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Dr. Chaitali Gorai

Assistant Professor
Date of Birth : 28/03/1982
E-mails : chaitaligorai[at]tripurauniv.ac.in , chaiti.31[at]gmail.com
Qualifications : M.A., Ph.D.
Topics Taught : Renaissance, Romantic and Victorian Literature, Indian English Fiction, Postcolonial Theories, New Literatures (African, Caribbean, Australian and Canadian)

1. PUBLICATIONS:

(i) Journals

SI. No Title with volume, number and page number Journal Name ISBN/ISSN/Categorization Peer-reviewed/UGC listed
1. ‘The Isolated Navigator: Salman Rushdie’s Manifestation of Self in Haroun and the Sea of Stories’ Vol.12.1 (Feb 2021): 74-82 The Criterion: An International Journal in English ISSN: 0976-8165/ Peer-reviewed
2. 'A Dark Beam through the Prismatic Eye: The Black Community in George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin' Vol 10.1(2020): 98-108 Journal of The Odisha Association for English Studies ISSN: 2249-6726/ Peer-reviewed
3. ‘The ‘Other’ Side of Indian Independence and Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan’ Vol 10.1 (2016): 116-28 Samay-Aagam Research Journal ISSN-0976-4682/ Peer-reviewed
4. ‘Between Cultural Crossroads: Traditional Indians versus Anglicised Indians in Selected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh’ Vol 9.2 (2015): 99-116 Samay-Aagam Research Journal ISSN-0976-4682/ Peer-reviewed
5. ‘All is Fresh, All is Green’ (a Poem) Vol 26 (October 2014): 63 Samay-Sarita ISSN: 0976-4690/ Peer-Reviewed
6. ‘Decoding the Matriarchal Myth in The Da Vinci Code’ Vol. VII No. 1 & 2. Jan & July (2008): 126-134 Reflections ISSN: 0973-046X/ Peer-Reviewed
7. The Novels of Jean Rhys as Studies in Inverted Odyssey Vol.6 No 2 April-June (2007): 86-96 The Atlantic Critical Review ISSN: 0972-6373/ Peer-Reviewed
8. ‘Caliban down the Centuries’ Vol.4.3 [July-September (2005)]: 13-21 The Atlantic Critical Review ISSN: 0972-6373/ Peer-Reviewed

(ii) Books/Chapters in Books

SI. No Art/Chapter Title with page numbers Book title, Editor & Publisher ISBN/ISSN No/(Or, Renowned publishers)
1. ‘Vidyasagar’s the Barnaparchay and the Written Characters of Bengali’ pp.77-85 IswarchandraVidyasagar: DuishoBacharerNiswangaPathik Ed. Nirmal Das & RupasreeDebnath Tripura BaniPrakashani, 2020 ISBN 978-81-940408-7-3
    The Traveller: Uncollected Works of Mohit K. Ray 2016 ISBN 978-93-5208-046-5
2. ‘A Word for You, My Teacher’ p.857 The Traveller: Uncollected Works of Mohit K. Ray 2016 ISBN 978-93-5208-046-5
3.   Rabha Folk Tales, Pp xi+104. AkanshaPublishing House, 2014 ISBN 978-81-8370-406-9
4.   Phoenix Pp. 239. Orient Blackswan, 2014 ISBN 978 81 250 5753 6
5. ‘Thus the Arabian Tales are Quilted Again: A Study of Hariharan’sWhen Dreams Travel’ pp.84-94 Variegated Narratives of Indian English Fiction. Ed. Ghanashyam & Prasanta Chakraborty. AdiPublicaitons, 2014 ISBN 978-93-82630-32-6
6. ‘The Semiotics of Space in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things’ pp.103-116 The Voice of the Other: Post Independence Indian English Fiction. Ed. Ghanashyam & Prasanta Chakraborty. Yking Books, 2013 ISBN 978-81-909143-2-1
7. ‘Voyaging Within and Without: A Study of Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark’ pp.216-222 Contemporary English Literatures: A Reader 2009 ISBN 81 906258 1 0
8. ‘Jane Eyre: A Site for Conflicting Contexts’ pp.1-7 Studies in Women Writers in English Vol. 7 2009 ISBN 978-81-269-1258-2
9. ‘Homecoming’ pp.299-302 Widening Horizons: Essays in Honour of Professor Mohit K. Ray 2005 ISBN 81-7625-598-X

(iii) Translations

SI. No Title with page number Type of Book/ and Authorship Publisher & ISBN/ISSN/Categorization
1. ‘The Tale of the Frog Boy’ pp.93-97 Echoes from Lungleng Tang: Bongcher Literature of Oral Tradition’ Ed. Kamal Bongcher and ZohmingThangaBongcher. SahityaAcademi, 2011 ISBN 978-81-260-3210-5
2. ‘PapiyasaRetep’ pp.98-105 Echoes from Lungleng Tang: Bongcher Literature of Oral Tradition’ Ed. Kamal Bongcher and ZohmingThangaBongcher. SahityaAcademi, 2011 ISBN 978-81-260-3210-5

2. SEMINARS/INVITED RESOURCE PERSON

SI. No Title of the Invited Lecture/Paper presented Title of Conference / Seminar Organized by
1. Keynote Speaker ‘The (Un)making of the Folk Hero in the Tales from Northeast India’ 23rd April 2022 iSPELL (Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature) Tripura Forum (Webinar)
2. Keynote Speaker ‘What is it to be a Woman: A Peek into Perception Contrasts’ 46th Sunday SahityikSatsang July 2021, 1st August 2021 iSPELL (Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature) (Webinar)
3. Resource Person 4 days Translation Workshop, 9th – 12th August 2019 NECOL, SahityaAcademi, Agartala
4. ‘A Demi-God among the Zo: The Retold Story of Lalruanga’ Negotiating Issues of Orality, Folk and History in the 21st Century 5th-6th November 2018 ICFAI University, Tripura
5. ‘BhāsāSankat: Kāran, Pratifal o tārPratikār’ SSahityaSammelan – 2017, 22 February 2017 SahityaSammelan Preparatory Committee, Agartala
6. ‘The Soliloquies of Shakespeare: Pieces Neither Withered by Age Nor Staled by Custom’ Panel Discussion to Commemorate the 400th Death Anniversary of Shakespeare 4th October 2016 Department of English, N. S. Mahavidyalaya, Udaipur
7. ‘Folklore: Its Contextualisation in Mainstream Literature’ The Silence of Dying Voices: Literatures on the Verge of Extinction in India’s North-East and the World 4th & 5th July 2016 Department of English, Tripura University
8. ‘Home, Personal Space and the Metaphor of Journey: A Reading of Jean Rhys’ Good Morning, Midnight’ Heterotopologies: Re-defining Space and Cultural Imaginaries 17th-18th February 2011 Department of English, The University of Burdwan
9. ‘In Search of her Mother’s Garden: Female Protagonist in Jean Rhys’ After Leaving Mr Mackenzie’ Texts and Discourses 18 December 2009 Department of English, The University of Burdwan
10. ‘God’s Un-Chosen Seeds: Study of the Socially Exiled in Mulk Raj Anand’sUntouchable’ Social Exclusion and Empowerment: A Multidisciplinary Approach 28th-29th May 2007 Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS), The University of Burdwan

Publications (year wise) :

Caliban down the Centuries The Atlantic Critical Review Vol.4 No 3. ed by Dr Mohit K Ray. New Delhi: The Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Ltd, 2005
The Novels of Jean Rhys as Studies in Inverted Odyssey The Atlantic Critical Review Vol.4 No 3. ed by Dr Mohit K Ray. New Delhi: The Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Ltd, 2007
God’s Unchosen Seeds: Study of the Socially Exiled in Anand’s Untouchable Working Paper Series of CIS, no 4 (2008). Burdwan University: CIS of the Faculty of Arts, Science and Commerce [In Press]
Jane Eyre: A Site for Conflicting Contexts Studies in Women Writers in English Vol. 7. ed by Dr Rama Kundu. New Delhi: The Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (P) Ltd. [In Press]
Voyaging Within and Without: A Study of Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark Contemporary English Literatures: A Reader. Ed by Dr Angshuman Kar. West Bengal: Icon Publishers, 2009
Decoding the Matriarchal Myth in The Da Vinci Code Reflections. Ed by Dr Gauri Sankar Jha. Bhagalpur: Writers and Writings, Jan & July 2008.
In Search for her Mother’s Garden: Female Protagonist in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie”. The Journal of English Department. Burdwan: Burdwan University [In Press]
Translation of Bongcher Tales of “Papiyasa Retep” and “Uchekte Retep” from Bengali to English. Sahitya Akademi NECOL [North-East Centre for Oral Literature]. 2010 [In Press].

Seminar/Conference/Workshop/Refresher/Orientation etc Participated:

1.International Seminar on Writing Across Cultures 14 February 2006. Department of English, the University of Burdwan Participated
2. National Seminar on Literary Theory: Spectre and Aura 15-16 January, 2007 Department of English, Maharajadhiraj Uday Chand Women’s College, Burdwan Participated
3. National Seminar on Nineteenth Century British Literature: Text and Context 13-14 February, 2007 Department of English, the University of Burdwan Presented a paper titled “Jane Eyre: A Site for Conflicting Contexts”
4. Two-day UGC sponsored National Seminar on Social Exclusion and Empowerment: A Multidisciplinary Approach on 28-29 May, 2007 Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies [CIS] Presented a paper titled “God’s Unchosen Seeds: Study of the Socially Exiled in Anand’s Untouchable”
5. National Seminar on Multiculturalism and Literature of Asian Diaspora 27-28 February, 2008 Department of English, The University of Burdwan, Participated
6. International Research Scholars’ Seminar on Australian Studies: Divergent Directions 22 November, 2009. The IASA (Indian Association for the Study of Australia), Eastern Region, Participated
7. National Seminar for Research Scholars and Students on Texts and Discourses 18 December, 2009 Department of English, The University of Burdwan, Presented a paper titled “In search for her Mother’s Garden: Female Protagonist in Jean Rhys’s After Leaving Mr Mackenzie”

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