July 2008 : Published a book of critical essays entitled Modern British Short Stories Critical Interpretations (Presto Publisher, Kolkata, July 2008)
December 2008 : Talk on Human Rights at an Area Conference organized by the Students' Christian Movement of India.
November 2008 : Presented a paper on Globalisation and Minority Educational Institutions at Bankura Christian College at seminar organized by the Disocese of Durgapur, West Bengal.
September 2008 : Presented a paper Mark Twain's India at a seminar organized by Jadavpur University Society for American Studies
May 2007 : Compiled a bibliogtraphy of 20th century American poetry, drama and fiction for a workshop for college teachers on American literature organized by Jadavpur University Society for American studies.
August 2006 : Published a module on the History of American Literature for the Post-Graduate study materials of Netaji Subhas Open University.
June 2005 : Published a module on American Poetry (R.W. Emerson, R Frost, W Stevens, A Ginsberg and E Dickinson) for the Post-Graduate study materials of Netaji Subhas Open University.
February 2005 : Presented a paper on Biblical myth in American Literature at Jadavpur University at a seminar organized by JUSAS (Jadavpur University Society for American Studies)
April 2005 : Published a paper on African-American poet Langston Hughes in the English Study Centre Newsletter.
May 2004 : Presented a paper on African American Music at the 2-day Summer Course organized by the American Literature Study Circle for teachers of undergraduate colleges at the American Centre, Kolkata.
June 2003 : Seminar on Human Rights organized by The National Council of Churches in India at Kalimpong.
Topic of Paper presesnted : Human Rights and Women - A Biblical Perspective
March 2003 : Seminar on ' The Dramatic Art of Shaw, Synge and Goldsmith" organzied by the English Study Centre, Calcutta. March 2003.
Topic of Paper : The Dialectics of Space in Shaw's Arms and the Man. (Published in ESC News letter)
Feb 2003 : Seminar on 'Afro - American Discourses'.
Topic of Paper : Religion, Rhythm and Rebellion: Scared Music and its Echoes in the Fiction of Alice Walker and Gloria Naylor. Published in ALSC Journal in 2005
Jan 2003 : Annual Seminar organized by Jadavpur University Society for American Studies JUSAS on the theme: The Immigrant Experience in Americvan Literature and Culture.
Topic of Paper : The Religious Basis and Bias : Early Immigrant Writing in America
January 2002 : Seminar organized bu JUSAS.
Topic : Temporal Transactions and the Short Fiction of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.
August 2001 : Annual seminar organized by the American Literature Study Circle, a wing of the American Information on Resource Center , Calcutta.
Topic : Sites and Sounds : Mapping the Frontiers of Country Music in the USA. Published in 'Studies in American Literature' (Vol III, 2003) brought out by American Literature Study Circle , Calcutta.
April 2001: Seminar organized by the Jadavpur University for American Studies (JUSAS).
Topic : Church Music in the Novels of Alice Walker and Gloria Nylor.
March 2001 : National seminar on History - 'Millennial Musings' at St Paul's C.M. College.
Topic : Trends in Twentieth Century Literature.
August 2000 : Seminar organized by Jusas.
Topic : The Cowboy Myth in American Music. (Published in JUSAS Newsletter, Vol 3, No.3 June September,2000)
December 1999 : Seminar at Jadavpur University, Calcutta .
Topic : Biblical Resonances in Hemingway's Short Fiction : Moving Testaments to his Art Published in The Ernest Hemingway Companion ed. S. Mandal, Sarat Book Distributors, Kolkata, 2002,
March 1999: National seminar at Rabindra Bharati University on 'Hemingway Centenary', Calcutta.
Topic : The problematics of Peregrination in Hemingway's Short Fiction.
Published in the Departmental Journal of Rabindra Bharati University, Vol. v, 1998-99
March 1999 : DSA seminar at Jadavpur University.
Topic: The Poetics of Proximity & Polarity in Katherine Mansfield's Short Fiction. |
