Anindita Chatterjee
Government General Degree College, Singur, West Bengal, Durgapur Government College, Jadavpur University, The Sanskrit College and University
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About
Anindita Chatterjee, (Phd) is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Government General Degree College, Singur, West Bengal. Previously she was a faculty in Durgapur Government College. She did her Phd on “John Clare: Poetry of Madness” from Jadavpur University. She has completed two Minor Research Projects on Representation of ‘modern’ India in the Fictions of Chetan Bhagat (funded by UGC) and Sari Story: Dressing the Indian Woman through History, ‘Tracing the Origin, Growth and Evolution of the Traditional Indian Wear” (funded by ICSSR). She has co-edited Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions (CSP, 2020) and Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture (Routledge, 2022). She has published book chapters in Indian Feminist Ecocriticism (Lexington Books, 2022), Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond (Routledge, 2023) Modernist Transitions (Bloomsbury, 2023) and articles in international journals of repute (Textile- Cloth and Culture by Taylor and Francis and Contemporary Review of the Middle East by Sage). She has guest edited an Issue of Café Dissensus on (Re)storying Indian Handloom Saree Culture (Issue 68: April 2023). Presently she is co-editing the 2024 Café Dissensus Issue on “Discovering the city called Durgapur: Dwelling, Dreaming and Developing a Sustainable Urban Culture.” Her areas of interest include Nineteenth Century British Literature, Gender Studies and Popular Culture.
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Employment
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Government General Degree College, Singur, West Bengal Associate Professor and Head2025 - Present
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Durgapur Government College Associate Professor and Head2015 - 2025
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The Sanskrit College and University Assistant Professor2010 - 2015
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Taki Govt College Assistant Professor2006 - 2010
Education
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Jadavpur University Phd (Doctor of Philosophy)2005 - 2010
Projects & Funding
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Publications (33)
- Can the Saree Speak? Exploring Tradition, Heritage and Beyond Save
- Discovering the city called Durgapur: Dwelling, Dreaming and Developing a Sustainable Urban Culture Save
- “Woh dard ki shiddat badhaatay hain main apni yaadaasht” ”: Agha Shahid Ali and the Inheritance of Loss Save
- Reviving Heritage: Strategic Marketing of the Saree as a Sustainable Cultural Icon Save
- Reading Tagore’s Red Oleanders through (Ungendered) Ecofeminist Lens Save
- "How Utopic are the Green Spaces in Dattani? Situating Hope in Indian Urban Family Dynamic" Save
- Ship borne Cholera: The journey of transmission from India to Europe Save
- In Pursuit of Shelter: Stage and Stigma of Public Women in 19th Century Bengal Save
- Arab World in Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin: Making Visible the Idea of Terra Nullius Save
- “Resilience as a form of Contestation in the Poetry of John Clare” in Resilience and the Wandering Subject” Save