Dr. Anindita Chatterjee

• Designation :  Associate Professor and Head, Department of English, GGDC, Singur
• Highest Qualification :  M.A., Ph.D.
• Subject Taught :  English Literature and Cultural Studies
• Academic Experience (Recent to past) : 19 Years
  • Taki Government College: March 2006 to December 2010
  • Sanskrit College, Kolkata: December 2010 to March 2015
  • Durgapur Government College: March 2015 to January 2025
  • Government General Degree College, Singur: January 2025 - Till date
• Research Activities :
  • Research Projects : 02 (Completed)
• Number of Publications :
  • Conference :
    • 13 (Paper Presentation at National and International Conferences)
    • 08 (Invited Talks)
  • Journal : 19
  • Book Chapters : 13
  • Books : 04
• Recent Publication Details (last 3 years) :
  • Research Projects :
    • Completed a Minor Research Project on "Sari Story: Dressing the Indian Woman through History, Tracing the Origin, Growth and Evolution of Traditional Indian Wear” funded by ICSSR, New Delhi.
  • Conference - Paper Presentation :
    • 29th July, 2023. Presented a paper on “Teaching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone: Wizarding in a Muggle Classroom” at International Conference on Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity, East West University, Bangladesh, Dhaka.
    • 12th November, 2021. Presented a paper on "Depiction of Pandemic and Pain in Popular cinema" in the 21st Melow International Conference on “Illness, Healing and the Literary Imagination” held in Shoolini University, Solan, Himachal Pradesh.
    • July 20th, 2021. Presented a paper on “You are What you Eat: Food and Popular Culture” at the Sixteenth International Conference on Social Sciences on The Opportunities of Crisis: Resilience and Change in World History, organised by Oxford Brookes University, London.
    • 17th April, 2021. Presented a paper on “The Long wait for Homecoming: Looking at the lives of Oil Field Wives” in the Three Day International Virtual Conference on Gender Studies and Women Empowerment organised by Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Agartala.
  • Invited Talks :
    • 1st June, 2023. Acted as a resource person and delivered an invited lecture on “Apocalypse in Popular Imagination” to the Fourth semester Post Graduate students of Dept of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata.
    • February 16th, 2022. Acted as Invited Speaker and delivered a special lecture on “Life in the Times of Covid: Pandemic and Popular Cinema” in the Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) at the University of Calcutta.
    • 27th November, 2021. Delivered an invited Lecture “On Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Cinema and Popular Culture” in the Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) at the University of Calcutta.
    • 24th November, 2021. Delivered an invited lecture on “Gender Inequality and Higher Education” in India in the Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) at the University of Calcutta.
    • 19th March, 2021. Delivered an invited lecture on “Women in Higher Education” in the Faculty Induction Programme (FIP) at the University of Calcutta.
  • Journal :
    • 2024. “Arab World in Hergé’s the Adventures of Tintin: Making Visible the Idea of Terra Nullius.” Contemporary Review of the Middle East. (Sage) Volume 11, Issue 1. pp 9-22 (Scopus Indexed)
    • 2023. Issue Editorial: (Re)storying Indian Handloom Saree Culture. Café Dissensus online journal (Re)storying Indian Handloom Saree Culture (Issue 68). ISSN 2373-177X
    • 2022. “Weaves and Voices: Tracing the Journey of the Indian Saree,” Textile: Cloth and Culture, Volume 20, April, 2022. pp 224-234 (Scopus Indexed)
    • 2022. “The Long Wait for Homecoming”: Looking at the Lives of Oil Field Wives in COVID-19 Times”, Contemporary Review of the Middle East, Volume 9, Issue 4, December, 2022. pp 444-460. (Scopus indexed)
  • Book Chapter :
    • 2024. “Resilience as a form of Contestation in the Poetry of John Clare” in Supriya Daniel and Anu Kuriakose eds. Resilience and the Wandering Subject. pp 95-108. Spain: Vernon Press. ISBN: 979-8-8819-0035-9
    • 2024. “Domestic Modernism: Situating (Anti) Home in Writings of Virginia Woolf and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain” in Subhadeep Ray and Goutam Karmakar ed. Modernist Transitions. New Delhi: Bloomsbury. pp 172-193. ISBN: 9789356404380
    • 2023. “Slow Violence and the Desert Ecology” in Sushila Shekhawat, Rayson K. Alex, Swarnalatha Rangarajan Desertscapes in the Global South and Beyond Anthropocene Naturecultures. pp 60-80. London and New York. Routledge. ISBN 9781032249254
    • 2023. “Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth an Eco-Critical/Eco-Feminist Reading of Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple” in Sharbani Banerjee Mukherjee and Soumitro Roy, eds. Interrogating Eco-Literature and Sustainable Development: Theory, Text and Practice. pp 131-142 Routledge: India ISBN 9781032469614
    • 2022. “Spiritual Ecology: An Ecofeminist Study of the Jhumur Songs of Tribal Bengal” in Douglas Vakoch and Nicole Anae ed. Indian Feminist Ecocriticism. pp 35-48. London Lexington Books. ISBN 9781666908718
    • 2022. “Spaces of Cure or Confinement? Inside the Walls of the Mental Asylums of the 19th Century” in Anindita Chatterjee and Nilanjana Chatterjee (eds) Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture: Can Wellness be Far Behind? pp 50-61. London. Routledge. ISBN 9781032292700
  • Books :
    • 2022. Coedited with Nilanjana Chatterjee. Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032292700
    • 2020. Coedited with Nilanjana Chatterjee. Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, London. ISBN: 978-1-5275-5951-6

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