Ms.Arpita Ghosh
Assistant Professor & HOD
Department:
English
Qualification:
M.A in English, University of Kalyani, 2011
Email:
arpita89ghosh@gmail.com
Detailed Profile
| Address for Communications: | Department of English, Ramananda Centenary College, Laulara, Purulia, 723151 |
| Educational Qualification: | M.A in English, University of Kalyani, 2011 |
| Membership of the Distinguished Institution of India and Abroad | Member, European Shakespeare Research Association Member, Global Association of English Studies |
| Member/ administrator of Committees of the College and other organizations |
- Co-ordinator, Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), 2015-Present, Ramananda Centenary College - Member, Editorial Board, Ramananda Centenary College Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences - Convener, Women’s Cell, Ramananda Centenary College - Programme Officer, NSS Unit VI, Ramananda Centenary College - Student representative, Committee on Gender Sensitization against Sexual Harassment (COGSASH), Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 2016-2018 |
| Research Interest | Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality |
| Papers/ Topics taught at Classes of BA/ B.SC/ B.Com |
- History of English Literature (Beginnings to Modernist literature) - Chaucer - Renaissance drama - Literary terms and types - Romantic Poetry – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron - Indian English Poetry – Jayanta Mohapatra, A Ramanujan, Kamala Das |
| Awards / Fellowships Achieved | UGC NET (June 2012) |
| Title of the Paper |
National / International |
Date/ Year | Organizer / Venue | |
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Paper Presented in the National and International Seminar / Conference |
‘Simple, easy and authentic’: Emergence of food fandom on YouTube | International Conference | 5-7 September, 2018 | Digitality and Communication Conference, Department of Communication EFL University, Hyderabad |
| “My tiny gay heart just died”: articulation of lesbian identity through fandom | UGC Sponsored National Seminar | 13-14 March, 2018 | Department of English, University of Kalyani, West Bengal | |
| “’Dirty Words’: Law Media and Language in the AIB Roast” | International Conference | 8-10 January 2016 | Sarai, CSDS, Delhi | |
| The Class is reading Theatre: Questions of Pedagogy and Politics in teaching Postindependence Indian English Drama | UGC Sponsored National Seminar | 17-18 December 2015 | Department of English, Bankura Christian College, Bankura, in collaboration with IASA | |
| Slashing Shakespeare: Locating Queer desire in Shakespeare fanfiction | International Conference (Global Shakespeares Conference) | 16-17 December 2014 | Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata | |
| Whose text is it anyway?: online fanfiction as transaction | National Seminar | 2-3 September 2014 | Department of English, Sidho Kanho Birsha University | |
| Other academic activities |
- Delivered lectures to students in Diploma in Women’s Studies, SKB University - Delivered lecture on ‘Iliad’ at Workshop on CBCS syllabus conducted by Udatta and Nistarini College, Purulia - Delivered lecture at Dept. Of Geography, Diamond Harbour Women’s University on “Sex and Gender; Types of Gender, Gender Stereotyping and Gender Discrimination” and “Definition and Understanding of Masculinities, Politics of Masculinity and Power” on 27-28 February, 2018 - Served as examiner for UG 3 year (1+1+1) system and CBCS Semester examinations |
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