Dr. Somasree Santra

Present Position: Assistant Professor

Department of Language and Literature, School of Liberal Arts and Culture Studies

E-mail: somasree1.santra@adamasuniversity.ac.in

Education:

  • Ph.D Degree in English from Adamas University, Kolkata (2022)
  • B.ED from Swami Vivekananda College of Education for Women, West Bengal State University (2013-14)
  • M.A ENGLISH from West Bengal State University (2011-2013)
  • B.A ENGLISH (Hons.) from Barasat Government College, West Bengal State University (2008- 2011)
  • Short-term courses from Jadavpur University (2013), IIT Patna (2020), IIT Roorkee (2020), (IIM) Visakhapatnam (2020), IIT Kharagpur (2021)

Research Key Areas:

  • Gender Studies (Feminism and Masculinity Studies)
  • Postmodernism
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Literature from the margins
  • Partition literature

Research Highlights:

  • Scholars Academic and Scientific Society Young Research Fellowship (28.11.2021)- Scholars Academic and Scientific Society (An International Society for Academic and Scientific Integration) Registered under Society Registration Act XXI of 1860, India, Registration No.: NG/254/N/50
  • Received International Best Researcher Award in English Literature and Language 2022 by IMRF Institute of Higher Education and Research, India (Govt. of India, MHRD) on the 73rd Indian Republic Day (Excellence Award event partnered by IIM Australia, IIST Sri Lanka, DRPF Macedonia, Riviera University France)
  • Awarded the Best Paper Presenter at the 63rd All India English Teaachers’ Conference at Sri Venkateswara University Tirupati, organized by the Association of English Studies in India on “Recent Trends in English Literature and Language” (7th – 9th 2019)
  • Awarded the Certificate of Excellence for the Best Paper Presenter at International Conference on Humanities, Social Science and Business Management organized by Institute of Research and Journals, New Delhi (17th March 2019)

Experience:

  • Adamas University- Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Literature, School of Liberal Arts and Culture Studies (01.07.2022- Present)
  • Amity University, Kolkata (Amity Institute of English Studies and Research)- Assistant Professor of English (Grade I)- (23.08.2017- 06.2022)
  • Brainware University- Assistant Professor of Humanities (12.09.2016- 06.2017)
  • Indira Gandhi Memorial High School- Assistant Teacher (27.01.2015- 12.10.2015)
  • Madhyamgram Kabiguru High School- Assistant Teacher (02.07.2014- 12.2014)
  • Gopal Govinda Academy- Assistant Teacher (16.02.2014- 04.2014)

Research Publication (s):

  • Number of research papers published in International refereed journals: 23
  • Number of research papers published in International peer-reviewed Scopus Proceedings: 7
  • Number of invited Book-Chapters: 3, Book : 01

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Selected Publication (s):

  1. Santra, Somasree. “Instruments of Self-pretence and Brutishness in Harold Pinter’s Plays.” Indian Journal of English Studies (ISSN No.- L 0537-1988), vol. LVI, Jan 2019, pp. 174-184.
  2. Santra, Somasree. “A Discovery of the “Small Things” in Roy’s Narrative: Capacitating the Fallen.” Langlit- An International Peer-Reviewed Open Access Journal (ISSN: 2349-5189), vol. 5, no. 3, March 2019, pp. 586-589.
  3. Santra, Somasree. “The Contradictory Faces of Rushdie’s Women in Midnight’s Children: The Controllers or the Controlled?.” Literary Endeavour: An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Criticism (ISSN: 0976-299X), vol. 7, no. 1, January 2019, pp. 74-77.
  4. Santra, Somasree. “The Essence of Plurality within Masculinity: Expositing the Derangement of Gender Narratives in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Tathapi, UGC CARE Journal (ISSN: 2320-0693), vol. 19, no. 1, June 2020, pp. 213-221.
  5. Santra, Somasree. “Destabilizing the Normative Hegemony of Masculinity: Discovering the Alternative Masculinities in Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses.” Purakala, UGC CARE Journal (ISSN: 0971-2143), vol. 31, no. 56, June 2020, pp. 208-215.
  6. Santra, Somasree. “Reconstructing the Interplay of Gender Power Equations: Ascertaining the Dogma of Masculinity within the Feminine Discourse in Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet.” Dogo Rangsang Research Journal UGC CARE Category-I Journal (ISSN: 2347- 7180), vol. 10, no.10, October 2020, pp. 113-117.
  7. Santra, Somasree. “A Compliant Wife or the Valiant Queen?- Exploring Draupadi through Divakaruni’s Eyes.” New Academia- An International Journal of English Language, Literature and Literary Theory (Print ISSN: 2277-3967 Online ISSN: 2347-2073), vol. 7, no. 4, October 2018, pp. 1-9.
  8. Santra, Somasree. “A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance and “Morpho Eugenia”: A Perusal from the Feminist Slant.” New Frontier- International Journal on Humanities and Social Sciences (ISSN No. 23948221), Annual Issue. IV, June 2018, pp. 29-34.
  9. Santra, Somasree. “Speculating the Deconstruction of Hegemony in Naomi Alderman’s The Power: Sabotaging the Discourses of Power, Gender and Sexuality.” Lino [Scopus indexed, UGC CARE] (ISSN: 0211-2574), vol.11, no.4, April 2021, pp. 72-78.
  10. Santra, Somasree. “Probing into the Dogma of the Palimpsest: A Postmodern Lens.” Levant [Scopus indexed, UGC CARE] (ISSN: 0075-8914), (EISSN: 1756-3801), vol.20, no.8, August 2021, pp. 19-26.

Research Advisor / Supervisor:

  • Post Graduate Thesis Advisor / Supervisor: 38 (Awarded)

Award/ Academic Recognition/ Major Professional Activity:

  • Received International Best Researcher Award in English Literature and Language 2022 by IMRF Institute of Higher Education and Research, India (Govt. of India, MHRD) on the 73rd Indian Republic Day (Excellence Award event partnered by IIM Australia, IIST Sri Lanka, DRPF Macedonia, Riviera University France)
  • Resource Person- International Faculty Exchange Meet 2022 (University of Technology and Applied Sciences- Shinas, Oman)
  • International Advisory Board Member-Scope Database (Journal Indexing and Citation Analysis)
  • Researcher- All India English Teachers’ Association, Association for English Studies of India
  • Research Paper Reviewer- Academia.edu (International Research Database)
  • Awarded the Best Paper Presenter at the 63rd All India English Teaachers’ Conference at Sri Venkateswara University Tirupati, organized by the Association of English Studies in India on “Recent Trends in English Literature and Language” (7th – 9th 2019)
  • Awarded the Certificate of Excellence for the Best Paper Presenter at International Conference on Humanities, Social Science and Business Management organized by Institute of Research and Journals, New Delhi (17th March 2019)