MICRO-BIO

• Brief Bio-sketch Dr Saumitra Chakravarty Dr Saumitra Chakravarty has done her Ph.D. on the topic, ‘The Search for Identity in Contemporary British Fiction.’ She is engaged in active research on various aspects of the Feminine in literary and religi...More

  Brief Bio-sketch Dr Saumitra Chakravarty Dr Saumitra Chakravarty has done her Ph.D. on the topic, ‘The Search for Identity in Contemporary British Fiction.’ She is engaged in active research on various aspects of the Feminine in literary and religious texts, including Medieval Bengali religious texts of the Mangal Kavya tradition which add a folk dimension to the Classical notions of the Devi. She has presented a paper on the Manasa Mangal Kavya in August 2010 at the XXth World Congress of Religions organized by the IAHR at Toronto. She has worked on ‘the woman’s tale’, the feminine perspective in folk tales of Bengal and Australia . She is a member of the Partnership Studies Group of the University of Udine, Italy and has presented a paper on The Feminine Divine:Partnership Studies in the works of Toni Morrison and Mahasweta Devi at a conference on Partnership Studies in Udine. She has lectured extensively on gendered approaches to religious and literary texts in many Indian cities. Her research articles have been published in journals like Intersections of the Australian National University, in Le Simplegadi and Il Bianco e il Nero of the University of Udine, Italy, in Bells of the University of Barcelona and in Indian journals like the Atlantic Literary Review, The Literary Criterion, The Critical Endeavour and in books like The Goddess Awakened, Vignettes of Indian English Literature, Explorations of Indian English Drama, Women’s Writing in English. She has translated short stories of Bengali women writers on women’s issues in her book Three Sides of Life and is author of a volume of poetry entitled The Silent Cry and co-author of a book of essays entitled The Endangered Self. She is Guest Faculty for the Post-Graduate and Ph.D. by course-work programmes in Jain University and Seshadripuram College. Less

EXPERIENCE

• National College Basavanagudi

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  • January 2018 to Present

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