DR. SUBIR DHAR

Director

MENTOR AND ADVISOR, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND DIRECTOR SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES

Email: subir.d@snuniv.ac.in

Prof. Dhar taught at Rabindra Bharati University for over thirty-five years before   joining the Department of English at Sister Nivedita University. At Rabindra Bharati University he had been the officiating Vice-Chancellor as well as the Director of its School of Languages and Culture. His research interests include Semeiotics, hermeneutics, Postcolonialism, translation studies, language studies, Gelotology and Popular Culture.    

PROF. MONIKINKINI BASU

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AND HOD - ENGLISH

Email: monikinkini.b@snuniv.ac.in

Ms. Basu is on the verge of completing her PhD from the internationally-renowned Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta [Jadavpur University] having previously studied at the University of Kalyani. She has been teaching since 2013, with her time divided between Sri Krishna College under the University of Kalyani and The Bhawanipore Education Society. Her teaching and research interests include Drama, Performance Studies, Masculinity Studies and Film Studies.

PROFESSOR (DR.) SANJUKTA DASGUPTA

HONOURARY VISITING PROFESSOR - ENGLISH

Professor and former head, dept of English and former dean, faculty of arts, Calcutta University

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Professor and former head, dept of English and former dean, faculty of arts, Calcutta University has been the recipient of the fulbright postdoctoral fellowship and fulbright scholar in residence grant, Australia India council fellowship, gender studies fellowship grant, University of British Columbia, among others. She has been invited to participate in conferences and has taught/lectured at universities in the USA, UK, Europe, Canada and Australia.

She is the president, executive council, of the Indian poetry and performance library, ICCR, Kolkata.
Sahitya akademi new Delhi Nominated her as the convenor of the English language board.

She is a member of Sahitya akademi Delhi's general council. In 2018, she taught in Poland, as visiting Professor, at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.
She received the IWSFF Women achievers award, kolkata in 2019 and the Wei Kamala das poetry award in 2020.

DR. PROBAL ROY CHOWDHURY

Professor - English

Email: probal.rc@snuniv.ac.in

RAJEEV CIRCLE SCHOLAR, 2022

Dr Probal Roy Chowdhury is currently Professor at the Department of English, Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata. Earlier he taught English and cultural studies at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu). His doctoral thesis Changing Profile of Community Participation in School Education in Madras Presidency: 1820-1920 has been in continuation of the perspective presented by the late Gandhian thinker and historian Dharampal (1922-2006) in his seminal work, The Beautiful Tree, which showed that prior to the British rule there was a wide spread and inclusive public education system which was functioning in the Madras Presidency and was better than the public education systems anywhere in Europe till the early nineteenth century. In his work, Probal has compiled — perhaps for the first time — authentic and substantial evidence for the emergence of educational deprivation among many of the ‘backward communities’ in India as being concomitant with the establishment and growth of the colonial education system under the British rule. Probal has also worked with the Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai, as a post-doctoral fellow, and with the TVS Educational Society, Chennai, as an educational consultant. His teaching and research interests lie in the history of education in modern India, society and polity in pre-British India, postcolonial theory and literature, Indian writing in English, and cultural and religious traditions of Bengal.

DR. MADHUCHHANDA RAY CHOUDHURY

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - ENGLISH

Email: madhuchhandra.r@snuniv.ac.in

Prof. Ray Choudhury completed her education from St. Xavier’s College, Jadavpur University, and Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA. She has previously been Assistant Professor at Amity University and St. Xavier’s University in Kolkata where she served as Head of the Dept., before taking over as our (SNU) Head of the English Department. Her research interests include the 18^th century British novel, the literature of the Augustan Age, Gothic studies, Monsters and Monstrosity.

DR. SHUBHAM BHATTACHARJEE

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - ENGLISH

B.A. (Hons.), M.A. (Double), M.Phil., Ph.D.

Email: shubham.b@snuniv.ac.in

Dr. Bhattacharjee has received his Ph.D. from Rabindra Bharati University. His Ph.D. thesis is entitled Religious Convictions in the Post-Conversion Writings of T.S. Eliot. Previously, he had also pursued his B.A. (Hons.), M.A. and M.Phil. from the same institution. He also possesses a second M.A. Degree in English Language Teaching from Netaji Subhas Open University, alongside a Post Graduate Diploma in Translation and Transcultural Studies. Dr. Bhattacharjee has cleared the UGC-NET and WB SET examination on multiple instances. Prior to joining Sister Nivedita University as an Assistant Professor, he engaged classes at Rabindra Bharati University since July 2019, initially as a Junior Research Fellow and subsequently as a Senior Research Fellow. Dr. Bhattacharjee has presented research papers in numerous national and international seminars. He also has several published articles in reputed journals to his credit. Currently, Dr. Bhattacharjee is a member of the International T.S. Eliot Society (USA) and T S Eliot Society (UK). His areas of interest include Modern and Postmodern Literature, 20th Century Literary Theory and Criticism etc.

SUDESHA DAS

Teaching Associate - English

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Prof. Das is a PG degree holder from the West Bengal State University. She has also qualified UGC NET. Her qualifications were subsequently buttressed with a B.Ed from West Bengal University of Teachers Training, Education Planning, and Administration. She immediately took the plunge into teaching after graduating from her B. Ed in 2018, and has been a mainstay in the Department of English at Sister Nivedita University ever since. Her research interests and area of specialization include Indian Mythological Literature, Tagore Literature, Bengali Literature and Gender studies. 

MS. DEBDATTA MITRA

Teaching Associate - English

M.A. and M. Phil degrees from Calcutta University

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Prof. Mitra is a holder of M.A. and M. Phil degrees from Calcutta University. She has previously taught at Manindra Chandra College (2017) and has been a part of SNU since 2020.

After studying french from alliance française, she has worked as a translator at Accenture (2018). Moreover, she holds advanced degrees in graphology and is a certified graphologist.

Her research interests include modernism, post-modernism, drama, french literature, and art history.

DR. PRASANTA GHOSHAL

Visiting Faculty - English

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Dr.Ghoshal is a holder of M. Phil and Ph.D. degrees from Rabindra Bharati University. With over a decade’s teaching experience, he has been teaching at Sister Nivedita University since 2019. He also teaches in Sir Gurudas Mahavidyalaya under the University of Calcutta, Netaji Subhash Open University and the Dept of Open and Distance Learning, University of Kalyani. His teaching and research interests include Partition literature, trauma studies, Foucauldian studies, crisis psychology and tribal gender studies.

Ms. PALOMA CHATERJI

Visiting Faculty - English

Masters from Rabindra Bharati University

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Paloma Chatterjee completed her graduation from Gokhale memorial girls’ college, under the University of Calcutta and went on to pursue her Masters from Rabindra Bharati University. She has served as a research coordinator in organic studies at a kolkata based ngo before joining as a research scholar at the department of english, St. Xavier's university, kolkata in 2019. She is a recipient of 'microsoft create to inspire' fellowship 2015 that campaigned against electronic waste through performing arts. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, literature and environment, feminist studies and literature from north east india. Besides academics she spends a substantial amount of time in music, reading and travelling.

Mr. SANTADIP CHATTERJEE

Visiting Faculty - English

Masters from West Bengal state University

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Mr. Chatterjee completed his graduation from University of kalyani and Masters from West Bengal state University. He is pursuing his B.Ed from university of burdwan. He did a course in communicative english which covers the areas like communication skill, situational conversation, group discussion, pronunciation, spoken english and english language overview etc. He also did a course in business english. He has presented nine papers in different international and national level seminars organised by different alma maters. He has five national and international publications; presently he is working on two papers. He received award of appreciation at the international conference on english learning & teaching skills; 2019. He did several workshops on english language teaching (elt), communication skill, soft skill, theatre and drama along with some faculty development programmes. He has an experience of teaching communicative english, soft skill, business english, elt, group discussion and literature. He has an experience of academic content writing. His teaching interest includes communicative english, soft skill, elt, business english and literature.

Mallika Roy Choudhury

Assistant Professor - History

Ph.D. (Pursuing), M.Phil., M.A.

Email: mallika.rc@snuniv.ac.in

Ms. Mallika Roy Choudhury is presently serving as an Assistant Professor, in the Department of History, at Sister Nivedita University, Kolkata. She has previously taught History at Loreto College, Kolkata, and Amity University, Kolkata. Currently pursuing her doctoral degree from Jadavpur University, she has been a rank holder in History Honours from Loreto College at the University of Calcutta examinations and has earned high first-class M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in Modern History from Jawaharlal Nehru University. She cleared the UGC-NET Examinations in 2019. Her research deals with bringing historicity into discourses on gender, print culture, migration, mobility, cultural, and visual politics of South Asia. She has also served as a Research Fellow for different projects on the history and heritage of Kolkata and has presented papers on different facets of history in national and international conferences. Ms. Roy Choudhury espouses the belief that experiential and interdisciplinary learning, innovative methods in pedagogy, and actively preserving the ambient heritage can help pave a better fate for the discipline of history.