Department of English

Publications (year wise) :

• Das, Debarati, and Rita Banerjee. "Enacting Resistance in History and Fiction: Counter-narratives of Tribal Historiography in Mahasweta Devi’s Writings".Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography, edited by Rita Banerjee, Routledge, 2020.
• Das, Debarati. “Patricia Rozema’s ‘Mansfield Park’-A Case Study”. Contemporary Essays in Commonwealth Literature .Ed. Dipankar Chakrabarti. New Delhi: Supriya Books, 2014.

Seminar/Conference/Workshop/Refresher/Orientations etc. Participated:

• Presented a paper titled "Resistance Movements and the Role of History, Myth & Memory: A Reading of Particular Narratives from the Sub-Continent " at The International Conference on The Politics of Memory and History: Beyond the Postcolonial and the Postmodern, organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod from 13-15th March 2023.
• Refresher Course: Completed the 2 Weeks 1st Refresher Course in Indian Languages, Literature & Culture Studies (IDC) held from 14th February – 26th February 2022, organized by the UGC-HRDC, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi -110067
• Faculty Development Programme: Completed the 4 Weeks 3rd Faculty Induction Programme held from 13/01/2021 to 11/02/2021, organized by the UGC-HRDC, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya.
• Presented a paper titled "Locating Myths in Mahasweta Devi’s Literary Works", at the Third Ireland India Institute Conference on South Asia, organized by the Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University, on 24th - 26th of April, 2019, and held at All Hallows DCU Campus, Dublin, Ireland.
• Chairperson, 6th Technical Session, & Moderator, Panel Discussion on Folk and Gender, at the Mystic Mountains, Magical Rivers: A Festival of North-Eastern Folkways, organized by the Department of English, Tripura University in collaboration with the North-Eastern Council, Ministry of DoNER and Sahitya Akademi, 2018 at Tripura University.
• Presented a paper titled "Creating 'History', Forging Resistance: Reading Mahasweta Devi", at the International Conference on Literature: Contemporary Perspectives on/in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature and Theory, held on 25-26th July 2018, at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
• Presented a paper titled "Unhistoric Acts in Mahasweta Devi's Literary Works", at the National Seminar on Writing India: Revisiting Historiographies, Ideology and Genre. organized by the Centre of English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the sponsorship of UGC-SAP-DSA (I), held on 16-17th January, 2017, at JNU, New Delhi.
• Presented a paper titled " Cinematic Interpretation and Literature: A Case Study of Patricia Rozema's 'Mansfield Park' ", at the UGC- sponsored National Seminar on Sharing Commonwealth Experience, held on 12-13th July 2013 at the Department of English, Govt. Degree College, Khumulwng, West Tripura.

Scholarships/ Fellowships/ Awards:

• Awarded UGC NET- JRF in 2013 in English Literature.
• Joint First Rank in BA(hons) English at university.