Basudeb Chakraborti

Designation

Professor and formerly Head,
Department of English, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Commerce
University of Kalyani
Nadia, West-Bengal.

Address

Address: 1/241/A, Naktola, Kolkata-700047, West Bengal.

Contact Info

Telephone Number: 919831029812, 033-2481-8553
E-Mail ID: basudeb_c@rediffmail.com

Academic Qualifications

M.A in English (Calcutta University), 1970

M.A. in English from the University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.), 1980 Major—Literature, Minor—Communication and Theatre.  M.A Thesis on John Galsworthy’s Plays.

M. Phil. in English (Nagpur University), 1983

PGDTE (Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad), 1991 Specialization in Phonetics, Phonology of English, Modern English Grammar, Morphology of English, Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching (ELT) Course Grade-A

Ph.D. in English (University of Kalyani), 1996, Doctoral Thesis on Thomas Hardy. Title: “Thomas Hardy’s View of Happiness: A Study of his Major Novels and Short stories”.

Teaching Areas

Phonetics and Phonology of English, Linguistics, ELT at M.A. 19^th Century English Literature, Indian Writings in English, Translation Studies

Teaching Experience

Experience—about 33 Years (including College and University Teaching.) Dr. Chakraborti joined the department of English, University of Kalyani on 8^th November’1989 as Reader in English and in 2001 he was promoted to the post of Professor of English. Before joining the department of English, Kalyani University, he served as lecturer in English in S. A. Jaipuria College, Calcutta from 1975 to 1989.

Publications

Books:
Thomas Hardy’s View of Happiness: A study of his major novels and short stories (Calcutta: Minerva Associates Pvt. Ltd.) 1997.
Some Problems of Translation: A Study of Tagore’s Red Oleanders (Calcutta: Papyrus) 2005.
Indian Partition Fiction in English and in English Translation: A Text on Hindu-Muslim Relationship (Calcutta: Papyrus) 2007.

 Monograph:
Thomas Hardy’s Predicament in Industrial England (1990, Calcutta)

Articles:
“Context: Tagore criticism and translation text of Rakta Karabi”, West Bengal, A West Bengal Government Fortnightly, A special number on Rabindranath Tagore, ed. Tarapada Ghose, Calcutta, May16 & June 1,1999. (Pp 73-80)

“A Pakistani Woman’s Quest for Self Identity and Freedom”, Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, 1999-2000(pp18-31)

“Context: Tehmina Durrani’s Blasphemy and the Sufi Shrine Myth”, Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, 2000—2001(pp.89—109)

“Girish Ghose’s Re-presentation of Shakespeare in Bengali: A Study of Act One, Scene One of Macbeth”, Re-Presenting Shakespeare Interpretations & Translation, Department of English, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, 2002. (pp.107-14)

“Context: A Comparative Study of Jhumpa Lahiri’s A Temporary Matter and Shubodh Ghosh’s Jatugriha”, The Journal of Indian Writings in English, ed.G.S. Balarama Gupta, Vol.30, January 2002 No1. Gulbarga, Karnataka (pp.23-29)

“Translation of Symbols and Songs: Tagore’s Journey from Rakta Karabi to Red Oleanders”, Literature and Criticism, Vol.3, No.1 May 2003, Calcutta (pp.62-70).

“Communal Violence and Human Values in Train to Pakistan” Literature and Criticism, Vol.5, No.1 January 2007.

“Crisis of Muslim Identity: Chaman Nahal’s Azadi”, An Anthology of Critical Writings, Ed. Dr Ketaki Dutta, Books Way, Calcutta 2008.

“Crisis of Muslim Identity: Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas”, Indian Emnglish Literature Trends & Issues, Ed. Dr Kaustav ChakrabortymDipali Publishers, Darjeeling, 2008.

 Course Contents Generated:
Dr. Chakraborti has written the following Modules for Two-year Master’s Programme in English, Directorate of Open & Distance Learning, University of Kalyani in 2006 and 2007:

The Morphology of English (28 pages)

 Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas (A fiction in Indian English Translation, Academy Award Winner)  (61 pages)

On Translation Studies (42 Pages)

 Rabindranath Tagore’s Red Oleanders (38 Pages)

Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles (40 Pages)

Workshop

Seminar

Conference

International Workshops:

·         Two Week Visit to the University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas, U.S.A. as Visiting Humanities Scholar in February 2003. Conducted a week-long workshop for English department faculty on the poetry of Tagore. Lectured to Writing and Rhetoric classes on the problems of translation. Delivered lectures on Language Variations to Graduate Students of University of Central Arkansas and on Indian Freedom Movement and the Hindu Religion.

·         Participated in the International Shaw Festival in 1980 held at the campus of the University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Texas, U.S.A and made the Script Analysis of Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara to the Actors and Actresses of the play under the direction of Professor Robert G. Everding.

 Seminars:

·         Presented a paper on Translation Theory in All India English Teachers’ Conference, held in Bhopal in 2001.

·         Presented a paper on Tehmina Durrani in the National seminar, organized by the department of English, Burdwan University in 2002.

·         Presented paper on Translation Studies in Institute of English, Calcutta in 2003.

·         Presented a paper at the department of English, North Bengal University in 2006. Title--- “Crisis of Muslim Identity: Chaman Nahal’s Azadi”.

·         Presented a paper at the department of English, Nagpur University on 20^th September’2008. The title of the presentation: The Essentials of Indianness: Tolerance and Sacrifice in Indian Partition Fiction in English and in English Translation.

·         Visiting Fellow at North Bengal University in 2005: Delivered series of lectures on English Romantic Poetry.