| Name: | Prof. Somdev Banik |
| Date of Birth : | 18/01/1972 |
| Phone number's : | +9436531090 |
| E-mail's : | somdev[at]tripurauniv.ac.in |
| Academic Qualifications : | M.A., Ph.D. |
| Present Designation/position : | Professor |
| Topics Taught : | " Amercan poetry, drama, novel, non -fictional prose. Indo-Anglian Poetry 18th Century British Novel Popular Literature ( Science Fiction and Horror Stories) Modern Poetry Research Methodology and Theory. " |
| Re-narrating National History in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines | In The Criterion: An International Journal in English, (www.the-criterion.com) , Vol-7 Issue-3, (June 2016); pp. 128-133. ISSN: 0976-8165. |
| “Writing is Music”: An Interview with Amitav Ghosh. | Literary Review, The Hindu, May 21, 2000. |
| Book Review of Poetry from Nagaland, Ed. Dept of English, Nagaland University | Dialogue, Vol-II, No-II, Dec-2006, UP.ISSN 0974-5556 |
| Book Review of And the Story Begins…by Anita Singh, MPASVO,UP, 2007 | Dialogue, Vol-5, No-I, June-2009, UP. ISSN 0974-5556 |
| Giving the Lie: Ingenuity in Subaltern Resistance in Premchand’s short story ‘The Shroud’. | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies on Humanities. Vol.1, No.2, Autumn 2009. ISSN-0975-2935. |
| De-constructing the Tribal Identity. | Sailo & Sarkar (Ed.) Issues of the Marginalized Tribals in Tripura, New Delhi: Supriya Books, 2012. Print.(Pages:50-56), ISBN:978-81-909143-5-2 |
| Understanding the Fear of the Text in a Post-colonial Classroom | Indian Journal of Applied Research, vol-3, No-4, April 2013. (Pages:39-40) ISSN:2249-555X www.ijar.in |
| Recovering for whose sake? Studying Abduction and Recovery in the context of Partition. | Ghanshyam & Chakraborty (Ed.) Indian Fiction since Independence: Reading from the Periphery, New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2013. (Pages: 61-70) Print. ISBN: 978-93-82186-17-5 |
| Worshipping into Subjugation: Studying Non-violent Violence against Women in Post-Partition Fiction | Asian Academic Research Journal of Social Science and Humanities, vol-1, No-10, 2013. (Pages:109-116) ISSN:2278-859X www.asianacademicresearch.org |
| Stinking Food Stigma: Changing Ethnic Foodways for Acculturation | International Journal of Social Science Research, Vol:2, 2013. p.69-72. ISSN No. 2325-7911 |
| Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Critique of Christianity in Petals of Blood | IJHSSI, Vol:5 Issue:1, Jan 2016, p.12-15. ISSN No. 2319-7722 |
| Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Notion of Historical Change in Petals of Blood | IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol-21 No.1, Jan 2016. ISSN No. 2279-0837. |
| Deconstructing the Hegemony of History: A Study of Postcolonial Resistance | Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol-6, Issue:2, Feb 2016. pp.703-705. ISSN No. 2249-555X. |
| The Rise of the Dictator: Corrupting Influence of Power in Achebe’s Anthills of Savannah | The International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism, Issue No: 13/April 2016, pp: 61-71. ISSN: 0976-1608 |
| The Origin of Theatre in the Princely State of Tripura | BharatiyaPrajna: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Indian Studies, (http://www.indianstudies.net), Vol-1, No-1, 2016, pp.42-46. ISSN No: 2456-1347. |
| Representation of Disabled Characters in Literature | International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (http://www.ijelr.in), Vol-3, Issue 2, 2016, pp. 198-201. ISSN: 2349-9451 (Online), 2395-2628 (Print). |
| Stereotyping India’s North East: Examining the “Paradise Unexplored” in Tourism Discourse | Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935), Vol. IX, No. 3, 2017 |
| Representation of the Predicament of Tea Garden Workers in Jaya Gowala’s short play “GhumBhanganiya Din” | Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science Volume 7 ~ Issue 2 (2019)pp.:38-40 ISSN(Online):2321-9467 |
| Literature Teaching for Affective and Psychomotor Skill Development in the Learner—An Alternative Paradigm | SARASWAT-The Tripura University Research Journal, Vol.-I, Issue- 01, December 2020 |
| Phoenix: A Text Book of Compulsory English | Book (Co-Editor) | Published by Orient Blackswan. 2015 ISBN No. 978 81 250 5753 6 |
| Book titled: In Search of True Freedom: Negotiating Colonial Imaginings in the Postcolonial Fictional Space |
Book (single Author) Translation |
Published by Saarbrücken, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012. Print. (Pages-210) ISBN:978-3-8443-9796-3 |
|
AGIYE CHALO (A Play by SudhanyaDebbarma ) |
Book (single Author) Translation |
Published by Tribal Research and Cultural Institute, Govt. of Tripura, Agartala, Tripura. 2017. ISBN:978-81-932589-1-0 |
|
DEBONA TITUN (A Play by Kamal Raychaudhuri ) |
Book (single Author) Translation |
Published by Tribal Research and Cultural Institute, Govt. of Tripura, Agartala, Tripura. 2017. ISBN:978-81-932589-2-7 |
| MUYA: SHOOTS OF IMAGINATION | Book (single Author) | Published by Niharika Publishers, Agartala, 2017 ISBN: 978-93-86781-04-8 |
| Teaching English Literature/ Language: Perspectives from a non-Metro University InEnglish Studies in India,Eds. B.Mahanta and R.Sharma | Book Chapter | Springer Nature,Singapore,2019 ISBN:978-981-13-1524-4 |
| Participated as Resource Person | 9th-12th August 2019 | Sahitya Akademi, NECOL, Agartala | 4 Days National Translation Workshop for translating Ram Kumar Mukhopadhyay’s Bharat Joda Kathan katha |
| Participated as Resource Person | 18th-19th March 2019 | IGRMS, Bhopal and Dept. of English, TU | Seminar on Cultural Heritage of Tripura |
| Participated as Resource Person | 11th-13th January 2018 | R.G. National Institute of Youth Dev. Ministry of Youth Affairs. | 3 Days TOT (Training of Trainers) program on Gender Equity |
| Organising Secretary | 2nd-3rd November 2017 | Department of English, TU Sponsored by DONER, GOI | 2 Day National Conference The English Text in a North East Classroom: Pedagogy, Politics and Sociology of English Literature Teaching |
| Participated as Resource Person | 6th-7th April 2017 | UGC Sponsored Women’s Study Centre, TU | National Seminar on Violence Against Women |
| Participated as Resource Person | 25th-25th February 2017 | Jhanji HNS College, Sivasagar, Assam & ICSSR | National Seminar on Re-Reading of the Discourses in Contemporary Indian English Literature |
| Presented paper on Representation of the predicament of Tea Garden Workers in Jaya Gowala’s short play GhumBhanganiya Din | 8th-9th September 2016 | Dept of English, Assam University | International Conference on (Re)Envisaging India’s Northeast: Ethnicity, Identity, Culture & Literature |
| Presented paper on The Lost World of Balyashiksha: Relooking at the Bengali Primer in the Present Context | 4th-5th July 2016 | Dept of English, TU, Sahitya Akademi | National Seminar on The Silence of Dying Voices: Literatures on the Verge of Extinction |
| National Seminar on Texts, Manuscripts and Oral Traditions of Tripura | 16-18th March 2016 | Dept. of Sanskrit, Tripura University in collaboration with IGNCA, New Delhi. | Presented a paper on The Oral Tradition of Bengali Folksongs in Tripura |
| International Seminar on AdwaitaMallabarman: Jiban O Sristi | 3-4th March 2016 | Department of Bengali, Tripura University, in collaboration with Dept. of Welfare of SC/ST, Gov.t of Tripura. | Presented a Paper on Conflicting Voices of Caste Consciousness in Titas Ekti Nadir Naam. |
| National Seminar on Deterrents on the path of students’ comprehensive development with special reference to Tripura | 20-21st Jan 2016 | Govt. Degree College, Kamalpur, Tripura. | Presented a paper titled Holistic Education: An Illusion or Reality |
| National Seminar on Women’s Rights in the North East India | 17th Jan2016 | Dept. of Bengali, DDE, Tripura University, | Presented a paper titled “Working Housewives” and their Ignored Rights |
| National Seminar on Imaging and Imagining the North-East: Discourses on North-Eastern Literature, Culture, Creativity and Criticism | 22-23 August 2014 | Dept. of English, TU | Presented a paper titled Imaging North-East as a Tourist Destination: A Study of “Incredible India” Tourist Brochure on the North East |
| Seminar on Women and Science | 25th Feb 2014 | Women’s Studies Centre, TU | Presented a paper titled From Orality to the “Scientific”:The Politics of Subjugation of Women |
| International Conference on Social Inequality and Literature, | 16-17th Jan 2014 | Dept. of Bengali, TU ICSSR | Presented a paper titled Demonising Disability: Practicing Social Inequality through Literature |
| A National Conference on Issues of the Marginalized Tribals in Tripura | Jan 20-22 2012. | Organised by Govt. Degree College, Kamalpur, Tripura and sponsored by UGC, Nero, ICSSR, NEC. | Presented a paper titled “Deconstructing the Tribal Identity.” |
| A National Conference on Post-Independence Indian Fiction in English . | July 22-23 2011. | Organised by Dept. of English, Women’s College, Agartala and sponsored by UGC, Nero | Presented a paper titled “Recovering for whose sake? Studying Abduction and Recovery in the context of Partition.”. |
| A 3 day International Conference on Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture | 9th-11th November 2010, BHU, Varanasi | Sponsored by Sahitya Akademi, & ICSSR, New Delhi. | Presented a paper titled Anglicisation:Studying English Literature without the text. |
| 44th All India English Teachers’ Conference | 20-22nd December,2009 | BHU, Varanasi. | Presented a paper titled Decolonisation to Post-colonisation:The necessity of changing perspective for Achebe in Anthills of Savannah |
| Attended a Workshop on Effective Communication Skills | 7-11th December 2009 | Conducted by The British Council, East India. |
| Smt. Suvra Bhowmik (Incomplete) | Adaptation and Incorporation of Myths in Girish Karnad’s Plays | Registeredon 02.01.2014 |
| Jhuma Majumder | Racist Prejudice and Stereotypes in Children’s Literature in English: A Study of Select Texts | Awarded Ph.Don07.03.2018 |
| Poumita Paul | Essentialization “Past” in select novels of Ashwin Sanghi | Registered on 01.6.2018 |
| MousumiBasfore | Representations of Sita and Draupadi in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English:A Study of the novels of Pratibha Ray, Ashok Banker, Chitra DivakaruniBanerjee and Amish Tripathy | Registeredon 15.11.2018 |
| Debasish Acharjee | The Pedagogy of Select Soft Skills in English Literature as a means of Learner Empowerment | Registered on 22.1.2019 |
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