Dr. Chandrava Chakravarty

Lecturer,

Department of English,
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA
e-mail: chandrava09@gmail.com,  gogol322003@yahoo.co.in

Education :

Ph.D. in English. University of Calcutta. India, 2005
Title of Thesis: Constructions of Gender in Selected English Sentimental Comedies.

M.A. in English Language and Literature. University of Calcutta. 1994

Experience/Teaching:

1. Presently employed as a Senior Lecturer in West Bengal State University, Kolkata, India.
   
   
2. Level Taught: Post Graduate
   
   
3. Senior Lecturer at Undergraduate Level in Maharaja Srischandra College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. March 1999 to March 2009.
   
   
4. Levels Taught: English Major and Minor, English as Second Language
   
   
5. Guest Faculty in Bethune College, Kolkata (Post Graduate classes)
   
   

Research Interests:

1. English Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
   
   
2. Gender
   
   
3. Colonial and Post-colonial Literature
   
   
4. Popular Culture & Films
   
   

Awards

1. UGC Minor Research Project on Diasporic Identity in Bollywood Cinema. 2009-2010.
   
   
2. Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for undertaking research in England, 2000.
   
   
3. National Scholarship (Govt. of West Bengal) Madhyamik, 1987, Higher Secondary Examination,1989
   
   

Seminars/Lecturers:

1. “The Indian Novel in English: An Overview”, UGC – sponsored State Level Seminar on Indian Writing in English, Maharaja Srischandra College, Dec, 2001
   
   
2. “The ‘Whiteman’ in Wide Sargasso Sea: The Fractured Image of the English Colonizer”, National Level Seminar organized by ACLALS (Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), Ethiraj College & University of Madras, Chennai. India, Feb 2004.
   
   
3. “East and West: Changing Perspectives” , Baypath College, Longmeadow, Mass, 22 July, 2006.
   
   
4. “The East and the West in Swadesh and The Mistress of Spices: Search for Global Indianness”, SALA 7th Annual Conference , Holiday Inn, Arch Street, Philadelphia, USA, 26 Dec. 2006
   
   

Publications:

1. “The Restoration Comedy of Manners: Court, Love, Ladies”, Journal of the Department of English, Calcutta University, Vol. XXVI, 2000.
   
   
2. “Rassundari and Parameshwar: Strategies of Transgression in Amar Jiban”, Journal of Culture Studies: India Inscribed, Vol. I, 2005
   
   
3. “The East and the West in Swadesh and The Mistress of Spices: Search for Global Indianness.”South Asian Review. Conference Issue. Vol. XXVII No.4, 2006
   
   
4. “Bollywood and Religious Icons.” International volume on South Asian Literature, Culture & Films. To be published.