Amrit Sen is Reader in English at the Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. He has won the Outstanding Thesis Award for his book The Narcissistic Mode: Metafiction as a Strategy in Moll Flanders, Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy. (Worldview, 2007) He is interested in Travel Writing and has recently won the UGC Research Award for his Project titled, The Self & the World in Tagore’s Travel Writings. He also takes a keen interest in the History of Science in India, especially the writings of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray.

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Research Interests

Eighteenth Century Literature, Narrative, Travel Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Postmodern Fiction, Popular Culture, Detective Fiction, Sports and Literature.

Dissertation Titles:

(M.Phil): Metafiction as a Literary technique in Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy

Ph.D: The Narcissistic Mode: Metafiction as a Strategy in Moll Flanders, Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy

Research Projects

1.     UGC Minor Research Project titled From Philosophy to Literature: the Novel Interrogates the Enlightenment granted by Visva - Bharati  2003 – 2005

2.     UGC Sponsored Minor Research Project titled Re-imagining the Homeland in the Travels of Dean Mahomet and Abu Taleb 2006-2008

Research Scholars:

1.     Dhriti Ray, Lecturer in English, Banaras Hindu University (Title of the Project: Exploring the Margins: The Fiction of J.M. Coetzee)

2.     Suranjima Saha, Research Scholar (Visva-Bharati), (Title of the Project: Writing in the ‘Contact Zone’: Indian Travelers to Britain 1757-1857)

3.     Sudeshna Mazumder, Research Scholar (Visva-Bharati) (Title of the Project: A Study of Chronotopes in the Narrative Paintings of William Hogarth and the Eighteenth Century Novel)

PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Narcissistic Mode: Metafiction as a Strategy in Moll Flanders, Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy (New Delhi: Worldview, 2007)

Articles in Books
“Giving Voice to the Voiceless: The strange History of Tristan Smith” in Australian Literature:Identity Representation, Belonging ed Jaydeep Sarangi, (New Delhi: Swarup & Sons, 2006), pp. 41-48.

“The Pen Employ’d in Finishing her Story: Moll Flanders as Early Metafiction”, in Penguin Critical Edition of Moll Flanders, ed. Jayati Gupta. (New Delhi: Penguin, 2006)

“A Space of her Own: Women and the city in Meghey Dhaka Tara and Mahanagar”, in The Indian Imagination, ed. Somdatta Mandal. (New Delhi: Creative, 2007) pp. 260-271.

Aricles in Journals
“Walter Savage Landor and the Poetry of Contradictions ” in Riti (A Bilingual Literary Miscellany) Vol. 2, No 2, January 2002. .pp. 28-34.

“Many Masks, Many Tasks: Henry Fielding and the Eighteenth Century Masquerade” in Essays and Studies (Journal of the Department of English, Jadavpur University) March 2002. pp. 19-33.

“The Tale’s Lost Betwixt us: The Novel and the Enlightenment” in Apperceptions, Journal of the Department of English and Omel, February 2004.pp. 13-22.

“Fuzzing Boundaries: Foe as Metafiction”, in Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Vol. 5 , 2003 –04. pp. 13-23.

“A Small tale Generally of Love: Amatory Fiction and the Rise of the Novel”, in The Atlantic Critical Review, 2.3 (July 2003)

“The Keystone of the Arch: Reconsidering the Man on the Hill in Tom Jones”, in Literature and Criticism Vol. 4, August 2004.pp. 92-100.

“An Early Encounter: The Poetics of Resistance in The Travels of Dean Mahomet”, in Indian Journal of World Literature and Culture, 1.1 (January, 2004).pp. 29-33.

“Identity and Resistance in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative”, in Apperceptions, Vol. 2, December 2004. pp. 39-48.

“Proteus in a Mercantile World: Theatricality as Capital in Volpone”, in Seva Bharati Journal of English Studies, Vol. 1, January 2005.pp. 144-149.

“Landscaping Resistance: The Travels of Dean Mahomet”, in Dialog, Journal of the Department of English, Panjab University,No 13, Spring 2005. pp. 107-117.

“The Record of an Engagement with Him: Animals in Larkin’s Poetry”, in Journal of the Department of English, Bankura Christian College, No, 1, March 2006.

“A Road that may lead Nowhere: Allegory, Torture and the “Other” in Waiting for the Barbarians”, in Journal of the Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, No 10, 2006. pp. 63-70.pp. 144-149.

“Are there any Ghosts in this Text? Negotiating Genres in Byomkesh o Barada” in Visva-Bharati Quarterly, 12.3, 2004, pp. 17-21.

“Endless Play: Philosophy, Narrative and Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy”, in Literary Voice, 2007, pp. 26-42.