Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature
Udaygiri, A55 Atabagan, Garia, Kolkata-84
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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 2016 Jadavpur University

Name Of The Institution Position Held Period Jadavpur University Associate Professor 2007 to Till Date Abhedananda Mahavidyalaya Lecturer 2003 to 2007

English Literature, South Asian Literature and Culture, Border Studies, Archiving

Indian Literatures, Literature and other Arts, Digital Humanities

Representations of colonial Burma in Bangla Literature

12 Years of Teaching

Book Title Publisher Name Year Role Memory, Images, Imagination: An Anthology of Bangla Writings on Colonial Burma CAS, Department of Comparative Literature 2010 Second Author

Awarded By Award Name Year Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK Chevening-British Library Fellowship (2017-2018) 2017 Charles Wallace India Trust, UK Charles Wallace Fellowship 2012

Project Title Worked As Funding Agency Amount Duration Period Status Centering Borders, Bordercrossings and Borderlands in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Coordinator CAS, UGC 550000 2019 to  Ongoing Jibanananda Das Papers (Digitisation of Jibanananda Das manuscripts) Principal Investigator RUSA 2.0 748000 2018 to  Ongoing Hearing the City: Exploring Kolkata through the Narratives of Sound Coordinator UGC 26000 1 Year 2011 to 2012 Complete Soundscapes of Kolkata Principal Investigator UGC-UPE I&II 760000 6 years 2012 to 2018 Complete

Program Name Name Of The Collaborator Year Bodies at Border Cornell University, USA 2014

Title Organised By Venue Year Digitising Endangered Archives: Practical Ethical Issues and Challenges EAP 1247, The British Library School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University 2019 Bitesize talk - Partition of Bengal (1905): Tracing Popular Reactions in the British Library s Holdings The British Library Panizzi Room (St Pancras), The British Library, UK 2018 Making, Unmaking, and Remaking of Border in South Asia: Bengali Imagination, Anxiety, and Experiences of Burma Border South Asian University, New Delhi South Asian University, New Delhi 2017 Western 'Influence' and Indian 'Reception': Issues of Rejection, Adaptation and Discovery in Bengal School of Art Institute of South East Asian Studies Singapore 2012 Colonial Burma in Bangla and Oriya Literatures Ravenshaw University Cuttack 2011 More

Title Comparative Literature Association of India International Comparative Literature Association

1. Built an online database of the British Library Collections, The British Library, London, UK on Nationalism, Partition, and Independence in South Asia, 1900 - 1950 https://www.bl.uk/case-studies/parthasarathi-bhaumik 2. Built an online database of the sounds of Kolkata as Principal Investigator in the project Kolkata Soundscapes http://kolkatasounds.org/ 3. Joint Director, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata