Name: Angshuman Kar

Designation: Professor, Department of English and Culture Studies

Educational Qualifications: M.A., Ph.D.

Fellowships:
1. As the holder of the Australia-India Council Fellowship (2006) pursued research in different
universities in Australia.
2. Received the Travel Grant of Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters in India) in
2007.

Visiting Fellowship: Sambalpur University (2011, 2016)

Research Activities and Guidance:

Projects:

1. UGC-sponsored Major Research Project titled, “Contemporary Indian Diaspora Fiction:

New Challenges and Responses” of Rs 13, 90, 800/-. Tenure: 01/07/2015 to 30/06/2018.
2. Working as a member of the Editorial Board for Preparing the Gazetteer of Burdwan
District, a Project of Rs 18 Lakh run by The University of Burdwan.
3. Working on a Sahitya Akademi assignment of translation (of Marannu Vecha
Vasthukkal, the Akademi ward winning poetry collection of K. Satchidanandan).
4. AIC supported translation project for translating Australian Aboriginal Poetry into
Bengali. Worked with Australian Aboriginal poets and academics. Project completed.
Outcome was published in the form of a book, Kalo Australiar Kabita (Black Australian
Poetry), on 22 January 2009 in the International Conference of IASA (Eastern Region).

PhD: Awarded: 7; Submitted: 1; Ongoing: 6

MPhil: Awarded: 13

Awards (For Creative Writing):

1.Kabita Pashkik Award in 1998
2.Krittibas Award (given by the legendary Krittibas magazine) in 2007
3.Pashima Banga Bangla Akademi Award (given by West Bengal State Government) in 2009
4. Haripada Sahitya Mandir Award in 2009
5. Bongiya Sahitya Parishad Puroskar 2012
6. Mallicka Sengupta Puroskar 2014
7. Urahlpul Award 2015
Other Recognitions:

1. Acted as a member of the Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi (Bangla) for the period
2008-2012. Also served the Akademi as the Secretary of Eastern Region
2. Visited the University of Hamburg, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Indian
Embassy, Berlin, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University as a member of Indian
Delegation to Germany at the invitation of Indian Embassy, Berlin in May 2014.

PUBLICATIONS:
Published 49 papers in different international/national journals/books and 16 papers in regional
journals/books. Edited/co-edited 6 books. Written post-editorials and reviews for reputed Bengali
newspapers like Anandabazar Patrika, Ei Samay and Pratidin.

Select Books:
1. The Politics of Social Exclusion in India: Democracy at the Crossroads. Routledge:
Oxon & NY, 2010. Print. ISBN NO (10): 0-415-55357-1.(Co-edited with
HariharBhattacharya and Partha Sarkar)

2. Edited Contemporary Indian Diaspora: Literary and Cultural Representations. Jaipur:

Rawat, 2015. 1-10. ISBN: 978-81-316-0708-4.

3. Edited Kalo Australiar Kabita (An Anthology of Translated Australian Aboriginal

Poetry) Saptarshi & Australia India Council: Kolkata, 2009. Print.

Select Essays:
1. “Post-9/11 Indian English Indian Diaspora Fiction: Contexts and Concerns.” Asiatic 11.1
(June 2017): 43-56. Web. ISSN NO: 1985-3106.
2. “Where To? : An Indian Perspective on Australian Aboriginal Poetry in English.”
Antipodes 28.2 (Dec 2014): 329-340. ISSN: 0893-5580.
3. “Commodification of Post-Rushdie Indian Novels in English: Kunal Basu and the
Politics of Decanonization.” Post-liberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of
Global Reception and Awards. Ed. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan. London: Anthem-
Wimbledon, 2013. 9-18. Print. ISBN NO (10):0 85728 564 5.
4. “Rabindranath Tagore’s Lipika and the Problematics of Difference.” Journal of South
Asian Review. 32.2 (2011): 71-84. Print. ISSN NO: 0275-9527.
5. “Native Newspaper and Colonial Owner: A Study of The Flinders Island Chronicle and
Samachar Durpun.” Landscape, Place and Culture: Linkages between Australia and
India. Ed. Deb N.Bandyopadhyay, Paul Brown and Christopher Conti. New Castle:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. 237-250. Print. ISBN NO (10): 1-4438-2632-4.
6. “Narayan’s A Tiger for Malgudi and Ecocriticism.” American Notes and Queries. 21.2
(2008): 65-71. Print. ISSN NO: 0895-769X.
7. “One Language, Many Voices: Twenty-First Century Bengali Poetry.” Indian Literature
298 (March-April 2017): 27-36. Print. ISSN NO: 0019580-4.
8. “Diaspora on the Margin: Contextualizing Partition Diaspora and Abdul Ghani Sheikh’s
‘Two Nations, One Story.”’ Mapping Indian Diaspora: Contestations and
Representations. Ed. Ajaya K. Sahoo. Jaipur: Rawat, 2017. 205-18. Print.
9. “Problematizing Race and Gender in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Women’s
Poetry.” Journal of Literature (January-July 2016): 145-56. Print.
10. “Jack Davis’s Honey Spot: An Ecocritical Reading.” New Literatures: Ethnicity, Culture
and Identity. Ed. Shiv Govind Puri. Jaipur: YKing Books, 2016. 87-101. ISBN: 978-93-
85528-27-9.
11. “The Other Side of the Moon: Documentary Films of Pratibha Parmar.” Indian/Punjabi
Diasporic Cinema: Representations of Transnational Experience. Ed. Manjit Inder Singh
and Tejinder Kaur. Patiala: Publication Bureau, Punjabi University, 2016. 127-39. ISBN:
978-81-302-0363-8.
12. “No War in Inter-War Indian English Fiction(!)” Indian Fiction in English: Mapping the
Contemporary Literary Landscape. Ed. Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Arnab Kumar Sinha
and Himadri Lahiri. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2014. 77-88. Print. ISBN NO: 978-81-
8043-108-1.
13. “Form in Australian Aboriginal Poetry in English: A Critique.” The Visva-Bharati
Quarterly 22.3-4 (March 2014): 42-58. ISSN: 0972-043X.
14. “Shattered Amphora and Translation of Dalit Poetry: Re-configuring the Myth of
Origin.” Towards Social Change: Essays on Dalit Literature. Ed. Sankar Prasad Singha
and Indranil Acharya. Hyderabad: Orient Blakswan, 2014. 38-39. Print. ISBN NO: 978-
81-250-5344-6.
15. “The Tempest: A Gendered Text?” Journal of Drama Studies 7.1-2 (January-July 2013):
139-144. Print. ISSN NO: 0975-1696.
16. “Long Live the King!” Indian Literature 56.6 (Nov-Dec 2012): 29-35. Print. ISSN NO:
0019580-4.
17. “Re-situating the Porter and His Sinners in Macbeth.” Subalterns in Shakespeare: A
Postcolonial Review. Ed. Anand Prakash. Kurukshetra: The Shakespeare Association,
2012. 161-170. ISBN NO: 978-81-920137-5-9.
18. “The Other Jew” (translation of a Bengali story of Kapilkrishna Thakur). Survival and
Other Stories: Bangla Dalit Fiction in Translation. Ed. S.P. Singha and Indranil Acharya.
Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2012. 78-90. ISBN NO: 9788125045106.
19. “Driving in the Diaspora Space: Contextualizing Jhumpa Lahiri’s Mrs. Sen’s.” Journal
of Commonwealth Literature. 3.2 (2011). Print. 0974-8822.
20. “The Other Others: Re-reading The Tempest.” Journal of Drama Studies. 5.2(2011): 28-
35. Print. ISSN NO: 0975-1696.

Seminars/Conferences/Workshops:

Presented papers/chaired sessions in more than 130 conferences/seminars/workshops

held in India and abroad. Delivered lectures in different Refresher Courses/Orientation
programmes organized by the ASC OF Jadavpur University, the ASC of Calcutta
 University, the ASC of Benares Hindu University, the ASC of Guahati University, the
ASC of Sambalpur University, the ASC of North Bengal University and the UGC HRDC
of the University of Burdwan.

Select Presentations:

1. Delivered the keynote address in a workshop on modern poetry organized at the Dhaka
Club in Dhaka on 20 May 2017 by the SAAP Foundation of Dhaka and the SAAP Center
of Toronto.

2. Presented a paper, “Interface of Politics and Form in Australian Aboriginal Poetry in

English”, in an international conference on ConVersify: Poetry, Politics and Form,
organized by the Department of English, University of Edinburgh at Edinburgh on 10-11
September 2011.
3. Presented a paper, “Bend It Like Beckham: Negotiating Sacral Space and Integration” at
the International Conference on Migrant and Diasporic Cinema in Contemporary
Europe held at Lincoln College, Oxford on 7 July 2006.

4. Delivered a plenary lecture, “Re-making the Making of Kalo Australiar Kabita,” and
chaired a session in the 5th IASA international conference on History, Culture and
Identity: Australia Studies in India and Australia, organized by IASA, ER on 5 February
2017.

5. Presented a paper, “Individual and Society: Re-mapping the 'Mutual Bond' in Marina
Budhos's Ask Me No Questions,” as a resource person in an international seminar on
Literature and Society: A Postmodern Review, organized by the Dept of English, D.A.V.
College for Girls, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana on 19 to 21 Januray 2017.

6. Presented a paper, “Mehboob Elahi: Contextualizing the Indian Guptochar at Borders,” as a

resource person in an international seminar on Literature, Border and Identity, organized by the
Dept of English and Other Modern European Languages on 1 March 2016.

7. Presented a paper, “A Few Questions on Partition Diaspora and a Modest Proposal,” as a plenary
speaker in an international seminar on Reconstructing the English Literary Map: Literatures of
Partition and Diaspora from Asia and the Asia Pacific, organized by the Department of English,
The University of Burdwan on 11 March 2016.

8. Presented a paper, “The Other Side of the Moon: Documentary Films of Pratibha
Parmar” as a resource person in an international conference on Indian/Punjabi Diasporic
Cinema: Narratives of Transnational Experience, organized by the Centre for Diaspora
Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala on 26 March 2015.
9. Delivered the Key-note address in an international conference on “Pratyahwaner
Mukhomukhi Bangla and Bhasha Sahitya o Sanskriti: Uttoroner Sutra Sandhane,”
 organized by Barak Upotyaka Banga Sahitya Sanksriti of Sammelan and Assam
Univeristy on 21 March 2015 at Silchar, Assam.
10. Presented a paper, “Through ‘Her’ Window: Contextualizing the Reading of Oodgeroo
by Jaya Mitra”, in an international conference on The Asian Century: Australia and the
Trans-Asian Cultural and Strategic Diplomacy, organized by IASA, Eastern Region on
27 January 2015 at Astor Hotel, Kolkata.

11. Presented a paper, “Interfacing Global Indian Diaspora and Contemporary Indian
Diaspora Fiction: A Study”, in an international conference on Global Indian Diaspora:
Continuities and Changes, organized by the Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora,
University of Hyderabad on 6-7 November 2014.
12. Presented a paper, “Indian English Fiction: Recent Trends and Challenges”, in an
international seminar on Indian Writing in English: Current Critical Approaches,
organized by Sri Venkateswara College of Education, Peravurani, on 15 March 2014.
13. Presented a paper, “The Tempest: A Post-feminist Scrutiny” and chaired a session in an
international conference on Women in Shakespeare: A Post-Feminist Scrutiny organized
by Vardhaman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, Rajasthan, in collaboration with The
Shakespeare Association (India) on 4-6 October 2012.
14. Presented a paper, “Re-situating the Porter and His Subalterns in Macbeth”, and chaired a
session as a Resource Person in a UGC-sponsored International Seminar on Subalterns
in Shakespeare: A Post-postcolonial Scrutiny, organized by St Bede’s College, Shimla in
collaboration with The Shakespeare Association (India) on 22-24 September 2011 in
Shimla.
15. Presented a paper, “Negotiating Postnational Narratives: A Study of Chang Rae Lee’s
Native Speaker”, at the ninth International Seminar on Writing America: Intercultural
Dialogs Between the U.S. and Asia organized by the American Literature Study Circle at
the American Center, Kolkata on 23 August 2006.

Poetry Readings:

Read poems/delivered talks/moderated sessions in different poetry festivals/readings

organized in Germany, Scotland, Bangladesh and India including SAARC POETRY
FESTIVAL, TATA STEEL KOLKATA LITERARY MEET, HYDERBABAD
LITERARY FESTIVAL, and several other Poetry Festivals organized by the SAHITYA
AKADEMI.