Dip Ankar Roy
Dip Ankar Roy
Dip Ankar Roy
Dipankar Roy
Associate Professor, Department of English, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati
Date of Birth: 17 September 1970
Date of Joining VB: 5 January 2003
Highest Qualification: Ph.D.
Area of Expertise/Interest: Modernist English Literature, Postcolonialism, Theory, Culture
Studies, Rabindranath Tagore’s Fiction, Bengali Children’s Literature
Number of Research Scholars Produced and Currently Working: 5 scholars are currently
working, 1 scholar has submitted his Ph. D.
Research Articles:
1. “Woman in Tales of Love, Sex and Danger; A Study of the Representation of
Women in Tagore’s Three ‘Domestic Novels’”, Muse India, Sep-Oct 2010,
ISSN-0975-1815. https://museindia.com/Home/AuthorContentDataView
2. “Bengal Renaissance through the Lens of Colonial Modernity: A Study of Rajnarayan
Bose’s Se Kaal ar E Kaal (Bengal Then and Now) (1874) pp 7-17 Visva-Bharati
Quarterly, Volume 18 Number 3 November 2010, Abhijit Sen (Ed.) Santiniketan:
ISSN 0972-043X.
3. “Representations of the National Self, Novelistic Portrayal of a New Cultural Identity
in Gora” pp-385-404 in Rupkatha special Issue on Rabindranath Tagore Dec 2010,
ISSN 0975-2935
http://wayback.archive-it.org/1812/20101211194008/http://www.rupkatha.com/
4. “Five Contemporary Bangla Poets” pp.141-158 in Apperception Vol. V, Indrani Das
and Tanuka Das (eds.) March 2011, Santiniketan, ISBN- 978-81-7522-491-9.
5. “The Poet as a Polemicist and a Prophet” pp- 677-682 in Rupkatha, ISSN 048-1143,
http://wayback.archive-it.org/1812/20101211194008/http://www.rupkatha.com/
6. “The River as a Metaphor of History: A Study of Bibhutibhushan
Bandopadhyay's Ichamati”, Muse India, Sep-Oct 2014, ISSN-0975-1815
https://museindia.com/Home/AuthorContentDataView
7. "Negotiating the Novel; A Bangla Novelist's Attempt to Translate the Untranslatable:
A Study of Aranyak", Visva-Bharati Quarterly, 2015, ISSN-0972-043X.
8. “Review of Gitanjali Indian, concept and visualisation by Satyam Roychowdhury,
compilation by Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay, Kolkata: Patra Bharati, 2013 in
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Apperception, Vol. VII, Sukla Basu Sen Somdatta Mandal (eds.) pp- 341-345, Visva-
Bharati, Santiniketan, 2014, ISSN: 2321-1261.
9. “English Translations of Chaitali Chattopadhyay's Poetry”, Indian Literature: Sahitya
Akademi's Bi-monthly Journal, 2016, ISSN-0019580-4.
10. “Book Review: “Christine Marsh, Tagore Speaks to the Twenty-First Century”,
Asiatic, 2017, ISSN-1985-3106,
https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/1085/774
11. “Book Review: "Imdadul Haq Milan: Two Novellas.", Asiatic, 2018, ISSN- 1985-
3106, https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/1242
12. “Indian Renaissance – Western Response: A Study of James Cousins’ The
Renaissance in India.” Vol VIII. 2017. pp. 44-55 in Apperception Journal of the
Department of English, ISSN 2321-1261.
13. “Ideology, Age of the Image and Television Advertising in India” in Asiatic: IIUM
Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol. 14 No. 1, June 2020,
https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/article/view/1850.
Chapters in Books:
1. Male Discourse, Female Self and the Nation: A Study of Gorā” in Rabindranath
Tagore’s Gora: A Critical Companion, Nandini Bhattacharya (ed.), pp-161-172,
Primus Books, New Delhi, 2014, ISBN: 978-93-84082-42-0.
2. “The Storyteller: Reflections on R K Narayan’s Malgudi Days” pp-43-54 in Indian
English Literature: Trends and Issues Kaustav Chakrabarty (Ed.) Dipali Publishers,
Kolkata: ISBN- 978-81-89036-28-7.
3. “Female Voice, Male Discourse and the Nation: A Study of Tagore’s Three Political
Novels” in Towards Tagore, Sanjukta Dasgupta, Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay and
Swati Ganguly (eds.) pp-477-498, Visva-Bharati, Kolkata, 2014, ISBN-978-81-7522-
583-1.
4. “Life in the Translated world of Amitav Ghosh” pp-289-298 in Literary Transactions
in a Globalized Context, Himadri Lahiri (Ed.), Worldview Kolkata: ISBN 81-86423-
18-4.
5. “National Identity and the Question of Violence” pp-238-249 in Rabindranath Tagore
and the Nation: Essays in Politics, Society and Culture, Swati Ganguly and Abhijit
Sen(eds.), Visva-Bharati & Punascha Kolkata: ISBN 978-81-7332-482-6.
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6. Translated and published poems of Michael Madhusudan Datta, Basabi Fraser and
Arun Kolatkar in Bharitya Engreji Kobita , Somdatta Mandal and Soma
Mukhopadhyay (eds.) Abhijaan. Kolkata. 2013 ISBN: 978-93-80197-07-4.
7. “Kipling’s Hyperreal India: A Study of Mowgli Stories” pp-97-106 in Indian Writing
in English: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Pranati Dutta Gupta & Susmita Roy (eds.),
Vivekananda College & UGC, Kolkata ISBN- 81-88627-06-2.
8. “Translation as Representation” pp- 152-159 in Understanding India: Studies in
Indian English Fiction Arnab Bhattacharya (Ed), Books Way Kolkata: ISBN 978-93-
80145-39-6.
9. "Love in the Time of the Birth of a Celibate India: A Study of Rabindranath Tagore's
Chirakumar Sabha (An Association for Life-long Celibates)", in The Politics and
Reception of Rabindaranath Tagore's Drama, Arnab Bhattacharya and Mala
Renganathan (eds.), Routledge, New York, 2015, ISBN- 978-1-138-80462-3.
10. "The Modern Bengali Self Caught between Two Worlds: A Study of Select Stories of
Tagore", in Reflections: Revisiting Late 19th Century in English Literature,
Suddhasattwa Banerjee et al (eds.), Akshar Prakashani, Bolpur, 2015, ISBN- 978-81-
922916-5-9.
11. "Sakuntala", English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's essay in Nilanjana
Bhattacharya & Sayantan Dasgupta eds. Prachin Sahitya, CENTIL and Visva Bharati,
Kolkata, 2017, ISBN- 978-81-7522-654-8.
12. “All That is Solid Melts into Air: A Study of Rabindranath’s He (Shey)” in
Rabindranath Tagore: A Concourse Assays in Art, Literature and Translation ed.
Debarati Bandyopadhyay, Business Economics Publication Pvt. Ltd, Kolkata, 2017,
ISBN- 978-81-934026-5-8.
13. English translation of a story by Samaresh Basu titled “Strange Noises and a Spell of
Fever”. pp- 330-338 in The Timeless Tales from Bengal: An Anthology of Bangla
Children’s and Young Adults’ Stories, Saurav Dasthakur & Dipankar Roy (eds.),
Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2018, ISBN- 978-93-86906-23-6.
14. ““Hungry Stone”: Colonial Uncanny and the Return of the Repressed" in Tagore,
Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary
Relevance. Ed. Mohammad A. Quayum. London: Routledge, January, 2020, ISBN-
978-0-367-48696-9.
Book Publications:
3
1. In Tagore's Own Country: India & the Novels of Rabindranath, Book Post
Publications, Kolkata, 2015, ISBN- 978-81-930500-4-0.
2. Sadaa Thaako Anandey… Santiniketaney, OUP, New Delhi, 2018, ISBN- 0-19-
948947-5.
3. The Timeless Tales from Bengal: An Anthology of Bangla Children’s and Young
Adults’ Stories, Niyogi Books, New Delhi, 2018, ISBN- 978-93-86906-23-6.
Award:
1. Awarded the Isaac Sequeria Memorial Award for the best paper presented by a young
scholar at the International Conference held at Santiniketan in November 2008 by
MELOW MELLUS-India.