Dr. Jayati Gupta

Professor,

Department of English,
West Bengal State University,
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata- 700 126
West Bengal, INDIA

Academic Qualifications :

Ph.D. Department of English, Jadavpur University, 2003

M.Phil., Department of English, Jadavpur University, 1982

M.A., Department of English, Jadavpur University, 1976

Languages:

Ph.D. Department of English, Jadavpur University, 2003

Ph.D. Department of English, Jadavpur University, 2003

German – ‘Kleines Sprach Diplom’ of the Goethe Institut.

Mittelstufe I und II Examinations (intermediate level) of the Goethe Institut.

Latin – Certificate in Latin from the Amal Bhattacharya Centre for European Studies, Calcutta.

Teaching /Administrative Experience :

1. UG Honours at Presidency College (1980-1982; 1986-2009) and Lady Brabourne College (1982-1986)
   
   
2. Presidency College autonomous PG course since 2006, continuing as invited guest faculty
   
   
3. Head, Department of English, Presidency College, Kolkata from 2003-2009
   
   
4. PG teaching as Honorary Guest Faculty in the Department of English, University of Calcutta as since the 1998-99 PG II session. (continuing) Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ culture 54: 137-143.
   
   
5. PG teaching at Presidency College from 1986 to 1997 for CU students through the College
   
   
6. Netaji Subhas Open University, Distance Education PG Contact programmes.
   
   
7. M.Phil classes at the University of Calcutta since 2006.

Research Awards:

UGC Major Research Project Scheme entitled“One Hundred Years of British Itinerants in India, 1757-1857”. 2003- 2006

U.G.C. Minor Research Project, on “19th Century English Travel Writers: Responses to India” 1993-95

Areas of specialization:

Eighteenth Century Studies

Travel Literature and Culture Studies

Areas of Interest:

1. Colonial and Post-colonial Literary and Culture Studies)
   
   
2. Diaries and Journals of English Women in India
   
   
3. Contemporary Indian Writing in English
   
   
4. Travellers from the Orient to the West.
   
   
5. Teaching of English Literature in India
   
   
6. Children’s Literature
   
   

Research Guidance:

Two candidates are presently registered at Calcutta University, working under my supervision on their Ph.D thesis.

Articles published in academic journals:

1. “Traveller Extraordinary: The Turkish Embassy Papers of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, 1998-99
   
   
2. “Mrs Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: A Discourse on Slavery”, Essays in Honour of the late Prof. Jyoti Bhattacharya, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXVII, No.2, 1999-2000
   
   
3. “And thereby hangs a tale: Observations on William Blake’s ‘Tyger’”, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, 2000-01
   
   
4. “Sites of Struggle: Reading and Travel Text written by a Bengali Bhadramahila (1935)”, Newsletter of School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Vol. 12, March 2002.
   
   
5. “The Re-greening of William Wordsworth” in “Prof. Subodh Sengupta Centenary Volume”, Subodh Sengupta Foundation, 2006.
   
   
6. “Cultural Dialogues: Ekphrasis in Virgil, Keats and Auden”, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Volume XXXIII, Nos. 1&2, 2006-2007.
   
   

International Journals:

1. ‘Modernity and the Global “Hindoo”: The Concept of the ‘Grand Tour’ in Colonial India’ in The Global South, Spring 2008, Vol2, No.1, Indiana University Press/Journals
   
   
2. Book Review article in Studies in Travel Writing, Vol.10, No.2, 2006, international refereed journal, White Horse Press, UK.
   
   
3. “London Through Alien Eyes” in ‘Literary London’, a refereed e-journal published by Goldsmith College, London University, March 2003.
   
   

Book Review Articles:

1. Regular Book review articles in Education World, Bangalore – Victoria and Abdul, Shrabani Basu, Nine Lives, William Dalrymple, Aids Sutra etc.
   
   
2. Book review article on The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature by Rajul Sogani, OUP, 2002, in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.10, no., New Delhi, Sage Publications.
   
   
3. Book review article on Women Disability and Identity by Asha Hans and Annie Patri, in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.10, no.1, New Delhi, Jan-Apr2003, Sage Publications.
   
   

Books Published with Introductions and Annotations:

1. “Narratives and Narration: A Study of the Short Story in English”, Edited with an Introduction and bibliography, Anthem Press, U.K. (2008)
   
   
2. Annotated edition of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders with an Introduction and notes, Pearson-Longman Imprint (2007)
   
   
3. “Reading Poems: An Annotated Anthology”, Poems edited with a preface and introduction published by Macmillan India Ltd, 2002.
   
   

Edited Books:

1. Introduction to Rajlakshmi Devi’s “Kedar-Badri bhraman brittanta o anyanya tirthachitra” Travelogues in Bengali published under the aegis of Womens’Studies Research Centre, Jadavpur and Dey’s Publishing, Kolkata, 2005.
   
   
2. Indian Writing in English, Department of English, Presidency College, 2003.
   
   
3. Kabi parichiti and chitrakar parichiti written in Bengali for a book of poems by Dr Debkumar Basu entitled ‘Prithivir se gan gahibo kemon kore’, Kolkata, Blue Pencil Publishing, 2003.
   
   

Translation assignments:

1. Translated four Bengali stories into English for A Collection of Partition Narratives edited by Dr Bashabi Fraser of the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, published by Anthem Press, U.K., 2006.
   
   
2. “The Village Doctor”, a translation of a Bengali short story by Prabha Devi Saraswati, Harvest: Annual Translation Volume II, 2002
   
   

General interest articles published:

1. ‘On the Trail of the Rajah’, The Times of India, 22nd May 2010
   
   
2. ‘A Living Testimony to Human Endeavour’, The Statesman, 23 November, 2007.
   
   
3. ‘On Sabbaths and Sabbaticals’, The Statesman, 1st January 2006.
   
   
4. Article on De Rozio in The Presidency College Magazine, Vol. 67, 2006.
   
   

Seminar Proceedings:

UGC Sponsored State Level Seminar Proceedings on ‘“Angel’ or ‘Fallen Woman’? Depiction of Women in the Literature of the Victorian Period” published by Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya eds. Manjari Ray and O. Ghosh, 2008.

Book Chapters (2010-2005)

1. ‘The Poetics and Politics of Travel Writing’ in Indian Travel Narratives, ed. Somdatta Mandal, New Delhi, 2010, p 26-36.
   
   
2. ‘Beloved Landscape: The Romance of the Lake District’ in Romanticism and Its Legacies, ed. Ralla Guha Niyogi, , Kolkata, 2009, p 63-74.
   
   
3. ‘Indian Travel Writing in English: Bridging Space and Time’ in Indian Writing in English: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vivekananada College, Blue Pencil, December 2005)
   
   
4. ‘A Re-reading of the Landscape Poetry of Alexander Pope’ in Poetry Text and Context, UGC Academic Staff College and Dept. of English, C.U., 2003, p231-244.
   
   
5. ‘J.M. Synge and the Irish Literary Theatre: Translating Narrative into Drama’ in Drama: Literature and Performance, UGC Academic Staff College and Dept.of English, C.U., 2002, p 151-162
   
   

Invitation Lectures as Resource Person/ Seminar Participation (2005-2010)

1. TEFL International, panel discussion on English teaching in India, Park Hotel, July 2005.
   
   
2. “Voices in the Sun: William Blake’s Visions of Slavery”, a lecture demonstration with OHP at a Refesher Course Lecture on ‘Race, Class, Gender – Literary and Cultural Representations’, sponsored by The Academic Staff College and Dept. of English, CU on 20th July 2005.
   
   
3. Refresher course lecture on Travel in the Romantic Age, JU 2006
   
   
4. Oxford Booklover’s Club and Macmillan New Writing, panelist at book launch, 13th July 2006.
   
   
5. Refresher Course lecture CU, Time, Space, Text: Rereading Literature and Culture, “Cultural Dialogues: Ekphrasis in Virgil, Keats and Auden” 14th September 2006.
   
   
6. CAS International Conference on Western Popular Literature and its Reception in India, 18-19 December 2006, paper on ‘Travelogs and Travelogues: A Convergence of Popular Literary Forms’.
   
   
7. International Conference on Travel Literature and India, 20-21 February 2007, Sponsored by UGC at Satyawati College in collaboration with Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University and Department of English, University of Delhi, presented a paper on ‘The Nineteenth Century Bengali Abroad: In Search of a Nation?’
   
   
8. National Seminar on ‘English Literary Studies in India and the Demands of Theory’, 24-25 March 2007, PG Department of English, Sambalpur University, Keynote address on ‘Literature via Theory or Literature versus Theory’.
   
   
9. Keynote speaker at a Seminar entitled “Literature and Culture in the Eighteenth Century: Twenty-first Century Perspective” at Vivekananda College, Thakurpukur. 28th November 2007.
   
   
10. National Seminar on ‘Incredible India! Indian Travel Writing in English and Bhasha Literatures’. DEOMEL, Viswa-Bharati. Read a paper on ‘The Poetics and Politics of Travel Writing’ and chaired two sessions.
    
    
11. Resource person at a Refresher Course at CU, Department of English on the theme ‘New Literatures in English and Indian Writing in English Translation’27th February 2008. Lecture on Partition Stories in Translation.
    
    
12. Resource person at a Refresher Course at JU, Department of English on the theme ‘Time-Text-Narrative’ on 19th March 2008. Spoke on Intersections: Time and Narrative in Eighteenth Century Fiction and Visual Forms. (2 Lectures on Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and on Hogarth’s Print Series)
    
    
13. “Memsahibs of the Raj: Public Life and the Private Gaze” at a one-day Seminar entitled Women Travellers in India, Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, April 30th 2008.
    
    
14. “Aesthetics and Religiosity of pilgrimage Texts”, International Conference On the Road: Writing, Travel and Travellers, Jadavpur University, 6-8 November 2008.
    
    
15. NATIONAL SEMINAR , DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus, 5th & 6th December 2009. Title of Conference, “Culture and Ethnic Persistence: Towards Understanding Identities; Title of paper presented “Of Territories and Homelands: Place and Identity in Poetry/Literature from Northeast India”.
    
    
16. “Literary Traditions/Cultural Transitions: The Dynamics of Eighteenth Century Poetry”, CU Refresher Course, “Literature, Nature, Culture” 11th Jan 2010
    
    
17. Nineteenth Century Travel Writing and India: The Gaze of the Foreigner, Seminar at Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, March 23rd 2010.
    
    
18. “Constructing Vilayet: An Early Traveller From Pre-Colonial Bengal”, International Conference, Correspondence: Travel, Writing and Literatures of Exploration, c. 1750-c. 1850 , Institute of Geography University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland, 7-10 April 2010