Bodoland University Anthem
TEACHING STAFF
Name of the Faculty: Dr. Debajyoti Biswas
Current Position: Associate Professor and Head
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
RESEARCH PUBLICATION
| Title of the Paper | Name of the Journal | Indexed by Scopus/ Web of Science/UGC Care (Yes/No) | Impact Factor | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Making PeaceMutually: Perspectives from Assam | Conflict Resolution Quarterly | WoS | 1.4 | 2024 |
| Women, Environment & Armed Conflicts inAssam: Literature as Witness | Asian Ethnicity | Scopus | 2.5 | 2024 |
| Beyond Good and Evil: The Imagined nation in Panipat, Tanhaji andSamrat Prithviraj | NationalIdentities | Scopus | 1.2 | 2024 |
| SilencedVoices and Disciplined Bodies: The Story of a missing person in MadhuriVijay"s The Far Field | Asiatic | Scopus | 0.7 | 2023 |
| Ethnicity, Hybridity & Felanee: WomenQuestion in India"s Northeast | Journal for CulturalResearch | Scopus | 0.9 | 2023 |
| Mapping a ContestedSpace: 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 LanguageStudies | Scopus | 0.2 | 2023 |
| Can Citizen Science be the new People"s Movement inIndia?: Reading First Steps. | Journal ofEnvironmental Studies and Sciences | WoS | 2.5 | 2023 |
| The site of Anthropocene and Colonial entanglement:Reviewing The Nutmeg"s Curse | Journal ofEnvironmental Studies and Sciences | Scopus & WoS | 2.5 | 2022 |
| Anthropocene and Ecoprecarity: Indigenous Lives inPankaj Sekhseria"s The Last Wave: AnIsland Novel | Dogo RangsangResearch Journal | UGC-CARE | N/A | 2022 |
| Of contested landscapes and women"s bodies: Rape asan invasive weapon in Malsawmi Jacob"s Zorami | Journal ofInternational Women´s Studies | Scopus | 0.6 | 2022 |
| A Case of Holy Cow: Religion, Politics and Culturein Assamese feature Film Goru | South Asian PopularCulture | Scopus | 0.7 | 2022 |
| Resistance and Ungendering in the Poetry of MonaZote and Monalisa Chankija | Rupktha Journal of InterdisciplinaryStudies in Humanities | Scopus & WoS | 0.4 | 2022 |
| Anthropocene Conflict and Reconciliation: LiteraryResponses from India"s North East | RILE, ASLE-Brazil | NO | N/A | 2022 |
| Postcolonial Exigency: Interrogating Manichean Modelof Coloniality through a Polycolonial lens | PostcolonialStudies | WoS | 1.5 | 2021 |
| Climate Change and Immigration in Amitav Ghosh"s Gun Island | Journal of theSchool 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: Deconstructingrace-relations in Paul Beatty"s TheSellout. | Dogo Rangsang Research Journal | UGC-CARE | N/A | 2021 |
| Stigma and Fear duringCOVID-19: Essentializing Religion in Indian Context | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications | Scopus | 3 | 2021 |
| The constructionof Insider-Outsider in Northeast India: A reading of These Hills Called Home, Lunaticin My Head and Stupid Cupid | RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature andJournalism | Scopus | 0.1 | 2021 |
| TheImpasse of Khilonjia Identity | Corvinus Journal of Sociology and Social Policy | Scopus | 0.6 | 2020 |
| Policing During the Time ofCorona: 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 | PsychologyResearch | NO | N/A | 2020 |
| Confluence ofMyth and Reality in Son of the Thundercloud | Journalof Literature and Cultural Studies | CARE LISTED | N/A | 2018 |
BOOKS
| Title of the Book | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Anglophone Literature from Northeast India and Women"s Writing | Atlantic | (In Press) 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Privatisation of Education in Assam: Acomparative study of the private and government funded institutions in HojaiCircle | UGC |
| ACritical Study on Mass Failure in English in the Colleges under GauhatiUniversity | UGC |
WORKSHOP/ SEMINAR/ CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
| Name of the Conference | Sponsoring Agency |
|---|---|
| Disability in North-East India | ICSSR |
| Environment Across Disciplines: Perspectives on the 21st Century | ICSSR |
| Reconfiguring Nationalism: Protest andAcquiescence | 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