Curriculum Vitae Name: Kalyan Kumar Das Date of Birth: 11th November, 1987 Present Designation: Assistant Professor (Stage II) Department of English Presidency University Kolkata Employment History: Assistant Professor (Stage II) Department of English Presidency University, Kolkata, India – (since 22nd January,2019) Assistant Professor (Stage I), Department of English Presidency University - (10th July 2012- 21st January, 2019) Other Employment: Visiting Fellow, (February, 2016) Centre for Dalit Studies Department of English University of Delhi Present Office Address: Professor’s Common Room (PCR) Room No.83 Main Building (1st Floor) (Administration Block) Department of English Presidency University 86/1, College Street, Kolkata700073 Permanent Residential Address: “Nirmalya”, Babaji Lane, Najargunj, Midnapur Town, Dist: West Midnapur, W.B. Pin: 721101 Personal email address : [email protected] Official email address: [email protected] Personal Mobile Phone Number: +(91)-9674414706 Academic Qualification: PhD ---- (in English and Cultural Studies) (Jadavpur University, ongoing, registered in 2014) UGC-NET--- (in English) (Got through in June, 2011) M.A . ----- (in English) (Jadavpur University, in 2010) B.A . ---- (with Honours/Major in English) (Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, University of Calcutta, in 2008) Member of Academic Bodies: Member, John Dewey Society (U.S.A.) Member, United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council(AHRC) International Project on Dalit Literatures--- "Writing, Analysing, Translating Dalit Literatures". Member, Board of Editors, Indian Journal for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies( IJCLTS) Hyderabad. Reviewer (Manuscript and Book Proposal ) , Routledge India. Reviewer, Critical South Asian Studies (Journal of the Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University) Reviewer, Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage Journal). Short Biographical Note: In his ongoing research , he is exploring literary texts produced by the dalits in Bengal to understand how this politics of identity formation or identification(to use Ernesto Laclau's idea) gets mediated through these cultural and literary productions .His teaching and research interests revolve around Critical theory( with a special focus on structuralist Marxism, post structuralism), Continental philosphy (Phenomenological thoughts of Maurice Merleau-Ponty ,Deconstruction and Jacques Derrida's writings on issues like touch, translation and autobiography ) , Indian philosophical systems( particularly Madhyamika Buddhism of Nagarjuna and Ambedkar's engagements with Buddhism) , political philosophies of Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser and B. R. Ambedkar, Commonwealth and postcolonial literatures, Diaspora studies, Nationalism, caste, race and dalit literature. Das's research articles on Ambedkar, Dalit studies, Subaltern Studies, historiography, Cultural Studies etc. have been published in famous academic journals like Critical Philosophy of Race(Pennsylvania State University Press), Dewey Studies(Journal of the John Dewey Society) , Economic & Political Weekly, Bangla Journal, Contemporary Voice Of Dalit (Sage) etc. His research article on historiography (published in the EPW) is taught at the Masters' programme in History at the University of Warwick, UK <(http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi31t/seminars/casteasviolence/)> Das has also been a UGC (SAP DRS II) Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Dalit Studies, Department of English, Delhi University ( February, 2017). Select Publications: - (Articles published in blind peer reviewed academic journals/Book Chapter in Edited Volume/ Review Articles): Journal Articles: 1).Das, Kalyan Kumar. “Ambedkar Contra Nietzsche: Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Anger”. Critical Philosophy of Race (Pennsylvania State University Press). (Forthcoming). [ISSN 2165-8684 E-ISSN 2165-8692] 2). Das, Kalyan Kumar. “Encountering John Dewey in the Indian Context: Ambedkar’s Critique of War, Violence and Nationalism. Dewey Studies (Journal of the John Dewey Society). Vol. 2 (3), 30th January, 2019. [ISSN 2572-4649] 3). Das, Kalyan. " Subaltern Historiography to Dalit Historiography: Tracing Heterogeity in Dalit Subalternity". 'Special Article' in Economic & Political Weekly. Vol.L7,14th February, 2015,pp. 60-65. ( ISSN00129976) [ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846] 4). Das, Kalyan. " To Eat or not to Eat Beef: Spectres of Food on Bengal's Politics of Identity". 'Special Article' in Economic & Political Weekly. Vol. L44 , 31st October, 2015,pp.105-114. ( ISSN00129976) [[ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846] 5). Das , Kalyan Kumar. "Caste and Politics of Culture in Contemporary Bengal: Bhadralok's Celebration of Chotolok's 'Story' and the Curious Case of Monoranjan Byapari." Bangla Journal: A Journal of Bangla and Bangali, (Canada). Vol.13: 21, December, 2015. [ISSN-1448-0792] . 6). Das, Kalyan Kumar. Review of Sharan Kumar Limbale's The Dalit Brahmin in Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage Journal), forthcoming. [eISSN: 24560502 | ISSN: 2455328X] Book Chapter: 1)"Fourth Person" in Jaydeep Sarangi edited anthology of Monohar Mouli Biswas’ poems Wheel Will Turn published by Cyber wit Publications. India.( ISBN13: 9788192818771). Invited Lectures/ Papers Presented in International/ National Conferences/ Refreshers' Courses/ Seminars: Invited Lectures: 1."Reading a post-liberal critique of Dalit struggle from Dalit Historiographical perspective" -- Invited lecture at a National Seminar on “Reconstructing/Deconstructing the Canon: Alternative Cultures , Alternative Literatures. , organized at Vidyasagar University Department of English on 19 March, 2014. 2."Reading Mahasweta Devi with Spivak’s idea of the Subaltern in ‘Can the Subaltern speak?”invited lecture delivered on 29th January, 2013 at the Department of English, Gour Mahavidyalaya, Malda, WB, India. 3. Self-reflexivity and Ethics in Theorizing Caste in Dalit Literature: Seeing Through The Cracked Mirror and issues in Lived Experience as the Right to Theory"- invited lecture delivered on 25th January,2016 at an international symposium " Outside/Inside/On the Edge:Mediation and Dialogue in Indigenous and Dalit Studies , organised by the Department of English, Jadavpur University,Kolkata, India. 4. "Dalit Studies and the Future of Postcolonial Studies" plenary speech delivered on 10th February, 2016 at an international conference on "The Future of Postcolonialism",organised at the Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, WB,India. 5. “Ambedkar and the Colonial State: Rethinking Ambedkar’s ‘Strategic Statism’ and the Birth of A Modern Nation” invited speech delivered on 15th April, 2016 at the International Conference organised on the occasion of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s 125th Birth Anniversary at the Centre for India Studies in Africa (CISA), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. 6. "Ambedkar contra Manu: A Contemporary Critique of Resentiment and the Category of 'Angry Dalit' "plenary speech delivered at the National Seminar : "Prabudhdha Bharat: Understanding Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in the Passage of Timer" organised by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata on 26th August, 2016. 7. "Past, Present and Future of Dalit Studies in India" participated in a panel discussion on this theme at the National Seminar: Prabuddha Bharat: Understanding Dr. B. R. Ambedkar in the Passage of Time" organised by the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Kolkata on 27th August, 2016. 8. "Hermeneutics of Nationalism: Perceiving the Indian Nation State as a Hindu Space" Keynote address delivered at the seminar : "Notions of Space in Narratives of Partition", organised by the Departments of English and Bengali, The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata on 3rd September, 2016. 9. "Introducing Caste and Dalit Literature" invited special lecture delivered at Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati, W.B. on 10th September, 2014. 10. "Ambedkar and the Nation-State"- MPhil/PhD course work seminar delivered at the Department of English , Delhi University on 17th February, 2017. 11. "Ambedkar's 'Social Hope' in a 'Democracy that is to come': A Pragrammatological Reading in Speculative Philosophy."- Public lecture delivered at the Department of English, Delhi University on 22nd February, 2017. 12. "Contemporary Dalit Writings and Ambedkar's Philosophy"- Special lecture delivered at the Department of English, Midnapur College (Autonomous) on 25th March , 2017. 13. "Subalternity, Literature and Historiography": Special lecture delivered at Vidyasagar College Department of English on 27th March, 2017. 14. "What the Foucault?"- invited lecture delivered at the Department of English, University of Kalyani, W.B. on 4th August, 2017. 15. "Tagore contra Hegel- Literature, Historiography and Historicality"- lecture delivered at the Refreshers' Course "Reading Literature" organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal on 9th January, 2018. 16. "Ambedkar and the Nation State"- lecture delivered at the refreshers' Course "Reading Literature" organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal on 9th January, 2018. 17. " Dalit literature and Historiography"- lecture delivered at the refreshers' Course "Reading Literature" organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal on 10th January, 2018. 18. "Reading Monoranjan Byapari's autobiography"- lecture delivered at the refreshers' Course "Reading Literature" organised by the Department of English, University of North Bengal on 10th January,