Ms. Sushrita Acharjee

Present Position: Assistant Professor

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

E-mail: sushrita1.acharjee@adamasuniversity.ac.in

Education:


  • Pursuing Ph.D. in English, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
  • M.Phil. in English, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
  • M.A. in English, Department of English, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
  • B.A. (Hons.) in English, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Research Key Areas:


  • Cultural Text and Performance
  • War Studies
  • Border and Migration
  • Popular Culture and Literature
  • Children’s Literature

Research Highlights:


  • “Post-Anthropocentric Childhoods: Situating Covid-19 Orphans from India in a Community of Multi-Species Kinship”. Presented at the International Seminar on The Child of the Future at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK. 30 June – 1 July 2022.
  • “The Politics of Folklore: Transition from the Orientalist Approach to the Heterogeneous Ethnographic Perspective in the Study of South Asian Folk Culture”. Presented at the International Seminar on South Asia in Transition at Christ University, Bengaluru, India. 13-14 February 2020.
  • “Post-2003 Iraqi Fiction: Thanatopolitics in the Regimented Global South and Reconstruction of Individual and Collective Memory”. Presented at the International Annual Conference on Reimagi(ni)ng Identities in the Global South: Challenges, Transgressions and Articulation, Co-hosted by Department of English, Jadavpur University and Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies(IACLALS), Kolkata, 5-7 February 2020.
  • “The Last Shall be First’: Dissent of the Bhakti Voices and Mobility of the Marginalized”. Presented at the National Seminar on Movements: Body, Space, Politics, at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. 7- 8 November 2019.
  • “Rituparno Ghosh’s First Person: Queer Subjectivity Engaged in Gender Sensitization of the Bengali Neo Bhadralok Class”. Presented at the Oceanvale Research Workshop. Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. 13-16 March 2019.
  • “Reclaiming His-tory and Making it Hers: Forgotten Feminine Voices in the Poetry of Mallika Sengupta”. Presented at the International Women’s Day Conference by Pragati, Women’s Development Cell. Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi. 8 March 2019.
  • “Psychological Disturbances in Shakespearean Plays: Madness and Melancholia Plaguing the Dramatis Personae”. Presented at the International Seminar on Nature, Culture and Shakespeare: Interrogating and Negotiating the Significations. Aliah University, Kolkata, India. 10-11 January 2017.

Experience:


  • Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature under the School of Liberal Arts and Culture Studies, Adamas University, Kolkata, West Bengal India.
    Duration: 17 August 2022 – Present
  • Former UGC-Junior Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
    Duration: 8 January 2020 – 16 August 2022 (2 years 8 months)
  • Former Resource Creator and Workshop Moderator at History for Peace, Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Kolkata. West Bengal, India.
    Duration: January 2021 – July 2021 (7 months)
  • Former Research Fellow at Sahapedia-UNESCO, New Delhi, India.
    Duration: 1 September 2019 – 15 March 2020 (7 months)

Research Publication (s):


  • Number of research papers published in International refereed journals: 1
  • Number of research papers published in international peer-reviewed Scopus Proceedings: NA
  • Number of invited Book-Chapters: 2, Books: NA

For Details, Visit: https://adamasuniversity.irins.org/profile/314750.

Selected Publication (s): (MAXIMUM 12)

  1. Acharjee, Sushrita. “Reclaiming His-tory and Making it Hers: Forgotten Feminine Voices in the Poetry of Mallika Sengupta.” International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, vol. 7, no. 8, Aug. 2019, pp. 307-323. (ISSN: 2321-7065)
  2. Acharjee, Sushrita. “The Corporeality of Horror: Specters of War Victims in the Post-2003 Gothic Narratives from Iraq.” Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations, edited by Ritwick Bhattacharjee, Saikat Ghosh. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, pp. 90-99. (ISBN: 9789390077267)
  3. [Accepted] Acharjee, Sushrita. “The Great Exodus of 1971: Towards Sensing the Liminality of Bengal Borderlands through Aesthetic Registers.” Routledge History of the Senses, edited by Andrew Kettler and William Tullett.

Research Projects:


  1. “Aesthetics of Resistance: Revisiting 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War through Various Art Forms.” History for Peace, Seagull Foundation for the Arts. January – July, 2021. https://www.historyforpeace.pw/post/aesthetics-of-resistance-revisiting-1971-bangladesh-liberation-war-through-various-art-forms.
  2. Acharjee, Sushrita. “Rituparno Ghosh, the First Queer Star of Bengal.” Sahapedia-UNESCO.  September, 2019 – March, 2020. https://www.sahapedia.org/rituparno-ghosh-first-queer-star-bengal. Grant: 44,445 INR

Research Advisor / Supervisor:


 

  • Post Graduate Thesis Advisor / Supervisor: 3 (Awarded)

Award/ Academic Recognition/ Major Professional Activity:


  • Awarded Junior Research Fellowship by UGC – 2020
  • Awarded Sahapedia-UNESCO Research Fellowship – 2019