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Professor, Department of English |
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Jadavpur University
Kolkata 700032 |
PH:03324146681 |
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Education
Degree | Year | University |
Ph.D. |
1998 |
JNU |
M.A. |
1990 |
JNU |
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Teaching Experience (4)
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Jadavpur University |
Associate Professor |
2006 to Present |
Jadavpur University |
Reader |
2003 to 2006 |
Jadavpur University |
Senior Lecturer |
1998 to 2003 |
Jadavpur University |
Lecturer |
1993 to 1998 |
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Industrial Experience (0)
Field of Specialization
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Psychoanalysis and Literature
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Courses Taught/Teaching
UG:
Criticism (Core)
Modernist Prose
Drama of Ideas
Edgar Allan Poe
PG:
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies (Core)
Literature and Psychoanalysis
Special Author: James Joyce
Structure, Sign and Play
The Theban Plays of Sophocles
M.Phil.:
Research Methodology
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Research Area
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Reading European or Bengali literary works with works of psychoanalysis.
Responses of European and Bengali authors to Freud &/or psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis in theory and psychoanalytic literary theory.
Clinical psychoanalysis in the Lacanian orientation.
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Experience
Teaching in the Department of English, Jadavpur University, since 1993.
Practicing Psychoanalysis in Kolkata since 2012.
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Conference Papers Published (3)
Title of the paper |
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A Literary Introduction to ‘Lituraterre’ |
The Literary Lacan: From Literature to Lituraterre and Beyond, Santanu Biswas (ed.) |
2012 |
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London, Calcutta: Seagull Books-173-195 |
The Signification of Desire in Lacan |
Signification In Language and Culture, Harjeet Singh Gill (ed.) |
2002 |
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Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study-291-330 |
Jacques Lacan, Doctor Faustus and the Polyneices Complex of Man |
Signs and Signification, Harjeet Singh Gill and Giovanni Manetti (eds.) |
2000 |
Author |
Volume II, New Delhi: Bahri Publications-269-292 |
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Journal Papers Published (7)
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Locating and Annotating the Expression “The Later Teaching of Lacan” |
Psychoanalysis Lacan, Russell Grigg (ed.) |
Forthcoming in 2014 |
Author |
Vol 1, Australia, Forthcoming in 2014- |
Repetition and Death Instinct in Subarnarekha |
The Golden Thread of Ritwik Ghatak, Manas Ghosh (ed.) |
Forthcoming in 2014 |
Author |
Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan-Forthcoming in 2014 |
The Poinçon (<>) in Lacan |
(Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies, Ellie Ragland (ed.) |
2011 |
Author |
Volume 6, Missouri: University of Missouri, Spring 2011-135-147 |
Lacanian Lessons in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Purloined Letter,’’ |
Moneta’s Veil: Essays on the Nineteenth Century, Malabika Sarkar (ed.) |
2009 |
Author |
New Delhi: Pearson, 2009-121-143 |
Rabindranath Tagore and Freudian Thought (Reprinted) |
Freud Along the Ganges: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the People and Culture of India, Salman Akhtar (ed.) |
2005 |
Author |
New York: Other Press, Chapter 3-53-78 |
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Books Published (1)
Book Title |
Publisher Name |
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Role |
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The Literary Lacan: From Literature to Lituraterre and Beyond |
Seagull Books |
2012 |
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Awards(2)
Awarded By |
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Deakin University, Australia |
Visiting Research Fellowship |
2010 | Deakin University, Australia |
Visiting Academic Fellowship |
2005 |
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Ph.D. Thesis Guidance (1)
Name Of The Scholar |
Title Of The Thesis |
Co-Superviser |
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Sarbani Banerjee |
Man and Woman in Marriage: A Lacanian Approach to the Life and Works of Robert Frost |
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Complete |
2011 |
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M.Phil. Thesis Guidance (3)
Name Of The Scholar |
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Co-Superviser |
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Gautam Basu Thakur |
Shelley’s Metaphysics: A Study of Shelley’s Thought, Poetry and Poesis |
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2003 |
Saurav Dasthakur |
Construction of Sexuality in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s and its Reflection in Selected Literary Works of this Period |
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2002 |
Sayandeb Chowdhury |
Etruscan Politics of the Hieroglyphic Body: A Mythopoetics of the Postcommunist Subject |
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2002 |
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MASTER Thesis Guidance (0)
Project Works (0)
Patents (0)
Collaborative Programs (0)
InviteLectures (6)
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Introduction to Lacan through Literature |
Department of English, Presidency College, Kolkata |
Presidency College, Kolkata |
2008 |
Lacan and Literature |
Department of English, Loreto College, Kolkata |
Loreto College, Kolkata |
2007 |
Psychoanalysis-er Paribhasha [The Terminology of Psychoanalysis] |
Department of Bengali, Jadavpur University |
Jadavpur University |
2007 |
Later Lacan |
Friday Seminar, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University |
Jadavpur University |
2006 |
Introduction to the Reading of Lacan |
Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur Univeristy |
Jadavpur University |
2003 |
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Membership Of Learned Societies (4)
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Honorary Member, Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia, since 2005. |
Member, Editorial Board, (Re)-Turn: A Journal of Lacanian Studies, Ellie Ragland (ed.), Missouri-Columbia, USA. |
Joint Editor, Culture/Clinic, Jacques-Alain Miller & Maire Jaanus (eds.), Departement de Psychanalyse, Universite de Paris VIII, France, & Columbia University, USA. |
Member, Editorial Board, Psychoanalysis Lacan, Russell Grigg (ed.), Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia. |
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Orientation/Refresher/QIP CourseAttended/Organized (4)
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Refresher Course on Literature and Thought (Co-ordinator) |
Department of English, Jadavpur University |
Jadavpur University |
2009 | Refresher Course on Literary Theory (Participant) |
Department of English, University of Lucknow |
University of Lucknow |
2005 | Refresher Course on Gender and Sexuality (Participant) |
Women's Studies |
Jadavpur University |
2004 | Lectured in 15 Refresher Courses as Resource Person |
Jadavpur University & University of Calcutta |
English, Film Studies & Bengali, JU, & Pol. Sc., CU |
1994-2014 |
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Seminar/Conference/Workshop (15)
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Seminar on the Psychoses |
Deakin University & Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia |
Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia |
2012 |
Presented a paper | Conference on Psychoanalysis |
Deakin University & Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia |
Australian Institute of International Affairs, Australia |
2011 |
Presented a paper | Seminar on Transference |
Deakin University & Lacan Circle of Melbourne, Australia |
University of Melbourne, Australia |
2011 |
Presented a paper | Seminar on the Formations of the Unconscious |
Deakin University, Australia |
La Trobe University, Australia |
2010 |
Presented a paper | Seminar on Ordinary Psychoses |
Departement de Psychanalyse, Universite de Paris VIII, France |
Universite de Paris VIII, France |
2008 |
Presented a paper | More |
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Session chaired (4)
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International Conference on War, Words and the World: Re-presenting the Great War |
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Department of English & CAS, Jadavpur University |
Jadavpur University |
2014 |
International Seminar on Nineteenth-Century Literature |
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Centre for Studies in Romantic Literature, Kolkata |
Jadavpur University |
2010 |
International Seminar on the Road: Writing, Travel and Travellers |
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Department of English, Jadavpur University |
Jadavpur University |
2008 |
International Seminar on Other Voices, Other Cultures: Rereading Orientalism |
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Department of English, Jadavpur University |
Jadavpur University |
2004 |
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Professional Society Activity (0)
Consultancy work / Testing (0)
Other Notable Activities (2)
Correspondence with Jacques-Alain Miller published in Anne Poumellec (ed.) Lacan Quotidien, Nos. 4, 60 & 65, Paris, Aout to Octobre 2011. | The essay 'Rabindranath Tagore and Freudian Thought' has been translated into French (2011), Spanish (2011) and Italian (Forthcoming in 2014). |
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