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Dr. Chandrava Chakravarty
Associate Professor & Head of the Department of English
Department of English, West Bengal State University
Contact: chandrava09@gmail.com
Dr Chakravarty was awarded doctoral degree on the study of gender-culture interface in Eighteenth
century British literature. She has obtained the Charles Wallace IndiaTrust Scholarship from UK for
undertaking her doctoral research. Her areas of research interest are British Literature of the Long
Eighteenth Century, Colonial Bengal, Gender & Culture Studies, Bollywood and Popular Culture. As
post-doctoral pursuits she is engaged in studying the connections between gender construction, identity
and nation-building in various kinds of texts. Currently four research scholars, pursuing Ph.D, are
working under Dr. Chakravarty’s supervision.
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
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2009. Obtained an MRP (UGC-Funded) on Diasporic Identity in Bollywood Cinema.
2000. Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for undertaking research in UK.
1989. National Scholarship
1987. National Scholarship.
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PUBLICATIONSPapers in Journals:
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PAPER TITLE
JOURNAL
ISSN
Comedy of Manners:
Court, Love, Ladies
Journal of the
Department of
English,
CU,Vol.XXVI
, No.2, 199899
The Journal
for Culture
Studies
2249-4537
The iafor
Journal of
Literature and
Librarianship
2012, Osaka,
Japan.
2187-0608
Journal of
Socio
Economic
Research
Institute
(SERI), 2013
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Book, Editor,
Publisher
South-Asian
Literature:
Criticism and
Poetry. Ed
Bhaskar Roy
Barman,
Authors Press,
New Delhi,
2011
ISSN
Rassundari and
Parameshwar: Strategies
of Transgression in Amar
Jiban
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Relocating Tagore’s
Binodini: New Spaces of
Representation in
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Rituparno’s Chokher Bali
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India Reinscribed:
Tagore’s Global Vision in
Gora
Articles/Chapters in Books:
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PAPER TITLE
East and West in Swadesh
and The Mistress of
Spices
Beyond the Nation:
Reading Tagore’s Gora
in the Era of
Globalization
Rediscovering
Rabindranath.
Ed Shantinath
Chattopadhyay
.Kolkata:
Punthi Pustak,
2013.
978-81-7273600-2
109381209138;
139381209134.
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The ‘King’ in
Rabindranath Tagore’s
Drama: Political Power
Reinscribed in Raja
Connecting Hemispheres,
Playing with Distance:
Rammohan Roy, an
Indian Transnationalist.
a)The Dichotomies of
Body and Mind Spaces:
The Widows in Chokher
Bali and Chatiranga.
b) Introduction to the
edited volume
The Politics
and Reception
of
Rabindranath
Tagore’s
Drama. Ed A.
Bhattacharya
& M,
Renganathan.
USA:
Routledge,
2014
The Idea and
Experience of
Distance in the
International
Enlightenemnt.
Ed Kevin
Cope & S.
Cahill. USA:
Bucknell UP
Tagore and
Woman. Ed
Chandrava
Chakravarty &
Sneha Kar
Chaudhuri.
Kolkata: Stree
Samya, 2015
978-1-138804623
Forthcoming
Forthcoming
Full Papers in Conference Proceedings:
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Bollywood and
Transnational Indian-ness
Rituparno’s Chokher
Bali: The Woman’s
Question
Details of Conference
Publication
SWU-Social Sciences
Conference
Asian Identities:
Trends in a
Globalized World
February 9-11,2011
Bangkok, Thailand.
Official Conference
Proceedings
The Asian
Conference on
Literature and
Librarianship, 2012:
Official Conference
Proceedings
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21862281
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Books:
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Title
Type of Book
Publisher
Gendering the Nation:
Identity Politics and the
English Stage
Tagore and Woman
Monograph
Orient
Blackswan
Edited volume
of scholarly
articles
Forthcoming
SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIUM ETC.Papers presented:
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Title of Paper
The Indian Novel in
English: An Overview
Wide Sargasso Sea:
Colonial Discourse and
the Problematics of
Cultural Identity
East and West in
Swadesh: Search for
Global Indianness
Beyond the National: Rereading Gora
Portable India Through
the Bollywood Lens
Re-reading The King of
the Dark Chamber
Rituparno’s Binodini:
Body and Space
Connecting Margins:
Dialectics of Identity in
Sea of Poppies and
Opium Clerk
‘Sustaining a Hindu
Utopia: Connecting the
Visions of Anandamath
and Swadesh’
Connecting Hemispheres,
Playing with Distance:
Rammohun Roy and
Modern India
Urban Space in Kabir
Khan’s New York: Global
Terrorism and Bollywood
Title of Conference
Organized by
UGC Sponsored seminar
on Indian Writing in
English
Teaching Postcolonial
Texts: Theory and
Strategy
Maharaja
Srischandra
College
ACLALS, Dept of
English, Madras
Univ & Ethiraj
College
South Asian
Literary
Association, USA
ISISAR, WCPA,
IPPNO (USA)
West Bengal State
University
SALA 7th Annual
Conference
World Thinkers’ &
Poets’ Peace Meet
Postcolonialisms: New
Trends & Emerging
Concerns, 2014
Colloquium on Tagore’s
Drama, March 2014
Tagore: In His Time and
Ours
National/Internatio
nal
State Level
National
International
International
International
West Bengal State
University
Dept of
Comparative Lit,
Univ of Hyderabad
National
LibrAsia 2013
IAFOR, Japan
International
Conference on
‘Sustainable Networks’,
2014
Singapore,
Nanyang
Technological
Univ
Louisiana State
Univ, USA
Hemispheres and
Stratospheres: The
Eighth Noel Symposium,
2013
Translating Culture:
Society, History, Politics
2015
Departments of
English &
Sociology, WBSU
National
International
International
International
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The Trope of Absence:
Re-Conceptualizing
Power in the Plays of
Rabindranath Tagore
The Fifth Asian
Conference on Literature
& Librarianship,
Librasia 2015
Osaka, Japan
International
Invited Lectures and Chairmanships at National/International Conferences:
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Title of Lecture
Title of Conference
Organized
The Orient and the
Occident
Chairmanship of Panel
‘Politics of Citizenship &
Ethnicity’
Chairmanship of session I
, 10th Feb, 2011
Invited lecture for CIS
210
SALA 7th Annual
Conference
Baypath College,
Massachusetts, USA
South Asian Literary
Association, USA
Asian identities: Trends
in a Globalised World
Faculty of Social
Sciences,
Srinakharinwirot
Univ, Thailand
Athens Institute for
Education & Research
International
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Prague
International
Scottish Centre of
Tagore Studies,
Edinburgh
Dept of Philosophy,
Wbsu
Taki Govt College
International
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Reinscribing the Margin:
Identity in Sea of Poppies
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Beyond Nation and
Culture: The Self in
Meena Alexander’s Fault
Lines
Gendering the Nation:
Tagore’s Desh
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Chairmanship
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Snow White and the
Huntsman:
Conceptualising a
Feminist Fairy Tale
The Place of
Interdisciplinarity in
English Literary Criticism
The Background of
English Drama: 17th &
18th Centuries
Re-reading Wordsworth:
History and Imagination
English in the Age of
Technology
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5th Annual International
Conference on
Literature, Languages
and Linguistics
5th Global Conference:
Interculturalism,
Meaning & Identity
International Tagore
Conference, 2012
Women, Power and
Care
Seminar on Children’s
Literature
National/
Internatio-nal
International
International
International
National
National
Interdisciplinarity:
Prospects and
Significance
Seminar Lecture
2014
Naba barrackpore
Prafulla Chandra
Mahavidyalaya
Rishi Bankim Chandra
College
National
Seminar Lecture
2014
Seminar Lecture
2014
Mrinalini Datta
Mahavidyalaya
Maharaja Srischandra
College, Kolkata
National
National
National
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