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Personal Profile
➢ Name: Dr Anupama Chowdhury
➢ Permanent Address: Krishna Sayar South, Borehat, Burdwan-713102, W.B., India
➢ Mobile: 9434474951
➢ email: [email protected]
➢ Designation: Associate Professor of English
➢ Institution: M.U.C. Women’s College, Uttarfatak, Burdwan, B.C. Road, Burdwan-
713104, W.B., India
➢ Academic Qualifications:
B.A., English Honours (Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, W.B.), M.A. in English
(Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan, W.B.), SLET(WBCSC), B.Ed. (Visva Bharati
University, Santiniketan, W.B.), M.Phil. (University of Burdwan), Ph.D. (University of
Burdwan).
➢ Research Degree(s):
➢ Teaching Experience: 16 Years 8 months
Details of Teaching Experience: Associate Professor of English since 19.05.2016.
Degree Name of the
University
Date of Award SUBJECT
M. Phil. The University of Burdwan
25.02.2008 English
Ph. D.. The University of Burdwan
30.05.2011 English
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Teaching both UG and PG courses.
Recognitions:
• Awarded University Scholarships for B.A., M.A., B.Ed. (Visva Bharati University,
Santiniketan, W.B.)
• Stood first in M.Phil.
• Secured First Position in WBCSC Panel, 2010.
• Awarded Cash Prize for Best Paper Presentation by The Researchers’ Association of
Odhissa in 2008.
• Awarded Certificate of Gold Medal Achievement by Alison & University of Texas at
Austin for the Advanced Diploma in French, 2020.
• Awarded SSRN Top Ten Best Paper, 2013.
Languages Known:
English, Bengali, Hindi
Additional Certificates in:
Spanish, German, Arabic, French, Italian.
Advanced Diploma in French.
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➢ Refresher Course/Orientation Programme:
➢ Courses Attended:
i) Orientation Programme organized by UGC-Academic Staff College, Burdwan
University, (West Bengal) (Awarded GRADE-A). 3.3.05-30.3.05
ii) Refresher Course on Comparative Literature, organized by UGC-Academic Staff College,
Burdwan University, (West Bengal) (Awarded GRADE-A). 15.07.08-04.08.08
iii) Refresher Course on Environmental Studies, organized by UGC-Academic Staff College,
Burdwan University, (West Bengal) (Awarded GRADE-A). 28.11.14-18.12.14
iv) Refresher Course on Environmental Studies & Disaster Management, organized by UGC-
Academic Staff College, Ranchi University, (Jharkhand) (Awarded GRADE-A). 12.06.16-
01.08.16
➢ Research Projects:
UGC MINOR RESEARCH PROJECT No. F. PHW-24/12-13 (ERO) Dated 05-02-2013,
Sanctioned: Rs1,20,500/-
Status: Completed
Title: “Writing the Body: Portrayal of Women in Select SAARC Literatures in English”
➢ Research Guidance: 06 (PhD Scholars, The University of Burdwan), 01 Awarded (Sole
Supervision)
➢ Membership in Academic/Professional Bodies:
i) ELTAI
ii) WBCUTA
➢ Reviewer: International Journals (2) National (1)
International Journal TJPRC TRANSTELLAR
The International Asian Research Journal TIARJ
Reviewed Papers for Appropriation
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Reviewed Paper for Writing From Below
➢ Paper Presentations & Participations in National/International Seminars/
Conferences:
1. Paper titled “REVISITING THE GENDERED APOCALYPSE IN MAD MAX FURY
ROAD” presented in the INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE ON HUMANITIES
held on 30-31st Oct., 2019, at University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
2. Paper titled “Interfacing Queer Spaces and Identity Politics: Performing Deferrals in
Select Contemporary Indian Plays” presented in the International Conference on
‘Gender Equality' held on 27-28 May, 2019, at AITCC, Klong Luang, Bangkok,
Thailand.
3. Participation in Mathematics Day, “Mathematics for All”, State Level, organized by
Computer Science Dept., M.U.C. Women’s College, and WB State Council of Science &
Technology, Dept. of Science & Technology & Biotechnology, Govt. of WB., on
19.03.19.
4. Participation in State Level Seminar entitled “Nature Inspired Biological Computations,
NIBC-2019” organized by Computer Science Dept., M.U.C. Women’s College,
Burdwan, W.B. on 28.02.19.
5. Paper titled “Revisiting the Queer Spaces in the Terracotta Temples of West Bengal
(With Special reference to Burdwan)” presented in the ICHR Sponsored National
Seminar on ‘Bengal Temple Terracotta and Burdwan’ held on 4th & 5th December, 2018,
at M.U.C. Women’s College, Burdwan.
6. Paper titled “Gendered Violence, Gendered Victim, Gendered Trauma: Contemporary
Women Writing War in South Asia” presented in the International Conference on
“Women, Conflict and Peace Processes in South Asia” held on 21-22 Nov, 2018,
organized by the UNESCO Chair for Peace and Intercultural Understanding, BHU,
Varanasi.
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7. Participation in 83rd State Conference and National Seminar on Higher Education in
India: Contemporary Issues-Tasks Ahead” organized by WBCUTA. on 6th & 7th October,
2018.
8. Paper titled “Of Queer Spaces and LGBT Rights: Performing Deferrals in Select
Contemporary Indian Plays” presented in the National Conference on ‘The Theory and
Practice of Contemporary Theatre” held on 22nd September, 2018, at St. Andrews
College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Bandra, Mumbai.
9. Paper titled “Between Urban Spaces, Class Heterogeneity and Transgressing Borders:
Negotiating Identities in Kunal Basu’s Kalkatta.” presented in the International
Conference on ‘Globalization, Literature & Culture” held on 7th & 8th September, 2018,
at Dnyansar Institute of Management & Research, Pune, India.
10. Participation in Inter-College Quiz Competition organized by Computer Science Dept.,
M.U.C.W.C., Budwan, W.B. on 15th Aug., 2018.
11. Participation in Workshop on Career Promoting Skills organized by Computer Science &
Nutrition Dept., M.U.C.W.C., Budwan, W.B. on 22nd June, 2018.
12. Paper titled “ Gendered Body, Gendered Violence: Reconfiguring Human Rights and
Empowerment in Select Contemporary Indian English Short Stories” presented in the
International Conference on ‘Gender Equality' held on 13-14 April, 2018, at Shri Ram
College, Mumbai.
13. Paper titled “Bodily Spaces, Human Rights and Women Empowerment: Writing
Gendered Violence in Select Contemporary Indian English Fiction” presented at a
National Seminar on ‘Gender Equality, Women Empowerment and State’ held on 28th
March, 2018, at Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, Dhoopguri, N.B.
14. Paper titled “Of Queer Spaces: Mapping LGBT Rights and Writing Deferrals in Suniti
Namjoshi” presented at a National Seminar on ‘Human Rights in India: Protection and
Promotion' held on 22nd March, 2018, at Dr Gourmohan Roy College, Monteswar.
15. Participation in National Seminar on “Non Communicable Disease and its Prevention:
Challenge with Nutraceutical”, Dept. of Nutrition, M.U.C.W.C, Burdwan, W.B. on 28th
Feb, 2018.
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16. Key Note Address as a Resource Person in NSS-NAAC Seminar on “Women
Empowerment in India”, at Bethuadahari College, Nadia on 23rd Nov., 2017.
17. Participation in National Seminar on “Choice Based Credit System with special reference
to the Role of College Libraries, organized by Computer Science Dept. M.U.C.W.C.,
Budwan, W.B. and IIT Bombay on 3.2.17.
18. Paper titled “Green-Reading Shakespeare: Ecocritical Approaches to Select
Shakespearean Plays” presented at a National Seminar on ‘Contemporary Relevance of
Shakespeare' held on 30-31 March, 2017, in the Department of English, M.G. Kashi
Vidyapith, Varanasi.
19. Participation in National Seminar on “National Level Faculty Development Program on
‘Python & Latex’”, organized by M.U.C.W.C., Burdwan, W.B. on 15th Nov., 2017.
20. Participation in National Seminar on “Problem Solving Using Object Oriented Analysis
& Design”, organized by M.U.C.W.C., Burdwan, W.B. on 18th Sept., 2017.
21. Paper titled “Of Othering & Spaces: Reconfiguring Draupadi in the Select Works of Saoli
Mitra, Mahasweta Devi and Shashi Deshpande” presented at the UGC Sponsored
National Seminar on ““English Studies in India: Challenges and Challenges”, Organized
by Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, on 17-18th November, 2016.
22. Participation in National Seminar on “Higher Education in India: Road Ahead”,
Organized by WBCUTA and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, on 19th November, 2016.
23. Paper titled “Triple-Trauma: Contemporary Women Writing War In Iraq and
Afghanistan” presented at the International Conference on “Literature, Culture and
World Peace”, Organized by Higher Education and Research Society, Navi Mumbai, 23rd
& 24th September, 2016.
24. Invited Lecture at a Departmental Seminar: “Re-Presenting and Appropriating
Shakespeare: Contextualizing ‘Shakespeares’ after 400 Years”, Giridih College, Giridih,
Jharkhand, on 17th August 2016 (under the IQAC scheme).
25. Participation in a National Seminar on “Rethinking Statesmen as Writers and
Reconfiguring the Writings of Gandhi, Nehru, Radhakrishnan, Ambedkar and Abdul
Kalam”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 10th April, 2016.
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26. Paper titled “Of Beauties and Beasts: Relational Identities in Suniti Namjoshi and Angela
Carter” presented at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ““Emerging Issues in
Inter- & Intra-Disciplinary Studies: An Indian Perspective”, Organized by Suri
Vidyasagar College, Suri, WB, on 4th-5th March, 2016.
27. Paper titled: “Springboards of Subversion: Revisionist Mythmaking in Angela Carter and
Suniti Namjoshi” presented at the International Conference on “Narrative and
Narratology: Traditions and Innovations in Story-telling Patterns”, Organized by Garden
City College, Bangalore, on 5-6th February, 2016.
28. Paper titled: “Interfacing the Erotic and the Mystic: Re-visiting Rumi and Khayyam”
presented at the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Sufism and Indian Culture”,
Organized by Sripat Singh College, Jiaganj, WB, on 11th December, 2015.
29. Paper titled: “Tribal Perception of the Forest in the Writings of Mahasweta Devi: An
Ecocritical Approach” presented at the National Seminar on “Theorizing
Interdisciplinarity and Evaluating Literary Texts”, Organized by Researchers’
Association, Orissa, on 22nd September, 2013.
30. Paper titled: “Interfacing Identity and Nationhood in They Die Strangers” presented at the
National Seminar on “The Dialectics of the Identity of the Author and the Validity of
the Text”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 7th April, 2013.
31. Paper titled: “Articulating the Inarticulate: Language of Power and Desire in Pinter’s The
Homecoming” presented at the National Seminar on “Rethinking Eight Nobel
Laureates”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 26-27 January, 2013.
32. Paper titled “Green-Reading Imaginary Maps: An Ecocritical Approach” presented at a
National Seminar on “The Validity of 20th Century Critical Thought ”, Organized by
Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 15-16 June, 2013.
33. Paper titled: “Violence Without Borders: Critiquing Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord
and Blasphemy” presented at the National Seminar on “SAARC Literatures in English”,
Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 23 Sept, 2012.
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34. Paper titled “Transgressing the Borders: Interrogating the Grand Narratives of the Epic in
Saoli Mitra’s Five Lords Yet None a Protector and Timeless Tales” presented at the
National Seminar on “Translation as Rebirth: Revisiting Canonical Indian Literature in
Translation”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 26 May, 2012.
35. Paper titled “Re-reading Midnight’s Children: A Bakhtinian Approach” presented at the
National Seminar on “Reading for Discrimination: Rethinking Memorable Texts”,
Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 8 April, 2012.
36. Paper titled “Reconfiguring Eroticism and Manju Kapur’s Custody” presented at the
National Seminar on “Reconfiguring Eroticism and Indian English Literature”,
Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 22 Jan, 2012.
37. Participation in National Seminar on Orality and Literature, organized by Researchers’
Association, Orissa, on 30th Dec., 2012.
38. Paper titled “A Deconstructive Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s Short Stories” presented
at the National Seminar on “Interrogating Theory and Theorizing Texts Across the
World” Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 4-5 June, 2012.
39. Participation in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Post-Fifties British Literature:
Texts and Contexts”, 10-11Sept, 2013. Organized by MUC Women’s College, Burdwan
40. Participation in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Quality Assurance Initiatives in
Higher Education”, 25-26 Sept, 2013. Organized by MUC Women’s College, Burdwan
41. Participation in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Swami Vivekananda and the
Present Day Indian Society”, 12-13 Sept, 2013. Organized by MUC Women’s College,
Burdwan
42. Participation in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Frontier in Chemistry”, 4-5 Dec.,
2013. Organized by MUC Women’s College, Burdwan
43. Participation in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Contemporary Role of the
Panchayat Raj Institutions”, 6 Sept., 2013. Organized by MUC Women’s College,
Burdwan
44. Participation in National Seminar on “Autonomy of Educational Institutions: Legacy of
Heritage and the Present Times” organized by WBCUTA on 26th September, 2015.
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45. Participation in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Debates on the 18th Century
History of India: A Progress or a Decadence”, Organized by MUC Women’s College,
Burdwan on 1st Jan., 2014.
46. Paper titled “Violence Without Borders: Critiquing Tehmina Durrani’s My Feudal Lord
and Blasphemy” presented at the National Seminar on “SAARC Literatures in English”,
Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 23 Sept, 2012.
47. Paper titled “Transgressing the Borders: Interrogating the Grand Narratives of the Epic in
Saoli Mitra’s Five Lords Yet None a Protector and Timeless Tales” presented at the
National Seminar on “Translation as Rebirth: Revisiting Canonical Indian Literature in
Translation”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 26 May, 2012.
48. Paper titled “Re-reading Midnight’s Children: A Bakhtinian Approach” presented at the
National Seminar on “Reading for Discrimination: Rethinking Memorable Texts”,
Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 8 April, 2012.
49. National Seminar on “Writing the Nation in Postcolonial Literature”, Organized by
Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 25 Dec, 2011.
50. National Seminar on “Trend Setting Authors/Texts in English in the Twentieth
Century”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 4 Sept, 2011.
51. Paper titled “Probing into the Psychic Depths of the Conscious/ Subconscious/
Unconscious in Gita Mehta’s A River Sutra” presented at the National Seminar on
“Theorizing Space: Probing into the Mind of Indian Born Writers Abroad” Organized by
Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 22 April, 2011.
52. Participation in UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Rabindra Parabarti Bangla
Kobitar Palabadal (MUC Women’s College), 8th Sept., 2011.
53. Paper titled “A Feminist Reading of Partition: Critiquing Saadat Hassan Manto’s Short
Stories” presented at a National Seminar on “Writing the Nation in Postcolonial
Literature”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 25 Dec., 2011.
54. Participation in a National Seminar on “Reconfiguring Myth and Folklore in Indian
Literature”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 23 Jan., 2011.
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55. Participation in a National seminar on “The Place of Vedanta in Contemporary Indian
Philosophy” organized by MUC Women’s college, Burdwan, held on 14 Sep, 2011.
56. Participation in a National seminar on “Women and Society in Colonial India: Debates
and Discourses” organized by MUC Women’s college, Burdwan, held on 29-30 Nov,
2011.
57. Paper titled “A Feminist Reading of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming” presented at the
National Seminar on “Contrapuntal Readings of Nobel Laureates” Organized by
Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 12 June, 2010.
58. Participation in the National seminar on “Environmental Hazards and Disasters”
organized by MUC Women’s college, Burdwan, held on 8 Dec, 2010.
59. Paper titled “A Thousand Splendid Suns: Interfacing Histories and Herstories” presented
at a National Seminar on “World Literature in English in the Twenty-First Century”,
Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 24 Jan, 2010.
60. Paper titled “Revisiting the Epics in Shashi Deshpande’s Short Stories: Narrating
Herstory” presented at a National Seminar on “The Art of Short Story: Writing, Reading
and Theorizing”, Organized by Researchers’ Association, Orissa, on 21 March, 2010.
61. Paper titled “Woman’s Image, Man’s Imagination: Recovering the Self in Shashi
Deshpande’s That Long Silence” presented at the National Seminar on “Representation of
women in Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Literature”, Organized by Researchers’
Association, Orissa, on 01-02 Nov, 2009.
62. Paper titled “Exile at Home: A Woman’s Quest for Identity in Manju Kapur’s the
immigrant” presented at the National Seminar on “Twentieth Century Canonical English
Language Writers and Contemporary Literary Theory”, Organized by Researchers’
Association, Orissa, on 13-15 June, 2009.
63. Paper titled “Looking at Reflections in Ten Different Mirrors: Conflicting Reading of
Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence” presented at the National Seminar on
“Conflicting Readings of English Award Winning Fiction”, Organized by Researchers’
Association, Orissa, on 24 January, 2009.
64. Participation in National Seminar on “Contextualizing the British Canon: A Reading of
the Twentieth Century Canonical Authors”, Organized by The University of Burdwan on
20-21 Feb, 2009.
65. Participation in a National seminar on “State, Nation and Multiculturalism” organized by
Chandidas Mahavidyalaya, Birbhum, held on 6-7 March, 2009.
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66. Paper titled “The Other Side of Silence: Positioning Draupadi in the Short Stories of
Mahasweta Devi and Shashi Deshpande” presented at a National Seminar on
Reconfiguring Comparative Literature Through Translation”, Organized by Researchers’
Association, Orissa, on 25-26 Oct, 2008.
67. Paper titled “Interpreter of Maladies: A Saga of Diaspora and Multiculturalism”
presented at a UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Multiculturalism and Literature of
Asian Diaspora” held at Burdwan University, WB on February 27-28, 2008.
68. Participation in a National Seminar on “Reconstructing Culture: Postcolonial
Problematics” held at M.U.C. Women’s College, Burdwan, WB on Sept. 25-26, 2008.
69. Paper titled “The God of Small Things: A Carnivalesque Fiction” presented at the seminar
organized by the Dept. of English, the University of Burdwan on May 3, 2007.
70. Participation in a National Seminar on “Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Text and
Context” held at Burdwan University on February 13 –14, 2007.
71. Participation in a National Seminar on “Literary Theory: Spectre and Aura” held at M.U.C.
Women’s College, Burdwan, WB on January 15 –16, 2007.
72. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Conference of Bharat Vidya Charcha Kendra,
Burdwan, on February 12, 2006.
73. Participation in a National Seminar on “150 Years of the Great Revolt of 1857 & Its
Relevance in the Present Indian Scenario ” held at Bankura Sammilani College, Bankura on
November 18, 2006.
74. Paper presented at the National Seminar on the occasion of 5th Annual Conference of
Bharat Vidya Charcha Kendra, Burdwan, on February 26-27, 2005.
75. Participation in a National Seminar on “20th Century English Literature and Language:
Pedagogy and Praxis” held at Burdwan University on February 17 –18, 2005.
76. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Conference of Bharat Vidya Charcha Kendra,
Burdwan, on February 26-27, 2005.
77. Paper presented at a UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar on “Human Rights and
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Human Development in India” Organized by Netaji Mahavidyalaya, Hoogly, W.B.
on October 14-15, 2004.
78. Participation in a National Seminar on “Narration and the Canon” held at Visva-Bharati
University on December 11 –12, 2004.
79. Participation in a Seminar on “Science, Technology, Medicine & Environment in Pre-
Colonial India” held by Bharat Vidya Charcha Kendra & Barddhaman Science Centre on
July 11, 2004.
80. Participation in a National Seminar on “Cultural Memory and Globalisation” held at
Burdwan University on March 29 –30, 2004.
Publication Details:
a.) Papers in Regional/National/International Journals with ISSN
Publication Details:
I. RESEARCH PAPERS PUBLISHED IN:
(i) PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
Sl.
No.
Authors in
Sequence
Paper Title & Year/Vol.
/Issue/Page.
Journal Name Journal
ISSN No.
Impact
Factor, if
any
Whether you are the
First/Principal/Corresponding
author
1 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Posthuman, Postnature, Post
Womb: Revisiting the Apocalypse
in Mad Max Fury Road.”
The Critical
Endeavour,
ISSN
0976-
0199,
-
UGC
Approval
No.:
62850.
Yes
2 Anupama
Chowdhury
Gendered Body, Gendered
Violence: Reconfiguring Human
Rights and Women Empowerment
in Select Contemporary Indian
English Short Stories. Refereed,
Vol 6, 2018, Pp 130-136
Human Rights
International
Research
Journal,
ISSN
2320-
6942,
SE
Impact
Factor
2.40,
Yes
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3 Anupama
Chowdhury
WRITING BODIES:
GENDERED VIOLENCE IN
SELECT CONTEMPORARY
SAARC FICTION IN ENGLISH,
Vol.5.Issue 1. 2017 (Jan-Mar), pp-
198-204
Research
Journal of
English
Language and
Literature
(RJELAL)
2395-
2336
5.002, Yes
4 Anupama
Chowdhury
Unveiling the Truth: Voicing
Draupadi in the Short Stories of
Mahasweta Devi and Shashi
Deshpande, Summer-Winter 2015
Vol XVI,
Literati
(International
Journal),
0973-
1474,
-NA Yes
5 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Incubus”. 2015, Vol 2, No.1, Contemporary
Literary
Review India,
2250-
3366
NA YES
6 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Island”, March 2014 Indian
Ruminations,
2249-
2062
NA YES
7 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Fear”, January, 2014
Contemporary
Literary
Review India,
2250-
3366
NA YES
8 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Politics of Identity” December
2013, Special Issue, pp 44-53.
The Literary
Criterion,
0024-
452X
NA YES
9 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Strategies of Subversion:
Appropriating the Gendered
Identities in Suniti Namjoshi’s
‘Re-visionist Myth-making’”.
(August, 2013) pp 86-92.
Indian
Scholar.
0971-
2410
NA YES
10 Anupama
Chowdhury
Voicing the De-voiced: A Quest
for Identity in Shashi Deshpande’s
That Long Silence”. (ISSN), May
2013, pp 52-59.
Contemporary
Literary
Review India,
2250-
3366
NA YES
11 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Subverting the Centre: Writing as
Pro-testing in The God of Small
Things”- No.2, March 2013, pp
108-123
American
Journal of
English
Language
2278
876X
NA YES
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and
Literature,
12 Anupama
Chowdhury
Healing their Wounds: Writing as
Processing in Shashi Deshpande’s
Novels” Vol-III, Issue-IV, Dec
2012. pp- 31-39.
The Criterion:
An
International
Journal.
0976-
8165
NA YES
13 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Violence without Borders:
Critiquing Tehmina Durani’s My
Feudal Lord and Blasphemy”.
Vol XIX, No. 2, Winter 2012, pp
98-104.
Points of
View.
0971-
605X
NA YES
14 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Probing into the Psychic Depths
of Conscious/ Subconscious/
Unconscious: A Reading of Gita
Mehta’s A River Sutra.” Vol. XX,
No. 1, Summer 2012, pp 103-109.
Points of
View,
0971-
605X
NA YES
15 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Chutnification of English:
Techniques in the Novels of
Manju Kapur.” Vol. XVIII, No. 2,
Winter 2012, pp 100-106.
Points of
View,
0971-
605X
NA YES
16 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Emergence of the New Woman:
Contextualizing Feminism in
Shashi Deshpande’s Novels.”
2011, pp 110-128.
The Literary
Criterion,
0024-
452X
NA YES
17 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Intersecting History and Fiction;
Shiv K Kumar’s A River with
Three Banks and Two Mirrors at
the Ashram.”, The University of
Burdwan, Vol. XVI. 2010, pp 43-
50.
Journal of the
Department of
English
X NA YES
18 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Exile at Home: A Woman’s
Quest for Identity in Manju
Kapur’s the immigrant”. Vol.
XLV, No. 1, 2010, pp 29-43.
The Literary
Criterion,
0024-
452X
NA YES
Page 16
16
19 Anupama
Chowdhury
“‘The Other Side of Silence’: Re-
Positioning Draupadi in the Short
Stories of
Mahasweta Devi and Shashi
Deshpande.” Vol. XLVI, 2009, pp
80-91
The Indian
Journal of
English
Studies.
L0537-
1988
NA YES
20 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Historicizing,
Theorizing, and
Contextualizing
Feminism.”
Vol.4, No.1,
2009, pp.28-39.
The ICFAI
Journal of
English
Studies,
0973-
3728
NA YES
21 Anupama
Chowdhury
“The Interpreter
of Maladies: A
Saga of Diaspora
and
Multiculturalism”.
Vol.37, No.1,
2009, pp 12-24.
Journal of
Indian Writing
in English,
0302-
1319
NA YES
22 Anupama
Chowdhury
Book Review: In the Country of
Deceit. Vol. XLVI, 2009, pp 327-
330.
The Indian
Journal of
English
Studies.
L0537-
1988
NA YES
23 Anupama
Chowdhury
Book Review: Wit and Humour in
Indian English Literature. The
. Vol. XLVI, 2009. pp 331-334.
Indian
Journal of
English
Studies
L0537-
1988
NA YES
24 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Silence, Pause and Utterance in
Pinter.” Vol. 7, No. 2, 2008, pp
57-67
Atlantic
Critical
Review.
09726373 NA YES
25 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Manju Kapur’s
Home: A Feminist
ReadingVol.
XLV, 2008, pp
24-36.
The Indian
Journal of
English
Studies.
L0537-
1988
NA YES
Page 17
17
26 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Teaching English in West
Bengal”. Journal of Education.
Vol.- VIII, No.- 2, 2004
Rabindra
Bharati
University
0972-
7175
NA YES
(ii) UGC Listed Journals
Sl.
No.
Authors in
Sequence
Paper Title & Year/Vol.
/Issue/Page.
Journal Name Journal
ISSN
No.
Impact
Factor,
if any
Whether you are
the First/Principal
/Corresponding
author
UGC List No.
1 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Posthuman, Postnature, Post
Womb: Revisiting the
Apocalypse in Mad Max Fury
Road.” Jan 2019, Vol. 25,
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
2 Anupama
Chowdhury
Gendered Body, Gendered
Violence: Reconfiguring
Human Rights and Women
Empowerment in Select
Contemporary Indian English
Short Stories. Vol 6, 2018, Pp
130-136
Human
Rights
International
Research
Journal,
2320-
6942
2.40 Yes 63778
3 Anupama
Chowdhury
Read, Write and Teach:
Essays on Learning to Live
Together: Ramesh K.
Srivastava, The Critical
Endeavour, Jan 2015, Vol.
21, Refereed, ISSN 0976-
0199, UGC Approval No.:
62850. National.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
4 Anupama
Chowdhury
Identity in Abdul Politics of
Location: Negotiating Wali’s
They Die Strangers”, The
Critical Endeavour, Jan
2014, pp- 35-49, Vol XX,
ISSN 0976-0199. Refereed.
UGC Approval No.: 62850.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
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18
5 Anupama
Chowdhury
‘Ain’t I a Woman?’:
Becoming Woman in
Kunzang Choden’s The
Circle of Karma, The Critical
Endeavour (ISSN 0976-
0199), Vol-19, 2013. pp 234-
245. National, Refereed.
UGC Approval No.: 62850.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
6 Anupama
Chowdhury
“A Feminist Reading of
Partition: Critiquing Saadat
Hasan Manto’s Short
Stories.” The Critical
Endeavour, (ISSN 0976-
0199) Vol-18, 2012, pp. 230-
239.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
7 Anupama
Chowdhury
Book Review. Serious Men
by Manu Joseph, The Critical
Endeavour, Vol-18, 2012.
National, Refereed.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
8 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Speaking the Body”:
Subverting Phallogocentrism
in Shashi Deshpande’s The
Dark Holds No Terror ” The
Critical Endeavour, Vol. 17,
2011. pp 129-141.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
9 Anupama
Chowdhury
“A Thousand Splendid Suns:
Interfacing Text and
Context”. The Critical
Endeavour. Vol. XVI, 2010,
pp 62-74.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
10 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Silent No More: Voicing the
Gendered Subaltern in Shashi
Deshpande’s The Binding
Vine.” The Critical
Endeavour. Vol. XV, No.2,
2009, pp 57-68.
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
11 Anupama
Chowdhury
"Revealing
the Secrets of
the Heart: A
Reading of In
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
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the Country
of Deceit as
Gynofiction.”
Vol. XV,
2009. pp-36-
48.
12 Anupama
Chowdhury
“Shashi
Despande’s A
Matter of
Time: The
Existential
Angst and
the Quest for
an Identity.”
Vol. XIV,
2008, pp 78
– 89
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
13 Anupama
Chowdhury
“A Critique
of The
Algebra of
Infinite
Justice.”
Vol. 13,
2007, pp 109
– 121
The Critical
Endeavour,
0976-
0199,
X Yes 62850.
• Joint-edited Post-Fifties British Literature: An Anthology of Critical Essays published by
Sarat Publications, Kolkata. 2014. ISBN: 978-93-5196-723-1
Chapters in Books:
1. Read, Write and Teach: Essays on Learning to Live Together in The Recognition of
Ramesh K. Srivastava, Ed. Shipra G Vashishtha. Authorspress, 2020.
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2. “Sisterhood without Borders: Re-reading Select Contemporary Fiction across
Cultures”, in Commonwealth Literature: An Anthology of Mosaic Themes, ISBN
978-93-5207-485-3, pp 19-33, 2016, Peer Reviewed, National.
3. The Magic of a “little bit (two inches wide) of ivory”: Ramachandra Behera’s “The
Cage” and “Gopapura”, in Glimpses of Odia Literary Scene. 2015. ISBN:
9788192420513, Peer Reviewed, National
4. “Of Beauties and Beasts: Relational Identities in Suniti Namjoshi and Angela Carter”
in EMERGING ISSUES IN INTER- & INTRA-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES, pp-177-
190, ISBN 978-93-83422-10-4, 2016, Peer Reviewed, National.
5. “Interface between the Erotic and the Mystic: Re-visiting the Sufi Verses of Rumi
and Khayyam”, Published in SUFISM IN INDIA: Interpretative Essays, pp 95-103,
refereed and with ISBN 978938245767
6. “Emergence of the New Woman: Contextualising Feminism in Shashi
Deshpande’s Novels.” Indian Women’s Fiction Today, (pp 110-128),
2012. Refereed, National.
7. New Readings in Indian English Literature. Ed B K Das. Bareilly: Prakash Book.
2011. Contributed a chapter: pp 52-63. ISBN 978-81-7977-407-6
8. New Readings in Indian English Literature. Ed B K Das. Bareilly: Prakash Book.
2011. Contributed a chapter: pp148-158. ISBN 978-81-7977-407-6
9. “ ‘To Sir with Love’: A Tribute from a Student”. BioCritique of Bijay Kumar Das,
Bani Press, Cuttack, 2017. pp122-130.
Select Abstracts in UGC Sponsored Proceedings:
1. In Proceedings of the INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE ON HUMANITIES
held on 30-31st Oct., 2019, at University Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. P-54
2. In Proceedings of the International Conference on ‘Gender Equality’ held on 27-28 May,
2019, at AITCC, Klong Luang, Bangkok, Thailand. P-86
3. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Women
Entrepreneurship, Gender Equality, Law, Business and Social Sciences. April 13-14,
2018. Mumbai. P-49
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4. In Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Human Rights in India:
Protection and Promotion. Dr Gour Mohan College, Monteswar, 22nd March, 2018. P-10
5. In Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Seminar, 3-4 Feb, 2018. Post –Graduate
Dept. of English and Research Centre, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. P-1.
6. In Proceedings of UGC Sponsored National Seminar on ‘Contemporary Relevance of
Shakespeare' held on 30-31 March, 2017, in the Department of English, M.G. Kashi
Vidyapith, Varanasi. P-7
7. In Proceedings of UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “English Studies in India:
Challenges and Challenges”, Organized by Benaras Hindu University, Varanasi, on 17-
18th November, 2016. P-42
8. In Proceedings of UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Emerging Issues in Inter- &
Intra-Disciplinary Studies: An Indian Perspective”, Organized by Suri Vidyasagar
College, Suri, WB, on 4th-5th March, 2016.
9. In Proceedings of International Conference on “Narrative and Narratology: Traditions
and Innovations in Story-telling Patterns”, Organized by Garden City College, Bangalore,
on 5-6th February, 2016.
10. In Proceedings of the UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Sufism and Indian
Culture”, Organized by Sripat Singh College, Jiaganj, WB, on 11th December, 2015.
Newspaper Articles: Publications in The Statesman and Annandabazar Patrika, Poems
published in refereed journals.
MISC:
1. Chairperson for BA Part II, Hons & Sem II, Sem III Hons, SEC, Examinations, The
University of Burdwan
2. Acted as Subject Expert for WBSSC Examinations
3. Acted as Examiner for WBSSC Examinations
4. Acted as Subject Expert for recruitment of Guest Lecturers (Bethuadahari,
Krishnanagar).
5. Psychological Counselling (2013-)
• Pursuing MBA and Post-Doctoral Research.
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• Language Courses: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic
• Computer Courses: Python, Bootcamp, Java
• Courses on Mental Wellness