Vidyasagar University Logo

VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY
FACULTY INFORMATION SYSTEM

Self Declared Document


Name Dr. Joyjit Ghosh
Designation Professor , Head
Department Name ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Office Phone No +91 3222 298-255 / Centrex Extn. 255
Email ID joyjitghosh@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in
joyjit.ghosh1969@gmail.com
Fax
Mobile No 9434321580
Personal Website
Address Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur 721102
Educational Qualification
Degree NameInstituteYear of passing/awarded
Ph.DVidyasagar University2006
M PhilJadavpur University1996
MAVidysaagar University1992


Career Profile / Teaching Experience
Professor of English since November 2016
Associate Professor of English since November 2013
Former Lecturer in English, Mahishadal Raj College,Currently Assistant Professor of English, Vidyasagar University since 4 March, 2010

Specialization/Research Area
Field of SpecializationResearch Area/ Areas of Interest
The novels and letters of D.H.Lawrence
Indian English poetry
Translation Studies
Bangla Dalit Literature, Eco-critical Studies, Rabindranath Tagore
Diaspora Studies
Animal Studies

Course/ Subject Taught
English
1. Middle English Drama
2. Romantic and Victorian Literary Criticism in English
3. Modern English novels and poems
4. Indian English poems and novels
5. Marathi and Bangla Dalit Literature in English Translation
6. American Literature
7. New Literatures in English
8. Contemporary Literary Theory
9. Research Methodology

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published
International Publication
TitlePublished inPublished onPublished byRoleDetails
The Face of the Other: Reading a Selection of Animal Poems by D.H. LawrenceEtudes Lawrenciennes, 53 - D.H. Lawrence and the Anticipation of the Ecocritical Turn2021Presses universitaires de Paris OuestSole Author Impact Factor: 0.00000
Indexing: Others
Article's Web Link:
Critiquing Nation as a Goddess: A Study of the Representation of Nationalism in The Home and the WorldGitanjali and Beyond. Critical Essays on Ghare Baire, Issue 4, Special Edition. Guest ed. Md Rezaul Haque and Gillian Dooley2020The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), based at Edinburgh Napier University. ISSN 2399-8733  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
Translation as a Cultural Dialogue between the East and the West - Re-reading The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech by TagoreRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol.11, No. 2, July-September 2019. E-ISSN 0975-2935,Indexed by Web of Science, Scopus, ERIHPLUS, EBSCO, PP.1-82019Aesthetics Media Services, Kolkata  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
“The Interface between Education and the ‘Rural Uplift Work’: Re-reading Tagore’s Letters, Lectures and Addresses”Gitanjali and Beyond. Vol.2 (2018): Tagore and the Environment, ed. Bashabi Frazer & Christine Kupfer. Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies, Edinburgh Napier University. ISSN 2399-87332018The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies (ScoTs), based at Edinburgh Napier University.  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence: Poetry of the Eternal PresentEtudes Lawrenciennes 48 (Time and Temporalities)2017Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre,France  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
Lawrence response to Futurism in the letters vis-a-vis his representation of "what the woman is" in "The Rainbow"Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 147-1542017Aesthetics Media Services, Kolkata  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:


National Publication
TitlePublished inPublished onPublished byRoleDetails
Book Review: Unwinding Self: A Collection of Poems by Susheel Kumar SharmaJournal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Vol. 15Feb, 2022The Registrar, Vidyasagar UniversitySole Author Impact Factor: 0.00000
Indexing: UGC CARE
Article's Web Link:
"I search for my tongue": Exploring the Interface between Language and Diaspora in the poetry of Sujata BhattLitscape: Journal of VUETC, Vol.10, No.1, pp.87-972017Vidyasagar University English Teachers Consortium, Midnapore, West Bengal  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
Swaraj, Charkha and the Dream of "Economic Pradise": Debate between Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma GandhiRabindranath Tagore on Economy, Politics and Society: Contemporary Discourses, ed. Sebak Jana, pp.136-1482017Dey Book Concern, Kolkata  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
Book Review: Shirley Bricout, "Politics and the Bible in D.H. Lawrences Leadership Novels". Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Mediterranee, 2014, ISBN 9782367811048Journal of the Department of English,Vidyasagar University,Volume 12, 2014-15, 171-762017Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
War, Politics and the betrayal of humanity: The debate of Tagore with NoguchiThe Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Volume 25 Number 1 (April 2016-June 2016), pp.33-402016The Registrar, Visva-Bharati  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
"My Story" by Kamala Das: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young WomanWomen Autobiography in India: Theory and Practice (Proceedings of the National Seminar), ed. K.Purushotham and B. Deepa Jyothi2016Department of English, Kakatiya University, Warangal,Telengana  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
The Letter of Shelley to the Editor of the Quarterly Review: A Study in "the unfortunate subject"Middleflight, Volume 5, Number 1, pp.53-582016Sukumar Sengupta Mahavidyalaya, Keshpur, Paschim Medinipur  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
Letters of Rabindranath Tagore and the Art of Communication: Critical PerspectivesThe Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Volume 23 Number 4 & Volume 24 Number 1 (January 2015 - June 2015)2015Dr D.Gunasekharan, Registrar, Visva-Bharati  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
Translation of the Poems by Manohar Mouli Biswas ("In the Temple of God", "Rap","Give water", "Childhood collage", "Shadow", "Procession of Peace", "Want to get back","In search of light"The Wheel Will Turn, ed. Jaydeep Sarangi, pp.50-572014Cyberwit.net, Allahabad  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
Translation: Select poems of Kalyani Thakur ("A Poem Against War", "Chandalinir Kobita 38", "My Own Images"Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Vol.11, 2013-142014Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
RE-READING "THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER" AS A HUMAN TALEMIDDLEFLIGHT,VOL 3,NO 1,PP:66-732014DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SUKUMAR SEN GUPTA MAHAVIDYALAYA  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
TRANSCENDING TRAUMA AND EMPOWERING THE SELF:A STUDY IN "MY STORY" OF KAMALA DASPROCEEDINGS OF U.G.C SPONSORED NATIONAL SEMINAR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGE PP.38-442013DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGE  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
CANONIZING A BLACK VOICE: RACE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN THE POETRY OF LANGSTON HUGHESJOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY vol:10,PP.58-662013DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSIT  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
"PTERODACTYL,PURAN SAHAY,AND PIRTHA" BY MAHASWETA DEVI:A READING IN DALIT RESISTANCE TO DEVELOPMENTMARGINAL WRITINGS IN ENGLISH: BENGALI AND OTHER REGIONAL LITERATURES(BOOK),PP:81-892013AUTHORSPRESS, NEW DELHI  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
CONTEMPORARY BANGLA DALIT POETRY: A READING IN ALTERNATIVE AESTHETICSMIDDLEFLIGHT,VOL 2,NO 12013DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH SUKUMAR SEN GUPTA MAHAVIDYALAYA  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
TRANSLATION: POEMS OF BEETOSHOKE BHATTYACHARYA-"DEWALI","SIGN"INDIAN LITERATURE: SAHITYA AKADEMI,VOL:LVII,NO 6,PP:74-752013SAHITYA AKADEMI  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
REPRESENTATION OF TRAVEL AND MOVEMENT IN THE LETTERS OF D.H LAWRENCEJOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY VOL 9,PP.75-852012DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
WRITING A NATION WITHIN A NATION:THE SELECT NOVELLAS OF MAHASWETA DEVINATION,REPRESENTATION AND INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE,PP:61-702012DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,P.K.COLLEGE, CONTAI  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
RECOGNISING THE "OTHER": A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BLACK AMERICAN POETRY AND BANGLA DALIT POETRYAPPROPRIATIONS,VOL.8,PP.91-1012012DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,BANKURA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
NATURE AS WOMEN AND WOMEN AS NATURE IN THE POETRY OF D.H LAWRENCELITERARY INSIGHT PP.70-742012SUDHIR NIKAM AND MADHAVI NIKAM  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
READING ‘BANALATA SEN’ IN TWO TRANSLATED VERSIONSLitscape: Journal of V.U.E.T.C., Vol. 7, No.1, pp. 90-992012VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY ENGLISH TEACHERS’ CONSORTIUM  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
BOOK REVIEW:- ANXIOUS NATION : AUSTRALIA AND THE RISE OF ASIA 1850-1939 BY DAVID WALKERJOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ,VOL:82011DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
"THE LOOKING GLASS" BY KAMALA DAS: A WOMANS WRITINGRECRITIQUING WRITING OF WOMAN IN ENGLISH,VOL:1(IN COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSOR S.P.SINGHA )2009SUNRISE PUBLISHERS, JAIPUR  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:
THE LETTERS OF D.H.LAWRENCE: A STUDY IN THE HISTORY AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THREE EDITIONSESSAYS AND STUDIES,X1X-XX,PP:43-592006DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY  Impact Factor:
Indexing:
Article's Web Link:


Other Publication


Book Published
Title of the BookPublished byPublished onRoleDetails
Ecodisaster Imaginaries in India: Essays in Critical PerspectivesLexington, Lanham, MarylandSep, 2023Co-Author Indexing: Others
Link:
The Bleeding Border: Stories of Bengal Partition (Ed.)Niyogi Books, New DelhiDec, 2022First Author Indexing: Others
Link:
The Routledge Handbook of Vegan Studies, ed. Laura WrightRoutledge2021Co-author of a chapter on Vegan studies in the disciplines - religion Indexing:
Link:
The Languages of West Bengal; PLSI Vol.31, Part-2, ISBN 978-93-5287-841-3, ed. G.N. Devy, S.P. Singha & I. AcharyaOrient BlackSwan2019Contributor to two (02) Chapters - Mundari & Kurmali Indexing:
Link:
IMAGING D.H LAWRENCE: HIS MIND AND ART IN LETTERSAUTHORSPRESS,NEW DELHI2012AUTHOR Indexing:
Link:



Book Chapter Published
Title of the BookPublished byPublished onRoleDetails
D.H. Lawrence: New Essays from India. Ed. Bibhu PadhiAtlantic, New Delhi01-01-2024 00:00:00Sole Author Indexing: Others
Link:
Divided: Partition Memoirs from Two BengalsGangchil, Kolkata04-01-2023 00:00:00Co-Author Indexing: Others
Link:
The City Speaks: Urban Spaces in Indian LiteratureRoutledge, London & New York01-01-2023 00:00:00Sole Author Indexing: Others
Link:

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence


Awarded Ph. D. Thesis
Scholar NameThesis TitleCo SupervisorStatusComplete in Year
Jyoti DoleyFrom Roots to Routes: A Study in the Problem of Identity in the Selected Works of Hanif KureishiProf. Tirthankar Das PurkayasthaAwarded2021
Beetoshoke SinghaSelf-Reflexivity in the Select Writings of Rudyard Kipling: A Postcolonial Review Prof. Debashis BandyopadhyayAwarded2020
Samit Kumar MaitiFrom Nationalism to Universal Humanism: A Study of the Select Writings of Rabindranath TagoreNilAwarded2020
ADITI JANAExploring the Diasporic Identity in the poetry of Meena Alexander, Sujata Bhatt, Uma Parameswaran and Shanta AcharyaNilAwarded2019
KRISHANU MAITIRETHINKING THE ANIMAL: A CRITICAL STUDY OF SELECT POEMS OF D.H. LAWRENCE AND TED HUGHES PROF. DEBASHIS BANDYOPADHYAYAwarded2019
Subrata SahooPoetry and Prose Works of Kamala Das:A Study of Writing as LiberationNILAwarded2016
Indrajit MukherjeeMagical Realism as an Alternative Fictional Mode: A Study of Select Works of Toni Morrison and Salman RushdieNAAwarded0
Shouvik Narayan HoreBeyond the Kantian Dialectic: The Sublime in William Wordsworth's PoetryProf. Debashis BandyopadhyayAwarded0
Sandip ChattarajRepresentation of Pain and Suffering in Select Indigenous Folktales of IndiaProf. Indranil Acharya Awarded 
SK Tarik AliEnvironment, Inequity and Survival in India: Representation of Human-Environment Interface in select narratives of Mahasweta Devi and Amitav GhoshProf. Debashis BandyopadhyayAwarded 
Mir Ahammad AliThe Psychopathology of Traumatic Violence in Partition Fiction: A Study of Select Works of Sadat Hasan Manto and Bhishan SahniProf. Debashis BandyopadhyayAwarded 

Project Work



Completed Project Works
Project titleWorked asFunding AgencyAmount in Rs.Duration in yearsPeriod
Year to Year
Status
Interrogating Nationalism: Critical Perspectives on the Letters of Rabindranath TagorePrincipal investigatorU.G.C1500001 year and 6 months20122014

Invited Lectures 
TitleOrganized byVenueYear
"The Poetry of Kamala Das and the Poetics of Subjectivity"Department of English, Kharagpur College & Department of English, Egra S.S.B CollegeOnline2020
"I wished he would come back" - Re-reading "Snake" of D.H.LawrenceDepartment of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous)Online2020
Women and Law: Addressing Some Questions in the Present National ScenarioWomen's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar UniversityWomen's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University2020
English poetry over the Ages - An Eco-feminist AnalysisWinter School presentation organized by Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar UniversityWomen's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University2019
"The Chandalini speaks": A reading of the poetry by Kalyani ThakurInternational Seminar on "Culture in Modern Bengal: Traditions and Transformations" organized by Khejuri College, Purba MedinipurKhejuri College2018
Translating Bengali Life WritingsNational Workshop on Translation organized by UGC SAP DRS Phase 3, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New DelhiJamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi2018
Raising the Voice for Gender Equity: A Study of Indian English Poetry by Contemporary Women PoetsWinter School presentation organized by Womens Studies Centre, Vidyasagar UniversityWomen's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University2018
"We break the long silence": Depiction of the female body in Sujata Bhatt's poetryState Level Seminar organized by Department of English, Aliah University, KolkataAliah University (Park Circus Campus)2018
Personality Development and the Role of the English LanguageNational Seminar organized by K.D. College of Commerce & General Studies in collaboration with VTT College, MidnaporeK.D. College of Commerce & General Studies, Midnapore2017
Writing as an act of liberation - Voices of Women from Eastern IndiaNational Level Seminar organized by Sahitya Akademi (Eastern Region) in collaboration with Bhatter College, DantanBhatter College, Dantan2016
LECTURE IN THE CERTIFICATE COURSE ON "TRANSLATION AS A SKILL"CENTRE FOR TRANSLATION OF INDIAN LITERATURE,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITYDEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY2014
"PROSODY AND PHONETICS: AN INTERFACEDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,DEBRA THANA S.K.S MAHAVIDYALAYADEBRA THANA S.K.S MAHAVIDYALAYA2014
MODERN ENGLISH POETRY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DYLAN THOMASDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGEDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,MIDNAPORE COLLEGE2013
The poetics of protest - A study in an alternative aesthetics of contemporary Bengali Dalit poetryNational Seminar orgnanized by The Department of English, Panskura Banamali College in collaboration with Vidyasagar University English Teachers ConsortiumPanskura Banamali College2012
Special Lecture and Panel Discussion on "The Bleeding Border"Department of English, Aliah University, KolkataDepartment of English, Aliah University, Kolkata0
Special Lecture on D.H. LawrenceRamsaday College, HowrahOnline0

Membership of Learned Society 
The D.H.Lawrence Society, UK

Association with Professional Bodies
Type of Professional ActivityPeriod
MEMBER,CLAI2012 to 2017
The D.H.Lawrence Society, U.K.2015 till date

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended/Organised

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended

Title of the Seminar/Conference/WorkshopYearRoleHeld at and Organiser
International Webinar on Imagining Catastrophe: Literary and Cultural Representations of Environmental Disaster2021Resource PersonDepartment of English & IQAC, Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Jhargram
D.H. Lawrence, Distance and Proximity: An International Virtual Symposium2021Invited SpeakerSusan Reid
1st International Conference on Recent Advances in English Studies (Virtual)2021Resource Person in Plenary Round Table SessionPG Department of English, Bhatter College
International Conference on "Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene"2019Plenary SpeakerPost Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha
33rd International D.H. Lawrence Conference on D.H. Lawrence and the Anticipation of the Ecological Turn2019Invited SpeakerUniversity of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre. Organised by the Centre de Recherches Anglophones.
National Level Seminar on Women's Writing and Writing about Women: Rewriting Gender and Identity in Indian English Literature2019Invited SpeakerDepartment of English, Egra SSB College in collaboration with IQAC
International Conference on Translation across Cultures - Dissolving Boundaries- Creating Harmony2018Invited SpeakerDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, UP during 4-6 October 2018
The 14th International D.H.Lawrence Conference on "London Calling: D.H.Lawrence and the Metropolis2017Invited speakerOrganized by New College of the Humanities in association with CCILC, DHLSNA,and D.H.Lawrence Society, UK. Held at New College of the Humanities, London
International Winter School for Literary Translation2017TranslatorOrganized by CENTIL, Jadavpur University, in collaboration with Writers Centre, Norwich & British Centre for Literary Translation. Held at Jadavpur University
National Seminar on Question of Identity in the Literature of Indian Diaspora in English2017Invited speakerDepartment of English, Egra College, Purba Medinipur, WB
National Level Seminar on Documentation and Digitization of cultural Texts and Languages - Problems and Prospects2016Invited SpeakerDepartment of English, Vidyasagar University. Organized by DRS SAP Phase II, Department of English, VU
International Conference on Dalit Literature and/in Translation2015Invited speakerUniversity of East Anglia, U.K.
National Seminar on War, Literature and Humanity: Rethinking English Literature in the Context of World War I2015Invited speakerP.K. College, Contai, Purba Medinipur, WB
International Conference on Time, Temporalities and D.H. Lawrence2014Invited SpeakerUniversity of Paris-Ouest-Nanterre. Organised by the Centre de Recherches Anglophones.
THE JOURNEY OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:INDIA AND BEYOND2013PAPER PRESENTERDEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, JOINTLY ORGANISED BY CLAI AND DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
A MAN OF LETTERS: RABINDRANATH TAGORE AND HIS EPISTLES2013PAPER PRESENTERBISVA-BHARATI,RABINDRA BHAVAN SHANTINIKETAN
NATIONAL SEMINAR ON INDIAN ENGLISH PROSE AND POETRY:NEW PRESPECTIVE2012PAPER PRESENTERDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MIDNAPORE COLLEGE


Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised

Title of the Conference/Seminar/WorkshopYearRole in the EventFunding Agency
International Folklore Conference on Locating Folk Narratives in the Literary/Cultural Genres of Eastern India2019Joint ConvenorUGC
International Conference on Performance and the Prospects of Folkloric Tribal Culture of Eastern India organized by SAP III, DRS Phase II in collaboration with The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies2018Deputy Coordinator, DRSUGC
National Conference on Dalit and Tribal Identities, the Nation, and Globalization2017Head, Department of English, VU & Deputy Co-ordinator, DRSUGC
ALTERNATIVE CULTURE,ALTERNATIVE LITERATURE:DE/RE-CONSTRUCTING THE CANON2014JOINT COORDINATORU.G.C
RE-THINKING THE DIASPORIC IMAGINARY2012COORDINATORU.G.C

Disclaimer : The information on this website has been prepared with the greatest possible care and the aim is to keep all information up-to-date. The University cannot gurantee the correctness, completeness, topicality or quality of the information presented. In the event of doubt concerning the content of the website, please contact the relevant faculty.