Research on Other Subjects :

• Renaissance, Neo-classical and related subjects. “The classical concept of fate and Jansenist Pre-destination in the Tragedies of Racine” in Drama’, a Literature and Performance ed. Srobona Munshi, Jharna Sanyal, U.G.C. Academic Staff College and Department of English, 2003.

• “Time and Space in the Faust Story, Marlorwe, Goethe and Valery”. Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta Vol. XXXIII, 2006-07.

• “The Paradigm of the Renaissance as viewed in Nineteenth Century France”, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXXIV, 2007-08.

• “Montaigne and the Renaissance Paradigm of the New World and the Noble Savage”, to be published in Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXXV, 2008-09.

• “Faust and the theme of Diabolism”, Journal of the Department of English Jaipuria College, 2006.

• “Wordsworth and France”, in Anthology on Wordsworth, Behala Vivekananda College, 2000.

• “French Romantic Poetry”, Book Line, Guild of West Bengal Publishers, 2004.

• “Yeats and the tradition of re-incarnation”, in Poetry : Text And Context, ed. Jharna Sanyal, Krishan Sen, U.G.C. Academic Staff College and Department of English, University of Calcutta, 2003.

• “Satan in Romantic Poetry: Goethe, Byron, Baudelaieve and Vigny” to be published in a volume on Romantic Literature U.G.C. Academic Staff College and Department of English, Basanti Debi College, Calcutta.

• “The Dutch East India Company and Slave Trade in Seventeenth Century India: An outline by Pieter van Dam, An advocate of the Company. The Journal of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, Vol. XXXIX, 1997.

• “Gender in English Literature of Colonial India” Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXVII, 1999-2000.

• “Shakespeare in the early Calcutta Theatre” in the Conference Volume in Eastern India Society, Shakespeare, 2001.

• “Colonial India: Rethinking History”, in Colonial and Post Colonial Perspectives Context, Text, Inter text  ed. Krishna Sen, Tapati Gupta, Dasgupta, 2007.

• “National and Transnational: Four French Authors of Two Centuries and the non-European World in narrating the (Trans) Nation: The Dialectics of Culture and Identity .ed. Krisnha Sen, Sudeshna Chakravarti, Dasgupta, Calcutta 2008.

• “The Mystical and Millenial Element in the Santal Rebellian of 1855”. Jahrbach, International Conference of Labour Historians, Linz, Austria, 1999.

• “Literary Theories in Bengal Tradition”, S. C. Sengupta Scholar Extraordinary., ed. Tapati Gupta; Dasgupta Publishers, 1998

• "Rabindranath & Partition of Bengal" in Tagore at home in the world", Publisher Sage.
  
  

Award Received :

• Received the Rammohan Memorial Prize for the best short story of the year published in little magazines in 2001.

• Participated in a workshop of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, on Dialogue between Britain and Bengal, 2008. Presented a paper “Britain and Bengal during the sepoy Mutiny”.

• Participated in a seminar of the Department of English, University of Jadavpur, on Romanticism, 1995. Presented a paper “The theme of Satan in French Romantic Poetry, participated in a seminar of the Department of English, University of Jadavpur. Post-colonialism, 1998, presented a paper, “Roussean and Bankimchandra”.

• Participated in a seminar of the Department of English, University of Jadavpur,”1798” presented a paper.

• Delivered a lecture in the Department of History, University of Jadavpur, 2001. “The Political thought of the French Reformation”.

• Participated in a seminar of Rabindra Bharati University. Department of English on Victorian Literature, 1974. presented a paper “The Gothic Element in the Works of Emily Broite”.

• Delivered a lecture in the Department of History, Rabindra Bhrati University. “The Re-unification of Germany and its implications”, 2004.

• Participated in a symposium of the Shelley Centenary in the Department of English, University of Bardhaman, 1992. Presented a paper “The Political Radicalism of Shelley” .

• Participated in a seminar on Afri-American Literature, Department of English, University of Calcutta, 2001. Presented a paper “The Racial Dividing Line in the Short Stories of Chesnult”.

• Delivered a lecture on Montesquieu in the Alliance Francaise, Calcutta, 1996.

• Delivered a lecture on Victor Hugo in the Alliance Francaise of Calcutta, 2002.

• Participated in seminars, presented papers, delivered lectures, several time in the Sahitya Academy, Calcutta and Bangla Academy, Calcutta.

• Delivered a lecture on Post-Modernism in Lady Brabousrne College, Calcutta 2008.

• Participated in a seminar on Humanism, in Goethe Institute (Maxmuller Bhavan) Calcutta, 2008.

Academic Achievements during last 5 years :

Teaching post-graduate students in English Department in Brecht, Sartre, The Renaissance, Neo-classicism and interpretations of the Renaissance in France Post-colonialism, post modernism, romanticism.

1. Publications:
   
   a) “Sartre: the Political Activist” in Jean Paul Sartre: A Centenary Volume: I ed. Sudhshna  Chakravarti and Chinmoy Guha, Dasgupta, Calcutta 2006.

Evidence of Research Guidence:

Research Guidance:  

Sharmila Mitra   :     Nature and Shakespearean Imagery and thought in The work of Emily Bronte 

Details of Teaching Materials prepared:

Prepared study material on Mandame Bovery for the Department of English, Indira Gandhi Open University, 2006

Prepared teaching material for Mademe Bavary for the Department of English, Indira Gandhi Open University. Many of the texts assigned to me in the Department of English, University of Calcutta are French, German, Spanish. The Enlightenment  course in M. Phil also involves a substantial acquaintance with French literature and history. I teach these topics in such a way that the students appreciate the texts in the original languages, as well as following them in English. To this end, I have developed a methodology.

Involvement with Students:

Taking special tutorial classes students of Modern European Classics and the explaining original texts in English. Holding special discussions with students and explaining the difficulties. Evaluating answer papers by individual students and suggesting improvements. Acting as the Presiding Officer in elections to the Students Unions.

Extra curricular activities:

Presiding over and judging competitions by students subjects such as Debate, Quizz, Elocution, Short Story writing.

President of the Sarat Chandra Memorial Committee, organized by the students.