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Medha Bhattacharyya

Bengal Institute of Technology

ORCID iD 0000-0003-4731-8916
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Dr Medha Bhattacharyya is a Fulbright Fellow in the USA who taught in the Departments of Communication Studies and English (2021-2022). Prior to that and then after, she was an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Basic Sciences and Humanities (English) in Bengal Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. She has a total teaching experience of around eighteen years in higher education. She has done her PhD from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University (now known Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute). Her book published recently by Routledge is titled: Rabindranath Tagore’s Śāntiniketan Essays: Religion, Spirituality and Philosophy, London and New York, Routledge (2020). She was the Academic Advisor for the entry on “Rabindranath Tagore” in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism series by Gale-Cengage, Vol. 324 (2016). She obtained the prestigious award of ‘Certificate of Appreciation’ from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology) on the occasion of Teachers’ Day 2018 celebration in West Bengal, India, for her outstanding contribution to “teaching, learning and research”. She has been invited to deliver talks in India and abroad including at Harvard University, Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research areas entail Rabindranath Tagore Studies, Canadian Studies, Translation Studies, Religion, Creative Writing, ESL and South Asia and Diaspora Studies.

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  • Bengal Institute of Technology Assistant Professor (English)
    2008 - Present

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