way (I.S.B.N. 978-93- 81672-12- 9) 04 World English Literature: Bridging Literary-criticism; New Delhi: Oneness (2013) edited, along with Authors Nawale, A. Press (I.S.B.N. 978-81- 7273-705- 4) 05 Portrayal of Women in Media and Literary-criticism; New Literature (2013) edited, along with Delhi: Nawale, A., and S. Access Vashist (I.S.B.N. 978-93- 82647-01- 0) 06 Wilfred Owen: The Man, the Soldier, Literary-criticism; Kolkata: the Poet (2013) single-authorship Books Way (though mentioned (I.S.B.N. as ‘edited’) 978-93- 81672-59- 4) 07 The Broken Pens: The (Indian) Literary criticism, Jaipur: Partition in Literature and Films edited along with Aadi (2015) Sarkar, A.K. Publication s (I.S.B.N. 978-93- 82630-75- 3)

C) Ongoing and Completed Research Projects and Consultancies:

(i)Ongoing Projects / Consultancies: Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 16

Sl. No. Title Agency Period Misc. details 1 Awarded: U.G.C.- U.G.C. 2014 Had to leave Minor Research onwards the project Project for Rs. because of 240,000/- on the leaving ‘Deterring Effects of Malda War-Literature’ College to (U.G.C. Sanction join Cooch Letter – sent to Malda Behar College and received Panchanan on 5 May 2014, is Barma numbered F. PHW- University 142/13-14 (E.R.O.), (without the dated 18 March 2014 12-B affiliation) in July 2014

(ii)Completed Projects / Consultancies:

Sl. Title Agency Period No.

(D) Research Guidance:

Sl. No. Number Enrolled Thesis Submitted Degree Awarded

M. Phil or equivalent

Ph.D. or equivalent Acting as supervisor of 4 (registered) doctoral research- scholars of and at the Department of English, Raiganj University

(E) (i) Training Courses, Teaching-Learning-Evaluation Technology Programmes, Faculty Development Programmes:

Sl. Programme Duration Organised by No. Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 17

1 Workshop on English 25-26 June The Public Affairs Office, U.S. Language Teaching 2007 Consulate General, Kolkata (at Subarnotat, Balurghat Municipality, Balurghat)

2 Refresher Course (in 19 November-9 The Academic Staff College, English) December 2010 University of Calcutta

3 17th Orientation Programme 26 February-25 The Academic Staff College, March 2014 University of North Bengal

4 27th Appreciation Course in 2-6 May 2016 Bureau of Parliamentary Studies Parliamentary Processes and and Training, Lok Sabha Procedures Secretariat, New Delhi

5 Refresher Course (in 2-22 March U.G.C. – H.R.D. Centre, English) 2017 University of North Bengal

(ii) Papers presented in Conferences, Seminars, Workshops, Symposia (Partial-list; July 2008 onwards):

Sl. Title of the Paper Title of Conference / Organised by Whether No. presented Seminar international / national / state / regional / college or university level

1 “The Diary Classes: S.S.E.I.-sponsored 5th Shakespeare Internationa Some Proposals for World Shakespeare Society of Eastern l Teaching Shakespeare Conference (14-17 India, Kolkata through references to December 2008) Philip Henslowe’s Entries” (Presented on 14 December 2008) 2 “Cleaved Memories: U.G.C. and I.C.S.S.R.- Malda College, National Rereading the sponsored Seminar on Malda Literary Effects of the “Political Economy, Partition in Select Nation, Development, Partition Novels” and Environment: A (Presented on 16 Historical Perspective of January 2010) India between 1707 and 1960” (16-17 January 2010) Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 18

3 “Popular Memoirs of U.G.C.-sponsored University of National Hell: An Insight into Seminar on “Popular North Bengal, Raja Anne Frank’s Diary” Culture, Media, and Rammohunpur, (Presented on 22 Literature: Genres, Darjeeling March 2010) Genealogies, Subjectivities” (20-22 March 2010) 4 “Divided Hearts: U.G.C. and I.C.H.R.- Malda College, National Studying the British- sponsored Conference Malda Indian Army on “Interrogating and Personnel During the Exploring Hindustan, World Wars” British ‘India’, and (Presented on 9 ‘India’, 1556-2000, September 2010) Phase – I” (8-10 September 2010) 5 “What You Will: 6th World Shakespeare Shakespeare Internationa Uncovering Select Conference, Kolkata Society of Eastern l Shakespearean (11-15 December 2010) India, Kolkata Mysteries” (Presented on 15 December 2010)

6 “Muses-at-Arms: U.G.C.-sponsored Gour National Reading Select Second Seminar on “Relocating Mahavidyalaya, World War Poems by Literatures between the Malda Keith Douglas and Wars and beyond: An Alun Lewis” Odyssey from Phases of (Presented on 24 High Modernism to a December 2010) Postmodernist Milieu” (23-24 December 2010) 7 “Teaching the U.G.C.-sponsored Malda Women’s National Holocaust: Seminar on “Contesting College, Malda Unconventional Ideologies and Academic Activism” Recolonisation: (Presented on 8 Strategies of Pedagogic September 2011) Reformulations and Academic Activism” (8-9 September 2011) 8 “Lurie’s Lurid Quest: U.G.C.-sponsored Malda College, National A Brief Rereading of Conference on “The Malda J.M. Coetzee’s Polyphonic Voice of Disgrace” (Presented Resistance and Looking on 19 September Beyond: Commonwealth 2011) Literature” (19-20 September 2011) 9 “Maker of American U.G.C.-sponsored Gour National Literature: A Very Seminar on Mahavidyalaya, Brief Rereading of “Resituating the Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 19

Walt Whitman’s American Identity in Malda contribution to the the Post-9/11 formation of American Classroom” (28-29 Identity in the post- November 2011) 9/11 Scenario” (Presented on 29 November 2011) 10 “The Shadowy U.G.C.-sponsored Tufangunge National Lineage: Identity- Seminar on “`Twixt Mahavidyalaya, Crises in The Shadow Pillar and Post: Tufangunge Lines” (Presented on 2 Diasporic Identity and March 2012) In-between-ness in Indian English Literature” (1-2 March 2012) 11 “De-stereotyping U.G.C.-sponsored Southfield College, National Indian Sexuality: A Seminar on “De- Darjeeling Very Brief Review of stereotyping Indian the Depiction of Body and Desire: Homosexuality in Reconsidering the Bollywood Films and Representations” (12-13 Indo-Anglian Novels” March 2012) (Presented on 13 March 2012) 12 “Cracking Ice-Candy U.G.C.-sponsored St. Joseph’s National Man: A Very Brief Seminar on College, North Analysis of Sidhwa’s “Representation, Point, Darjeeling Partition Novel” Imagination, and (Presented on 20 Narration: Tracing and March 2012) Locating the Nation through History and Narratives” (19-20 March 2012) 13 “Rereading U.G.C.-sponsored R.B.C. College, National Communality: Seminar on “Modern Naihati Mahesh Dattani’s Indian Drama: Theory, Final Solutions” Practice, and Criticism” (Presented on 28 (27-28 March 2012) March 2012)

14 “The Emergence of U.G.C.-sponsored Malda College, National Modern India: Conference on “Locating Malda Perspective Indian Modernity and its Army, 1947-2000” Parameters: Perspective (Presented on 22 India, 1556-2000” (21-22 January 2013) January 2013) 15 “Piers the Plowman: U.G.C.-sponsored University of National Mastering the Dream Seminar on North Bengal, Raja Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 20

element in Medieval “Dreamscapes: Situating Rammohunpur, English Literature”. the Subconscious in Darjeeling (Presented on 8 Film, Media, and February 2013) Literature” (8-9 February 2013) 16 “A Tale of History: U.G.C.-sponsored University B.T. National Rereading Dickens’s A Seminar on “Reviewing and Evening Tale of Two Cities”. Dickens Bicentenary: College, Cooch (Presented on 22 Reading 21st-century Behar March 2013) Interpretations of Charles Dickens” (22 March 2013) 17 “Encountering the H.E.R.S.-sponsored Higher Education Internationa West: A Very Brief Seminar on “South and Research l Overview of the Asian Literature and Society, Navi Indian Diasporic Culture” (6-7 September Mumbai Novelists” (Presented 2013) on 7 September 2013)

18 “Representation of U.G.C.-sponsored Malda College, National Hellishness: A Very Seminar on “Aspects of Malda Brief Overview of Partition of India in Partition Films and 1947” (28 March 2014) Documentaries” (Presented on 28 March 2014)

19 “Schriften des zum H.E.R.S.-sponsored Higher Education Internationa Scheitern Verurteilt: International and Research l First World War Conference on “Fourth Society, Navi German Poetry” World Literature and Mumbai (Presented on 12 Culture” (12-13 September 2014) September 2014)

20 “Erinnerungen The Department of The Department Internationa gleichermassen History and the Centre of History and the l schmerzhaft: German for Military and Centre for War Poets of the Strategic Studies, Military and Great War”. University of Calgary, Strategic Studies, (Presented i.a. on 26 Calgary-organised University of September 2014) Conference on “The Calgary, Calgary Great War’s Shadow: (at Château Lake New Perspectives on the Louise, Lake First World War” (25-28 Louise, Near September 2014) Basnff, Alberta, Canada) 21 “Fair-well and Arms: 8th World Shakespeare Shakespeare Internationa A very brief Conference and Society of Eastern Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 21

Assessment of the International India, Kolkata l Presentation of War Conference on and Sexuality in “Shakespeare studies, select Shakespearean Comparative Literature Plays” (Presented on 3 and Translation January 2015) Studies: Theory and Praxis” , Kolkata (3-6 January 2015) 22 “Mormon Writings: Balurghat College- Balurghat National Voices from the sponsored and College, Margin” (Invited organised Seminar on Balurghat Lecture given on 2 “Literature and March 2015) Marginality: Issues and Perspectives” (2 March 2015) 23 “Deep within the I.C.H.R.-sponsored Malda College, Internationa Entrails of a Ravished Conference on “The Malda l Earth: An Great War (1914) in Introduction to the Memories and Letters” First World War (16-17 April 2015) Trench-Poetry” (Invited-lecture given on 16 April 2015)

24 “Expatriated Union: H.E.R.S.-sponsored Higher Education Internationa Hemingway’s Fiesta International and Research l and Appleton and Conference on Society, Navi Burnett’s Everybody “Comparative Mumbai Comes to Rick’s in Literature and Culture” Literature and Film” (11-12 September 2015) (Presented on 12 September 2015) 25 “Bratya Basu’s Boma: U.G.C.-sponsored University B.T. National Bombing the Seminar on “The and Evening Coloniser-supervised Changing Directions of College, Cooch Chronicle” (Presented Postcolonial Indian Behar on 30 September Drama” (29-30 2015) September 2015) 26 “Nouveau A.T.W.S. (S.A.C.)- Cooch Behar Internationa Postcoloniality: sponsored Seminar on Panchanan l Rereading Shukla’s “Neo-liberal Policies and Barma Raag Darbari” Development University, Cooch (Presented on 28 Perspectives: the Third Behar November 2015) World Scenario” (27-29 November 2015)

27 “Approaching U.G.C.-sponsored Vivekananda National Literature through Seminar on “The College, Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 22

Select Great War Essence and Ways of Alipurduar English Poems: A very approaching Literature brief Proposal” and its Criticism” (23 (Presented on 23 February 2016) February 2016) 28 “An Infirmus Rex University of Gour University of National Perdit in Gentem Banga-sponsored Gour Banga, Semper: Weak Kings Seminar on Malda and their suffering “Shakespeare: the Stage States in and the State” (26 Shakespeare’s Select November 2016) Plays” (Presented on 26 November 2016)

29 “Reviewing the Third Raiganj University- Raiganj Internationa Front: Vera Brittain’s sponsored Seminar on University, l Testament of Youth” “War in/and Texts: Raiganj (Presented on 8 Voices, Technicalities, December 2016) and Thoughts” (7-8 December 2016) 30 “Amorous Evil Angels: S.S.E.I.-sponsored 9th Shakespeare Internationa A Very Brief Study of World Shakespeare Society of Eastern l the effect of Love on Conference, Kolkata (28- India, Kolkata select Shakespeare’s 30 January 2017) Protagonists” (Presented on 29 January 2017) 31 “Bodice-ripper and U.G.C.-sponsored Saheed National Feminism: A New Seminar on “Gender Kshudiram Perspective” Issues in India: College, (Presented i.a. on 9 Challenges and Kamakshyaguri February 2017) Perspectives” (9-10 February 2017)

32 “The Lyrical Memoir University of Gour University of Internationa of a Non-divided Banga-sponsored Gour Banga, l Nation: Auden’s Seminar on “Nation and Malda ‘Partition’” (Presented Beyond: on 15 April 2017) Interdisciplinary Perspectives” (14-15 April 2017)

33 “The Myth of the Malda College- Malda College, College-level Aryans: A Very brief sponsored College-level Malda Review” (Presented on Seminar on “Rethinking 23 June 2017) Mythology: Text(s) and Variations” (23-24 June 2017) Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 23

(iii) Chairmanships at national or international conference / seminar etc. (July 2008 onwards):

Sl. Title of Lecture / Title of Conference / Organised by Whether No. Academic Seminar, etc. international / Session national

1 Chaired the U.G.C.-sponsored Seminar Malda College, National Business on “Aspects of Partition of Malda Panel/Session India in 1947” (28 March ‘Impact of 2014) Partition’ (12:30 p.m. – 02:00 p.m.; 28 March 2014)

2 Chaired the 1st Balurghat College- Balurghat National Business sponsored and organised College, Panel/Session Seminar on “Literature and Balurghat (03:30 p.m.-06:00 Marginality: Issues and p.m.; 2 March Perspectives” (2 March 2015) 2015)

3 Chaired the 4th I.C.H.R.-sponsored Malda College, International Business Panel Conference on “The Great Malda /Session(03:30 War (1914) in Memories p.m. – 04:30 p.m.; and Letters” (16-17 April 16 April 2015) 2015) 4 Chaired the 4th U.G.C.-sponsored Seminar University B.T. National Business on “The Changing and Evening Panel/Session Directions of Postcolonial College, Cooch (03:00 p.m.-03:40 Indian Drama” (29 and 30 Behar p.m.; 30 September 2015) September 2015) 5 Chaired the 1st U.G.C.-sponsored Seminar Vivekananda National Business on “The Essence and Ways College, Panel/Session of approaching Literature Alipurduar (04:00 p.m. – 04:50 p.m.; 23 February and its Criticism” (23 2016) February 2016)

6 Chaired the 1st Malda College-sponsored Malda College, College-level Business Seminar on “Rethinking Malda Panel/Session Mythology: Text(s) and (02:30 p.m. – 04:00 p.m.; 23 June Variations” (23-24 June 2017) 2017)

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(iv) Participation in Conferences/ Seminars, etc. (July 2008 onwards):

Sl. Title of Conference / Seminar Organised by Level No.

1 U.G.C.-sponsored Seminar on “Higher Malda College, Malda State Education and Employability” (15-16 November 2008) 2 Sahitya Akademi-sponsored Seminar University of Gour Banga, National on “Literature in Translation: India Malda and Abroad” (2-3 March 2010) 3 U.G.C. and I.C.H.R.-sponsored Malda College, Malda National Seminar on “Interrogating and Exploring Hindustan, British ‘India’, and ‘India’, 1556-2000, Phase – II” (29- 30 April 2011) 4 Seminar on “Promotion of Research in Research and Consultancy National Institutes of Higher Learning” (16 Cell, Malda College, Malda November 2013) 5 I.C.P.R.-sponsored Seminar on “Truth Cooch Behar Panchanan National and Knowledge: An East-West Barma University, Cooch Perspective” (24 November 2014) Behar

6 Balurghat College-sponsored Balurghat College, National Conference on “Recent Developments Balurghat in Mathematics and its Applications” (14-15 February 2015) 7 W.B.C.U.P.A.-sponsored Seminar on Thakur Panchanan Mahila State “Higher Education in North Bengal” Mahavidyalaya, Cooch (30 March 2015) Behar

(v) Any other achievement:

1. Officiated as the Joint-Convenor for the U.G.C.-sponsored National-level Conference on “The Polyphonic Voice of Resistance and Looking Beyond: Commonwealth Literature”, organised by Malda College, Malda, on 19-20 September 2011

2. Awarded the Labyrinth-Sarah Russo Award for Literary Excellence – 2013, Paris and Gwalior

3. Shortlisted for the Ministry of Culture – Government of India’s Outstanding Cultural Person’s Junior Fellowship, 2012-13 (Enrolment number 2012/0058) (could not complete the final procedures because of joining Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University in July 2014) Pinaki Roy/Raiganj University/January 2018/ 25

4. Officiated as the Joint-Convenor for the Raiganj University-sponsored International- level Seminar on “War in/and Texts: Voices, Technicalities, and Thoughts”, organised by the Department of English, Raiganj University, Raiganj, on 7-8 December 2016

5. Member, Governing Body, A.B.N. Seal College, J.N. Road, Cooch Behar, West Bengal. Basic knowledge in computer-operations (C.I.T.A.)

6. Stood first in the University of North Bengal-Zone as well as in West Bengal at The West Bengal College Service Commission-conducted Personal Interview (for Recommendation for Lectureship) in August 2007 (results declared on 21 January 2008)

7. Stood first in West Bengal at a State-level Essay-Writing-Competition on ‘National Integration and Communal Harmony’, sponsored jointly by the Government of India and the Government of West Bengal, in 2001

8. Moderator, The (International) Sherlock Holmes Society of India, since February 2005; General Members – The American Library-Kolkata; The British Council Library-Kolkata, Shakespeare Society of Eastern India-Kolkata, and Life Member, The Association of Third World Studies (South Asia Chapter), Bengaluru; Member- Activist, P.E.T.A. (India) (since 2004).

Place: Balurghat

Dated: 21 January 2018