1 SAPTARSHI MALLICK ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS a. Completed Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math (University of Calcutta) with 58% in 2007. b. Completed Master of Arts from the Department of English, University of Calcutta with 61% in 2009. Special Papers: T. S. Eliot, Gender & Literature and Indian Writings in English. c. Completed Bachelor of Education from David Hare Training College (University of Calcutta) with 69% in 2012. d. Completed Ph.D. (Arts) from the Department of English, University of Calcutta (under the U.G.C. Regulations July 2009) on December 14, 2017. Provisional Certificate has been awarded on December 18, 2017. Official Degree has been awarded on January 11, 2018. FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED Project Fellowship in the University Grants Commission (UGC) Assisted DRS (SAP III) Phase II programme at the Department of English, University of Calcutta from November 2009 to March 2012. Project - Bengal and Britain: Literary and Cultural Interface in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The Endowment Foreign Travel Scholarship for the year 2010-2011 from the University of Calcutta for presenting a paper titled, ‘Inscribing a Cultural Cosmopolitanism: Some Contexts of Modern Indian Poetry’ and attending Cosmopoetics: Mediating a New World Poetics, at an international conference (8th – 10th September 2010) at St. John’s College, Durham University, U.K. Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) Fellow 2016-17 to undertake research on the contribution of William Carey and his fellow Missionaries to Bengal at the British Library, Central Baptist Church at Leicester, Carey Baptist Church at Moulton, Bodleian Library at Oxford, Angus Archive and Library at Regent’s Park College University of 2 Oxford at Oxford, the National Library of Scotland and the Charlotte Chapel at Edinburgh. Associate Staff (Research) at the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University under the United Kingdom-India Educational Research Initiative (UKIERI) Programme entitled, “Scottish Orientalism and the Indian Renaissance: the Continuum of Ideas: the Relevance of Rabindranath Tagore and his circle Today” to undertake research at the British Library, Bodleian Library at Oxford, Archives and Special Collections at the Devon Heritage Centre at Exeter, National Library of Scotland, Central Library of Edinburgh, Archives at the University of Dundee, Archives and Special Collections at the Library of the University of Strathclyde, Edinburgh Napier University Library, and Archives and Special Collections at the Library of the University of Edinburgh. Received the Sahapedia-UNESCO Project Fellowship 2017 - 2018 to write an essay on William Carey and the Serampore Baptist Mission. AWARDS: Awarded the best performance in the role of Speaker in the 9th State Level Youth Parliament Competition (for colleges) organised by the Department of Parliamentary Affairs, Government of West Bengal on 15th September, 2006. TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: DRS (SAP III) Phase II Project Fellow the Department of English, University of Calcutta from 2009 to 2012. Faculty of English at the UGC Remedial Coaching conducted by the University of Calcutta in 2011. Part-time Teacher at the Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur from July, 2010 – July 2011. Instructor for Micro Teaching and Skill Development (ODL mode) at the Calcutta Women Primary Teachers’ Training Institute during May – June 2013. Assistant Teacher of English at St Xavier’s Collegiate School from June 2013 – March 2015. 3 Instructor for Micro Teaching and Skill Development (ODL mode) at the Calcutta Women Primary Teachers’ Training Institute during October – November 2014. Instructor for English Language (ODL mode) at the Chittaranjan Teachers’ Training Institute during 2014 – 2016 and 2016 - 2018. Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Department of English, University of Calcutta from 2011 to 2017. Associate Staff (Research) at the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh from 2016 till date. Guest Lecturer at the Department of English, St Xavier’s College, Burdwan from August 2017 till October 2018. Guest Teacher at the Department of English, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan from January 2018 till October 2018. Guest Lecturer at the Post-Graduate Section, Department of English, Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata from August 2018 till October 2018. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Article in Peer-reviewed Journals: “New Wine in Old Bottle: the Iconisation of Rajmohan’s Wife” in Illuminati: A Transnational Journal of Literature and Culture Studies Volume I – 2010 (ISSN: 2229- 4341). “The Seeds of Hope: A Study of Coleridge’s ‘France: An Ode’ ” in Apperception (Volume V) Journal of the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan in 2011 (ISBN: 978-81-7522-491-9). “The Vignettes of a Genius: Symbolic Overtones in Synge’s Riders to the Sea” in Ruminations (Vol. 1 No. 2 December 2011) A Bi-Annual International Journal for Analysis and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN: 2229-6751). “Henry Louis Vivian Derozio’s lament and Invocation in his ‘The Harp of India’” in Banheek: A peer Reviewed International Cultural and Literary Journal Vol. V – 2012 (ISSN: 2277-5455). 4 “Validating the Overtones of Patriotism: The Verbal Encounter of Macduff and Malcolm, The English Scene (Act IV, Scene: iii) in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth” in Ruminations (Vol. 2 No. 2 June 2012) A Bi-Annual International Journal for Analysis and Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN: 2229-6751). “Dream” in Education Today (Vol. 56, Year 64: 2012 – 2013), the Journal of David Hare Training College (ISSN: 2278-8778). “William Carey: The Muse of Millions” in The Literary Voyage (Vol. I, Issue II, May – August 2014) An International Journal for Scholarly and Creative Writings (ISSN 2348 – 5272). “Life: Values and Education” in The Discourse (Vol. 4 Issue 1 – 4, 2015) A Bilingual Referred Quarterly Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN 2278 – 0920). “A Baptist Missionary’s Interrogation Against A Social Evil” in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly (Vol. 25, No. 2 & 3 July 2016 – December 2016), Santiniketan (ISSN 0972 – 043X). “A Baptist Missionary And His Ardent Faith Upon The Omnipotent” in Glimpses (Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2017) A Peer-Reviewed Bi-Annual Referred International Journal of Multi- Disciplinary Research (ISSN 2250 – 0561). “Debriefing Social Conditioning and Subjugation: A Review of Sanjukta Dasgupta’s Lakshmi Unbound” in Indraprasth (Vol. V & VI, 2016 – 17), An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies (ISSN: 2278-7208). “The Poetic Exuberance and Bashabi Fraser’s The Homing Bird” in Drishti: the Sight (Vol. VII, Issue: I, May 2018 – October 2018) National Refereed Bi-Annual Journal (ISSN: 2319-8281). “Veering Amidst ‘Self’/‘World’: Deven’s Grapple in In Custody” in Appropriations: A Peer-Reviewed Journal of Bankura Christian College Volume XIII: 2018 (ISSN: 0975- 1521). “A Baptist Missionary's Life and Endeavours: An Epistolary Study” in Madhya Bharti Vol. LXXII, January 2019, Journal of Dr Harisingh Gour University, Sagar University (ISSN: 09740066). 5 “A Scottish Watchmaker – Educationist and Bengal Renaissance” in the Journal of the Asiatic Society Vol. LX No. 4, 2018 (ISSN 0368-3308). “The Crossroad of Women’s Education: Serampore Missionaries and Swami Vivekananda” in Drishti: the Sight (Vol. VII, Issue: II, November 2018 – April 2019) National Refereed Bi-Annual Journal (ISSN: 2319-8281). “Creative Participation Through Disenthralment: Exploring Sanjukta Dasgupta's Poetic Cosmos” in Dialogic, The Journal of the Department of English, Raiganj University (selected for publication). Chapter in Anthologies: “Final Solutions: Towards Peaceful Coexistence” in The Plays of Mahesh Dattani: An Anthology of Recent Criticism edited by Tutun Mukherjee (ISBN: 978-93-82178-03-3), published by Pencraft International, India in 2012. “‘Subversive History in the Guise of a Traveller’s Tale’: A Postmodern Assignation of Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land” in In Pursuit of Amitav Ghosh Some Recent Readings edited by Tapan Kumar Ghosh and Prasanta Bhattacharya (ISBN: 978-81-250- 5166-4), published by Orient Black Swan Private Limited, India in 2013. “The Generic Constructs of the Ideas of Patriarchs and Deviants: Re-orienting Dattani’s Where There is a Will and Dance Like a Man”, joint authored in Indian Drama in English: Some Perspectives edited by Abha Shukla Kaushik (ISBN: 978-81-269-1772-3), published by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd., India in 2013. “Translator and Translation: A Multilingual Cultural Encounter” in Text and Theory: Reading and Re-readings edited by Sarbojit Biswas (ISBN: 978-93-82630-41-8), published by Aadi Publications, India in 2014. “Home, Roots and Identity: Nation and the Narrative in Bashabi Fraser’s ‘Shadow Lines’ and ‘This Border’” in Indian Writing in English: A Reassessment edited by Rumpa Das and Madhumita Biswas (ISBN: 978-93-80761-96-1), published by Avenal Press, India in 2015. “The Song of Radha – the Poetess and the Nationalist: Re-reading Sarojini Naidu’s ‘In the Bazaars of Hyderabad’” in Outside the British Canon: Reading Literature from 6 Former European Colonies edited by Sarbojit Biswas (ISBN: 978-93-82630-52-4), published by Aadi Publications, India in 2015. “Voicing Equality of the Sexes: John Stuart Mill and The Subjection