HANSRAJ COLLEGE

University of Delhi

NAAC Grade A++ with CGPA 3.71 NIRF Rank # 12 (Amongst Colleges)

English

Dr Nabanita Chakraborty

Associate Professor | Department of English

Contact (Off.): 996823823

Email Address : nabanita[at]hrc[dot]du[dot]ac[dot]in

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1. Early Modern English Studies

2. Rhetorical Theory

3. Migration and Diaspora Studies

4. Partition Literature

  • PhD , 2018 , University of Delhi
  • M.Phil English , 2007 , University of Delhi
  • M.A English , 2002 , Jadavpur University
  • BA English , 2000 , Jadavpur University
  • UGC NET , 2005 ,

1. Associate Professor in permanent capacity in Hansraj College since July  21, 2010.

2  Assistant Professor in temporary capacity in Janki Devi Memorial College from November 13, 2007 to July 20, 2010.

3.  Assistant Professor in ad hoc capacity in Khalsa College from October 16, 2007 to November 12, 2007.

4.  Assistant Professor in ad hoc capacity in Shyama Prasad Mukherjee College from October 27, 2005 to October 15, 2010.  

English Literature

English Language

Communication Skills

Academic advisor to two PhD students enrolled in DU  since 2023. 

Taught MA English , University of Delhi as guest lecturer from 2011-2014

 

Core Committee Member, Department of English, University of Delhi since 2019 and continuing.

Moderation Committee Member, Department of English, University of Delhi since 2019 and continuing. 

Deputy Superintendant, Undergraduate Examinations, 2021-2022

Convenor, English Society, 2019-2023.

Co-Convenor, Arts and Commerce Admission, 2016-2017

Teacher in - charge, English Department 2017-2018

Department coordinator, NAAC committee 2017-2018

Convenor, Department workload 2017-2018

Convenor, Department timetable 2017-2018

Convenor, English Admission Committee 2017-2018

Secretary, Staff Association 2016-2018

President, Staff Association 2019-2020

 

PhD

"Rhetoric of Love and Politics of Power: Speeches and Writings of Queen Elizabeth I"

awarded in April, 2018.

M.Phil

" Representations of Madonna in Giovanni Bellini's Paintings in the light of Kristeva's theory of Motherhood

 

Convenor and organiser of an online add-on certificate course for undergraduate and postgraduate students on "Academic Writing, Research Methodology and New Frontiers of Research for Humanities and Social Sciences" from January 7-29, 2022.

  1. ‘Writing the ‘Stigmatext’ of Indenture: A Reading of Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman, Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diasporas, ed. Amba Pande (Springer, 2020). ISBN: 978-981-15-1176-9 (Scopus Indexed)
  2.  “The Rhetoric of Deliberation and the Space of the Hyphen: Identity Politics of the Indian Women Diaspora in the Fictions of Jhumpa Lahiri”, Women in Indian Diaspora: Historical Narratives and Contemporary Challenges, ed. Amba Pande (Springer, Dec 2017). ISBN: 9811059500 (Scopus Indexed)
  3. "Politics of Language and Silence: Bengali Muslim Diaspora in Monica Ali's Brick Lane', Through the Diasporic Lens (Authorspress, 2017) ISBN 978-93-5207-524-9
  4. “Rhetoric of Memory and Silence: A Study of Partition Literature of Bengal”, Conference Proceedings on Migration and Identity: The Urban Subject (Daulat Ram College, 2017)

 

  1. 'The Uncanny in Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand: Subverting the Reality', Critical South Asian Studies (Transnational Press, London, Aug 2024). ISSN 2753-6734 (print), 2753-6742 (online)

  2. 'Embodiment of Care: A Reading of Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees', Women's Link Journal (July 2024) ISSN: 2229-6409 (print)

  3. ‘Culture as Commodity: Visual Rhetoric of Tea Advertisement in Colonial India’, Shodhkosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts. June 2024. ISSN: 2582-7472 (online). (UGC Care Listed)
  4. ‘ Bodily Rhythms and Signifying Practices: A Reading of Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand’, The Harbour Journal, Vol 3, Issue 1, May 2024. ISSN: 2563-7053 (online)
  5.  ‘Performative Rhetoric and Spatial Dynamics in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: A Case study of Pedagogical Practices in a Literature Classroom’, Fortell 48, Jan 2024. ISSN 2229-6557 (print) (UGC Care listed Journal)
  6. “Reading Silence in History: Elizabethan Religious Settlement” in Salesian Journal Of  Humanities and Social Sciences Vol XII no 1 (May 2021). ISSN: 0976-1861
  7. ‘Contesting Spaces and Conflicting Memories: A Reading of Armenian Diaspora’, Migration and Diasporas: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol 2 issue 1 (2020) ISSN: 25819437
  8. ‘Rhetoric of Memory and Politics of Identity: A Study of Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul’, Akademos (2017) ISSN: 2231-0584 (UGC list: sr. no.2946, journal no. 62954) 
  9.  'Politics of Equivocation and Deferral: Queen Elizabeth I and the Execution of Queen Mary of Scotland', Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol VIII, No 4, 2016 (ISSN: 0975-2935). (Scopus Indexed)
  10. Nostalgic Memories of Home and Voices of the Returning Subjects" Diaspora Studies (Routledge, 2015) ISSN: 0973-9572. (Scopus Indexed).

Paper Presentations in national and international conferences:

  1. ‘Culture as Commodity: Visual Rhetoric of Tea Advertisement in Colonial India’, in International Society of History of Rhetoric (ISHR) Conference held in New Orleans, USA in July 2019.
  2. ‘Genre and its Discontent: A Reading of Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman as History, Memoir or Novel’ in a National Conference on Between History and Literature: Enquiries into Colonial Modernity organized by University of Hyderabad from March 17-19, 2019.

  3. ‘Between Watching and Reading: A Study of Court Masque in Theatre and in Print’ in an international conference on Politics, Power and Spectacle in Shakespeare organized by Shakespeare Society of India on March 7-8, 2019.

  4. ‘Cultural Identity, Language and Memory of Bangladeshi Diaspora: A Study of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane in Bharati College, University of Delhi 23-24 March, 2017.

  5. “Remembering Armenian Genocide and Forced Migration in Turkey: Collective Memory and Identity of Armenian Diaspora” in an international conference on Migration and Diasporas: Emerging Diversities and Development Challenges in IGNOU on 22-23 March, 2017.
  6. "Rhetoric of Memory, Politics of Identity: A Study of Elif Shafaq's The Bastard of Istanbul', UGC sponsored seminar titled Trauma: Memory and History in Literature organized by Ramanujan College, University of Delhi on April 8-9, 2016.
  7. "Rhetoric of Memory and Silence: A Study of Partition Literature of Bengal’ in a UGC sponsored national conference on ‘Migration and Identity: The Urban Subject’ held by Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi on January 28 - 29, 2016.
  8. “Rhetoric of Sprezzatura and the Fashioning of an Elizabethan Courtier’ in a conference on ‘Renaissance Self-Fashioning to Digital Self-Fashioning’ PGDAV College, University of Delhi on January 12, 2016.
  9. ‘‘Here is my Space’: Rhetorical Performance on the Streets of Alexandria in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra” in a national seminar organized by Shakespeare Society of India, March 20, 2015.
  10. ‘Reading Silence in History: An Alternative approach to Historiography’ in a National Seminar titled ‘Intersections: History and Literature’Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi on March 11-12, 2014.
  11. “‘An Answer Answerless’: Queen Elizabeth I’s Political Rhetoric’”, International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) held in Chicago in July, 2013.

 

  1. Resource person for a History of English Literature certificate course organised by the Department of English, Ram Lal Anand College from Jan - March 2023.

  2. Participated as a resource person in Renaissance Art Certificate Course for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students (online mode) in July 2020 organised by Department of English, Ramlal Anand College, University of Delhi.
  3.  Invited as a resource person for a History of English Literature Certificate course organised by Daath Voyage Journal on June 4, 2022.

  4. Invited as a resource person for a course "Literature across the ages: Literary Schools/Movements"  lecture series organised by Daath Voyage Journal from April 11-April 24, 2021.

  5. Invited to chair a session for a student seminar on ‘Many Modernisms’ on 26/09/ 2019.
  6. Invited for Panel Discussion, In Diaspora : Book Launch and Discussion on September 22, 2018
  7. Invited to deliver a guest lecture on The Rover in DDUC, University of Delhi on 15/11/2018.
  8. Invited to deliver a guest lecture in College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi on April 18, 2019.
  9. Invited to talk on 'Joseph Conrad and the Art of Storytelling', Bharati College, April 13, 2015.

 

  1. Organised lecture series for students of English Hons as English Society Convenor from 2019-2023.
  2. Organised a students' seminar on "Severed Spaces and the Self" held on February 23, 2023. 
  3. Organised a student seminar on the topic ‘Between History and Literature’ as Convenor of the English Society, Hansraj College on 14 – 15th February 2019.
  4. Organised a one-day seminar on ‘Fractured Nations, Fragmented Identities: Revisiting Partition’ on behalf of the English Department, Hansraj College on February 2, 2018.
  5. Organised FDP on 'Research Methodology: An Interdisciplinary Approach" in the Department of English, Hansraj College on January 20-21, 2017.
  6. 4. Organised a workshop on 'Women and Law' for GE students of the 'Women and Empowerment' course in Hansraj College, on November 8, 2016.
  7. Participated in a two-day workshop on Teaching Gender: Problems and Prospects in Different Disciplines organized by LSR, WDC and ILLL, University of Delhi in 2011.

 

AWARDS/RECOGNITION

Awarded Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship by British Council 2013 -2014

Awarded a grant from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) in 2019. 

Awarded UGC travel grant for an international conference in 2019. 

Awarded travel grant from Research Council DU, 2013.

 

TEACHER'S TRAINING PROGRAMME

  1.  Completed two weeks of online Faculty Development Course on ‘Research Methodology’ by Ramanujan College Teaching Learning Centre, Ministry of Education from Oct 1-15, 2020.
  2. Completed one-week online Faculty Development Course on ‘ICT Enabled Teaching and Learning’ conducted by Janki Devi College and Ramanujan College, Teaching Learning Centre, Ministry of Education from September 7 – 14, 2020. 
  3. Completed an online Refresher Course in English Language Teaching organized by UGC ARPIT Course in March 2019
  4. Participated in Faculty Development Programme on Gender, Research Methods and Pedagogies (Interdisciplinary) organized by Mahatma Hansraj Faculty Development Centre, Ministry of Education from November 20 – December 3, 2018
  5. Successfully completed UGC Sponsored Orientation Programme in CPDHE, University of Delhi from June 20 – July 17, 2013.
  6. Successfully completed UGC Sponsored Refresher Course in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies organized by CPDHE, DU from September 20 – October 15, 2012.
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