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Dr Debalina Banerjee,
debalina1957@yahoo.com
Rank holder and National Scholar in All India Higher
Secondary Exam, 1974 under CBSE, Debalina Banerjee
did her Graduation and Post- Graduation from Jadavpur
University, Kolkata. Her Ph.D. is on the Woman Question
and late Victorian Novels, awarded in 1995. She has
served in various Government colleges under W.B.E.S.,
as well as the Director, Institute of English, Kolkata,
a Post Graduate ELT and autonomous institute under
the Higher Education Department, Government of West
Bengal. Dr. Banerjee has several published books and
articles to her credit. She has acted as Resource
person in Refresher Courses conducted by the University
of Calcutta and Jadavpur University. She has also
been on academic and administrative committees of
colleges served, as well as associated with the University
of Kalyani, University of Burdwan, the SLET commission
N.E. Region, Rabindra Mukta Vidyalaya, Central School
Service Commission and the W.B. Public Service Commission.
She is presently 24 years in the W.B.E.S., now Reader
in the Department of English, Presidency College,
Kolkata.
Areas of Interest
• Fiction
of the 19th century, England and India.
• Gender
Studies.
• Human
resources and relationships.
• Language
Development.
• Creative
Writing, translation and trans-creation.
Area of Research
• Woman
Question and the late 19th Century novel in England.
• Legal
Reforms in 19th Century England.
• Meredith’s
novels and the woman question.
• Gender
in Bankim Chandra and Sarat Chandra.
• Children’s
Literature in English Translation.
Recent Publications
• Trisrota, a
book of Bengali poems, Kolkata, Renaissance, 2006.
• Translation
of Rabindranath and Drama. (In preparation)
Books
•
The Woman Question and the Victorian
Novel (Kolkata: Renaissance, 2002).
•
Boundaries and Beyond: a book of English
poems (Kolkata: Renaissance, 2002).
•
Poems and Translations in Random Voices:
an anthology of Indian English Poems and Translations,
ESA, University of Burdwan, 2001.
•
Amrita: translations from songs of
Atulprasad, Rajanikanta and Dwijendralal, co-authored
with Dr. K. Ghosh (Kolkata: Papyrus, 2003)
•
Trisrota: a book of Bengali Poems (Kolkata:
Renaissance, 2006).
Articles
• Meredith’s
Women Characters and the Victorian Reform in Reading
the Nineteenth Century, Ed. S. Lahiri Choudhury, Papyrus,
1996.
•
At the Crossroads: the Blighted star
and Contemporary criticism (on Keats) in The Journal
of English Studies Association, Inaugural No., The
University of Burdwan, 1998.
•
The Woman Question: Nineteenth Century
English Life and Literature in The English Journal
vol. XI- XII No. 1 (Dept. of English) The University
of Burdwan, 2000.
•
Ideology, Reality, Law and Literature:
The Nineteenth Century English Context in Re- Readings:
Literature and Culture, CU, 2001.
•
Many Faces if Eve: women in Victorian
Fiction in Literature and Criticism, Vol.2, No.1,
April 2002 (The Literary Society of India).
•
They gave us deeds and dreams (Shakespeare
and Rabindranath) In Writichhanda, Vol.3, No.1, May
2002.
Translations and Creative Writing
• Translations
from the songs of Atulprasad, Rajanikanta Dwijendralal
and a poem Passions, in Writichhanda, Vol.1, No.2,
January 2002.
•
Translations from Lamb, Landor and
Hunt’s poems in Writichhanda, Vol.2, No.2, January
2002.
•
Translations from poems of Gwendoline
Brookes in Kabita-o-samaj, 2002.
•
Poems in Prachita, September, 2002.
•
Poems in Presidency College Magazine,
2004, 2006.
Bengali Articles
• Mrityu-Chinta:
Rabindranather Kabitae, Majhi, No. 73, 1995.
•
Nirbapita Pratibha: Asampta Kabita
(on Keats), Majhi, No. 76, 1996.
•
Ke jeno chhnue jae (Anubhabe), Ekak,
No.4, April, 1999.
•
Keno kori (Anushanga), Ekak, No.10,
June 2000.
•
Dharonar Apoharan (Anushanga) Ekak,
No. 10, June 2000.
•
Bhaddarloker Mukh o Mukhosh, Ekakmatra,
No.2, Sept/Oct 200
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