Dr. Niranjan Goswami, Reader
M.Phil., Ph.D (Jadavpur University)
niranjangoswami2@gmail.com 

A rank-holder in Economics in the Madhyamik Examination (1976), Dr. Niranjan Goswami received his under-graduate degree in English Honours from City College affiliated to the University of Calcutta. He did his post-graduation at the same university and subsequently acquired his M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Jadavpur University.
He joined the West Bengal Education Service in 1992. He taught at Darjeeling Government College for six years where he was an active member of The English Study Circle, which organized a number of literary events. Dr. Goswami created a discussion forum called Ambience which invited eminent speakers to lecture on philosophy, Tibetan and related languages. He was transferred to Barasat Government College in 1998 and to Presidency College in 2006 where he is currently Reader in English.
Dr. Goswami has published several books of poems. He translates from English and French into Bengali. He is proficient in German and Latin and has a working knowledge of Italian and Spanish.
In 1997 and 2004 he visited the UK (both times on Charles Wallace India Trust fellowships) to do research at the Warburg Institute and other resource centres on different aspects of the European Renaissance.
Dr.Goswami speaks as a resource- person at Refresher Courses and has taught as invited faculty at the Jadavpur University M.Phil course in English. He has been an external examiner and paper-setter with different universities in the state. He has also presented papers at various national and international conferences.

Areas of Interest
•  European and English Renaissance
•  Renaissance Rhetoric and Logic
•  Early Modern Prose Fiction
•  Neo-Latin and the Rise of the Vernacular
•  Seventeenth-century poetry and religious prose
•  Neo-classical French literature

Recent Publications
Articles
The Union of Philosophy and Eloquence : The Ramist Legacy in Literature and Philosophy: Essaying Connections Ed. Supriya Chaudhuri, Papyrus,2006.

Translations
Forty-two poems of Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations translated from French into Bengali, Anustup, XXXXI, No.2, 2007.

Area of Research
Early Modern Authors: Philip Sidney, Gabriel Harvey, William Temple, Abraham Fraunce, John Milton.
Humanists: Peter Ramus, Rudolph Agricola, Lorenzo Valla.
Prose Styles: Ciceronian and Senacan styles in Neo-Latin and English prose.

Ongoing Research Projects
Influence of Neo-Latin Styles on the Development of English Prose: Book Project.

Courses Taught
UG: Elizabethan and Jacobean Period, sonnets by Sidney and Spenser, Marlowe’s Edward II, Bacon’s essays, Keats’ poetry.
PG: Renaissance Thought, King Lear, Travel Writing, Literary Theory.

Publications
Articles
•  Shilper Chaturali : Salvador Dali in Anandan, vol.4, March, 1991.
•  “Trim Inventions : Image and Argument in the Poetry of George Herbert” in Essays and Studies VIII, Jadavpur University, 1994.
• ‘Humanistic Logic and Analysis of Texts’ in D.S.A. Occasional Papers No. 7-10, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, 1995.
•  “Graceful Symmetry : Method in Milton’s Areopagitica” in Essays and Studies XIII, Jadavpur University,1999.
•  “Queens in Disgrace: Rhetoric in Racine’s Phèdre and Sidney’s Old Arcadia” in Journal of the Department of English, XXX, Nos.1&2, University of Calcutta, 2002-3.
•  Humanistic Training in Writing and Renaissance Pedagogy in Anya Jhar, 2004-05, Barasat Govt. College.
•  The Union of Philosophy and Eloquence : The Ramist Legacy in Literature and Philosophy : Essaying Connections Ed. Supriya Chaudhuri, Papyrus,2006.

Translations
•  Bisher Dashake Germany : Shilpa/Rajnitir Pariprekshit, Geeorg Bussman, Pata, Vol., No.3, May 1983.
•  Bisher Dashake Germany : Shilpa/Rajnitir Pariprekshit, Georg Bussman, Pata, Vol.1, No.4, August, 1983.
•  Shilpa Itihas O Shreni Sangram, Nicos Hadjinicoleau, Pata,Vol.2, No.3, August-September, 1984.
•  Shilpa Itihas Rachanar Paddhati O Dristibhangi Prasange, Frederich Antal, Pata, Vol.2, Nos.1-2, May-June 1984.
•  Shilpa Itihas O Shreni Sangram, Nicos Hadjinicoleau, Pata,Vol.2, No.4, January 1985.
•   Shilpa Itihas O Shreni Sangram, Nicos Hadjinicoleau, Pata,Vol.3, No.1.
•   Angik O Antarbastu, Terry Eagleton, Kalodhvani, Vol.1, Nos.2-3, October,1985.
•   Sahitya O Itihas, Terry Eagleton, Kalodhvani,Vol.1, No.1, April,1985
.•  Shilpa Itihaser Artha Ki Shudhu Shilpakarmer Itihas? – Nicos Hadjinicoleau, excerpt from Art History and Class Struggle, Pata,Vol 1, Nos1-2, October, 1985.
•   Shilpa Paribesh, Ghatanar Rajniti, Adrian Henry, Pata, February,1988.
•  Mukta Pratyakshaner Swapakhshe, Shilpa Manush Ayatanik Abhignata, Edward T. Hall, Pata, February,1988.
•  Nichhak Jogandar Noy, Lekhak Shilpirao Swayam Utpadak, Walter Benjamin, Pata, February, 1991.

The following translations were selected in Chhabir Rajniti – Rajnaitik Chhabi, Ed. Sandipan Bhattacharya, Dipayan, 1990
•  Charles Baudelaire – Jnani Daumier Jukti – Georg Bussman.
•  Natun Chilir Chhabi – David Kunzle
•  Shilpita Ghatanar Rajniti Paribesh – Adrian Henry
•  Illuminations – Arthur Rimbeaud, Anustup, XXXI, No.2,2007.

Poems
•   Jatra, Atta Natar Surya, November, 1983.
•   Natun Kabita, Shataful, Januaary, 1986.
•   Se Holo Manush, Shabdaguli Jalbe, Smaran, Rupak, Din Kalo Rat Kalo, Chhinna Kabitamala1, Chhinna Kabitamala2, Kalodhvani, Vol.1, No.4, March, 1986.
•   Janajuddha Samparke Bhavana, Kalodhvani, May,1987.
•   Amra, Anwartha, Issue-IV, January, 1897.
•   Rupkatha, Kalodhvani, January, 1988
•   Katha, Chakshush, No5, October, 1991.

Book Review
•   Jyotsnamoy Ghoser Galpa, Kalodhvani, Vol.1, No.1, April,1985.
•   Books of Poems
•   Ekanta Bivinna Pathe (1981)
•   Chhandobaddha Jay Parajay (1986)

Books Translated
•   Marxbad O Sahitya Samalochana – Terry Eagleton,Dipayan, 1992.
•   Likhan O Barnamala – A.C. Moorehouse, Dipayan,1996.