Dr. Anurag Bhattacharyya

Associate Professor, Department of English
  • Phone No. - 9864071694
  • Department of English
  • Designation - Associate Professor

Profile

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)

M.A. in English Literature, Tezpur University

B.A. (English), Gauhati University

Specialization:
Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Studies, Indian Writing in English, Comparative Literature & Translation Studies

Contact

Mobile No:+919864071694

E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Area of Interests
American Environmental Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Indian Writing in English

Papers taught: The English Romantics, Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Literature

 

Publications

Publications

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag and Krishna Barua. “Place, Landscape and Self in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain” Simon C. Estok, I-Chun Wang, Jonathan White eds. Landscape, Seascape, and the Ecospatial Imagination. New York. Routledge. 2016.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Life in the Woods: Towards an Ecocritical Reading of Thoreau’s Walden”.Labyrinth (ISSN No. 0976-0814) 2.4 (2011).

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Learning the Terrain: Representing Places and Landscapes in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.” DUJES (ISSN-0975-5659) Vol 23, 2014.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Representing the Spatial Environment and the Cosmic Landscape of the Yangtze Valley in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.” Anviksa (ISSN 2348-067X) Vol V,  2018.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Place, Landscape and Memory in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” Proceedings of the Biennial Conference 2-4 September 2015. Green Knowledge”, ed. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, United Kingdom and Ireland (ASLE-UKI), University of Cambridge, UK. 2015

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Spatialization of Exilic Self, Home and Memory in Gao Xingjian’s One Man’s Bible.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (ISSN-0975-5659) Vol 25, 2016.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. Places and Landscapes: An Ecocritical Study of Gao Xingjian Fiction. Mauritius: Scholars’ Press, 2019. (ISBN: 978-613-8-82981-2)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Shakesearor Tragedy TattaAru King Lear”.ShakespearorXubhax. Eds.PankajGoswami and TufailZilan, Jorhat. Bedakantha. 2018.(ISBN: 978-93-82931-88-1)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag.“The Love Scene of Jagara Mandal”.Bezbaroa: The Man and His Works ed. Ananda Bormudoi, Publication Division, Dibrugarh University, 2014. (ISBN. 978-81-927849-9-1)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag.“Situating the Self in Ethnographic Landscape of the Yangtze Valley in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.”Asian Journal of English Studies.6.4 (120-129)(ISSN 2277-3606)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Representation of the Gandhian Ideals in Select Fiction of R.K. Narayan”.IJMER. 8.11; 2019, ISSN : 2277 - 7881

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag.“Rup TirtharJatri: EkhonKunstlerroman”. Swarnalipi.(ISSN-2231-0517)

 Bhattacharyya,Anurag.“GaoXingjianorRasanatLekhakorSwadhinataPrasanga”.Gariyoshi.(ISSN-2349-5324).

Coedited the book Scholars' Dictionary (Anglo-Assamese) Panbazar: Ashok Publication (ISBN:9789384095581)

Seminars/Conferences/Workshops 

June 2020                  Acted as a resource person in the International E-Workshop on Contemporary Critical Trends in Literature and delivered a lecture on the topic “ Emerging Trends in Ecostudies” organized by the Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.

October 2011          Invited to deliver a Plenary Talk in the International Conference on “Gao Xingjian: Freedom, Fate and Prognostication” organized and fully funded by International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Title of the Lecture:“Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain: In Search of the Lonely Voice”.

September 2015       Presented a paper in the International Conference on “Green Knowledge” organised by the Association for the Study of Literature, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) held in Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Title of the Paper: “Place, Landscape and Memory in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss.

June 2016                  Participated in the First Annual Summer Institute in Chinese Studies and Global Humanities on “Grasping Water: Rivers and Human Systems in China, Africa and North America. The Summer Institute has been held at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, United States from June 13-17, 2016. Participated in the event as a Resource Person and all the expenses had been fully sponsored by The Consortium of Humanities Centre and Institutes, University of Minnesota, USA.

June 2007                  Presented a Paper in the National Seminar on “Shakti Cult and Tantricism” organised under the sponsorship of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations- New Delhi (Under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) at Guwahati. Title of the paper:  “Sri Yantra: A Symbol of Cosmic Consciousness”.

December 2016          Participated in the Course on “Travel Writing: Texts, Theories, and Frameworks for Analysis” organised by Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN) in Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar during 19-29 December 2016.

September 2016         Participated as a Resource Person in the seven-day Translation Workshop in English held on 28 September - 4 October, 2016, organised by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh.

October 2018              Participated in “Two Weeks Capacity Building Programme for Young Social Science Faculty”sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi in collaboration with School of Social Sciences & International Studies, Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, held from 18-31 October 2018.

Nobember 2008          Participated in the Autumn School on “The Oral as Resource” organized by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from 1-14 November 2008 and presented a Paper titled “The Ramayana and Khuliya Bhauria- Oral tradition in Performing Arts”.

February 2019             Acted as a resource person in the Invited as a resource person to the National Seminar on Issues of Identity and Marginality in Northeast India: Challenges to Social Inclusion and delivered a lecture on the topic “Issues of Identity and Marginality in Indian English Writing from the Northeast” organized by IQAC, HCDC College, Nitaipukhuri, Sivasagar, Assam.

September 2019          Delivered a talk on “The Concept of Manicheanism in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth” organized by Department of English, Sibsagar College, Sivasagar, Assam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Profile

Profile

Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG)

M.A. in English Literature, Tezpur University

B.A. (English), Gauhati University

Specialization:
Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Studies, Indian Writing in English, Comparative Literature & Translation Studies

Contact

Mobile No:+919864071694

E-mail:
[email protected]
[email protected]

Area of Interests
American Environmental Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Indian Writing in English

Papers taught: The English Romantics, Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Literature

 

Publications

Publications

 

Publications

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag and Krishna Barua. “Place, Landscape and Self in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain” Simon C. Estok, I-Chun Wang, Jonathan White eds. Landscape, Seascape, and the Ecospatial Imagination. New York. Routledge. 2016.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Life in the Woods: Towards an Ecocritical Reading of Thoreau’s Walden”.Labyrinth (ISSN No. 0976-0814) 2.4 (2011).

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Learning the Terrain: Representing Places and Landscapes in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.” DUJES (ISSN-0975-5659) Vol 23, 2014.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Representing the Spatial Environment and the Cosmic Landscape of the Yangtze Valley in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.” Anviksa (ISSN 2348-067X) Vol V,  2018.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Place, Landscape and Memory in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss” Proceedings of the Biennial Conference 2-4 September 2015. Green Knowledge”, ed. Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, United Kingdom and Ireland (ASLE-UKI), University of Cambridge, UK. 2015

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Spatialization of Exilic Self, Home and Memory in Gao Xingjian’s One Man’s Bible.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (ISSN-0975-5659) Vol 25, 2016.

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag. Places and Landscapes: An Ecocritical Study of Gao Xingjian Fiction. Mauritius: Scholars’ Press, 2019. (ISBN: 978-613-8-82981-2)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Shakesearor Tragedy TattaAru King Lear”.ShakespearorXubhax. Eds.PankajGoswami and TufailZilan, Jorhat. Bedakantha. 2018.(ISBN: 978-93-82931-88-1)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag.“The Love Scene of Jagara Mandal”.Bezbaroa: The Man and His Works ed. Ananda Bormudoi, Publication Division, Dibrugarh University, 2014. (ISBN. 978-81-927849-9-1)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag.“Situating the Self in Ethnographic Landscape of the Yangtze Valley in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain.”Asian Journal of English Studies.6.4 (120-129)(ISSN 2277-3606)

Bhattacharyya, Anurag. “Representation of the Gandhian Ideals in Select Fiction of R.K. Narayan”.IJMER. 8.11; 2019, ISSN : 2277 - 7881

 Bhattacharyya, Anurag.“Rup TirtharJatri: EkhonKunstlerroman”. Swarnalipi.(ISSN-2231-0517)

 Bhattacharyya,Anurag.“GaoXingjianorRasanatLekhakorSwadhinataPrasanga”.Gariyoshi.(ISSN-2349-5324).

Coedited the book Scholars' Dictionary (Anglo-Assamese) Panbazar: Ashok Publication (ISBN:9789384095581)

Seminars/Conferences/Workshops 

June 2020                  Acted as a resource person in the International E-Workshop on Contemporary Critical Trends in Literature and delivered a lecture on the topic “ Emerging Trends in Ecostudies” organized by the Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.

October 2011          Invited to deliver a Plenary Talk in the International Conference on “Gao Xingjian: Freedom, Fate and Prognostication” organized and fully funded by International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. Title of the Lecture:“Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain: In Search of the Lonely Voice”.

September 2015       Presented a paper in the International Conference on “Green Knowledge” organised by the Association for the Study of Literature, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) held in Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Title of the Paper: “Place, Landscape and Memory in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss.

June 2016                  Participated in the First Annual Summer Institute in Chinese Studies and Global Humanities on “Grasping Water: Rivers and Human Systems in China, Africa and North America. The Summer Institute has been held at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, United States from June 13-17, 2016. Participated in the event as a Resource Person and all the expenses had been fully sponsored by The Consortium of Humanities Centre and Institutes, University of Minnesota, USA.

June 2007                  Presented a Paper in the National Seminar on “Shakti Cult and Tantricism” organised under the sponsorship of the Centre for Studies in Civilizations- New Delhi (Under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India) at Guwahati. Title of the paper:  “Sri Yantra: A Symbol of Cosmic Consciousness”.

December 2016          Participated in the Course on “Travel Writing: Texts, Theories, and Frameworks for Analysis” organised by Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN) in Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar during 19-29 December 2016.

September 2016         Participated as a Resource Person in the seven-day Translation Workshop in English held on 28 September - 4 October, 2016, organised by Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi in collaboration with the Department of English, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh.

October 2018              Participated in “Two Weeks Capacity Building Programme for Young Social Science Faculty”sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi in collaboration with School of Social Sciences & International Studies, Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry, held from 18-31 October 2018.

Nobember 2008          Participated in the Autumn School on “The Oral as Resource” organized by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from 1-14 November 2008 and presented a Paper titled “The Ramayana and Khuliya Bhauria- Oral tradition in Performing Arts”.

February 2019             Acted as a resource person in the Invited as a resource person to the National Seminar on Issues of Identity and Marginality in Northeast India: Challenges to Social Inclusion and delivered a lecture on the topic “Issues of Identity and Marginality in Indian English Writing from the Northeast” organized by IQAC, HCDC College, Nitaipukhuri, Sivasagar, Assam.

September 2019          Delivered a talk on “The Concept of Manicheanism in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth” organized by Department of English, Sibsagar College, Sivasagar, Assam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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