बड’लेण्ड मुलुगसोलोंसालि
বড়োলেণ্ড বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়
Bodoland University
Kokrajhar (BTR), Assam
TEACHING STAFF
Name of the Faculty: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas
Current Position: Associate Professor
Dept. of English, Bodoland University
Mobile No. : 9864180048
E-mail ID : deb61594@gmail.com
Date of Birth :16.08.1978
Area of Research : Environmental Humanities, Nationalism, Northeast India, Postcolonial Studies
Work Experience : 18 Years
Teaching Interest :Critical Theory
Academic Qualifications :MA (JNU), PhD (GU)
RESEARCH PUBLICATION
| Title of the Paper | Name of the Journal | Indexed by | Impact Factor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Language, Identity and Conflict: Comprehending Everyday Co-existence in Assam | Space and Culture, India | Scopus | 1 | 2024 |
| Literary solastalgia: Indigenous communities and narratives of precarity in Global South | Regional Environmental Change | Scopus | 3.4 | 2024 |
| Postcolonial Ecology & The Cunning of Modernity: Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil as a Critique of Postcolonial Modernity | SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English | Scopus | 0.3 | 2024 |
| Making Peace Mutually: Perspectives from Assam | Conflict Resolution Quarterly | WoS | 1.4 | 2024 |
| Women, Environment & Armed Conflicts in Assam: Literature as Witness | Asian Ethnicity | Scopus | 2.5 | 2024 |
| Beyond Good and Evil: The Imagined nation in Panipat, Tanhaji and Samrat Prithviraj | National Identities | Scopus | 1.2 | 2024 |
| Silenced Voices and Disciplined Bodies: The Story of a missing person in Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field | Asiatic | Scopus | 0.7 | 2023 |
| Ethnicity, Hybridity & Felanee: Women Question in India’s Northeast | Journal for Cultural Research | Scopus | 0.9 | 2023 |
| Mapping a Contested Space: Northeast India through the Ages | Space & Culture, India | Scopus | 1.9 | 2023 |
| Solastalgia in the Environmental Imagination of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner: The Anthropocene and Postcolonial Ecology | Journal of Narrative and Language Studies | Scopus | 0.2 | 2023 |
| Can Citizen Science be the new People’s Movement in India?: Reading First Steps. | Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences | WoS | 2.5 | 2023 |
| The site of Anthropocene and Colonial entanglement: Reviewing The Nutmeg’s Curse | Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences | Scopus & WoS | 2.5 | 2022 |
| Anthropocene and Ecoprecarity: Indigenous Lives in Pankaj Sekhseria’s The Last Wave: An Island Novel | Dogo Rangsang Research Journal | UGC-CARE | N/A | 2022 |
| Of contested landscapes and women’s bodies: Rape as an invasive weapon in Malsawmi Jacob’s Zorami | Journal of International Women´s Studies | Scopus | 0.6 | 2022 |
| A Case of Holy Cow: Religion, Politics and Culture in Assamese feature Film Goru | South Asian Popular Culture | Scopus | 0.7 | 2022 |
| Resistance and Ungendering in the Poetry of Mona Zote and Monalisa Chankija | Rupktha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities | Scopus & WoS | 0.4 | 2022 |
| Anthropocene Conflict and Reconciliation: Literary Responses from India’s North East | RILE, ASLE-Brazil | NO | N/A | 2022 |
| Postcolonial Exigency: Interrogating Manichean Model of Coloniality through a Polycolonial lens | Postcolonial Studies | WoS | 1.5 | 2021 |
| Climate Change and Immigration in Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island | Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies | UGC-CARE | N/A | 2021 |
| Contesting Homogeneity: Stereotypes and Heteronormativity in Aruni Kashyap’s His Father’s Disease | English: A Journal of English Association | Scopus | 0.2 | 2021 |
| The Wretched of the Dickens: Deconstructing race-relations in Paul Beatty’s The Sellout. | Dogo Rangsang Research Journal | UGC-CARE | N/A | 2021 |
| Stigma and Fear during COVID-19: Essentializing Religion in Indian Context | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications | Scopus | 3 | 2021 |
| The construction of Insider-Outsider in Northeast India: A reading of These Hills Called Home, Lunatic in My Head and Stupid Cupid | RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism | Scopus | 0.1 | 2021 |
| The Impasse of Khilonjia Identity | Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy | Scopus | 0.6 | 2020 |
| Policing During the Time of Corona: The Indian Context | Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice | Scopus | 3.4 | 2020 |
| The Great Derangement and Storyteller’s Prerogative: Knowledge from the Hearth | Psychology Research | NO | N/A | 2020 |
| Confluence of Myth and Reality in Son of the Thundercloud | Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies | CARE LISTED | N/A | 2018 |
BOOKS
| Title of the Book | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Disability and Peripherality: Perspectives and Narratives from India’s North East |
Springer | 2025 |
| Environmental Humanities in India | Springer | 2024 |
| Anglophone Literature from Northeast India and Women’s Writing | Atlantic | 2024 |
| Global Perspectives on Nationalism: Political and Literary Discourses | Routledge | 2022 |
| Ethno-Nationalism in India: Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Atlantic | 2022 |
| Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts | Routledge | 2021 |
BOOK CHAPTERS:
- Biswas, Debajyoti & Gogoi, Pankaj Jyoti. Understanding Disability and Peripherality: An Introduction. In Disability and Peripherality: Perspectives and Narratives from India´s North East, edited by Pankaj Jyoti Gogoi & Debajyoti Biswas, Springer (2025)
- Sharma, Protim, Devi, Pallavi Devi & Biswas, Debajyoti. Disability & Biopolitics: A Study of the Beggars in Guwahati during the Pandemic Times. In Disability and Peripherality: Perspectives and Narratives from India´s North East, edited by Pankaj Jyoti Gogoi & Debajyoti Biswas, Springer (2025)
- Biswas, Debajyoti. “Environmental Humanities in India: An Interdisciplinary Approach” In Environmental Humanities in India, edited by D Biswas & JC Ryan Springer (2024)
- Sharma, Susheel Kumar & Biswas, Debajyoti. “The Environment in Hindu Consciousness: Revisiting the Sacred Texts,” In Environmental Humanities in India, edited by D Biswas & JC Ryan, Springer (2024)
- Samkaria, Ashwarya & Debajyoti Biswas. “The Mangroves are home to predators of every kind: Performing Ecoprecarity in Amitav Ghosh’s Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban.” In Imagining Catastrophe: Literary and Cultural Representations of Environmental Disaster, Edited by Scott Slovic, Joyjit Ghosh, and Samit Kumar Maiti. USA: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 199-210, (2023)
- Biswas, Debajyoti. “Urban Spaces and Fading Culture in Mamang Dai´s Fictions: A Postmodern Reading of City life.” The City Speaks: Urban Spaces in Indian Literature, Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee & Goutam Karmakar. NY: Routledge (2023) (Scopus)
- Biswas, Debajyoti. “Deconstructing Assamese Nationalism Vis-à-vis Indian Nationalism.” In Global Perspectives on Nationalism: Political and Literary Discourses. Edited by Debajyoti Biswas, Panos Eliopoulos & John C. Ryan New York: Routledge (2022) (Web of Science)
- Biswas, Debajyoti, Panos Eliopoulos & John C. Ryan. “Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Nationalism.” In Global Perspectives on Nationalism: Political and Literary Discourses. Edited byPanos Eliopoulos & John C. Ryan. New York: Routledge (2022) (Web of Science)
- Biswas, Debajyoti. “Reconfiguring Indian Nationalism.” Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts, edited by Debajyoti Biswas & John Charles Ryan. NY: Routledge, 2021 (Scopus & Web of Science)
- Biswas, Debajyoti. “Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Indian Nationalism.” Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts, edited by Debajyoti Biswas & John Charles Ryan. NY: Routledge, 2021
INVITED LECTURES:
- Delivered a Keynote Speech at a two-day National Seminar on “Society and Transformation: Contemplation on the Epoch-Making Events in the Journey of Mankind” organized by B.H. College on 5th & 6th April 2024.
- Delivered a lecture on “Writing Research paper and Dissertation: Theory, Method and Approach” at St Ann"s College on 20th March 2024
- Delivered a talk entitled “Vulnerability and Resistance in India"s North East” at a one-day Workshop on Conceptualizing Vulnerability in the 21st Century organized by Bennett University, Noida on 1st March 2024.
- Delivered two talks entitled “Writing Quality Research Paper” and “Developing Research Problem in a paper and the Dos and Don"ts” at Seven Day Faculty Development Program (FDP) on the topic The Principles of Writing Quality Research Papers in Humanities and Social Sciences organized by Kamargaon College, Golaghat, Assam in Collaboration with the Department of English & the Department of History, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam on 1st November 2023.
- Delivered a talk entitled “The Study of Literary Texts in North East India: Critical Theory and Praxis" at Devicharan Baruah Girls" College, Jorhat on 31st October 2023.
- Delivered a talk entitled “Identity, Conflict & Women: Stories of Resilience from India"s North East” at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland on 18th October 2023.
- Delivered a Lecture entitled “Writings from India"s North East: Social, Cultural and Political Contexts” at Online Refresher Course in Indian Literature and Languages organized by HRDC-Kumaun University, Nainital on 21st August 2023
- Delivered a Lecture entitled “How to develop a Journal” at Pub-Kamrup College, Gauhati University on 4th May 2023.
- Delivered a Lecture entitled “Writing Research Articles for International Journals” at English Language Teaching (Online Mode) organized by the UGC HRDC Manipur University on 19th Nov 2022.
- Delivered a Lecture entitled “Nation, National Imagination and Indian Literature” at Refresher Course on Comparative Indian Literature & Culture and Bharat Nirman and Comparative Literature organized by Department of Mil & Literary Studies, Gauhati University (HRDC) on 15th November 2022.
- Delivered Special Talk entitled “Environmental Humanities” at Department of English, Bijni College, Bijni, Assam on 14th November 2022.
- Delivered a Special Talk titled “Contesting Identities: An Overview of Anglophone Literature from India"s North East” at Kokrajhar Government College organized by Department of English in collaboration with IQAC, Kokrajhar Govt. College, Kokrajhar on 24th December 2021.
- Delivered a plenary talk titled “Assamese Women in 19th and 20th Century” in an International Webinar titled “Women in 19th and 20th Century” organized by Department of Bengali, Bijni College, Bijni in collaboration with Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar Metropolitan College, Kolkata on 22nd& 23rd December 2021.
- Delivered a Plenary Talk titled “Migration and Nation-Building: A feat for Identity, Survival and Sustenance” at an international seminar on “Trans-Border Migration in India: Issues & Challenges Withspecial Reference To North-East India” organized by Bethany Christian College, Family Lane, Bijang, Churachandpur, Manipur, India, 16th November 2021.
- Delivered an invited lecture titled “Recent Trends in literature” at a National Webinar on “Recent Trends in Literature” organized by Tridhara Sahitya Sansad Berhampur, Odisha, India, 4th July 2021.
- Delivered an invited lecture on 3rd July titled “Anglophone fiction from North-east India and other voices” at International Webinar on “Literature in English: Other Voices” organized by Department of English in Collaboration with IQAC, Bijni College, Bijni, Assam from 3rd to 4th July 2021.
- Delivered an invited lecture titled “The Trajectory of Nationalism in India and its Dynamics” at International Webinar on “revisiting Nationalism in 21st century” organized by IQAC, Kamargaon College, Golaghat, Assam from 16th to 17th September 2020.
- Delivered an invited lecture titled "Necropolitics in Postcolonial Assam: Understanding the dynamics of Citizenship and Identity" at an International Webinar on “Biopolitics: Literature, Culture and Society” organized by Khalisani Mahavidyalaya Chandannagar, Hooghly, West Bengal from 23rd to 25th July 2020.
- Delivered a plenary speech on Nationalism at a National Seminar organized by HSS, Central Institute of Technology, Kokrajhar on 28th& 29th January 2020.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
| Degree/Course | Name of the Institution | Year |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | Gauhati University | 2017 |
| MA | Jawaharlal Nehru University | 2003 |
| BA | Gauhati University | 2000 |
| HS | BH College | 1997 |
| HSLCE | St Mary"s High School | 1995 |
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCES ATTENDED
| Name of the Conference | Sponsoring Agency | Title of the Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 12th international conference Synergies in Communication (2024) | Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania | Culture and identity in Rita Choudhury"s “Mare Asom Jiye Kun” |
| 5th Asle-Asean Ecocritical Conference (2023) | School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand | Travails of modernity in Asia: Precarious lives in Amitav Ghosh"s The Living Mountain & Anuradha Sharma Pujari"s The Forest Wails |
| The Anthropocene: From Boundaries to Bonds (2023) | University of Wrocław & Academia Europaea Wrocław Knowledge Hub, Wroclaw, Poland | Solastalgia and Poetic Resilience in the Environmental Imagination of Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner |
| 11th Literary Studies Conference (LSC) (2023) | Universitas Sanata Dharma, Indonesia | Pricarious Lives and Ambivalent Modernity: Literature as resistance in Anuradha Sharma Pujari"s The Forest Wails and Mamang Dai"s The Legend of Pensam |
| 30th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (BCPS) (2021) | Georgia Southern University, USA | Constructing and Contesting India"s North East: An analysis of Aruni Kashyap"s His Father"s Disease |
| 5th Annual International Conference of Indian Social Sciences & Humanities Congress 2019 (SAMAGAM 19) | Paschimbanga Anchalik Itihas O Loksanskriti Charcha Kendra in collaboration with Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, West Bengal | Bhupen Hazarikar Mahabahu Brahmaputra: Manabiya Promulyar Nandanikata |
| International Conference on Climate Change, Environmental Ethics and Ecological Humanities (2019) | Department of English, Mahishadal Raj College,West Bengal in academic association with Department of Foreign Language and Literature, State University of Milan, Italy | Decolonising Nature: An Eco-feminist Reading of Kire"s Son of the Thundercloud |
| International Symposium on Mythology (2019) | Ardahan University, Turkey | The Great Derangement and Storyteller"s Prerogative: Knowledge from the Hearth |
SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS/ CONSULTANCY ASSIGNMENTS
| Project Title | Sponsoring Agency |
|---|---|
| Identity and Conflictin Assam: Comprehending everyday Co-existence and Peacemaking in Literaturefrom Assam | ICSSR (Major RP) |
| Privatisation of Education in Assam: Acomparative study of the private and government funded institutions in HojaiCircle | UGC (Minor RP) |
| ACritical Study on Mass Failure in English in the Colleges under GauhatiUniversity | UGC (Minor RP) |
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
| Name of the Conference | Sponsoring Agency |
|---|---|
| Living with Precarity: Literature in Context in the 21st Century | ICSSR-NERC & NTPC, Bongaigaon |
| Climate, Conflict and Pandemic: Literary responses from India"s Northeast | Bodoland University |
| Disability in North-East India | ICSSR-NERC |
| Environment Across Disciplines: Perspectives on the 21st Century | ICSSR-NERC |
| Reconfiguring Nationalism: Protest and Acquiescence | BRPL |
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
| Name of the Assignment | Duration |
|---|---|
| Head of the Department | 2021 - Present |
| Programme Officer, NSS | 2016-2020 |
| OSD, CUDC, Bodoland University | 2017-2019 |
EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
| Nature of Activity | Details |
|---|---|
| School Visits | Adopted Sankarpara ME School. |
MEMBERSHIP OF VARIOIUS COMMITTEE/ SOCIETIES
- Member of The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE)
- Member of Indian Disability Studies Collective (IDSC)
- Life Member of Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS)
- Member of Postcolonial Studies Association (PSA)
- Member of Muse India, the Literary e-Journal