Dr. DEVIKA BOSE Contact: 9474869334. Qualification: Ph. D. Designation: Associate Professor in English. Teaching Experience (in years): UG: 39 years. Research Experience (in years): 35 years. PHOTO Date of Joining Present Institution: 01-11-1981. Institutions/Companies Previously Served: Name of Institution/Company Designation Tenure From To Chandernagore Govt. College Reader 14/06/2006 18/11/2008 Specialization/Research Interest: Romantic Literature. Victorian Literature. Women and Environment. Children’s Literature. Awards & Recognitions Secured 10th rank in Higher Secondary Examination, 1974. Courses taught B.A. Honours B.A. Program Semester-I Literary & Social History (Anglo- Contemporary India: Women and Saxon period to Chaucer) Empowerment: (i) Partition; (ii) Women & Partition; (iii)Women & Law. Semester-II 1. Literary & Social History (18th Wordsworth: Daffodil. Century Literature): 2.Poetry & Tennyson: Break, Break, Break. Essay: R.K Narayan: Out of Business. W. Shakespeare (Sonnet 73) Semester-III 1. Literary & Social History. Essays: 2. Romantic Period. Begum Rokeya: (i)Sultana’s Dream; 3. Poems: (ii)Thirst; (i) Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, (ii) (iii)The Degradation of Women. Shelley: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. (iii) Byron: The Castle of Chillon. 4. Novel: Dickens: Hard Times. Semester-IV 1. Early 20th Century British 1.Bhasa Literature: (i)Tagore: The Literature: Golden Boat. (i) Avant Garde. (ii) Wordsworth: Daffodil. (ii) Uses of Myth. 2.Communicative English: (iii) W.B. Yeats The Second Coming. (i) Essay Writing. ~ 1 ~ 2.Indian Writing in English: (i) The Nationalist Movement. (ii) Re-reading India. 3. Popular Literature: (i) Caste, Gender, Identity. (ii) Experience of Untouchability. (iii) Satyajit Roy: Nakurbabu and Eldorado Semester-V 1. Literary & Social History: 1. English Literature and Film: Victorian Period. Charlie Chaplin: My 2. Poetry: (i) Arnold: Dover Beach, Autobiography (ii) Dylan Thomas: Poem in 2. Communicative English: October. Writing Skills 3. History of Modern Drama. a) Letter writing 4. Indian Writing in English –I: b) Paragraph Writing Derozio: Sonnet Written to the Pupils of Hindu College. 5. Indian Writing in English –II: Khuswant Singh: The Train to Pakistan. Semester-VI 1.Shakespaare: 1. Literature & Fine Arts: (i) Sonnets 71 & 154. (i) William Blake: The Sick Rose. 2.American Literature II: (ii) O. Henry: The Last Leaf. H.B. Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 2. Creative Writing: (i) Translation Treason, Translation as Discovery. (ii) William Radice: Introduction to Tagore’s Selected Poems. Online Mode of Teaching Full usage of ICT; Audio-visual mode; Audio deliberation; Doubt clearing sessions; Doubt clearing through audio; Exercises through e-mail; On-line Assessments and evaluations. Publications Journals: 1. Dr. Devika Bose (2007) Fact and Fiction in Bengali Fairy Tales. The Journal of Gender Studies. Sage Publications, India. 2. Dr. Devika Bose (2012) Triggering Innovation and Creativity in Traditional Handicrafts Sectors—An Indian Perspective, Management Insight, Volume 8, No 1. Varanasi. ISSN 0973-936X. 3. Dr. Devika Bose (2013). Where Nonsense Makes Sense (Of Women Empowerment) – The World of Upendrakishore and Sukumar, Communique, Vol.8, No.1, Durgapur, ISSN0973- 8584. 4. Dr. Devika Bose (2014). Society and Food. Communique, Durgapur. ~ 2 ~ Books: 1. Bose, Devika.(2011) Six Essays on Shakespeare and Shaw (Students’ Critical Series). ISBN: 078- 81-909791-1-5. Kanishka Institute of Research Development Studies & Applications, India. 2. Bose Devika (2016), Reconstruction of Sita and Other Writings. ISBN 978-93-80736-36-5. Avenel Press, India. 3. Bose Devika (2017), Panch Phoron. ISBN 978-93-80736-57-0, Avenel Press, India. Book Chapters: 1. Bose, Devika.(2011) Six Essays on Shakespeare and Shaw (Students’ Critical Series). ISBN: 078- 81-909791-1-5. Kanishka Institute of Research Development Studies & Applications, India. Included in: World Shakespeare Bibliography. Texas A&M University, USA. Book Series: Students’ Critical Series. Language: English. Tags: Festschriften and Edited Collections. WSB Update: Fall 2017. WSB Record Number: bbbg2121. 2. Bose, Devika (1996) Child, Children’s Literature and Infertility: Encountering a Global Challenge in Technology, Science & Society: Redefining Global Challenge, ISBN 978-93-80761-88-6. Avenel Press, Kolkata. 3. Bose, Devika (2004), Lady Pacific in You Moved My Life, edited by Viney Kirpal,. ISBN 1- 932705-41-4, New Dawn Press Group (An Imprint of Sterling Publishers (P) Ltd,), India. 4. Bose, Devika (1992) The Girl Child in Twentieth Century Bengali Literature: Nursery Rhymes, Doggerels and Fictions Considered in Viney Kirpal’s, ed, The Girl Child in Twentieth Century Indian Literature, ISBN Sterling Publishers, New Delhi. 5. Bose, Devika (2004) Amit Chaudhuri: A Master in Miniatures in S. Shukla and Shukls’s, eds, The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri, ISBN 81-7625-446-0, Sarup & Sons, New Delhi. 6. Bose, Devika (2004) Teaching English at the Undergraduate Level in Nila Shah’s, ed, Re-thinking English. 7. Bose Devika (2015), Child, Children’s Literature and Infertility: Encountering a Global Challenge, published in Technology, Science & Society. Ed. Dipankar Sarkar et.al. ISBN 978-93-80761-88-6, Avenel Press, Kolkata. 8. Bose, Devika (1996) The Novels of Amit Chaudhuri: Stories without Beginnings, Middles or Ends in Viney Kirpal’s, ed, The Post Modern Indian English Novel, Allied Publishers, Mumbai. 7. Bose Devika (2016), A Teacher Unparalleled A Freedom Fighter Forgotten in Reconstruction of Sita and Other Writings. ISBN 978-93-80736-36-5. Avenel Press, India. ~ 3 ~ Conference Proceedings: 1. Dr. Devika Bose (2008), The Partition Question and the Memoirs of Ashoka Gupta in History, Historiography and Society, UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar Volume, Chanernagore College. Sponsored Research projects 1. Dr. Devika Bose (PI). “Women and Displacement”, a Minor Research Project, funded by the University Grants Commission, completed in 2001. Paper Presentation in seminar/conference/symposium/workshop/discussion meeting 1. Seminar cum Workshop on “Teaching of English for Specific Purposes” at Regional Engineering College from 6th to 7th March, 1990. 2. Oral presentation of a paper titled “Teaching English at Pre-Graduate Level: Problems and Possibilities” (Dr. Devika Bose) in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Re/Thinking English in India”, organized by Shri H B Jasani Arts & N K Jasani Commerce College, Rajkot from 16th to 17th February, 2002. Presented UGC Sponsored Seminar on “Indian Writing in English” organized by Maharaja Srischandra College, Calcutta on 23rd December, 20012. 3. Oral presentation of a paper titled “Githa Hariharan and the use of fantasy in her novel: When Dreams Travel” (Dr. Devika Bose) in the 1st World Conference and IXth Annual Convention of Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature on “Postcolonial Theory and Recent Fiction in English” held at the P.G. Department of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar from 30th to 31st January, 2003. 4. International Conference on Children’s Literature, entitled “Reading Children”, organised by the Department of English, Jadavpur University from 11/12/2003 to 13/12/ 2003. 5. Oral presentation of a paper titled “Ritwik of Ghatak’s Exploration the Migrant Question” (Dr. Devika Bose) in the IInd World Conference & Xth All India English Teachers’ Conference on “Migrant Voices in Literatures in English” organized under the auspices of World Association for Studies in Literature in English and Indian Association for Studies in Contemporary Literature, held at Shri Shivaji Education Society Amravati’s Science College & Dhanwate National College, Nagpur from 30th to 31st January, 2004. 6. UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar on “History, Historiography and Society” organized by Department of History, Chandernagore College in association with SDICO, Chandernagore, Govt. of West Bengal on 15th December, 2006. 7. UGC Sponsored National-level Seminar on “Indian Poetry in English: Many Voices and the Problems of Canon” organized by the Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur on 16th December, 2006. 8. Oral presentation of a paper titled “The Mutiny of 1857: Colonial Strategy and Communal Harmony (Dr. Devika Bose) in the International Conference organized by the Department of English, Banaras Hindu University in collaboration with Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies from 11th to 13th January, 2007. ~ 4 ~ 9. Presented a paper entitled Oral presentation of a paper titled “Concept of Nation in Amitav Ghosh’s Novels: A Comparison with Bankimchandtra’s Anandamath” (Dr. Devika Bose) in a National Seminar on “Interrogating the Nation: The Legacy of Rushdie in Indian English Novels (1981-2006)”, organized by the Department of English, Kurseong College from 10th to 11th August, 2007. 10. UGC Sponsored Seminar on “Human Rights” organized by Durgapur Government College from 13th to 14th August, 2007. 11. UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Protest in Bengali Literature” organized by Chandernagore College from 12th to 13th September, 2008. 12. National Conference on “Renegotiating Intimacies: Marriage, Sexualities, Living Practices” organized by the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University from 21’12/2008 to 23/12/2008. 13. UGC Sponsored Seminar on “On the Frontline: Representations of War in Literature, Media and Reportage”, organized by Department of English, Film Studies and Journalism, Loreto College, Kolkata in association