Dr. Sanjukta Das, Reader
BA Hons Indraprastha College, Delhi University 1978
MA English Miranda House, Delhi University 1980
Research Scholar Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata 1984-86
Ph. D Jadavpur University 1991
sanjuktadas99@rediffmail.com  
Area of Specialisation: Gender Studies, Indian English Literature, English in the Indian Classroom

Areas of Interest
•  Gender Studies
•  Indian English Literature
•  English Studies in the Indian Classroom

Recent Publications
•  Annotated translations of eight essays in BankimChandra’s Bangadarshan: Essays in Translation, Department of English, Calcutta University. Kolkata, India: Dasgupta and Company Pvt Ltd, 2007.
•  ‘Mother Tongue, Aunty Tongue: Indian English Poetry in the Indian Classroom’ in Colonial and Post Colonial Perspectives: Text, Context, Intertext, Calcutta University. Kolkata, India: Dasgupta and Company Pvt. Ltd, 2007.
•  ‘Developing the Term ‘Indigeneity’ as a Critical Tool for Culture Studies’, in Calcutta Leeds Colloquium Proceedings (under India-UK Academic and Educational Network) , Department of English , Calcutta University and School of English, Leeds University, 2006.

Area of Research
1. Ph D at the Department of English, Jadavpur University,1983-1990,(Degree awarded in 1991) Supervisor: Prof. Jashodhara Bagchi. Thesis title: ‘ The Portrait of the Artist as Heroine: evolution of the theme in the English novel with special reference to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook’.
The thesis explored the projection of women in fiction by English novelists, and the absence of any serious portrayal of a woman author or artist in the novel despite the presence of many women novelists in the field. Feminist criticism and the insights of women’s studies was an important frame of reference for this study.
The two novels that did have a portrait of the heroine as artist were examined against the important movements at the time of their writing __ the Suffragette Movement in England for Woolf and the Women’s Liberation Movement in America for Lessing.

2. As one of the early studies in this area from Kolkata with a socio-cultural frame of reference the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta awarded a scholarship for the project under ‘Social Bases of Culture’ May 1984 - Sept 1986. Economist, Prof. Nirmala Bannerjee was the supervisor for this part of the project. Research at the Centre involved exploring the area of feminist literary criticism, then an emerging field of study in India, with special reference to the portrayal of woman in literature vis a vis the corresponding condition of women reflected in socio-economic studies. ‘Feminist Literary Criticism: a new look at old things’ was published as ‘Occasional Paper 99’ by the Centre. The following papers were presented during the course of this project.
•  ‘Women’s History through Women’s Literature’, Centre for Studies and Social Sciences, Nov 1984.
•  'Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Seminar on ‘Simone de Beauvoir’ organized by Sachetana at Jadavpur University , 1986.

Ongoing Research Projects
Supervising the following Ph D project registered in 2007.
Title : Polyphonic Voices: Indian English Poetry by Women
Institution : Department of English , University of Calcutta

Teaching: Courses taught
MA (English) at Presidency College, Kolkata (as full-time Reader).
MA (English) at The Department of English, University of Calcutta (as Guest Faculty).
BA (Honours and Pass) at Presidency College, Kolkata (as full-time Reader).
BA Honours (EEG) at Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata.
M A (English) assignment evaluator at Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata.

List of Publications
•  ‘Feminist Literary Criticism : A New Look at Old Things’. Occasional Paper 99 , Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,1987.
•  ‘Speaking from Ithaca : A Look at Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’ , Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta ,Vol. XXVIII,No. I, 2002 .
•  ‘The Doll’s House, Family and Society’. Newsletter of the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University , 2002 .
•  ‘Women in R.K. Narayan or Rosie Daisy and English Honours’ in Prabandhamala 2001 (a book of essays presented at UGC seminars) published by Lady Brabourne College.
•  ‘The Construction of Eustacia Vye’ in Pegasus , Newsletter of the Department of English , Heremba Chandra College, ed. Salil Biswas, June 2001 .
•  ‘Reading R.K. Narayan’s The Guide’ Pegasus ,2002 .
•  Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe – Course Module for English Honours, Netaji Subhas Open University , 2002
•  'Psychology’, Translation of Ashalata Singha’s “Manastatva”, in Harvest Vol 2 (A Collection of Bengali stories by women writers) Edited by Tapati Gupta, Anushtup, 2002 .
•  ‘Jhumpa Lahiri and the Maladies Of Interpretation’ in Journal of the Department of English , University of Calcutta ,XXIX, NoI, 2001-2002
•  Nissim Ezekiel’s ‘Good Bye Party for Miss Pushpa T.S.’ and ‘An Introduction’ by Kamala Das, English Study Centre, Newsletter , ed. Shanta Mahalanobis , April 2003.
•  ‘A Renaissance Love Story in a Commerce Classroom: Texts and Contexts of Romeo and Juliet’, Journal of the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University,Vol.VIII, 2002-2003
•  ‘ Mothering Poetry: Balamani Amma’s ‘‘To My Daughter” and “An Introduction” by Kamala Das, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol.30 .Nos.1&2 , 2002-2003 .
•   ‘The Marriage of True Minds: Shakespeare’s Sonnet No.116, Pegasus Vol.2 Nos.3, 4,and 5. Jan2005.
•   Deconstructing Desire: Kamala Das’s ‘The Freaks’, Journal of the Department of English, University of Burdwan, Vol.XIV, No 1, 2005
•   The Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden: Adult Projects in Children’s Literature’, UGC Seminar proceedings published by the Department of English, Maulana Azad College.2006
•   “Where Can a Girl Travel To?” A Modern Therigatha’ (article on the first English novel from Bhutan) in Special Issue: New Literatures in English, Journal of Department of English, University of Calcutta, Vol. XXXII, Nos. 1&2, 2005-6.
•  ‘Mother Tongue, Aunty Tongue: Indian English Poetry in the Indian Classroom’ in Krishna Sen and Tapati Gupta ed. Colonial and Post Colonial Perspectives: Text, Context, Intertext, Kolkata, India: Dasgupta and Company Pvt Ltd, 2007.
•  Indian English Drama: Mahesh Dattani’s ‘Bravely Fought the Queen’, in Indian English Literature: Special Issue, Pegasus, Kolkata: 2007.
•  ‘Reading The Guide’ in Four Indian English Novels: Special Issue, Pegasus, Kolkata: 2007.
•  ‘The City in Voices in the City’ in Four Indian English Novels: Special Issue, Pegasus, Kolkata: 2007.
•  ‘The God of Small Things: Narrative and Narration’ in Four Indian English Novels: Special Issue, Pegasus, Kolkata: 2007.
•  ‘Skirting History, Reinforcing Gender: the Pedagogy of Indian English Literature’, presented at national seminar on Scripting Their Own Stories: Indian Women’s Writing in English, Department of English and other Modern European Languages, Visva- Bharati, Santiniketan , 24th&25th Feb2007. (to be published)
•  Modern Indian English Poetry: Parthasarathy, Post Graduate Course Module, Directorate of Distance Education, University of Burdwan.
•  Modern Indian English Poetry: Kamala Das, Post Graduate Course Module, Directorate of Distance Education, University of Burdwan.
•  Indian English Literature: Essays in Criticism: Worldview Publishers (under contract)
•  ranslations of several essays in Tapati Gupta (ed.) Bankimchandra’s Bangadarshan: Essays in Translation (under UGC-DRS Project, University of Calcutta) Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co. Pvt. Ltd.2007.