Faculty Profile

Name Mr..Debojyoti Dan
Designation SACT II
Department ENGLISH
Mobile 9163205852
Email debojyotidan1981@gmail.com
Biography Debojyoti Dan is a poet and a literary critic. He has been teaching in Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya (College) in the department of English, since 2009. He has special interests in Modern and Postmodern literature and theories. He was the Head of the Department in English in Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya, from June, 2015 to January, 2017. He learned French initially From Rama Krishna Mission and then pursued further diplomas in French from Alliance Française du Bengal. He has several publications to his credit including two books of poems Enigma of Red Shadows (2011) and Enigma Unveiled (2023). He has written various chapters in edited international books and peer reviewed journals
Academic Interest 1. Writing poetry 2. Writing research papers 3. Teaching English and French literature 
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Educational Qualification(In chronological order from latest to Graduation level)

Qualification (In chronological order from latest to Graduation level)College / UniversityYearSubject (s) / Topic (s)SpecializationCertificate DatePh.D / M.Phil Thesis TitlePh.D / M.Phil Thesis supervisor
GraduationSt Pauls Cathedral Mission College2002EnglishEnglish2003-01-28  
Post GraduationRabindra Bharati University2005EnglishEnglish2006-02-13  

Academic/Teaching Experience & responsibilities (In chronological order from latest to oldest)

PostOrganization / College / UniversityDuration : From DateDuration : To DateExperience (In Years and Months)
SACT 2Naba Ballygunge mahavidyalaya 2009-07-072041-02-2831 years 7 months
SACT 2Naba Ballygunge mahavidyalaya 2009-07-072024-08-0215 Years and 25 days

Scholarly Achievements : Contribution to Journals and Books

Contribution to Journals and BooksDetails of Journals and BooksDocument AttachDuration of Contribution
Others Pasolini’s Salo as an Adaptation of Sadean Text in the book Exploring Filmature: Problems and Prospects of Adaptation Studies. Edited by Mir Ahammad Ali. Bhatter College, Dantan. Paschim Medinipur. West Bengal. With ISBN 978-81-969522-5-9 DOWNLOAD2024
Others ? ‘Handkerchief’, Imaginary Phalus f of Othello: Desire to have/be this Imaginary Object for the (M)other is the Game of Seduction in the book Exploration of Culture, Identities and Socio-Political Forces in Literature. (Page no. 31-46). Edited by Dr Ram Avadh Prajapati, Dr. Geeta Sharma and Dr. Priti Sharma. Perception Publishing House. New Delhi & Bareilly, India. 2023 with ISBN 978-93-95949-05-7 DOWNLOAD2024
Others ‘Eliot and The Mathematics of Prufrock’s Post Humanist Hell’ in “Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, with the Special Issue on “Posthumanism”. Ed Dr Subhadeep Paul. Vol 1, No2. December 2021. (p. 74-86) ISSN (online) 2583-0090 DOWNLOAD2021
Others ‘Trauma: From Retinal Space to Psychological in the Films Hiroshima mon Amour and Un Chien Andalou’ in the book Disaster, Holocaust and Dystopian Literature: Concepts and Perspectives. Ed. Parul Mishra, Rajarshi Mukherjee and Shreya Chakrabarty. Upanayan Publications: Delhi, India. 2020, (p. 111-119) ISBN 978-81-946799-3-6 DOWNLOAD2020
Others ‘Psychology of identity in Joyce’s Araby’ in the book Identity: Reflections and Paradigms (Page no. 166-175). Edited by Abhilasha Phukan, Anwesha Gogoi and Shrestha Bharadwaj. Bir Raghab Moran Government Model College, Doomdooma. Purbayon Publication. Guwahati, Assam, India. 2023 with ISBN 978-93-5764-862-9 DOWNLOAD2023
Others ‘Is Homeland A Myth? Borderless Boundaries of Mind and Center-margin conflicts in the Film The Pianist’ in the book Center and Margins: Issues and Conflicts. (Page no. 210-224). Edited by Dr. Nilanjan Chakraborty. Bigfoot06 Publications. Gurugram, Haryana, India. 2023 with ISBN 978-81-960751-0-1 DOWNLOAD2023
Others QUESTION OF IDENTITY AND MEMORY IN GODARD’S LEAR AND KUROSAWA’S RAN IN THE BOOK WOMAN AND CINEMA: FEMINIST FILM THEORIES IN PRAXIS (PAGE NO. 32-42). EDITED BY DR. NEERAJ KUMAR AND SWETA KUMARI. AUTHORS PRESS. NEW DELHI. 2024. WITH ISBN 978-93-5529-840-9 DOWNLOAD2024
Others Role of Memory in the Epistemology of War in the book Unearthing : Past in Present and Future (Page no. 20-34). Edited by Dr. Bhawna ViJ Aurora. Asian Press. Kolkata. 2023. With ISBN 978-93-5788-005-3 DOWNLOAD2023
Others ‘ECOFEMINISM AND UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGICAL PROBLEM AND THE POWER PROBLEM IN ROSSETTI’S GOBLIN MARKET’ IN THE BOOK ECOFEMINISM AND ALLIED ISSUES. (PAGE NO. 137-146) EDITED BY DIPANWITA PAL AND PRASUN BANERJEE. CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING. LADY STEPHENSON LIBRARY, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE. 2024. WITH ISBN (10): 1-5275-6680-3 DOWNLOAD2024
Editor in ChiefEnigma Unveiled. Published by Upanayan Publications: Delhi, India. 2023 with ISBN 978-93-91467-04-3 DOWNLOAD2023
Others ‘Bio-politics of Rape in Eighteenth Century Literature: Re-reading of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock in the book Women’s identity and Representation in History & Literature. Ed Rafraf Shakil Ansari and Shachee Agnihotri. Blue Rose Publishers. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. 2023 (p. 53-66) ISBN 978-93-91467-25-8 DOWNLOAD2023
Others Indrajit, the Alienated Post-structuralist Self in Quest of Identity in Absurd’ in the book Rethinking Postmodernism in Indian Writings in English. Ed. Dr. D. Manoharan and Ms Kusuma M. Upanayan Publications: Delhi, India. 2021, (p. 95-105) ISBN 978-93-91467-32-6 DOWNLOAD2021
Others ‘Is Homeland A Myth? Borderless Boundaries of Mind and Center-margin conflicts in the Film The Pianist’ in the book Center and Margins: Issues and Conflicts. (Page no. 210-224). Edited by Dr. Nilanjan Chakraborty. Bigfoot06 Publications. Gurugram, Haryana, India. 2023 with ISBN 978-81-960751-0-1 DOWNLOAD2023
Others ‘Locating the Ontological Home in Rabindranath Tagore’s Ghaire Bahire: A Postmodernist Study’ in the book Rabindranath Tagore: A Contemporary Reader. Ed. Dr Ram Avadh Prajapati and Soumi Mukherjee. Perception Publishing House. New Delhi & Bareilly, India. 2021, (p. 49-65) ISBN 978-93-92189-03-6 DOWNLOAD2021
Others ‘Ibomcha Sing’s “Eshing” as a text of Eco-Feminism and Biopolitics’ in the book Rejuvenating Environmental Studies. Ed. Dr. Chitra S and Dr. Malamurali R.S. Upanayan Publications: Delhi, India. 2021, (p. 186-195) ISBN 978-81-949250-4-0 DOWNLOAD2021
Others ‘Jean Anouilh’s Reimagining Classical texts: Analysing his Adaptation of Antigone and Other Classical Tragedies’ in the Book Evolving Voices: Contemporary Trends in English Literature (Page no. 168-180). Bodoland University Kokrajhar. Assam. 2024. With ISBN 978-93-90706-95-2 DOWNLOAD2024
Others ‘Representation of the Marginalized Communities in the Play Mother of 1084 in the book Critical Explorations in Indian English Drama. Ed. Dr Devender Singh. Upanayan Publications: Delhi, India. 2021, (p. 30-40) ISBN 978-93-91467-11-1 DOWNLOAD2021
Others Postmodernity and Cinematic Vignettes in Eliot and La Nouvelle Vague in the book Ecology and Integrative Discourse: A Reflective Analysis (Page no, 102-117). Edited by Dr. Meetu Bhatia Kapur. Yiking Books. Jaipur. 2024. With ISBN: 978-81-969243-0-0 DOWNLOAD2024
Others ‘Biopolitics of Woman’s Body as a Text in Vijay Tendulkar’s Play Silence! The Court is in Session’ in the book Post Independence Indian Theatres: Critical Perspective. Ed. Debayan Deb Barman and Susanta Kumar Bardhan. Yiking Books : Jaipur, India. 2020, (p. 105-118) ISBN 978-93-87945-85-2 DOWNLOAD2020
Others Woman and Womanhood: A Discourse on Multicultural Identity Located in Sylvia Plath’s Poems, Journals & Diaries’ in the book Existential And Cultural Concerns of Women in the Contemporary Society. Ed Sutapa Choudhury, Soumita Chatterjee and Animesh Manna. Upanayan Publications: Delhi, India. 2021, (p. 189-201) ISBN 978-93-91467-25-8 DOWNLOAD2021
Others ‘Episteme of “Black woman” in Postcolonial Context: Study of Maya Angelou’s Poems’ in the book Thematic and Stylistic Concerns in Literature. Ed. Dr Ashish Gupta and Dr Om Prakash Ratnaker. Perception Publishing House. New Delhi & Bareilly, India. 2021, (p. 111-124) ISBN 978-93-92189-04-3 DOWNLOAD2021
Others ‘From Queer to Coprophilia Pasolini and Sade have it All: A Study of Salo o giornate di Sodoma’ in Negotiations, the International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. (Page no. 29-44). Special Issue: Queer Culture. Volume 6. March 2023. Edited by Pradipta Shyam Chowdhury and Binayak Roy. Issue Editor: Kaushani Mondal. Managing Editor Agnibha Maity. Department of English. University of North Bengal. Darjeeling. ISSN (Print): 2231-1378 DOWNLOAD2023
Others Derridean Meaning in Arthur Rimbaud’s Vowels and Borges’ Compass: A Poststructuralist Study. International Review of Literary Studies, (2022) vol. 4. No. 2, pp. 12-19. ISSN: (P) 2709-7013, (E) 2709-7021 DOWNLOAD2022
Others ‘To Be or Not To Be Postcolonial that is the Question: Looking Back at the Non-Hegemonic Works of Art Beyond the Praxality of Theory’ in the book Decoding Postcolonial Voices, Identities, Cultures and Resistances, Edited by Prof. Sandhya Tripathi. Perception Publishing House. New Delhi & Bareilly, India. 2024 with ISBN 978-93-92189-056-2 DOWNLOAD2024
Peer reviewer forCreativitas: Critical Explorations in Literary Studies DOWNLOAD2024

Scholarly Achievements : Participation and scholarly presentations in conferences

DateTitle of Conference or InstitutionLevelTitle/Subject of presentation (if made)Document AttachActivity Date
2024-03-01SASA Conference 2024 on Order and Disorder in South Asia held by California Institute of Integral Studies, San FranciscoInternational“Protean Mimesis of Kali and the Sym-Pathos of the Secular: Re-reading of Rushdie’s Shame” DOWNLOAD2024-03-03
2024-02-28CON-TEXTS 2024, the International Seminar on Contesting Gender: Dynamics in Knowledge Production, the State and Labour organized by the ‘PG and Research Department of English, Providence Women’s College, Kozhikode’International“Construction of Femininity in Relation to Her Body: A Study of Sylvia Plath’s Poems” DOWNLOAD2024-02-28
2023-04-13International PhD online Conference on Medievalisms on the Screen III: Digital Medievalisms and the Teaching of History, held by the Department of Medieval Studies, Central European UniversityInternational“Medieval Political Histories and their (Un)conscious Implications in A Song of Ice and Fire” DOWNLOAD2023-04-13
2023-08-04International Conference on Plastic Turn organized by the Department of English, University of North Bengal, India International“Plastic Sex Dolls Before Plasticene and ‘Barbie’ Before the Age of ‘Barbies’: A Re-reading of The Rape of the Lock with Plastic Turn DOWNLOAD2023-08-04
2023-09-23“DE-SCRIBING NON-HUMAN FUTURES: CRITIQUING AGENCY FOR THE POST-ANTHROPOCENE” ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN POSTHUMANITIES, BANKURA UNIVERSITYInternational“NON-HUMAN SENTIENCE AND THE STUDY OF DAS ZEITOBJEKT” DOWNLOAD2023-09-23
2023-06-01“Pulp Fiction” organised by Bar-Ilan University, Israel, on 31.5.2023 and 1.6.2023International“Architecture of Dystopian Succubus in “Divergent” and “Hunger Games” DOWNLOAD2023-06-01
2023-03-04THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ISLANDS IN LITERATURE, LITERARY ISLANDS, ISLAND LITERATURE, ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC AND ROMANCE STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF DELHIInternational“ISLAND AS IDENTITY: STUDY OF ROBINSON CRUSOE DOWNLOAD2023-03-04
2023-08-03International Conference on Drawing meaning Through Visual Narratives organized by the Department of Languages, Presidency University, BangaluruInternational“Question of identity and memory in Godard’s Lear and Kurosawa’s Ran” DOWNLOAD2024-08-03
2023-02-11Humanities at the Crossroads: Re-configuring (Post)human Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics, organized by the Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University.International“Digital Humanities: Eliot’s Hollow Men as Digits” DOWNLOAD2023-02-11
2022-11-26International Symposium on Literature and the Non-Human: Abrogating the Anthropocene. Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.International“Eliot’s Hollow Men and Radcliffe’s A.I.D.A: Transcending the Binary Programmed Algorithm of Digital and Human” DOWNLOAD2022-11-26
2023-12-12International Conference on Global Plant Humanities: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Botanical Life organized by the Department of English, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, India, in collaboration with the School of Arts & Social Sciences, Southern Cross UniversityInternational“Phytopoetics: The Metamorphic Impact of Plants on Rilke’s Imagination” DOWNLOAD2023-12-12
2022-11-22One-Day International Conference on Postcolonial Ecospheres: Principles, Policies and Politics, organized by the Department of English, Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya International“Gaian System and Rilke’s Angels: A Reading of Duino Elegies” DOWNLOAD2022-11-22
2024-03-14International Conference on ‘Bodies that Matter’, organized by the Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of DelhiInternational“Challenging Social and Political Normativity through Corporeality: A Reading through Marquise de Sade, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault” DOWNLOAD2024-03-14
2024-06-05NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GREEN LITERATURE ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGES, PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY, BENGALURUNational“ANALYSIS OF NEVER LET ME GO THROUGH THE LENS OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES” DOWNLOAD2024-06-05
2024-06-24One- Day International Film Festival and Conference on Cinema, Performance and Literature, organized by IQAC, Jamini Mazumder Memorial College International“A heap of broken images”: Eliot’s Perception Explored in French New Waves of Cinema DOWNLOAD2024-06-24
2024-07-31Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University InternationalThe Phenomenal Causality of Circle in Renaissance Humanism of Nicholas of Cusa DOWNLOAD2024-07-31
2022-08-18International Virtual Conference on Humanities through Literature, Film and Media 2.0, organized by the School of Social Science and Language, Vellore Institute of Technologyc Chennai, IndiaInternational“Humanities through Literature, Film and Media 2.0 in the Textual Space of A Song of Ice and Fire DOWNLOAD2022-08-18
2023-05-12International Conference on From Farm to Fork: Exploring the Interplay between Food Culture and Politics, organized by the Department of English, Cluny Women’sCollege, KalimpongInternational“Food and Queer: Decoding Coprophagia and Poison as the Lacanian Symbolic in Culinary Process of Marquise de Sade and William Shakespeare” DOWNLOAD2023-05-12
2024-01-20International Conference Mind matters: Literature, Cinema and Culture organized by the Department of English, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University, KolkataInternational“Time, Memory and Narrative in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” DOWNLOAD2024-01-20
2023-03-15International Conference on Mapping the Wastelands: Literature and Beyond organized by the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati UniversityInternationalMyth in Ulysses DOWNLOAD2023-03-15
2022-11-18International Conference on Exploring Liminalities: Realities, Magic and beyond in Postcolonial Narratives organized by the Department of English in collaboration with I.Q.A.C, Manikchak College InternationalIdentity of Anouilh’s Antigone, Liminality and Nazi Colonialism in France DOWNLOAD2022-11-18
2022-08-24the International Seminar Death in Contemporary Culture and Literature organized by the Department of English Midnapore College InternationalHermeneutics of Corporeal Epistemology in Pandemic DOWNLOAD2022-08-24
2022-05-31International Seminar on Revisiting Partition: Social, Cultural and Literary Context(s) organized by the Department of English and Sociology. North Bengal St. Xavier’s College, Rajganj InternationalPartition, Socio-economic Trauma and Sexuality in Saadat Hasan Manto’s Short Stories DOWNLOAD2022-05-31
2020-01-07UGC-RUSA 2.0 Sponsored International Seminar on Rethinking Rabindranath: Modernity, Coloniality, Decoloniality. Centre for Studies in Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing, Jadavpur University in collaboration with Sidho-Kanho-Birsha UniversityInternationalHeideggerian Heimlich and Tagore’s Home in Ghaire Bahire DOWNLOAD2020-01-07
2018-08-12INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON RETHINKING MODERNITY: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES. ALIAH UNIVERSITY IN COLLABORATION WITH BYANJANBARNA FOUNDATION.InternationalRE-THINKING MODERNITY: TIME LOOP IN ELIOT’S PRUFROCK AND THE INFINITY TEXT DOWNLOAD2018-08-11
2017-08-14International Conference on Shakespeare. Shakespeare Society of Eastern India in collaboration with ICCRInternationalTheory and Praxis: ‘Gaze’, ‘Sexuation’ and Woman as a Symptom in Othello DOWNLOAD2017-08-14
2019-03-12UGC Sponsored International Seminar on Re-reading British Poetry across Time and Space: Themes, Issues and Perspectives. University of Gour BangaInternationalCollective Unconsciousness in Beowulf DOWNLOAD2019-03-13
2022-11-28International E-Conference Gender, Culture and Society, organized by New Literaria in collaboration with Department of English and Foreign Language Gur Ghasidas Bishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, IndiaInternationalSylphs and Goblins Transcends the Central Binary of Gender in terms of Corporeal Epistemology: A Case Study of ‘The Rape of the Lock’ and ‘The Goblin Market’ DOWNLOAD2022-11-28

Appointment / Joining

Appointment DateAppointment Order NoDesignation
2009-07-07NBM/adm/168/09-10SACT II

Scholarly Achievements : Invited Lectures

Title of LectureLevel (State/National/International)Organized byOrganized on
French Impact from High Culture to Daily Cuisine: A Critical StudyStateCentre For Foreign Languages, Bankura University2023-07-11