Dr Jayati Gupta, Reader and Head
jg.engl@presidencycollegekolkata.ac.in
jayatigl@gmail.com

Areas of Interest
•  Colonial and Post-colonial Literary and Culture Studies
•  Diaries and Journals of English Women in India
•  Contemporary Indian Writing in English
•  Travellers from the Orient to the West.
•  Teaching of English Literature in India
•  Translation Studies

Academic Profile
B.A. (1972, Lady Brabourne College),
M.Phil and Ph.D (JU).

She joined the West Bengal Education Service in 1980.

Recent Publications
“Indian Travel Writing in English: Bridging Space and Time” in Indian Writing in English: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vivekananada College publication, Blue Pencil, December 2005)

“The Re-greening of William Wordsworth” in “Prof. Subodh Sengupta Centenary Volume”, Subodh Sengupta Foundation, 2006.

Longman Study Edition of Moll Flanders published by Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd.: Delhi, 2007.

Translated four Bengali stories into English for A Collection of Partition Narratives edt., Dr Bashabi Fraser of the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, published by Anthem Press, U.K., 2006.

List of Publications
Jayati Gupta: Articles published in academic journals and books

Exclusively Travel-text or Travel issues related articles
•  “Traveller Extraordinary: The Turkish Embassy Papers of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, 1998-99
•  “Mrs Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko: A Discourse on Slavery”, Essays in Honour of the late Prof. Jyoti Bhattacharya, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXVII, No.2, 1999-2000
•  “And thereby hangs a tale: Observations on William Blake’s ‘Tyger’”, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXVIII, No. 1, 2000-01
•  “Sites of Struggle: Reading and Travel Text written by a Bengali Bhadramahila (1935)”, Newsletter of School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, Vol. 12, March 2002.
•  “London Through Alien Eyes” in ‘Literary London’, a refereed e-journal published by Goldsmith College, London University, March 2003.
•  “Indian Travel Writing in English: Bridging Space and Time” in Indian Writing in English: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Vivekananada College publication, Blue Pencil, December 2005)

Some Other Articles
•  “J.M Synge and the Irish Literary Theatre: From Narrative to Drama” in Drama: Literature and Performance, University of Calcutta, Department of English and the Academic Staff College, Nov. 2002.
•  “The Re-greening of William Wordsworth” in “Prof. Subodh Sengupta Centenary Volume”, Subodh Sengupta Foundation, 2006.
•  Article on De Rozio in The Presidency College Magazine, Vol. 67, 2006.

Books Published
•  “Reading Poems: An Annotated Anthology”, Poems edited with a preface and introduction published by Macmillan India Ltd, 2002.
•  Longman Study Edition of Moll Flanders published by Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd.: Delhi, 2007.
•  Netaji Subhas Open University, Course material for Distance Learning on Virgil’s Aeneid, 2006.
•  “Narratives and Narration: A Study of the Short Story in English”, Anthem Press, U.K. (In preparation)

Translation Assignments
•  “The Village Doctor”, a translation of a Bengali short story by Prabha Devi Saraswati, Harvest: Annual Translation Volume II, 2002
•  Translation into English of ‘Manua’ a Bengali novella by G.C.Nag (1927). Forthcoming in book format with an introduction under the C.U. DRS scheme.
•   Translated four Bengali stories into English for A Collection of Partition Narratives edited by Dr Bashabi Fraser of the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, published by Anthem Press, U.K., 2006.

Editorial work
•  Edited manuscripts for texts (“Robinson Crusoe” and “Gulliver’s Travels”) for publication by the Netaji Subhas Open University.
•  Edited “Indian Writing in English”, Department of English, Presidency College, 2003.
•   Kabi parichiti and chitrakar parichiti written in Bengali for a book of poems by Dr Debkumar Basu entitled ‘Prithivir se gan gahibo kemon kore’, Kolkata, Blue Pencil Publishing, 2003.
•   Introduction to Rajlakshmi Devi’s “Kedar-Badri bhraman brittanta o anyanya tirthachitra” Travelogues in Bengali published under the aegis of Womens’Studies Research Centre, Jadavpur and Dey’s Publishing, Kolkata (release 2005)

Book Reviews
•   Education World, Vol.V.No.5, Bangalore, May 2003.
•   The Oxford Tagore Translations :Selected Writings for Children by Rabindranath Tagore: edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri, OUP, 2002.
•  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Vol.10, no.1, New Delhi, Jan-Apr 2003.
•  The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature by Rajul Sogani, OUP, 2002.
•  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, New Delhi, forthcoming issue
•  Women Disability and Identity by Asha Hans and Annie Patri, Sage Publications, 2003, 2003.
•  Book Review in Studies in Travel Writing, Vol.10, No.2, 2006, international refereed journal, White Horse Press, UK.

General interest articles published
•  Edit page article in The Statesman on 22.5.2002 : “Jobs for the Disabled: Will the Landmark Judgement Serve its Purpose?”
•  Article on Teaching Methods in two parts : i. ‘Need to Personalise the Classroom at all Levels’ ii. ‘Technology Offers Wide Range of Innovative Tools’ in The Statesman, August 20-21, 2004.
•   General interest article “On Charity” in The Statesman, August 2005.
•   Article ‘On Sabbaths and Sabbaticals’ in The Statesman, 1st January 2006.