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1

List of Publications

Dr. Amzed Hossein, Professor ( Retired on 31/

1/2023)

Sl. no

Title of the Book/Paper/article/chapter

Title of the Journal/Book along with volume and no details

 

Publisher

Year of

Publication

 

ISSN/ISBN

 

1

‘Gandhi Murtir Padodeshe’ (Trans.)

Mahatma Gandhi in Bangla (Volume Editor: Indranil Acharya)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai

2022

ISBN: 978-93-91622-09-1

 

 

 

2

‘The Bait of a Dice’ (Trans.)

The Bleeding Border: Stories of Bengal Partition (Volume Editors: Ghosh, Joyjit, and Mir Ahammad Ali)

Niyogi Books, New Delhi

2022

ISBN: 978-93-91125-01-1

3

Beginnings: A Journey with Micronarratives

The World of Agha Shahid Ali (Volume Editors: Ghosh, Tapan Kumar and Sisir Kumar Chatterjee)

State University of New York Press, Albany, USA

2021

ISBN: 9781438481456

4

‘Negotiating Ethnicity and Identity Formation: The Poetry of Edwin Thumboo’

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai (Vol. 96 No. 07)

—

2022

ISSN: 0972-0766

 

5

Jege Uthilam (in Bengali): An Anthology of Literary Works by Bengali Muslim Authors from 16th Century to 1952

Edited Book

Viswakos Parisad, Kolkata

2019

ISBN: 81-86210-80-8

 

6

Peoples’ Linguistic Survey of India: West Bengal (Bangla),

Edited by Sankar Prasad Singha and Indranil Acharya. Vol 31, Part 3.

Orient Blackswan, Hyderabad

2017

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7

The Mohsin Endowment and the Progress of Education in Colonial Bengal

Monograph

Udar Akash

2015

978-93-82042-88-4

8

Hey Mahajibon (The Golden Book of Haji Muhammad Mohsin)

Edited book

Biswakos Parishad & Haji Muhammad Mohsin Memorial Committee

2015

81-86210-70-1

9

Colonial Discourse, Islam and Cultural Reform: The Essays of Delawarr Hosaen Ahmed Meerza

Edited book

Biswakos Parishad, Kolkata

2016

81-86210-71-7

10

Salam Jahanpana: The Golden Book Nawab Siraj-Ud-Doula: A Commemorative Volume

Edited book

Siraj Memorial Committee & Biswakos Parisad

2016

 

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11

‘The Dharma of Women’ by Rajia Khatun Choudhurani (Trans.)

Missing Links: An Anthology of Short Stories from Bengal and Beyond (Edited Volume)

—

2015

978-93-5207-133-3

12

‘Wordsworth in “Tintern Abbey”: From Nature Poet to Green Poet’

Romanticism and Romantic Poetry (In Journal)

—

2015

978-93-80736-29-7

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Sharmistha Chatterjee (Sriwastav), Associate Professor, (Department of English)

 

Research articles in UGC REFEREED/ PEER REVIEWED journals

 

Chapter

Journal

Publisher, place 

Whether Refereed/Reputed/ Non Refereed

Volume details, year,

Page nos.

ISSN No.

Level

1

Representing Violence in South Asian Literature: Prerequisite or an Aftermath?

The Atlantic Critical Review

Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi

 UGC Refereed

Volume 16, Number 3, July-September 2017

1-10

ISSN 0972-6373

International

2

“Representing India to herYoung Readers: A study of the Panchatantra and the Panther’s Moon”

International Journal of  Culture Studies and Social Science ed. Tapu Biswas, Brian Reynold et al

Tagore Gandhi Institute and Shakespeare Society, Kolkata

 UGC Refereed

Volume V, No. VIII,January 2017

57-68

ISSN 2347-4777

International

3

“Forms of Protest in Indian English Poetry”

The Atlantic Literary Review

Atlantic Publishers and Distributers (P) Ltd,

UGC Refereed

Volume 17 Number 3-4 (July- December 2016)

104-110

ISSN 0972-3269

International

4

“Stories and Poems by South Asian Women : Readings in Resistance and Reconciliation”

The Atlantic Review of Feminist Studies

Atlantic Publishers and Distributers (P) Ltd

UGC Refereed

Volume 3 Numbers 1-2, January- June 2015

32-41

ISSN 2320-5105

International

5

“Listening to the Wild: Deep Ecology in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life

The Atlantic Literary Review

Atlantic Publishers and Distributers (P) Ltd,

UGC Refereed

Volume 16 Number 3 (July- September 2015)

68-77

ISSN 0972-3269

International

6

“Big and Small Reflections on a Great Event: Partition and its Narratives”

International Journal of  Culture Studies and Social Science ed. Tapu Biswas, Brian Reynold et al.

Tagore Gandhi Institute and Shakespeare Society, Kolkata

 UGC Refereed

Volume 1, No. 4,

September 2014 .

98-105

ISSN 2347-4777

International

7

Treatment Of Women in Robert Browning’s Poetry

Reyono Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. International Journal.

St. Thomas College Kerala .

 UGC Refereed

Vol. 2. (1) 3-16 (January 2013

 57-64

ISSN No. 2277-7652

International

8

We are Going: The Crisis of the Natural in North East Indian and Australian Poetry

Muse India.

Literary E Journal.

National.

Literary E Journal, Secunderabad, India.  UGCRefereed

Kindly look into the website for this

Volume No. 51 (September-October 2013).

ISSN No. 0975-1815

National

 

 

 

 

Research articles in REPUTED Journals: 04

 

 

Chapter

Journal

Publisher, place 

Whether Refereed/Reputed/ Non Refereed

Volume details, year,

Page nos.

ISSN No.

Level

1

“Pilgrims in Progress: Identities and Quests in Indian Poetry in English.”

GJECS: Literary Confluence, A Global Journal of English and Cultural studies

AuthorsPress, New Delhi.

Refereed

Vol.II, January-June 2014

115-128

ISSN 2349-6509

National

2

“Can Poetry be a  Cure to the Ills of Life? Re-reading Eco-critically English Romantic Poetry.”

Thoughts & Expressions: Multi-disciplinary Annual Journal

Rishi Bankim Chandra College for Women, Naihati

Refereed

Annual Journal, December 2014

38-45

ISSN 2321-7804

Regional

3.

“Looking Inward: Reading Translated Personal Narratives of Dalit Women”

Journal of the Department of English

Department of English , Vidyasagar University

Refereed

Volume II, 2013-2014

77-89

ISSN 0973-3671

National

4

“Songs from the hills: Living with and Loving Nature.”

Critical Imprints: Special Edition on Green Readings. National Journal.

Department of English, Loreto College, Kolkata

Refereed

Volume II, 2014.

 133-151.

ISSN. No. 2319-4774

International

Books Authored/Edited

 

Book

Place

Publisher and year

ISBN No.

1.

Travel Writing: Travel in Writing (ed)

Kolkata

Viswakos Parishad, January,2017

ISBN 81-86210-76-0

2

Missing Links:An Anthology of Short Stories from Bengal and Beyond (ed)

New Delhi

Authorspress,

2015

ISBN 978-93-5207-133-3

3.

Language & Power: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Works.

Germany

Lap-Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014

ISBN No. 978-3-659-46194-1

4.

Looking for the Centre: Self and Society in Indian English Poetry

Burdwan, West Bengal, India.

Avenel Publishers, November,2014

ISBN No. 978-93-80761-46-6

 

 

Chapters in Books

 

Chapter

Book

Place

Publisher and year and Page no s

ISBN No.

1

“The mad, the prostitute, the child and the dog: Whose ‘Partition’ is it anyway?”

The Partition of India

Beyond Improbable Lines

Editor(s):Daniela Rogobete, Elisabetta Marino

Cambridge,

U.K

Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

 

01/06/2018,

 Pp -103-114

ISBN-13:978-1-5275-0846-0

ISBN-10:1-5275-0846-3

 

 

 

 

 

 

2

“Reading Frankenstein and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in High School: The oscillating Worlds of ‘Beautiful’ and ‘ Ugly’”

Young Adult Fiction: Issues and Trends

New Delhi

Atlantic Publishers and Distributors (p) Ltd

 May 2018,

112-121

ISBN 978-81-269-2768-5

3

“Some Approaches to Teaching ‘Ode to the West Wind’by P.B. Shelley: Practical Possibilities

Romanticism and Romantic Poetry

Kolkata

Avenel Press, November,

2016

178-187

ISBN 978-93-80736-29-7

4.

“Adaptation and Demystification: Treatment of Romeo and Juliet Theme in Deepa Mehta’s Water”

 Adaptations: Some Journeys from Words to Visuals

Cambridge, New Castle,U.K

Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

2015.

155-167

ISBN 978 14 4387 4663

5.

“Shakespeare's gendered subalterns - A comparative study of Desdemona & Miranda”

Shakespeare: A Reappraisal. Ed. Sunita Sinha, Carole Rozzonelli

New Delhi

Atlantic Publishers,

2015.

227-238

ISBN 978-81-269-1963-5

6

“Public for the Private: Re-Reading Milton’s Prose”

Prose Writings of the Seventeenth Century England and New England”ed.Suparna Bhattacharya

Kolkata

Levant Books, 2014.

51-60

ISBN 978-93-84106-10-2

7.

“Bottom Lines: Class and Gender Wars in A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Summer? Night? Or Dream? ed. Pradip Ranjan Sengupta.

Burdwan

Avenel Press,  April, 2014

114-123

ISBN 978-93-80761-49-7

 

 

8.

English Translation of Nirupama Devi’s Essay “ Bartaman samaje balikader shikshar antoray o taddurikaraner upay ki?”

Shaping Discourse: Women’s Writings in Bengali Periodicals (1865-1947)

Kolkata

Stree Publications. behest of Women’s Studies Department Jadavpur University.

2014.

102-106

ISBN 978-81-906760-5-2

 

Conference Proceedings

 

Paper

Seminar/Conference

Type

Place, organized by, date

ISBN No.

1.

“The Art of Gentle Living: Ruskin Bond and his Ultra vision of Conserving Green”

Papers Home: Literature and the Socio-cultural Milieu  ed. Seema Shekhar

U.G.C Sponsored National Conference 

Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, St. Andrew’s College, 17 and 18 October 2014.

ISBN No 987-93-84734-00-8

 

Dr. Tajuddin Ahmed: Associate Professor

Sl. no

Title of the Paper/article/chapter

Title of the Journal/Book along with volume and no details

 

Publisher

Year of

Publication

 

ISSN/ISBN

1

Brothers in Arms: Tracing the Trajectory of Colonial Muslim Politics in Zeenuth Futehally’s Zohra

Journal of the Department of English

 Vidyasagar University

2023

ISSN: 0973-3671

2

Jagoree (Trans.)

Mahatma Gandhi in Bangla (Editor: Indranil Acarya)

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Mumbai

2022

9789391622091

3

The Exile (Trans.)

The Bleeding Border (Editors: Joyjit Ghosh and Mir Ahmad Ali )

Niyogi Books, New Delhi

2022

9789391125011

4

“Englander Pathe” (To England) and “Trinity r Duare” (At the Gate of Trinity) (Trans.)

Translation of Amartya Sen's Home in the World

Ananda Publisher, Kolkata

2022

—

5

Prayojoniyo kintu promadpuurno

Boi er Desh (In Magazine)

Anada Publisher, Kolkata

2018

—

6

Bedia

PLSI

(Encyclopaedia entry)

Orient Blackswan and Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Vadodara

2017

—

7

Reading the Margins: Systematically and Empathetically

Journal of the Department of English, 

 Vidyasagar University

2017

ISSN: 0973-3671

8

The Remembered Village: The Absent Muslims in Adhir Biswas’s Memoir Desh Vager Smriti

Partition Literature: An Open Praxis

Partition Literature: An Open Praxis (Editors: Dr. Srideep Mukherjee and Prof. Manan Kumar Mandal)

2017

978-93-82112-11-2

9

Travel Writing: Travel in Writing (Edited)

Edited Volume (Dr. Tajuddin Ahmed and Prof. Sharmistha Chatterjee)

Viswakosh Parisad, Kolkata

2017

81-86210-76-0

10

Urdu (The Languages of West Bengal)

People’s Linguistic Survey of India (Vol. 31 Part. 2) (Editors:Sankar Prasad Singha, Indranil Acharya)

Orient Blackswan and Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Vadodara

2017

9789352878413

11

A Story of Betrayal: Locating Muslim Women in the Nationalist Discourse in Futehally’s Zohra

Living the Postcolonial: Indian Literature in Perspective

An UGC-DEB project as a joint effort between NSOU and Gangchil Kolkata (Edditor: Dr. Srideep Mukherjee)

2016

978-93-84002-93-0

12

The Importance of Being Accepted by Postcolonial Patron: Midnight’s Children and the Politics of Reception

Mapping Out the Rushdie Republic (Editors: Prasanta Bhattacharyya and Tapan Kumar Ghosh)

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

2016

9781443855624

13

Alphabets in Sight: Classical Indian Myths as Sly Weapon in Recent Bengali Dalit Poetry

Bharotiyo Sahityo: Lokjibon o Loksonskritir Onusondhan

Kabithika, Kolkata

2015

978-93-85248-26-9

14

Marginality and More: Tracing the Life of the Precariat in Shyamol Kumar Pramanik’s Story “Survival”

Representation of the Marginalised in Indian Writing in English

NSPS

2015

978-93-84671-13-6

15

The Smell of a Tili Hen Burning (Trans.)

Missing Link: An Anthology of Short Stories from Bengal and Beyond (Editor:  Sharmistha C. Sriwastav)

Author Press, New Delhi

2015

978-9352070954

16

Unveiling in the New Public Sphere: Narratives of Transgression by Muslim Women in the World of Blogs

Bodhikala (Vol. 3 No. 2) (In Journal)

Bodhikala

2015

ISSN: 2277-4831

17

Poschimbonger Muslim Somaj, Adunik Shiksha Ebong Jakat

Baromas (In Journal)

Baromas

2015

—

18

Beyond Oprah Winfrey’s Book Clubs: A Reading of Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran

Gender Sensitisation, Women Empowerment and Distance Education: History, Society and Culture

NSOU

2014

978-93-82112-12-9

19

Bordhoman Bisforon, Madrasa Shiksha ebong Poscimbonger Rajneeti

Baromas (In Journal)

Baromas

2014

—

20

Ashar

Desh

(In Magazine)

Ananda Publisher

2014

—

21

Between Assertion and Aesthetics: Recent Dalit poetry in Bengali

Towards Social Change: Essays On Dalit Literature (Sankar Prasad Singha and Indranil Acharya)

Orient Blackswan

2013

9788125053446

22

In Time of Breaking the Boundaries: Swami Vivekananda in the 21st Century Global Village (Editors:Tajuddin Ahmed; Kinkar Das)

—

Kabitika: Medinipur, Kolkata

2013

—

23

Literature and Religion: An Interface between Imagination and Belief (Editor)

—

Kabitika: Medinipur, Kolkata

2013

—

24

Bipralabdha (Trans.)

Survival and other Stories: Dalit Bangla fiction in Translation

Orient Blackswan

2012

9788125045106

25

Raise the Sail and Lift the Veil: Islam and Woman’s Rights in the Writings of Iqbalunnisa Hussain

Journal of Department of English,

 Vidyasagar University

2012

ISSN: 0973-3671

26

To Lift Such a Heavy Weight: The Story of Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise

Bodhikala (vol 2)

Behala College, Kolkata

2012

ISSN: 2277-4831

27

Rhetoric of Revolution

The Technologies of Revolution: Society, Economy and Polity

—

2011

—

28

The roles they play: Structures of Ambiguity in Edward ii and Richard ii

Edward ii: Text and Criticism

—

2011

—

29

In Prison House of Love: The Bad Girl and Bad Girls of Mario Vargas Llosa

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

2010

ISSN: 0975-2935

30

Hear o Hear: Tracing the Voices of Unrest in Nobel Lectures of Orhan Pamuk and Doris Lessing

Bodhikala (vol 01 no.02)

Behala College, Kolkata

2008

ISSN: 2277-4831

31

Variations on the word Woman

New English Literature

—

2008

—
 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Safiul Islam, Assistant Professor

 

2021-2022

 

  1. Content Writing (Book Chapter)

Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata

Course Code: GE-EG-11

Course Title: Reading, Writing, and Comprehension Skills

Module: 1 (Units 1-7)

 

  1. Book Chapter

“Power Politics and Reclaiming Identity: A Study of the Transgender in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness”. Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature. Ed. Md Rakibul Islam and Md Jakir Hossain. United States: Vernon Press (Series in Literary Studies). 2022.

 

      2022-2023

     Publications in UGC-CARE listed Journals

  1. “A Lacanian Psychoanalysis of Gillian Flynn’s Amy Elliott Dunne of Gone Girl”. Drishti: the Sight (UGC-CARE Listed Journal), Volume XII, Issue I, May-October 2023.

 

  1. “Re-Orientalism, Class Conflict and Representation of the Oppressed in Girish Karnad’s Tughlaq”. Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (UGC-CARE Listed Journal), Volume C, Issue 12, 2023

 

   2023-2024

    Book Chapter Accepted in Palgrave, Macmillan (UK)

  1. “Impact of Sufism in the Songs and Philosophy of Lalon Shah”. Baul in Performance: Strategic Essentialism, Resistance, and Ethical Sociality. Palgrave, Macmillan (UK)

 

OTHER PUBLICATINS

  1. “The Wretched of India: The Socio-cultural Space for the Untouchables in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things.” The Criterion: An International Journal in English. Vol. III, Issue II. June 2012.

 

  1. “‘WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE AND WHAT’S MINE IS ALSO MINE’: A FEMINIST READING OF ARUNDHATI ROY’S THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS.” International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL). Volume. 2, Issue 3. September 2012. page -110-119.

 

  1.  “The Socio-economic Space for the Underprivileged in Arundhati Roy’s Screenplay In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones.” Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research journal. Volume. I. Issue. IV. October 2012. ISSN:

 

 

Dr. Hasina Wahida: Assistant Professor

 1.

Paper title:

"Bodies that Matter: Interrogating the discourses around the 'Body' in Samina Ali's Madras on Rainy Days"

 

Title of the Book: Rewriting Resistance: Caste and Gender in Indian Literature

 

Name of Publisher: Vernon Press, US

 

Name of editors: Md Rakibul Islam and Md Jakir Hossain

 

Year of Publication: 2022

 

2.

Paper title:

Looking Back in Loneliness: Negotiating the dilemma of Identity of the victims of partition in Sunanda Sikder’s Dayamoyeer Katha and Adhir Biswas’ Amra to Ekhon Indiyay and Punya Gangar Kachakachi

 

Title of the book:

Border, Globalization and Identity, Cambridge Scholars Publisher

 

Book Chapter, published in 2018

 

ISBN 1527503607,

9781527503601

 

3.

Paper title:

 

The Strength of the Strong: Celebrating Womanhood in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns

 

Title of the book:

Human Rights in Philosophical Perspective, published by Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar

 

Book chapter, published in 2017

 

ISBN 978-93-83368-22-8

 

4.

Multiple Voices in T.S Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Bakhtinian Reading

 

Name of the Journal:

 

Middle Flight: A National Level Peer Reviewed Journal

 

Vol.3, no.1, September 2014

 

(Formerly in UGC Care List)

 

5.

Title of the paper:

Living in a no man’s land: space, identity and human dilemma in Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party

 

Name of the Journal:

Lapis Lazuli

 

Vol.3, No 2, Autumn 2013

(UGC approved till June 2019)

 

6.

Title of the ‘Paper:

“I’ll be around till hell freezes over.” - Redefining Identity and Ethnic Solidarity in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

 

Title of the book:

Perspectives: A collection of essays on Language,Ethnicity and Identity

 

Publisher:

Department of English , Tinsukia College, Tinsukia, Assam

 

ISBN: 978-93-80247-79-3

 

7.

Title of the Paper:

Romanticising the right to exploit: Speciesism in Jack London’s White Fang

 

Name of the Journal:

 

The Criterion: An International Journal in English

Issue 12, February 2013

 

ISSN: 0976-8165

 

 

8.

Title of the Paper:

Rethinking the socialist voice: Jack London and the Dignity of Dollars

 

Title of the journal:

Smart moves journal IJELLH

Volume 7, Issue 4, 2019

 

ISSN: 2321-7065

 

9.

Title of the Paper:

Interfacing Text and Paratexts: John Fowles’ “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”

 

Publisher:

Grin Verlag, Germany

 

ISBN: 9783656140481

 

10.

Paper accepted: Grotesque, Violence and Disgust: An Alternative Representation of Women in Disgust Aesthetics through Food in Khalid Jawed’s the Paradise of Food

 

Title of the Book: Unheard Voices: Reflection on Indian Writings

 

Adhyayan Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi

 

ISBN: 978-93-6506-936-5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Nargis Tabassum, Assistant Professor

 

  1. Tabassum, Nargis. (April,2014). The Subaltern Turn: Rereading Girish Karnads Tughlaq.Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Journal. ISSN. 2278-9529. Volume III, No. 3. pp.141-146.
  2. Tabassum,Nargis.(Jule,2014). Gender Dynamics in Girish Karnads Tale-Danda.Humanities &Social Sciences : Interdisciplinary Approach(A Bi-annual Multilingual International Journal). Vol.06, issue 01. June,2014.ISSN:0975:7090.pp.03-05.
  3. Tabassum, Nargis.(2016). Historicised Stories and Storicised Histories. Ed. Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay. The Asian Century: Australia and the Trans-Asian Cultural and Strategic Diplomacy.Adi Publications: Jaipur. Pp.205-212.ISBN: 9789382630869.
  4. Tabassum, Nargis. (2021).The# Me TooMovement: Stumbling Blocks / Stepping       Stone.Ed.Bimal Banerjee. Darshan Chintay Samaj o Naitikata.24/7 Publishing, 2021.pp.182-84.ISBN:9789390537365.
  5. Tabassum, Nargis. (2021). A Cry in Wilderness: Strands of Ethnicity and Feminism in Shaoli Mitras Nathabati Anathabat [Five Lords, Yet None a Protector].Eds. Iram Fatima and M. Subha. The Royallite Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism. Royallite Academic, Nairobi.ISBN: 978940904771.
  6.  Tabassum, Nargis. (2021).Teaching in the Time of Corona: Challenges and Heuristics. Ed. Durga Patva. Blues of   Covid 19: Tiding Over the Pandemic Waves. Adhyayan Publications, pp. 95-106. ISBN: 9789391943158.
  7. Tabassum, Nargis. (2024). Fay Zwickys Poem on Indian Pantheon: A Transcultural Perspective. A Handbook of English Literature.Ed. Niraj Kumar Sonkar. Social Research Foundation. ISBN: 9789393166432.

 

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