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Name Prof. Indranil Acharya Designation Professor Department Name ENGLISH LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES Office Phone No +91 3222 298-254 / Centrex Extn. 254 Email ID indranil@mail.vidyasagar.ac.in Fax Mobile No Personal Website Address Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapur 721102

Educational Qualification Degree Name Institute Year of passing/awarded Ph.D. VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY 2004 M.A. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 1997 B.A. UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA 1995 Title of the Ph. D. Thesis The Problematics of Identity in the Poetry of Yeats andEliot

Career Profile / Teaching Experience SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY 04.03.2008-16.11.2009; READER 17.11.2009-16.11. 2012; ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 17.11.2012-16.11.2015; PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY SINCE 17 NOVEMBER, 2015 SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, KRISHNAGAR GOVT. COLLEGE, NADIA & JHARGRAM RAJ COLLEGE, JHARGRAM 09.03.2006- 03.03. 2008 LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, P.K. COLLEGE, CONTAI, 17.11.2000-16.11.2004 SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, P.K. COLLEGE, CONTAI, 17.11.2004-08.03.2006 GUEST FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, NARENDRAPUR R.K.MISSION RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE, KOLKATA, 1998-1999

Specialization/Research Area Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest LITERATURE OF THE MARGINALIZED (DALIT&TRIBAL) IN TRANSLATION Unwritten Languages Oral Literature Tribal Culture Documentation Translation & Analysis of Endangered Folk Drama of West Bengal

Course/ Subject Taught Folklore Studies Eighteenth Century Literature Victorian Poetry Modern Poetry Literary Criticism Australian Literature Indian Writing in English Translation Dalit Literature English Grammar (for CBCS)

Conference/ Symposium /Journal Paper / Books Published International Publication Title Published in Published on Published by Role Details Sexual Politics in Select DNT Autobiographies: A Study Contemporary Voice of Dalit, vol. 16, issue 2, e-ISSN: 24560502, ISSN: 2455328X May, 2024 Sage Journals First Author Impact Factor: 0.70000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: Representation of Humiliation in Bengali Dalit Literature: A Comparative Study Contemporary Voice of Dalit Journal Apr, 2023 SAGE Journals First Author Impact Factor: 0.70000 Indexing: SCOPUS Article's Web Link: The Other Tales: Recovering the Role of Tribal Muktijodhhas from the Depths of Amnesia Journal of Cultural Research Studies, ISSN:2583-6137, Volume II, Issue 1, pp. 21-27 Mar, 2023 Development and Research Academy for Folks and Tribes (DRAFT) First Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: Ecosophy in the Orature of Seed Stories: A Study of Easterine Kire’s Son of the Thundercloud Middle Flight vol.9 no.1, pp.34-43 2020 SSM Journal of English Literature and Culture Sole Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: Patriarchal Reinscription in Feminist Discourse: A Study of Margaret Atwood’s Maddadam Trilogy Middle Flight vol.8 no.1, pp.184-192 2019 SSM Journal of Literature and Culture Sole Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: Interpreting the Androgyny: A Statement against Patriarchal Domination in Margaret Atwoods The Year of the Flood International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities; vol.7, issue 6; pp.177-189 2019 SMART MOVES Publication   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Languages in Danger: A Critical Study of the Threatened Tribal Languages of Bengal JALS Vol.5 Nos.1&2 Jan-Dec 2016;33-49 2016 Bahri Publications   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Politics of Cultural Amnesia: A Case Study of Machhani Folk Drama Form of Purulia Lokaratna, vol.IX, 2016, 83-95 2016 Folklore Foundation   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Quest for an Alternative Aesthetic in Bangla Dalit Folk Poetry (book chapter) Proceedings of International Folklore Congress; Bangla Academy, Dhaka, 2015; pp. 129-142 2015 Bangla Academy Dhaka   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: The Aesthetics of Bangla Dalit Poetry Rupkatha: An Online Open Access Journal, Volume VI, Number 2, 2014. 2014 The Department of English, University of Calcutta   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Marxism, Dalitism and the Politics of Exclusion in Bengal: An Inquest Creative Forum, vol.26, no.1; Jan-June 2013, pp. 84-105 2013 Bahri Publications   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: National Publication Title Published in Published on Published by Role Details ‘Cultural Aphasia’ and the Imposed Silencing of the Indian Oral Traditions Littcrit: An Indian Response to Literature, ISSN: 0970-8049, vol. 49, no.1, issue 95, June 2023, pp. 11-20 Jun, 2023 Editor, Littcrit First Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: Cultural Migration and its Ramifications on the Folk Traditions of the Tea-Estate Workers of Assam Journal of Folklore and Literature, Vol. 1, pp. 34-48 Nov, 2022 Society for Folklore and Literary Research, Manipur First Author Impact Factor: 0.00000 Indexing: Others Article's Web Link: "Sunderban" series of poems translated into English Indian Literature, vol. LXIV, No.6, 109-111 2020 Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Discourse of Marginality and the Indigenous Literature of Australia and India: A Study Middle Flight, vol.6, no.1, pp.131-141 2017 SSM College   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Negotiating Cultural Translation of Bangla Dalit Literature: Issues and Innovations Litscape, vol.10, no.1, 2017, pp.17-23 2017 VUETC   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Social Satire and the Cult of Lord Shiva in Two Folk Performances of Bengal and Odisha: A Study (book chapter) Repositioning Folklore and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (edited book), 2016, 289-297 2016 Centurion University, Odisha   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Representing Indigenous Identity: A Select Study of Australian Aboriginal and Indian Dalit Poetry (book chapter) Indo-Australian Connections: Retrospect and Prospects (edited book), 2016, 150-162 2016 Pinnacle Books, New Delhi   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: The Dynamics of Dalit Fiction and Autobiography: A Reading of ManjuBala’s ‘Dwando’ (Conflict) Middle Flight; vol.4, no.1, 2015; pp.13-23 2015 SSM College   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Endangered Folk Drama Forms of Subarnarekha Basin: Some Disturbing Revelations Litscape, Vol.9, no.1; 2015; pp.55-61 2015 VUETC   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Folk Performance and the Politicized Public Sphere: Future of Gambhira in Malda District of West Bengal The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, vol.23, nos. 2&3, July-December 2014, p.no.99 2014 Visva-Bharati University   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Translated Poems of Bangla Dalit Poet SusilMandal Indian Literature, vol. LVII No.6, Nov/Dec 2014, pp.51-53 2014 SahityaAkademi   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Hierarchies of Exploitation amongst Adivasi Communities: A Study of Anil Gharai’sThe Almond Flowers Towards Social Change: Essays on Dalit Literature; eds. SP Singha and Indranil Acharya, Orient Blackswan, 2014, pp. 76-84 2014 Orient Blackswan, 2014   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Poems of Herbert, Keats, Tennyson and Ramanujan (book chapter) Many Coloured Glass: A Compulsory English Textbook for V.U. (edited by faculty members), Macmillan, 2013, pp. 103-114 2013 Macmillan, New Delhi, 2013   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: “Aestheticizing without Agenda: A Counter-Reading of the Western Approach to Chhau Dance”. Published in Rupkatha: An Online Open Access Journal, ISSN 0975-2935 Volume V, Number 2, 2013. Rupkatha: An Online Open Access Journal volume-v 2013 Dept. of English, Calcutta University   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Reformulating Public Diplomacy :A Study of the Indigenous Languages of Bengal(book chapter) New Dimensions in Public Diplomacy 2012 SSS Publications, NewDelhi   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Translated into English DhaniBauri Gets ‘Salvation’ by Sunil Kumar Das (book chapter) Survival and Other Stories; eds. S.P.Singha&Indranil Acharya; Orient Blackswan; New Delhi, 2012, pp.147-153 2012 Orient Blackswan; New Delhi, 2012   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Marxism, Ambedkarism and the Structures of Exclusion in Bangla Dalit Literature Littcrit, Vol.39, No.1, June 2012. ISSN: 0970-8049 2012 P. Ajayakumar   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: “The Diasporic Consciousness in the Fictional Works of JhumpaLahiri”. Litscape: Journal of VUETC (ISSN 0976-9064), 2009 VUETC   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Other Publication Title Published in Published on Published by Role Details Re-Interpreting Mahabharata in Bangla Dalit Drama: A Study Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, vol.LXXI No.1,pp.21-25 2020 Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Golpark, ISSN 0971-2755   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Dalit Sahitya: KichhuPrasongikBhavna (book chapter) ManabAdhikar: Nana Dik, ed.Yasin Khan, Progressive Publishers, Kolkata, 2015, state level publisher; pp.749-756 2015 Progressive Publishers, Kolkata   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Situating Folk Performances in the Public Domain: An Evaluation of Gambhira and Mughal Tamasha Journal of the Department of English, V.U., Vol.11, pp.59-67, 2013-14 2014 The Registrar, Vidyasgar University   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: “The Problematics of Gender Identity in the Early Poetry of T.S.Eliot”. Middle Flight: SSM Journal of English Literature (ISSN 2319- 7684), Vol.1, No.1, 2013 SSM College   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: “Politics of Representation in Translation and Publication of Bangla Dalit Writing: A Critique”. Litscape: Journal of VUETC (ISSN 0976- 9064), Vol.8, No.1, March 2013. 2013 VUETC   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Translated into English two Dalit poems of Anil Gharai Journal of the Department of English, vol.10, 2012-13; pp.164-165 2013 Registrar, Vidyasagar University   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: “Resistant Subalternity: Re-reading Indigenous Writings of Australia and India”. Journal of the Dept. of English, V.U., Vol.9 (ISSN 0973-3671), 2012 VU   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Nation and the Politics of Language of its Tribal Populace: A Case Study of the Indigenous Languages of West Bengal(book chapter) Nation and its Tribal People; eds.R.Chakrabarti&K.Chatterjee; 2012 Books Way, Kolkata, 2012 state level publisher   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Translation of three poems of Anil Gharai. Journal of the Dept. of English, V.U., Vol.8 (ISSN 0973-3671), 2010 VU   Impact Factor: Indexing: Article's Web Link: Book Published Title of the Book Published by Published on Role Details Society, Culture and Indigenous Worldview of Lodha Sabar People Vidyasagar University Publication Division Jan, 2024 First Editor Indexing: Others Link: Selected Writings of Anil Gharai: Dalit Literature from Bangla Routledge, UK Dec, 2023 Editor Indexing: Others Link: Roots and Routes, vol.2: Writings from the Sunderbans Orient Blackswan Apr, 2023 Co-editor Indexing: Others Link: The Almond Flowers and Other Stories: Bangla Dalit Stories of Anil Gharai Orient Blackswan Dec, 2022 Editor and Translator Indexing: Others Link: Janajati Darpan volume 9 Suchetana Printing & Publishing Dec, 2022 Editor Indexing: Others Link: Geographical Imaginations: Literature and the “Spatial Turn” Oxford University Press Jul, 2022 Co-Author Indexing: Others Link: Mahatma Gandhi in Bangla Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Jul, 2022 Editor Indexing: Others Link: Janajati Darpan volume 8 Knowledge Bank Publishers and Distributors 2021 Editor Indexing: Others Link: Janajati Darpan volume 7, ISBN 978-93-82158-74-5 Multi Books 2020 Editor Indexing: Link: Disaster, Holocaust and Dystopian Literature, ISBN 978-81-946799-3-6 Upanayan Publications, New Delhi 2020 Contributed the Foreword Indexing: Link: Janajati Darpan volume 3 ISBN:978-81-932737-8-4 Knowledge Bank Publishers and Distributors 2019 Editor Indexing: Link: The Languages of West Bengal; PLSI Vol.31, part-2,ISBN: 978-93-5287-841-3 Orient Blackswan 2019 Co-editor Indexing: Link: Revisiting Indigenous Identity in Santal Folktales: A Critical Study; by Arpita Raj Authorspress, New Delhi 2019 Contributed the General Introduction Indexing: Link: Janajati Darpan volume 2(ISBN:9788193273746) Knowledge Bank Publishers & Distributors 2018 Editor Indexing: Link: 6.Janajati Darpan volume 1(ISBN:978-81-932737-4-6) Knowledge Bank Publishers and Distributors 2017 editor Indexing: Link: 7.Smritibiloper Pore (After Amnesia by G.N.Devy) ISBN:978-93-86689-59-7 Orient Blackswan 2017 translator (Bengali) Indexing: Link: 8.PASCHIMBANGER BHASHA Peoples Linguistic Survey of India (ISBN: 978-81-250-6251-6); vol.31, part-3 Orient Blackswan 2017 co-editor Indexing: Link: 5.Listen to the Flames: Texts and Readings from the Margins Oxford University Press 2016 co-editor Indexing: Link: 4.Towards Social Change: Essays on Dalit Literature (ISBN 978-81-250-5344-6). Orient Blackswan 2014 co-editor Indexing: Link: 3. Many Coloured Glass: A Compulsory English Textbook for V.U. (co-edited). New Delhi: Macmillan, 2013 (ISBN 935-0596-15-6). Macmillan, 2013 co-editor Indexing: Link: 2. Survival and Other Stories: Dalit Bangla Fiction in Translation (co-edited). New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012 (ISBN 978 81 250 4510 6). Orient Blackswan 2012 co-editor Indexing: Link: 1. “Beyond a Sense of Belonging: Race, Class and Gender in the Poetry of Yeats and Eliot”. New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2011 (ISBN 819022827-7). SSS Publications, 2011 sole author Indexing: Link: Book Chapter Published Title of the Book Published by Published on Role Details Decolonizing Nature: Literary Contexts Bangabandhu Publishing House, Kolkata 28-02-2024 00:00:00 First Author Indexing: Others Link: The Incandescent Classroom: Essays in Honour of Professor Satyaki Pal Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous) 25-12-2023 00:00:00 Sole Author Indexing: Others Link: Divided: Partition Memoirs from Two Bengals (Edited by Angshuman Kar, ISBN 978-93-93569-75-2) Gangchil 26-12-2022 00:00:00 Translator Indexing: Others Link: Divided: Partition Memoirs from Two Bengals (Edited by Angshuman Kar, ISBN 978-93-93569-75-2) Gangchil 26-12-2022 00:00:00 Translator Indexing: Others Link:

Ph. D. Thesis Guidence Ongoing / Submitted Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Pratima Das Shakespeare in Hindi Translations: A Study of Select Plays Dr Sanjay Kumar Jayswal Ongoing 2023 Dipasree Roy The Unconscious in the Colonial Experience of Rudyard Kipling: A Study of Select Texts Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhyay Ongoing 2020 Riya Dutta Representation of Women in Contemporary Tribal Literature: A Select Study Dr Seema Singh Ongoing 0 Awarded Ph. D. Thesis Scholar Name Thesis Title Co Supervisor Status Complete in Year Shubhendu Shekhar Naskar Representation of Class, Caste and Gender in the Select Plays of Non-Dalit and Dalit Playwrights None Awarded 2023 Supromit Maiti (M.Phil.) Manifestation of the Unconscious in Select Novels of Haruki Murakami None Awarded 2020 ArpitaBhowmik Representation of Indigeneity in the Works of Verrier Elwin Dr Amal Chakraborty Awarded 2019 AninditaSen Discourse of Human Rights in Testimonio Writings: A Select Study   Awarded 2019 Riya Dutta (M.Phil) Representation of Women in Contemporary Tribal Literature: A Select Study   Awarded 2019 Sandeep Chattaraj Representation of Pain and Suffering in Select Indigenous Folktales of India: A Study Dr Joyjit Ghosh Awarded 2019 Amitava Pal Art and Power-play in Tom Stoppard Plays: A Re-appraisal   Awarded 2019 Koutuk Dutta Towards An Alternative Canon: A Study of Select Works of Verrier Elwin and G.N.Devy   Awarded 2019 Koushik Roy Margaret Atwood Maddaddam Trilogy and Old English Elegies: A Cross-Chronological Study Prof. Sankar Prasad Singha Awarded 2019 Tanmoy Singha (M.Phil.) Poetics of Resistance: Representation of Marginal Women's Voices in the Select Works of Bama and P.Sivakami   Awarded 2018 Souparna Roy (M.Phil.) Formation of Dalit Identity through Suffering and Resistance: A Study of Select Dalit Autobiographical Narratives   Awarded 2018 Aditi Mahapatra (M.Phil.) A Comparative study of Indian Dalit Feminism and African-American Feminism with special reference to Bama and Toni Morrison   Awarded 2018 Arpita Raj Representation of Indigenous Identity in Santal Folk Narratives: A Study Dr Ratan Hembram Awarded 2018 Ujjwal Panda Sense of Place in the Poetry of Larkin and Heaney   Awarded 2017 Tajuddin Ahmed Rediscovering Early Indian Muslim Novelists Writing in English: A Study of Iqbalunnisa Hussain and Zeenuth Futehally Prof. Sankar Prasad Singha Awarded 2015 Surajit Senapati The Making of a Dalit Identity: A Critical Study of Select Dalit Autobiographies Sudip Kumar Das Awarded 0 Bangshi Raj Mahata (M.Phil) Socio-cultural Study of the Kurmi Community in Jhargram   Awarded 0

Project Work Completed Project Works Project title Worked as Funding Agency Amount in Rs. Duration in years Period Year to Year Status UGC Innovative Research Project Colonial to Post-Colonial: Re-Visiting the Cultural Cartographies of Adivasi Communities in West Bengal Principal Investigator UGC 260000 2 year and 6 months 2015 2017 Completed Principal Investigator of UGC Major Research Project [F.No. 5-97/2013 (HRP); dated 11.03.2013] entitled “Documentation, Translation and Analysis of Bengali Folk Drama in the Context of Endangerment”. Total grants: 9.35 lakhs Principal Investigator UGC 935000 2 years 2013 2015 Completed Deputy Coordinator in the ongoing UGC SAP-III DRS-I Project (2009-14) till 06.03.2013; thrust area: documentation and translation of Dalit and tribal literature in West Bengal. Total grants: 35.5 lakhs Deputy Coordinator UGC 3550000 5 years 2009 2014 Completed Completed one UGC MRP entitled “Black Words, White Page: A Historical and Critical Survey of Contemporary Aboriginal Fiction of Australia”; completed by December, 2008; grants received: Rs.75,000/- Principal Investigator UGC 75000 2 years 2007 2009 Completed

Invited Lectures  Title Organized by Venue Year Literature from the margins: An Indian Indigenous Context Folklore Foundation, Bhuvaneswar, 23rd May 2021 Zoom online platform 2021 Indigenous Literatures of Australia and India: A Comparatist Perspective in the Context of Endangerment, 22 January 2021 Calcutta Comparatists 1919, the University of Calcutta Streamyard online platform 2021 English Studies and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: A Study of Ethnographic Methods Department of Comparative Literature under the aegis of UGC HRDC, Jadavpur University, 08.01.2021, refresher course Google Meet online platform 2021 Promotion of Tribal Languages and Scripts- Academic Perspective Tata Metaliks Limited, Regional Samvaad, 31st March, 2021 Streamyard online platform 2021 Aesthetics of Dalit Literature Department of English, Jadavpur University, 7&8 April, 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Quality Research and Citation in Humanities Vidyasagar University Teachers Association 7 July 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Field Survey and Documentation of Dalit and Tribal Cultural Texts Bhatter College Dantan 4 July 2021 Zoom online platform 2021 Redefining Language in the Modern Digital Era Ambedkar College Tripura 1 July 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Comparative Literary Study of Indigenous Languages in the context of Endangerment UGC Refresher Course organised by the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Calcutta, 13 March 2021 Google Meet online platform 2021 Online lecture on "Translation of Dalit and Adivasi Literature: Issues, Challenges and Strategies " Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi, 2nd June 2020 Google Meet platform 2020 Online lecture on "Dr Ambedkar and the Idea of Untouchability in Indian Society" Midnapore College Autonomous, 11th June 2020 Google Meet platform 2020 Online lecture on "Dalit Literature: An Overview" Kharagpur College PG Section and Egra SSB College, 24th June 2020 Google Meet platform 2020 Indigenous Languages, Oral Literature and Tribal Culture Pune Writers Group on 20th June 2020 Zoom Platform 2020 Theory of Cultural Marginality and the Study of Dalit Literature National Webinar on Cultural Theory organised by Scott Christian Autonomous College, M.S.University Tamil Nadu on 30.07.2020 Zoom Online platform 2020 Australian Aboriginal Writings and Indian Indigenous Literature: A Study in the Context of Endangerment Faculty of Arts Communication and Indic Studies, Sri Sri University, Odisha, 13 August 2020 Zoom Online platform 2020 Reflections on the Poetry of W.B. Yeats Nabagram Hiralal Pal College on 29.09.2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Literature from the Margins: An Indian Indigenous Perspective Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan, 21 October 2020 Zoom online platform 2020 Politics of Indigeneity in the Indian Context: Some Literary Reflections International Webinar organised by Jhargram Raj Govt. College, Girls Wing 14 October 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Recent Trends in Indigenous Languages and Literature: A Study of DNT Literature UGC HRDC The University of Burdwan organized Refresher Course, 14th December 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Translation of Bhasha Literature: Some Reflections Centre for the Translation of Indian Literature(CENTIL) Jadavpur University 27th September 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Childhood and Intersectionality in the context of Indian Dalit Literature in ICSSR sponsored national webinar H.M.Memorial College Dakshineswar, Kolkata, 13 September 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Dalit Literature: An Introduction Midnapore City College, September 16, 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Literature of the Marginalised: A Study in the Indian Context Department of English, University of Gour Banga, Malda, September 02, 2020 Google Meet online platform 2020 Marginalised Literature: An Overview Department of English, SBSSM College on 26th September 2020 StreamYard online platform 2020 Tribal Language and Literature: An Introduction Amity University, Institute of English Studies, Kolkata, 02.07.2020 Microsoft Team platform 2020 Seneca Thyestes Ancient European Classics series, Audiovisual Lecture Netaji Subhas Open University, 31 October 2019 Media Centre, NSOU Salt Lake campus 2019 1. Linguistic Ecology of India, 2. Endangered Languages of West Bengal, 3. Translation Studies UGC HRDC Ranchi University; 01& 02 August 2019 Ranchi University Jharkhand 2019 Earnest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Netaji Subhas Open University ICT Enabled Lecture Series; 20 April 2019 NSOU Salt Lake Campus 2019 Translation of Indigenous Literature CENTIL,Department of Comparative Literature, 25 January 2019 Jadavpur University 2019 Endangerment of Minor Language Literature in the Post-Colonial Era Human Resource Development Centre, Burdwan University;UGC Refresher Course; 21st December 2019 The University of Burdwan 2019 Multilingualism and Translation: Issues and Innovations Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies University of Hyderabad , 13 November 2019 2019 Henry Fielding and the early 18th Century English Novel T.S. Eliot and English Literary Criticism Department of English (PG), Midnapore College (Autonomous); 21st August, 2018 Midnapore College 2018 Question of Identity and the Endangered Tribal Languages of Bengal: An Inquest School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, JNU, 15&16 March Department of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2018 Translation of Dalit Literature Hijli College, Midnapore, 7th March Hijli College, Midnapore 2018 Understanding Our Time SAMAS 2018; Dakshinayan 29&30 January Wardha and Nagpur, Maharastra 2018 Bangla Dalit Literature Debra College, Midnapore, 8th January Department of English, Debra College 2018 Future of Printed Book in the Age of E-book The Times of India Group Press Corner, Kolkata International Book Fair 2018 Critical Theory: Recent Trends in English Studies Department of English, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha; 05 November, 2018. Department of English, Ravenshaw University 2018 Endangered Languages of West Bengal & Language Documentation UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, the University of Burdwan; 12th July, 2018 Burdwan University Summer School 2018 1. Endangered Languages and Cultures 2. Language Documentation UGC- Human Resource Development Centre, Ranchi University, Jharkhand; 9th August, 2018; invited Resource Person Ranchi University 2018 Dalit Literature in the Curriculum Government College, Dantan-II, Midnapore, 21st December Government College, Dantan-II, Midnapore 2017 Writing the Margins: Negotiating the Politics of Translating Dalit Literature Routledge and West Bengal State University Barasat Department of English, West Bengal State University, 22-24 November 2017 Folklore Studies: A Threatened Discipline in the Indian Academia Indian Folklore Congress, 16-18 November Manipur Central University, Imphal 2017 Dr Ambedkar and Bangla Dalit Writing Department of English and Cultural Studies, the University of Burdwan The University of Burdwan 26&27 December 2017 Mother Tongue Education at Primary Level- A Case Study of West Bengal Ghuman Bahubhasha Sahitya Sammelan, 4th April Ghuman, Beas, Punjab 2016 Unwritten Literature/Oral Tradition Central Sahitya Akademi, 18&19 February Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2016 Language Documentation Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 17-21 October Department of Linguistics, Manipur Central University 2016 Tribal Language Endangerment and Extinction: Towards a New Paradigm Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University,Purulia, 7-8 December Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University, Purulia 2016 Bangla Dalit Literature Oxford University Press India International Centre, New Delhi, 7th April 2016 Endangered Languages of Bengal Linguistic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 10-12 February Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 2016 Dalit Literature and Endangered Tribal Languages British Council, Kolkata, 4th November British Council Library, Kolkata 2016 Literary Interpretation of Nature NSS Unit, Vidyasagar University, 11th August Department of Sociology, Vidyasagar University 2016 Endangered Folk Drama of Bengal Academic Staff College, Banaras Hindu University, 06-26 December physical presentation did not happen; sent ppt & documentary for screening 2016 Quest for Identity in the Poetry of Yeats and Eliot SBSS College, Goaltore, 23rd September Goaltore, Midnapore 2016 Politics of Exclusion in Indian Folk Theatre: A Study of some Endangered Forms of South Bengal Aliah University Kolkata, 14 January, 2016 Aliah University Kolkata 2016 Threatened Languages of West Bengal Tata Steel Jamshedpur & Bhasha Baroda, 15-18 November Jamshedpur, Tata Steel Tribal Conclave 2015 Peoples Linguistic Survey of India and the Role of G.N.Devy Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, July 25 Baroda 2015 Language in Education Policy and Practice in India: The Case of West Bengal State Council of Educational Research & Training, C.G., 21-23 February Raipur, C.G. 2014 Documentation of community ethnography and eco-cultural study in West Bengal Bhasha, Baroda, IGNOU &Lalit Kala Akademi New Delhi, 5-7 September IGNOU& Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2013 Orienting Trainers: Introspecting on PCP Delivery Netaji Subhas Open University NSOU, Kolkata 2013 West Bengal languages in global languages meet BHASHA, Baroda Baroda 2012 Translation, Ideology and Politics in the 21st Century IGNOU New Delhi 2012 international conference on Public Diplomacy in theory and practice Deakin University and Rajdhani College, university of Delhi India International Centre, New Delhi 2011 West Bengal languages Central University of Rajasthan Ajmer 2011 Endangered Indigenous Languages of South Asia with special reference to the Indian Situation Department of English, University of Gour Banga Department of English, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal 0 Identity in Lodha Sabar and Kharia Sabar Folk Narratives Central Sahitya Akademi and Odisha Sahitya Akademi Odisha Sahitya Akademi, Bhubaneswar 0 Anthropology of Literature: Negotiating Cultural Paradigms United Indian Anthropology Forum (UIAF) for World Anthropology Congress, 2023 Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) 0 New Trends in Literary Studies: A Study of the DNT Literature of India UGC HRDC, Banaras Hindu University Online Platform 0 RC in Modern Indian Languages The University of Burdwan Online Platform 0 Eco-consciousness and Indigeneity: A Study of Select Tribal Communities in Eastern India Department of Humanities (English), Midnapore City College Department of Humanities (English), Midnapore City College 0 History of Translation of Tribal Literature in India: Problems and Prospects Department of Comparative Indian Languages and Literature, University of Calcutta Department of Comparative Indian Languages and Literature, University of Calcutta 0 Dr B. R. Ambedkar and the Dalit Literary Movement Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta Iyer Hall, Ballygunge Science College, University of Calcutta 0 Decolonising Nature: Literary Contexts Department of Humanities (English), Midnapore City College Midnapore City College 0 ENDANGERED LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF EASTERN INDIA Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark 0 Representation of Disaster in the Poetry of Select Indian Indigenous Languages Department of English, Bodoland University Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, Assam 0 Translation as a Skill and Art CENTIL, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University 0 Revisiting Indian Indigenous Literature in Translation: A Study in the Context of Endangerment Journal of South Asian Exchanges Online Platform 0 Documentation and Preservation of Cultural Performance Texts Narajole Raj College, One Day Workshop on Documentation of Cultural Texts Smart Auditorium, Narajole Raj College 0 Translating Dalit and Tribal Literature of Eastern India: Problems and Prospects Shri Shikshayatan College, Kolkata Google Meet platform 0 Crisis of Folk Performance Traditions in Bengal Bangiya Sahitya Samskriti Parishad, Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka 0 Translation of Dalit and Tribal Literature: Problems and Prospects Ramakrishna Mission Residential College Narendrapur Google Meet online platform 0 Importance of Field based Research in English Studies Department of English, SBSS Mahavidyalaya Goaltore 0 Translation of Bhasha Literature: Some Reflections Centre for Translation for Indian Literatures, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University Online Platform 0 Translating Tribal Literature of Eastern India: Problems and Prospects Department of Comparative Indian, Language and Literature, University of Calcutta University of Calcutta 0 Spoken English and Personality Development Department of Sociology Aninda Basu Roy Memorial Hall, V.U. 0

Membership of Learned Society  Member, Steering Committee for Humanities in India partnership programme with University of East Anglia Adviser, Central Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi Member on the Committee constituted by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt of India for Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum Member of Indian Association for the Study of Australia Member of the National Editorial Collective of People’s Linguistic Survey of India conducted by Bhasha Research Centre, Baroda, which is a Centre of Excellence, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India. Life Member of Comparative Literature Association of India Executive Member of Indian Folklore Congress Member of Executive Committee on Australia-India Interdisciplinary Research Network Life Member, English Studies Association Member of the international Dalit research network External Member on the Advisory Committee of Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh, Baroda, first meeting on 04.02.19

Association with Professional Bodies Type of Professional Activity Period committee member of VUTA Silver Jubilee conference 2010 to 2011 committee member of VURSA international conferences 2009 to 2011 committee member of first VUAA conference 2008 to 2009 Convener, Publication Committee, Vidyasagar University Alumni Association 2019 to 2019 Member VUTA since 2008 2008 to 2018 Souvenir Committee Joint Convenor Vidyasagar Yuva Mahotsava 2016-17 2016 to 2017 External Member, PG Board of Studies, University of Kalyani 2019 to 2024 External Member, PG Board of Studies, University of Gour Banga, Malda 2019 to 2024 External Expert Member, Board of Research Studies, University of Burdwan 2020 to 2020 External expert in CAS of college teachers at Chandrakona Vidyasagar Mahavidyalaya 2024 to 2024 Subject Expert to screening/ selection committee under CAS in affiliated colleges of Vidyasagar University 2020 to 2024 External member of Faculty Council of Arts of Diamond Harbour Women's University for 3 years 2023 to 2026 Subject Expert in Ph.D. programme of Midnapore College Research Centre 2023 to 2024 Member, Standing Committee, Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University 2022 to 2024 Jury member for Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar 2023 (English) 2023 to 2023 Member of UG and PG Board of Studies in Midnapore College (Autonomous) 2022 to 2023 Adjudicator of Ph.D. theses of University of Hyderabad, University of Delhi, JNU, JMI and others 2018 to 2023 Chairperson of UG BoS in English, Vidyasagar University 2023 to 2024 NAAC Peer Team visit as Chairperson, UES Mahila Mahavidyalaya Solapur Maharashtra 2023 to 2023 External Expert in Final PhD Viva voce University of Kalyani 21.11.23 2023 to 2023 External Expert in Final PhD Viva voce Bankura University 22.11.23 2023 to 2023 Member of Ninth Executive Council of Vidyasagar University 2023 to 2024 Chairperson of PG BoS in English, Vidyasagar University 2022 to 2024 University Nominee, Governing Body, Raja N.L. Khan Women's College (Autonomous) 2022 to 2026 Committee for compilation of speeches on the occasion of 75 years of Indian Independence 2023 to 2023 NAAC Peer Team visit as Member Coordinator, College of Arts and Commerce, Gulbarga 2023 to 2023 External Expert, Research Centre in Humanities and Social Sciences, PK College, Contai 2022 to 2024 Member of Inspection Team for the establishment of research centre in Humanities in Ghatal College 2023 to 2023 External Expert for JRF to SRF upgradation at the University of Calcutta 2024 to 2024 Member, Research Policy and IPR Policy, Vidyasagar University 2024 to 2024 Chief Editor, Journal of the Department of English Vol. 16 & Vol. 17, Vidyasagar University 2022 to 2024 External Examiner for Ph.D. thesis, Ravenshaw University 2024 to 2024 Member, Screening Committee, IQAC, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) 2022 to 2024 External member in the Research Advisory Committee, Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University 2024 to 2024 External Expert in the RAC meeting in the Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences, Research Centre of Midnapore City College 2024 to 2024 External member of the PG Board of Studies in English at Ghatal Satabarsiki Mahavidyalaya 2024 to 2024 External Expert, Departmental Research Committee (DRC) of the Department/ Discipline of English 2024 to 2024 Member, Faculty Council of Arts, Diamond Harbour Women's University 2024 to 2024 External Expert at Departmental Research Committee, Department of English, The Sanskrit College and University 2024 to 2024 Member, Editorial Board, Vidyasagar Rachana Samagra 2024 to 2024 External Expert in the DRC of the Department of English, Amity University, Chhattisgarh 2023 to 2024 Member, Screening Committee for Supervisorship of Ph.D. Programme in V.U. and its Research Centres 2024 to 2024 Subject Expert in English for CAS in Govt. General Degree College, Narayangarh 2024 to 2024 External Adjudicator, Ph.D. Programme, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong 2024 to 2024 External Adjudicator, Ph.D. Programme, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam. 2024 to 2024 Member, Search Committee for Vidyasagar Puraskar, 2024 2024 to 2024 External Expert in Final PhD Viva voce, Raiganj University 2023 to 2023 Translation Project Advisor, Rupkatha Journal 2024 to 2024 Member of Research and Development Cell (IPR, Legal & Ethical Matters, Committee 5) 2024 to 2024 External member of the PG Board of Studies in English at Kharagpur College 2024 to 2024 Member, PG Board of Studies, Midnapore College Autonomous 2024 to 2024 Member of Inspection Team to Midnapore City College 2023 to 2023 Head of the Department, English 2022 to 2024 Member of Content Creation and Monitoring Sub-committee for Betar Vidyasagar 2022 to 2023 Member, Ph.D. Committee, Department of Hindi 2022 to 2023 Member, University Court 2022 to 2023 Member, IQAC of CSSSC, Kolkata 2022 to 2023 National Assessor of NAAC, Bengaluru (Member Coordinator in NAAC Peer Team Visits) , Bengaluru 2022 to 2023 Subject Expert of WBCSC 2022 to 2023 Member, Ph.D. Committee, Department of Santali 2022 to 2023 Member of Cine Club Committee, Vidyasagar University 2022 to 2023 Member, PG BoS, Dantan College, Sabong College, Debra College, Belda College, Ghatal College 2020 to 2023 Member, Search Committee for Vidyasagar Puraskar 2022 to 2023 Expert for the selection of resource persons at SRCM University of Jhargram 2022 to 2023 Member of collaboration and community committee of the RDC 2022 to 2023 Member of Central Cultural Committee, Vidyasagar University 2022 to 2023 Member of Vidyasagar Memorial Lecture Committee 2022 to 2023 Chairperson of Vidyasagar Puraskar Committee 2022 to 2023 Member of Vidyasagar University Publication Committee 2022 to 2024 External Subject Expert for SRF upgradation at Jadavpur University 2022 to 2023 Subject Expert of Mahishadal Raj College Research Centre 2022 to 2023 Subject Expert to the Screening/ Selection Committee for Placement/ Promotion of teachers under CAS, Chandrakona Vidyasagar Mahavidyalaya 2024 to 2024 Resource Person in Refresher Course at the University of Calcutta 2022 to 2023 Editor, Janajati Darpan 2017 to 2023 Editor, Newsletter, Vidyasagar University 2022 to 2023 Member, Steering Committee for Humanities in India partnership programme with University of East Anglia 2023 to 2023 Member, Curriculum Committee in Kurmali language 2022 to 2023 Reviewer, Contemporary Voice of Dalit Journal 2022 to 2023 Member of CIQA of CDOE 2022 to 2023 Member, Editorial Board, Middle Flight Journal 2020 to 2023 Resource Person in Refresher Course at University of Burdwan 2022 to 2023 Member, Editorial Board, Rupkatha Journal 2013 to 2023 Member, Sponsorship Sub-committee, 75th year of Indian Independence 2022 to 2023 External expert in CAS promotion of college teachers (Chandrakona Vidyasagar Mahavidyalaya) 2024 to 2024 Member of Research and Development Committee, Vidyasagar University 2024 to 2024 External expert in PhD examination at MS University, Tirunelveli 2024 to 2024 External expert in PhD examination at MS University, Tirunelveli 2024 to 2024 External expert in PhD examination at MS University, Tirunelveli 2024 to 2024 Subject Expert in Departmental Research Committee, Amity University CG 2023 to 2023 Subject Expert for CAS promotion at Sambalpur University, Odisha 2023 to 2023 Subject Expert in RAC of Midnapore City College 2023 to 2023 External Expert of DRC at University of Gour Banga 2023 to 2027 Expert in the Selection Committee in the West Bengal College Service Commission 2023 to 2024 Committee for compilation of Vidyasagar Memorial Lecture since 1998 2023 to 2023 NAAC Peer Team visit as Member Coordinator, College of Arts and Commerce, Gulbarga 2023 to 2023 External Expert for Final Viva Voce for Ph.D. in English at Rabindra Bharati University 2024 to 2024 PG BoS Member of Kharagpur College 2024 to 2024 Member Convenor of the Screening Committee for the selection of Research Supervisors in English 2024 to 2024 Research Work Adjudicator in English of Cotton University, Guwahati and NEHU, Shillong 2024 to 2024 NAAC Peer Team visit as Member Coordinator, Government College, Bilaspur (CG) 2022 to 2022 NAAC Peer Team visit as Member Coordinator, Government College, Mysore, Karnataka 2022 to 2022 NAAC Peer Team visit as Member Coordinator, Government College (Autonomous), Vellore, Tamil Nadu 2023 to 2023 NAAC Peer Team visit as Member Coordinator, Government College, Patharia (CG) 2023 to 2023 University Expert for CAS at Ramnagar College 2023 to 2023 Chairman of Press Media and Publicity Sub- Committee 2024 to 2024 University Expert, CAS, Ramnagar College 2024 to 2024 External expert in PhD viva-voce examination at Jadavpur University 2024 to 2024 Subject Expert to the Screening/ Selection Committee for Placement/Promotion of teachers under CAS, Government General Degree College, Narayangarh 2023 to 2023 External Expert in the Board of Studies of Narajole Raj College 2023 to 2023 Member of the Inspection Team to visit Ghatal Rabindra Satabarsiki Mahavidyalaya 2024 to 2024 Moderator, Sidhu-Kanu-Birsa University 2024 to 2024

Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended/Organised Conference /Seminar/Workshop Attended Title of the Seminar/Conference/Workshop Year Role Held at and Organiser Fulbright-Nehru Orientation Programme for the Recipients 0 Registered Participant as recipient of FNAPE The Lalit, New Delhi USIEF, New Delhi & Fulbright Commission in India American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meet 2024 0 Paper Presenter American Comparative Literature Association, Held at Montreal 1st Aesthetix International Conference on Indian Arts and Literature 0 Distinguished Speaker Aesthetix Journal of Indian Studies In Collaboration With California Institute of Integral Studies, USA Tribhuvan University, Padmakanya Multiple Campus, Nepal Government Brajalal College, Bangladesh Sixth International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: Law, Caste, and the Pursuit of Justice 0 Paper Presenter Brandeis University Two-day International Conference on South Asian Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 0 Invited Speaker Department of English, University of Gour Banga Role of Women towards Sustainable Development 0 Chairperson Women's Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University Virtual Assessors Orientation Programme 2021 Invited participant NAAC Bangalore organized on Cisco Webex platform 12 and 13 July 2021 National Folklore Conference 2020 Keynote Speaker S.P. Jain Auditorium, South Campus, University of Delhi, organised by Department of English, University of Delhi, 28-29 February 2020 International Conference on Gandhi after 150 years 2020 Plenary Speaker and Session Chair S.P. Jain Auditorium, South Campus, University of Delhi, organised by the Department of English, Delhi University, 4-5 March 2020 Open Interactive Workshop on Ethnographic Research Methods in English Studies 2020 Visiting Resource Person North Campus, University of Delhi, organised by the Department of English, University of Delhi, 3rd March 2020 International seminar on "Hul Revisited- The Santal Rebellion of 1855" June 29&30, 2020 2020 Active participant Online seminar; RUSA 2.0 Jadavpur University International Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities 20-22 August 2020 2020 Invited resource person cum session chair Zoom online platform Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in collaboration with IIT Patna and Shiksha Anusandhan University, Odisha Allure of the Archive: A Study of the Select Neo Victorian Novels 2020 External Expert Department of English, University of Burdwan, 22 January 2020, Open Seminar cum PhD viva voce Baul Tradition: An Eternal Journey towards Mysticism 2020 Invited speaker India International Centre, New Delhi; Centre for Cultural Studies and Development; 15th February, 2020 MPhil Viva voce and open seminar on Translation Theory 2019 External Expert University of Hyderabad, Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, 14 November 2019 Gandhi inspired literature; 30 and 31 January 2019 2019 Invited Presenter Centre for Multidisciplinary Research, Dharwad, Karnataka Open seminar and viva voce for MPhil dissertation on folk literature for the children 2019 External expert Vidyasagar University via Skype Centre for English Studies, JNU, 07.02.19 PhD open seminar and viva voce on Ethnic Identity and Revivalism: Compiling, Translating and Analysing Meitei Folktales 2019 External Expert Held via Skype in the Computer Centre, VU; organised by Centre for English Studies, JNU National seminar on Humanism and after: Literatures journey from humanism to cyber culture and other forms of post humanism 2019 Invited session chairperson Department of English, Midnapore College; 25 September, 2019 PhD final viva voce and open seminar on Folklore, Ecology and the Plays of J.M.Synge 2019 External Expert Department of English Aliah University, Kolkata27th December 2019 MPhil viva voce and open seminar on crime and globalisation in South Asian Fictions 2019 External Expert Department of English, the University of Burdwan; 11 September, 2019 Performance workshop on Banabibi Pala under the aegis of UGC SAP III DRS II Research project 2019 Co-Investigator; 11&12 Jan, 2019 Sajnekhali Sunderban; Bhai Bhai Jatra Sangha, Sajnekhali, Gosaba, Sunderban PhD Open seminar and viva-voce on Chinese American Immigrant Fiction 2019 External Expert Scott Christian (Autonomous) College, NagercoilManomanian Sundernar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, 22.01.2019 Performance Workshop on Kora Tribal Jatra 2019 Co Investigator Kora village near Jhargram; Kora Samaj; 25 March 2019 Field based research workshop with Birhor and Kharia Sabar tribal communities; 30&31 March 2019 2019 Co- Investigator Baghmundi and Bandwan blocks in Purulia district; organised by UGC SAP-III,DRS-II Department of English, Vidyasagar University Workshop on New Humanities and Academic Social Responsibility 2019 Invited Resource Person Buddhadev Basu Sabhagriha Jadavpur University; organised by CENTIL, Department of Comparative Literature; 13 June 2019 M.Phil viva voce and seminar presentation on the Naha Culture of Kurbati Irani Community 2019 External Expert Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 13 June, 2019 Dalit Literature: Texts and Contexts 2019 Invited Presenter University of Delhi; Department of English, DU, 13-15 March, 2019 PhD pre-submission seminar lecture 2018 External Expert Department of English Aliah University, Kolkata M.Phil. Viva-Voce Presentation 2018 External Expert Jadavpur University Department of English M.Phil. Viva-Voce Presentation 2018 External Expert University of Calcutta Department ofEnglish Literary Translation: Problems, Poetics and Politics 2018 Resource Person Jadavpur University; Sahitya Akademi and CENTIL, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 24 September 2018 84th PEN Congress on Truth, Freedom and Diversity- Language Diversity and Language Rights 2018 Resource Person Savitribai Phule Pune University; PEN South India, Bhasha Baroda & Pune University; 27-29 September 2018 International Workshop on the Regional Variations of the Mahabharata 2018 Resource Person Odisha Tourism Development Corporation Complex; organized by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India and Ministry of Culture, Govt. of Odisha; 27-28 August, 2018 International Workshop on Academic Social Responsibility; 26&27 July, 2018 2018 Resource Person Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur UniversityOrganised by Project Anuvad UGC UPE2 and University of East Anglia, United Kingdom M.Phil. Viva-Voce and seminar presentation 2018 External Expert Department of English Central University of Sikkim Gangtok, Sikkim 20 November, 2018 Performance and the Prospects of the Tribal Folkloric Traditions of Eastern India 2018 Session Chair APJ Abdul Kalam Hall, Vidyasagar University; organised by SAP-III,DRS-II, Department of English, Vidyasagar University; 20&21 March, 2018 National Workshop on Translation of Border Literature in Bangla 2018 Resource Person Department of English and Culture Studies, the University of Burdwan; 05&06 December, 2018 Workshop on Writings from the Sunderbans 2018 Resource Person Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University; Centre for Translation of Indian Languages (CENTIL) Project Anuvad;20th December Changing Contours of Adivasi Society and Culture: Crises and Negotiations; 22-24 March,2017 2017 Paper presenter Innovative Research Project, Vidyasagar University Dalit & Tribal Identities, the Nation & Globalization; 29.03.17 & 30.03.17 2017 Chaired sessions UGC SAP-III, DRS-II, Dept. of English, Vidyasagar University National seminar-cum-workshop on Language Documentation; 17-21 October, 2016 2016 Paper presenter Manipur University and Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata Imphal, Manipur Change for the Worse? Revisiting Adivasi Languages of South Bengal 2016 Paper presenter Vidyasagar University Innovative Research Project 27-28 April Bridgewater International Poetry Festival; 15-18 Jan, 2015 2015 Paper presenter Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA Skype presentation Fractious Modernities: The (Dis)Contents of the Now; 24-26 Feb 2015 2015 Paper presenter Jadavpur University Department of English South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable 14-16 May, 2015 2015 Paper presenter Lancaster University, United Kingdom Lancaster Language and Development 18-20 Nov 2015 2015 Paper presenter British Council The Lalit, New Delhi national consultation on the completion of PLSI Volumes, 19-20 April 2014 Chaired sessions Bhasha, Baroda and IGNOU New Delhi Indian Association for the Study of Australia Biennial Conference 2014 Paper presenter University of Kerala Thiruvananthapuram Indian Folklore Congress 2014 Paper presenter Manipur University, Imphal Indian Folklore Congress; 19-21 December 2014 2014 Paper presenter Centurion University, Odisha Parlakhemundi, Odisha Literature and Marginality 20-22 February 2013 2013 Paper presenter IGNOU, New Delhi Remapping the English Literary Canon 18 & 19 Feb 2013 2013 Paper presenter Dept. of English, Vidyasagar University Conference /Seminar/Workshop Organised Title of the Conference/Seminar/Workshop Year Role in the Event Funding Agency ICSSR Approved International Conference ON Endangered Folk Literature and Culture of Jetor and other Indian Indigenous Communities 0 Chairperson of the Organizing Committee ICSSR Musics of India Project, Academic Collaboration through Joint Teaching Sessions, V.U. with Nuremberg University of Music, Bavaria, Germany 0 Expert University of Music, Bavaria, Germany National Webinar on Online Education in the Changing Times: Problems and Prospects 2020 Convener VUTA International Folklore Conference & International Workshop on Translation of Cultural Texts; 19& 20 March, 2019 2019 Joint Convenor UGC(SAP-III, DRS-II) Film and Literature Interface 2018 Joint Convenor UGC (Unassigned Grant) Workshop on Documentation and Translation of Tribal Cultural Texts, 03 December 2018 2018 Joint Convener UGC SAP-III,DRS-II Changing Contours of Adivasi Society and Culture: Crises and Negotiations; 22-24 March,2017 2017 Joint Convenor UGC (Innovative Research Project) Environmentalism and Literature, 21.03.17 2017 Joint Convenor UGC (Unassigned Grant) Children Literature 2016 Joint Convenor UGC (Unassigned Grant) Coloniality and Postcoloniality: Adivasi Society andCulture in Transition 2016 Joint Convenor UGC (Innovative Research Project) Writing on Women, Writing by Women 2014 Joint Convenor UGC UGC SP-III DRS-I National Workshop on Documentation of Oral Literature 2013 Deputy Coordinator UGC International conference on Historicizing Sub-Regional Co-operation in South Asia: Society, Culture and Politics in Bangladesh and Eastern India; VU& MAKAIAS, Kolkata 2012 Joint Convener MAKAIAS & VU UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Seminar on Translation of Dalit and Tribal Literature 2012 Deputy Coordinator UGC and Sahitya Akademi UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Workshop on Translation of Dalit Literature August 2011 2011 Deputy Coordinator UGC UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Seminar on Documentation of Tribal Literature 2011 Deputy Coordinator UGC UGC SAP-III DRS-I National Seminar on “Translation of Dalit Literature: Problems and Prospects” 2010 Deputy Coordinator UGC International Seminar titled “The Role of Publication Houses in the Promotion of Literature”; UGC 2009 joint director UGC

Awards Award Name Awarded By Year Visiting Professor University Grants Commission (Department of English, Delhi University) 2020 Excellence in Book Production to Smritibiloper Pore- second prize in the regional language category Federation of Indian Publishers; New Delhi 2018 2018 Excellence in Book Production to Paschimbanger Bhasha, second prize Federation of Indian Publishers New Delhi 2017 PLSI Felicitation Bhasha Research and Publication Centre 2017 Junior Research Fellowship University Grants Commission 0 Swami Vivekananda Gold Medal for All-round development Purulia Ramakrishna Mission 0 Indira Chatterjee Memorial Prize Narendrapur Ramakrishna Mission 0

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