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Dr. Oindri Roy Assistant Professor / ENGLISH

Email : oindriroy.eng@aliah.ac.in

Address : Department of English, Park Circus Campus, 17 Gorachand Road, Kolkata-700014

Dr. Oindri Roy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Aliah University since March 2021. She has previously served as an Assistant Professor in Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Kolkata from October 2019 to March 2021 and in Adamas University from June 2017 to September 2019. Her academic writings, predominantly in the field of Gender and Sexuality Studies have been published in reputed journals and edited anthologies.  Her other areas of interest include Comparative Mythology, Life-Narratives and Critical Race Theories.

 

 

Education

1. B.A. English, Bethune College (2008-2011)

2. M.A. English, EFL-U Hyderabad (2011-13)

3. Ph.D EFL-U Hyderabad (2013-17)

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Adamas University (June 2017 to September 2019)

Assistant Professor, Gokhale Memorial Girls' College (October 2019 to March 2021)

Assistant Professor, Aliah University (March 2021 to Present)

Courses Taught/Teaching

Teaching 4 year B.A. Courses (NEP 2020), 3 year B.A. courses (CBCS), 2 year M.A. courses (PG CBCS) in English Literature & Language,  Research and Publication Ethics to PhD Scholars.  Supervising PhD Scholars, B.A and M.A. students for thesis , research articles and  dissertation .

Journal Papers Published

Journal Articles 

  1. “Of Spaces, Boundaries and Movements: The Recurrence of the Travel Motif in Narratives of Gender Fluidity” in eDhvani: Journal of UoH (Issue V, July 2014 ISSN: 2279-0209). 2014.
  2.  “As Human as You Are: When Marangdei’s Brother’s Speak” in Indian Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies (Vol 3 Issue 2 ISSN: 2321-8274), 2014.
  3. “Of the Body of the Queer and the Queer of the Body: Reading the Embodied-ness of Gender- Trespassing in Narratives of Gender Fluidity” inTrespassing Journal, Winter issue, 2015. ISSN: 2147-2734.2015.
  4. “Between Tales and Tellers:Literary Renderings of Gender Fluidity in Comparative Study” in Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities,Volume VIII, Number 1, 2016. ISSN: 0975-2935. 2015.
  5. “Of Writing Transsexuality in India: A Comparative Inquiry of the Hijra-Figure vis-à-vis Queer Theories” in Modern Research Studies: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 3 Issue 1, 2016, ISSN: 2349-2147. 2015
  6. “A Possible Cripistemology of the Queer: Modes of Dismantling"Ability" and Heterosexuality" in Transgender Autobiographiesin InterAlia: A Journal of Queer Studies Volume 11(a), 2016. ISSN: 1689-6637 (co-authored with Prof. Amith Kumar P.V., Dept. of Comparative Literature,  EFL-University). 2016.
  7. “‘The Boy who Lived’ in the Cupboard: ‘Queer Readings’ and Rowling’s Harry Potter Series” in Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Volume IX No.1, 2017.
  8. “Miscellaneous Tales or Tales of Miscellany: A Comparative Inquiry into the Literary Praxis of Narrating Myths” in Literary Insight: A Refereed International Journal, Vol 9, Jan 2018. ISSN: 0975-1815. 2018
  9. “Of Homes and Home Lands: A Dialectics of Normative History vis-à-vis Personalized Narratives in Amrita Pritam’s The Skeleton and Bama’s Sangati”inMuse India (Issue 78 Mar- Apr 2018)( Focus: Indian Feminism) ISSN: 0975-6248.2018.
  10.  “Bards of a Feather: Reading Poetry in Translation”in Communique: An Academic Journal Of Literary Studies, ISSN: 0973-8584 Vol 11(1) 2018
  11. “Bridging the Gaps: Towards a New Paradigmatic Interface of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies” in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, ISSN: 0252-8169 Vol: Winter 44.1. 2021

Books Published

Book Chapters:

  1. “Understanding Children: An Introduction” in Approaching the Childhood Issues and Concerns in Creative Representations. Authorspress, New Delhi 2015, ISBN /978-93-5207- 180-7. 2015.
  2. “Childhood and Queer: Problems and Possibilities of Representation” in Approaching the Childhood Issues and Concerns in Creative Representations. Authorspress, New Delhi 2015, ISBN /978-93-5207- 180-7. 2015.
  3. “Of ‘Possible’ Creations of ‘Impossible’ Bodies: A Comparative Inquiry into Sex/Gender Fluid Identities in the Indian Context” in Gender: Constructions, Connotations and Representations. Ed. by Dr.SudeshnaChakravorty. Pailock: Kolkata. ISBN 978-93-88207-16-4. 2019.
  4. “Transformative Corporeality vis-à-vis Love In Mythological Retellings : A Comparative Inquiry into Indian Revisionist Mythology”  in Art and Aesthetics of Modern Mythopoeia: Literatures, Myths and Revisionism Volume One Edited by Ashish Gupta and Ritushree Sengupta, New Delhi, London, New York: VishvanathaKaviraja Institute ISBN: 978-81-945995-1-7. 2020.
  5. "How Queer is an Indian Hijra?: A Comparative Inquiry into Transgender Selves as the Autobiographical Personal and the Theoretical Emergences in Queer Studies" in  The Dynamics of Gender: New Approaches in Feminism. Edited by Amina Hussain and Mustabshira Siddiqui (Eds.). New Delhi, London, New York: VishvanathaKaviraja Institute. ISBN: 978-81-943450-7-7. 2020.
  6. "Afflicted Intimacies: Comparison in (Anti)Intimacies
    in Non-European Women’s Writings" in Representations, Scenes and Scenarios of Intimacy in Women’s Writing. Edited by Carmen Dutu Bucharest:Pro Universitaria SRL.978-606-26-1415-7.2023

Edited Anthology:

Approaching the Childhood: Issues and Concerns in Creative Representations. Authorspress, New Delhi 2015, ISBN 978-93-5207- 180-7(co-edited with Dr. Rahul Kamble, Assistant Professor, Dept of IWL, EFL-University)

Ph.D. Thesis Guidance

Ongoing: 3

Fields of Study: Utopianism and Women's Writings, Climate Studies and Anthropocene

Invited Lectures

1. “Cartographies of Desire(-ability): Reading Gender,
Genre and Historical Subjectivity in Frances Burney’s Evelina” at
Department of English (Postgraduate), Bethune College, Kolkata.

Orientation/Refresher/QIP CourseAttended/Organized

 

    1. Participated in “One-month online Faculty Induction Programme” organized by the Human Resource Development Centre, University of Hyderabad from 1st to 30th June, 2022 and obtained grade ‘A’.
    2. Participated in "Two-Week Refresher Course in Literatures and Languages" organized by  he Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia 5th September to 20th September, 2023. 

Seminar/Conference/Workshop

    1. Presented a paper titled “Between Waving Placards and Shedding Tears: A Study of DocumentedResponses to the Nirbhaya Rape” at “BUILDING BRIDGES: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN GENDER STUDIES” National Seminar by Centre for Women Studies School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad. 24-26 March, 2014.
    1. Presented a paper titled “Engendering, Un-gendering and Mis- gendering: A Comparative Inquiryinto the Queer Self as the Autobiographical Personal and the TheoreticalSubject” at Researchers at Work Conference (RAW CON 2014). Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad.10-12 September, 2014.
    1. Presented a paper titled “Writing One Man and a Few Others: A Comparative Study of Two Modernist Plays" at International Conference on Translation Studies: Theory and Praxis / Comparative Literature. (2014) Shakespeare Societyof Eastern India and Tagore- Gandhi Institute For Culture Studies &Service-Learning, Kolkata. 18- 20 April 2014.
    1. Participated in “Two-Day Workshop on Recent Trends in Critical Thinking and Research Methodology", School of Literary Studies, EFL- University. 12-13 March,2015.
    1. Departmental Volunteer at “Marquez and Literatures From India", National Seminar by Departmentof Comparative Literature and India Studies. School of Literary Studies. EFL-Univerisity 2015. 25 March, 2015.
    1. Presented a paper titled "Between Tales and Tellers: Locating the ‘Literary’ in Narratives of Non- normative Sexualities" at Words Words Words: The Future of Literary Writing - An International Conference, EFL-University, Hyderabad. 25-27November, 2015.
    1. Participated in a workshop on “Intersectionalities and Masculinities in Gender Studies” byprofessor Karni Pal Bhati, Department of English Literature, EFL- University 3rd February, 2016.
    1. Presented a paper titled “Miscellaneous' Tales or 'Tales' of Miscellany?: A Comparative Inquiry into the Literary Praxis of 'Retelling Myths'” at Comparative Humanities:Re-configuring Humanities Across Cultures, National Seminar by Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies. School of Literary Studies. EFL-Univerisity, 5- 7 April, 2017.
    1. Participated in “Stylistics and Translation Workshop” by Department of English Languageand Literature and Department of Bengali Language and Literature, Adamas University, 20-21 February, 2018.
    1. Participated in a workshop on “Principles of Communicative English” by Institute of English, Kolkata, 25-27 June, 2018.
    1. Participated in a Two Day Faculty Development Programme, School of Social Sciences,Adamas University, 5-6 July, 2019.
    1. Presented a paper titled “Of Possible Creation of Impossible Bodies: A Comparative Inquiry into Narrative of Sex/Gender Fluidities in the Indian Context” at Indian SocialSciences and Humanities Congress 2019, by Paschimbanga Anchalik Itihas O Loksanskriti Charcha Kendra and Department of Library and Information Science, Jadavpur University, 7-8 September, 2019.
    1. Participated in “‘Multiplicative’ Jeopardy and the Transgender Community Under Lockdown” at Online Workshop on Gender Dynamics in the Time of Crisis” atOnline Workshop on Gender Dynamics in the Time of Crisis. G.B. Pant Social Science Insitute, June 8-12, 2020 ( Assignment submission graded A+)
    2. Participated in “Online Workshop and Training Programme on Developing Skills through ICTTools And Techniques” Internal Quality Assurance Cell , Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Kolkata from 2-4 July, 2020.
    1. Participated in “One Week Online Faculty Development Programme on Educational Video Creation (E-Content Development) by Vijagarh Jyotish Ray College, Kolkata and Toshiwal Arts, Commerce Science College, Hingoli, Maharashta. 21-27 September, 2020. Assignment submitted (Grade:A)
  2.  
    1. Presented a paper titled “Epar Bangla, Opar Bangla and the Geopolitics of ‘Love’: Recasting Affectivity ‘Through’ a Border in Kaushik Ganguli’s Bishorjon and Bijoya” at Association of Film Studies in South Asia (4-6 November, 2022)
    1. Participated in One-week Online GIAN course 194025F1, “Manuals of Motherhood: Meditations on Transnational LiteraryTropes” hosted by Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University, India from 28th of Nov. to 2nd of Dec., 2022
    2. Presented a paper titled "Of India and Other Lovers: Reading Female Homoeroticism vis-a-vis Postcolonial Nationhood in Abha Dawesar’s Babyji"  at Queer Political Assemblages 4.0, 2024, a Two-Day International Conference on Decolonizing the Queer Movement and Cultures: Politics, Possibilities and Pitfalls
       

 

Session chaired

  1. Chaired a session in the International Interdisciplinary Series of Conferences on The Global Indian Diasporas: Literary, Culture and Socio-Economic Perspectives in the 21st Century, 23-25 February 2023, organized by the Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India.

 




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