English Department

RESEARCH

 

Minor Research Project

  • “Sari Story: Dressing the Indian Woman through History: Tracing the Origin, Growth and Evolution of the Traditional Indian Wear”; Funding Agency: Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, Tenure-1 year, Sanctioned Amount: Rs.2,00,000/-, Sanctioned: February 2018; PI: Dr. Anindita Chatterjee, Department of English

 

Research Collaborations

  1. Dr Anindita Chatterjee, Dr Nilanjana Chatterjee and select students collaborated on research project on archiving the history of the handloom tradition (Café Dissensus, Issue 71, January 2024) and contributed articles for an edited anthology.
  2. Suparna Garai a former student of the department of English (who graduated in 2023 with English Honours) contributed an original article for the Café-Dissensus volume (Issue 71, January 2024) which was edited by Dr Anindita Chatterjee.
  3. Dr Antara Mukherjee collaborated in a National Capacity Building Workshop, organized by Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, at Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi, Sep 25-27,2023.
  4. Dr Nilanjana Chatterjee (Das) was Appointed as member of the Board of Adjudicators for the evaluation of the Ph.D. thesis by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala.
  5. Dr Nilanjana Chatterjee (Das) was selected as Research Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, under the Inter-University Centre (IUC) for Humanities and Social Sciences.

 

Research as Resource Persons:

 

March 20, 2024

Talk on Colonial Encounter and Cultural Legacy: Tracing the Sweet Route of “Jalbhara Sandesh” organized at New Alipore College with resource person as Dr. Antara Mukherjee, Assistant Professor in English, Durgapur Government College

 

 

No. Name of the Faculty Member Department

 

 Name of the Event Organized by

(Name of External Agency)

 Date of the event
1 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee English Invited lecture on “Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women: Domesticityand the Indian American Diaspora” in the Lecture Series, INFLUX 21: THE SURGE OF IDEAS Postgraduate and Research Department of English, Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerela 10-09-2021
2 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee English Invited Lecture entitled “An Analysis of Kamla Bhasin;s Understanding Gender” in the Daylong Webinar on “Figuring Femininity” Gender Sensitization Sub-Committee, Government General Degree College, Salboni 27-11-2021
3 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee English Invited lecture on “Indigenous Ecoethics and Coexistence: theory and Praxis” Jamini Roy College, Beliatore, Bankura 08-08-2022
4 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee English Invited lecture on “Feminism and the four Waves” Post-Graduate Department of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College 17-05-2023 and 20-05-2023

BOOK CHAPTERS (2019 ONWARDS)

No. Name of the teacher Title of the book/book chapters published Year of publication ISBN/ISSN number Name of the publisher
1 Dr. Ramit Das and Manjari Ghosh All her Love Was Reserved for Animals?” Reassessing Emily Bronte from the Perspective of Animal Studies (Page 65) Title of Book: An Enigma called Emily-Reassessing Emily Bronte after 200 years 2019 978-81-940961-1-5 Department of English, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, 2019, West Bengal
2 Dr. Anindita Chatterjee Questioning Stereotypes and the Idea of Motherhood as a Form of Empowerment 2021 978-93-80673-90-5 U. N. Dhur & Sons Private Limited
3 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee Situating Contemporary Bollywood Songs of Women’s Disempowerment 2021 978-93-80673-90-5 U. N. Dhur & Sons Private Limited
4 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee ““stand aside death…today is my day” in the edited book, Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture 2022 978-1-032-29268-7 Routledge
(Taylor & Francis Group)
[London and New York]
5 Dr. Anindita Chatterjee “Spaces of Cure or Confinement? Inside the Walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century” in the book Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture 2022 978-1-032-29268-7 Routledge
(Taylor & Francis Group)
[London and New York]
6 Dr. Anindita Chatterjee Indian Feminist Ecocriticism 2022 978-1-666-90871-8 Lexington Books
7 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee Indian Feminist Ecocriticism 2022 978-1-666-90871-8 Lexington Books
8 Dr. Nilanjana Chatterjee Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora 2022 978-1-032-08157-1 Routledge
(Taylor & Francis Group)
[London and New York]