Abhijit Sen Professor of English _________________________________
Department DEOMEL
Contact: Office: Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan 731 235 Residence: New “B” Type Flat: 51 Andrewspalli Santiniketan 731 235 Kolkata Residence: 1/41 Shivmandir Road Brahmapur Kolkata 700 096. E-mail: abhijitsen51@yahoo.co.in Landline: +91 3463 264475+91 3463 264475 Mobile: +91 94334 68569+91 94334 68569
Educational Qualification: MA, Eng (JU), Ph.D (JU)
Awards / Honours: 1979: Awarded university gold medal for standing first in the first-class in MA Final examinations. 1999: Awarded Charles Wallace Trust funding to attend International conference at Oxford University and pursue research work at Oxford/Stratford/London.
Teaching Experience: 29 years in a substantive position, of which 22 years at this university; 7 years prior to that at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College, Kolkata; appointment through WB College Service Commission. Also did part-time assignments at Kalyani University (Feb – July 1981) and at Calcutta University (August 1981 – 1991).
Research Areas: Renaissance Studies (specially Shakespearean Theatre); Theatre Studies; Rabindranath Tagore (particularly his drama/theatre).
Representative Publications: (between 5 and 10): Books: Edition of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, edited with Introduction and Annotations (New Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2009). Papers and articles: 1.“In Search of a New Language for Theatre”, India Perspectives. Ed. Navdeep Suri, Guest ed. Udaya Narayana Singh, vol. 24, no. 2/2010 (New Delhi: Ministry of External Affairs publication, 2010): 38-45. 2.“Wordsworth and Annette Vallon: love, politics, poetry”, Romanticism and its Legacies, ed. Ralla Guha Neogi (Kolkata: Fine Prints in collaboration with Basanti Devi College, Kolkata, 2009): 50-62. 3.“ ‘Anya kotha, anya konkhane’: Nirbashita Dante-r parikrama”, Parikatha, Calcutta (May 2009): 29-50. 4. “Fatal Visions in Macbeth”, Renaissance Themes: Essays presented to Arun Kumar Dasgupta, ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri (London, New York, New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2009): 98-112. 5.“Jesus of The New Testament: History, Myth, Faith”, The Word and the World, ed. Sukanya Dasgupta & Mangala Gauri Ramani Chakravarty (Kolkata: Loreto College, 2009): 57-76. 6.“ Silences in Shakespeare’s Plays”, Literary Cascades, festschrift for Prof. B.Gopal Rao, ed. G. Thirupathi Kumar (New Delhi: Research India Press, 2008): 6-17 7. “Cross-cultural Encounters on the Bengali Stage: In Search of a New Theatre Semiology?”, JSL, Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Spring 2007, ed. G.J.V. Prasad (New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2007): 16-27. 8.“Tagore’s English Poetry: translation, trancreation, transculturation”, Osmania Journal of English Studies, ed. B. Gopal Rao, vol. I, no. 2 (December 2006): 124-159. 9.“Shakespeare, performance, context: Macbeths in Africa and India”, Essays and Studies, XVIII, ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri and Swapan Chakravorty (Kolkata: Jadavpur University, 2003): 31-42. 10.“‘Scenes’ from Twentieth-Century European Theatre”, Phases of Twentieth Century Literature in English, ed. Pranati Dutta Gupta (Kolkata: Vivekananda College, Department of English, Thakurpukur, 2003): 279-296. 11. “Some Shakespearean Negotiations in the Indian Theatres”, Colonial and Postcolonial Shakespeares (Papers and proceedings of the World Shakespeare Conference, Calcutta 2000) ed. Amitava Roy, Krishna Sen & Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay (Calcutta: Avantgarde Press, 2001): 202-216. 12.“Folk Theatre and Rabindranath: Setting the Scene” in West Bengal, a special number on Rabindranath Tagore, vol XLII, no. 10-11 (May-June 2000): 64-71.
Other Academic Work: 1. Translation work, including a recent English translation of Tagore’s Tasher Desh as Kingdom of Cards, in Essential Tagore, ed. Fakrul Alam & Radha Chakravarty (Harvard University Press): [in press]. 2. External member of Boards of Studies/ Research Committees of different universities like Jadavpur University, Calcutta University, Kalyani University, WB State University Barasat, Presidency College/University.
Other Interests / Activities: Theatre; an active member/director of a theatre troupe in Kolkata which has produced among other plays Tagore’s Visarjan, Raja and Tasher Desh; Buddhadeva Bose’s Pata Jhorey Jay and Sankranti; Mohan Rakesh’s Asharer ek din (Bengali translation of Ashar ka ek din) and Fernando Arrabal’s Juddhekshetre picnic (Bengali adaptation of A Picnic on the Battlefield). Has also worked with students and colleagues in the department, primarily with Shakespeare’s plays.
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