Dr. Sneha Kar Chaudhuri

Lecturer,

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

Academic Qualifications/ Experience:

1. PhD in English Jadavpur University – 2007
   
   
2. MA in English, Jadavpur University– 2003
   
   
3. BA (English Honours) Jadavpur University– 2001
   
   
4. Lecturer, Adult, Continuing Education and Extension Centre, Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University,2001-02 and Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata,2004
   
   
5. Lecturer in Compulsory English as UGC-JRF in the Faculty of Engineering,Jadavpur University,2004-2007
   
   
6. Guest Lecturer,WBCS Prelims and Mains organized by Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University, 2006
   
   
7. Part-time Lecturer, Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, 2008
   
   

Research Interests:

1. Neo-Victorian Studies Victorian literature
   
   
2. Postmodern fiction
   
   
3. Post-imperial literature
   
   
4. Historical fiction and historiographic metafiction
   
   
5. Background research work for setting up an Online Bibliography on Neo-Victorian literature co- edited by Dr M.L. Kohlke and hosted by Swansea University, Wales, UK
   
   

Publications:

Articles:

1. “Gender, Performance and Transgression : Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith”, Neo-Victorian Studies, 3:2 (forthcoming in 2010)
   
   
2. ‘“Remember, The Angel May Write, But ‘Tis The Devil That Must Print”: Review of Matthew Pearl, The Last Dickens”, Neo-Victorian Studies, 2:2 (Lampeter [UK] Special Issue), Winter 2009/2010, pp.257-63
   
   
3. “Nostalgia, Iconoclasm and the Politics of Historiography: Representing the Victorians in Graham Swift’s Ever After”, Jadavpur University Essays and Studies (JUES), XXI (ed. Swapan Chakravorty), 2007, pp.84-101
   
   

Book Chapter:

1. “History, Fiction and the Postmodern Romanticism of Peter Ackroyd’s Chatterton” in Romanticism and its Legacies ed. Ralla Guha Niyogi (Kolkata : Fine Prints and Basanti Devi College, 2009), pp.191- 200
   
   

Seminar Proceedings:

1. “Odd Women and Proper Men: The Contradictions of Victorian Feminism in George Gissing’s The Odd Women”, 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, pp.65-68