DEBALINA SENGUPTA

Dr. Debalina Sengupta

DESIGNATION

Assistant Professor
Department of English

EMAIL
debalinasengupta@sncwgs.ac.in

Orcid
0000-0002-5393-6238

Biography

She is presently working an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. She has done Double Masters in English and Education, completed B.ED, M.Phil and PhD. She has published nineteen articles in various National and International journals, four book chapters and presented seven papers in National and International seminars.

Research

Research areas of Dr. Debalina Sengupta are as follows:

  • South Asian Diaspora
  • Feminism and Indian English Fiction
  • Literary Theory and Criticism
  • Myth and Mythopoesis
TeachingPublicationsPresentationsAdministrative
Currently, Dr. Debalina Sengupta is teaching the following courses:
Undergraduate Courses:

  1. ENGACOR01T- INDIAN CLASSICAL LITERATURE)
  2. ENGACOR03T- INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH
  3. ENGACOR04T- BRITISH POETRY & DRAMA (14 TH-17TH C)
  4. ENGACOR07T- BRITISH POETRY & DRAMA (17TH-18TH C))
  5. ENGACOR08T- BRITISH LITERATURE (18TH C)
  6. ENGACOR10T- 19TH C BRITISH LITERATURE
  7. ENGACOR14T- POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
  8. ENGADSE05T- PARTITION LITERATURE
  9. ENGHGEC04T-: POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
  10. ENGSSEC02M- ELT

Post-graduate Courses:

  1. ENGPCOR04T: COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL INDIAN WRITING(Drama & Poetry)
  2. ENGPCOR08T: LITERATURE Of LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (DRAMA & POETRY)
  3. ENGPDSE01M: SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE (SHORT STORIES)

  4. ENGPDSE02M/: SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE (ESSAYS)
  5. ENGPCOR17T: OTHER LITERATURES WRITTEN IN ENGLISH
  6. ENGPCOR18T: PROJECT/DISSERTATION
Journal Articles

  1. “Introspective Gaze of a Pakistani-American: An Exploration of the Echoes of Nostalgia, Nationality and Nationhood in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist”. Published in Literary Quest. Vol 1 Issue V Oct, 2014. ISSN 2349-5650.
  2. “Deconstructing the myth of Mahabharata: Reviewing Panchaali From A More Humanitarian Perspective With Divakaruni. Published in International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities. Vol II Issue VI Oct 2014. ISSN 2321-7065.
  3. “The ‘Loss’ of Human-sanity or of Eco-stability: An Eco-critical Appraisal of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss”. Published in The International Journal of Humanities and Social Studies. Vol II Issue 10 Oct 2014. ISSN 2321-9203.
  4. “Re-visiting Intertextual Reverberations in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: An Exploration of the Creative Foot Prints of Tom Stoppard”. Published in The International Journal Of Humanities & Social Studies. Vol II Issue XI Nov 2014 ISSN 2321 – 9203.
  5. “An Exotic-Environmental Analysis Of Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo In The Guava Orchard”. Published in Research Scholar. Vol II Issue IV Nov 2014. ISSN 2320 – 6101.
  6. “A Critical Note On The De-arranged, Diasporic In-betweenness In Chitra Banerjee’s Arranged Marriage” Published in International Journal of English Language, Literature and Humanities. Vol III Issue IV June 2015. ISSN 2321-7065.
  7. “The White Tiger: A Sagacious Quest In Epistolary Tradition”. Published in International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature. Vol. 3, Issue 7, Jul 2015. ISSN 2347-4564.
  8. “She Stoops to Conquer: A Revel in Carnivalesque”. Published in The International Journal Of Humanities & Social Studies. Vol 3 Issue 7. July 2015. ISSN 2321–9203.
  9. “Patriarchy Begins at Home’: A Feminist reading of the Domestic Surveillance And socio-Racial Jeopardizing of Women as Represented in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns”. Published in Anukriti. Vol. 6, No. 1 Year-6 January-March, 2016. ISSN : 2250-1193.
  10. “Deconstructing Homophobia: A Critique On The Peripheral Sexuality As Represented In Mahesh Dattani’s On A Muggy Night In Mumbai”. Published in The International Journal of Pure and Applied Researches. Vol. 1. Issue 1. Jan 2016; pp. 87-90. ISSN: 2455-474X.
  11. “Nature Permeates All: An Eco-critical Interpretation of the Protracted Ecosphere in the Fictional World of Kiran Desai”. Published in Man In India, Vol 97 Issue 2: 91-102 © Serials Publications. March, 2017. ISSN : 0025-1569. [SCOPUS INDEXED]
  12. . “Determinants of Participation of Women in Labour Market: An Empirical Evidence from Nadia District of West Bengal in India”. Published in Man In India. Vol 97 Issue 2: 239-255 © Serials Publications. March, 2017. ISSN : 0025-1569.[SCOPUS INDEXED]
  13. “Parsi Business Tycoons: Revolutionary Harbingers of Indian Socio-Economic Entrepreneurial Milieu”. Published in Man In India. Vol 97 Issue 2: 521-537 © Serials Publications. March, 2017. ISSN : 0025-1569.[SCOPUS INDEXED]
  14. “The Forest of Enchantments: A Retold Saga in Mythopoesis”. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) Volume 12, Issue 8, July 2021: 2042-2055.
  15. “A Diasporic Reading Of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Before We Visit The Goddess: A Disrupted Tale Delineating Multigenerational Disseminations”. Journal of Critical Reviews. 2020; Vol. 7, issue 9, pp 2493-2496.[SCOPUS INDEXED]
  16. “An Inquisitive Study into the Peripheral Castigation and Unrelenting Societal Exasperation as Represented in Ashapurna Devi’s “Izzat” and Shashi Deshpande’s “The Intrusion”. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI) Volume 12, Issue 9, August 2021: 5742-5747.
  17. “Ahalya: The Retold Narrative of the Cursed Metamorphosis of an Unblemished Innocence”. Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry (TOJQI). Volume 12, Issue 10, October2021: 1906-1911.
  18. “The Adivasi Will Not Dance: An Appalling Dissent Against Dalit Exploitation”. International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR). Volume 9, Issue 3, July 2022:E-ISSN 2348-1269, P-ISSN 2349-5138. Pp.338-346.
  19. “Bilingualism as an Effective Tool in Virtual Teaching to Face the Challenges of Covid-19: A Retrospective Discussion on the Educational Purview of West Bengal”. International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research. Volume 9, Issue 9 -2022: 43-47, DOI:10.22192/ijamr.2022.09.09.005.

Book Chapters

  1. “A Critical Appraisal Of The Father-Daughter Relationships In Chitra Divakaruni’s Queen Of Dreams”. Published in Indian English Novelists: Critical Responses. ISBN- 978-81-922645-1-6. Editors – Ram Avadh Prajapati & Dr. Roopesh Chaturvedi Publisher’s name – Takhtotaaz Publication , Allahabad. Page no.- 166- 172. July, 2015.
  2. “Delineating Oliver Goldsmith as a Tactful Artisan of Anti-sentimental Semblances”. Published in “Recent Trends in Fiction Writing”. Editors: Ram Avadh Prajapati and Roopesh Chaturvedi. Notion Press. pp. 48-63.
  3. “Karna’s Wife: The Outcaste’s Queen: A Retold Enunciation of the Disparaged Females”. Published in “Art and Aesthetics of Modern Mythopoeta: Literatures, Myths and Revisionism”. Vol 1. Editors: Asish K. Gupta and Ritushree Sengupta. Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, New Delhi. 2020. pp. 95-106.
  4. “Basti: A Narrative of Partition Down the Memory Lanes”. Published in “Memory Studies: Reliving the Past”. Published by: Sankalp Publication. Editors: Dr. Sarika Kanjlia and Dr. Inayat Chaudhary. ISBN: 978-93-95016-64-3, Publishing Year 2022. PP: 1-12.
  1. Paper title: “Diasporic Liminality and Female Subjugation: A Critical Study of the Novels of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni”. Organised by Santipur College. Two Day National Level Seminar on “Home and Beyond: Belonging, Unbelonging, Nostalgia”. 25th and 26th Feb, 2019.
  2. Paper title: “A Diasporic Reading of Chitra Banerjee’s ‘Before We Visit the Goddess’ and ‘Oleander Girl”. Organised by RUSA Sponsored Two-day International Seminar on “Recent Trends in Indian Women’s Literature”, Midnapore College[Autonomous]. 26th and 27th Feb, 2020.
  3. Paper title: “Confronting Stereotypes and Re-fabricating Migrant Identities in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Unknown Errors of our Lives”. Organised by Department of English, Assam University. “Three-Day International E-Conference on Rethinking the Postcolonial: Texts and Contexts”. September 25th to 27th, 2020.
  4. Paper title: “Language as a Deconstructing Constituent Empowering Defamiliarization: A Western Perspective”. Organised by Muzaffar Ahmed Mahavidyalaya in a One Day National Level Seminar on “Knowledge, Language and the World: Indian and Western Perspectives. On 16th September, 2022.”
  5. Paper title: “One Amazing Thing: An Exploratory Study of the Environmental Disaster Affecting the Diasporic Oscillation Between Home-making and Homelessness” in the Two Day International Conference on American Literature Organised by the PG Department of English, Nesamony Memorial Christian College, Marthandam, Kanyakumari, Tamilnadu, India incollaboration with Cape Comorin Trust, India & Cape Comorin Publisher, India from 08-09 October 2022.
  6. Paper title: “Glocalization-An Expediating Consecration or a Propagating Execration: A Brief Reflection on Mediating SARS-CoV-2 into the Virtual Educational Purview in India” Organised by Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, Department of English, in A One-Day International Conference on “Postcolonial Ecospheres: Principles, Policies & Politics”. On 22nd November, 2022.
  7. Paper title: “Globalization as an Influential Propagator of Covid 19: A Brief Reflection of the Educational Acumen on Virtual Platform in India”. Organised by WBSU(Bengali Dept & IQAC) and Byanjanbarna Foundation in a Two-day International Seminar on “Globalization in India: Its Impact on Society, Education and Literature”. On 23rd and 24th November, 2022.
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