Qualification Details

1. MA,
2. M.Phil.,
3. PhD in English from the University of Burdwan

Teaching Experience

1. NSHM Knowledge Campus-Durgapur, Group of Institutions, Assistant Professor in English, from 30/7/2010 to18/4/2017
2.  Durgapur Women’s College, Assistant Professor in English, from 19/4/2017–till date

Area of Interest in Teaching

1. Shakespeare,
2. British Romantic Literature,
3. Indian Writing in English

Area of Research

Anglo-Indian Studies (Novels and Life Writings of Anglo-Indian writers in India and the diaspora)

Book Chapter Publication

1. “Social and Linguistic Norms in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane: A Feminist Reading of the Text.” Critical Approaches to Multiculturalism. Ed. P.C. Chakraborty. Kolkata: Booksway, 2010. 99-106. Print. ISBN: 978-93-80145-85-3.
2. “Making Little History: An Evaluation of History in I. Allan Sealy’s The Trotter-Nama: A Chronicle.” Indian Fiction in English: Mapping the Contemporary Literary Landscape. Eds. Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, A.K. Sinha and H. Lahiri, New Delhi: Creative Books, 2014. 149-164. Print. ISBN 978-81-8043-108-1.
3.  “Mapping the ‘Borderland’ of Anglo-Indian Femininity.” Border and Border Crossing: Reading Partition, Reading Diaspora. Eds. Deb Narayan Bandopadhyay, Himadri Lahiri and Nandini Bhattacharya. Burdwan: The University of Burdwan, 2016. 47-60. Print. ISBN: 81-87259-93-0.
4. “Reading the Problematics of Doubly Hyphenated Identity in Sydney J. Ellis’ Coloured! So What?” Retheorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions. Eds. Nilanjana Chatterjee and Anindita Chatterjee. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 127-138. ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-5951-6.
5.  “Identity and Homing Desires: Anglo-Indian Literary Perspectives.” Anglo-Indian Identity: Past and Present in India and the Diaspora. Eds. Robyn Andrews and Merin Simi Raj. Swizerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 323-341. e-ISBN: 978-3-030-64458-1.
6.  Contributed entries on “Prema Sastri” (pp. 378-79) and “Anindita Sengupta” (pp.389) in Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English, Ed. Manju Jaidka and Tej N. Dhar, New York: Routledge, 2023, ISBN 978-1-032-24557-7

Journal Publication

INTERNATIONAL:

1.  “Reviewing the Anglo-Indian Self in Multicultural Australia: A Critical Reading of David McMahon’s Vegemite Vindaloo.” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature 30.2(December, 2016): 339-353. ISSN: 0893-5580. (Wayne State University)
2.  “Malgudi as the Nation Space: A Critical Study of R.K. Narayan’s The Guide (1958) and its Cinematic Adaptation.” Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies 4 (2017): 81-94. ISSN: 2339-8523. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/indialogs.75.
3.  “Reading the Facts: A Critical Study of the Documentary Films of Satyajit Ray.” Doc On-Line. Issue no. 21(March, 2017): 147-165. ISSN: 1646-477X. DOI: 10.20287/doc.d21.ar5. www.doc.ubi.pt. (Portugal & Brazil).
4.  “Narrating Life, Writing Identity: Reading Esther Mary Lyons’ Autobiography Bitter Sweet Truth.” International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies 17. 22 (2017): 4-22. ISSN: 1327-1652. (Massey University, New Zealand)
5.  Rev. of Re-storying the Indigenous and the Popular Imaginary. Vol. III.,ed. by Prem Kumari Srivastava and Gitanjali Chawla. New Delhi: Authorpress, 2017. 202pp. ISBN 978-93-5207-385-6.” Asiatic 11.2 (Dec.2017): 157-160. ISSN 1985-3106. Indexed in SCOPUS.
6.  Rev. of Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia, by Uther Charlton-Stevens. Asiatic 12.1(June 2018): 238-242. ISSN 1985-3106.Indexed in SCOPUS.
7.  “The culinary as ‘border’: perspectives on food and femininity in the Indian subcontinent.” Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal. Taylor & Francis online. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2019.1649986. August 2019.Print ISSN: 2380-2014 Online ISSN: 2379-9978
8. Rev. of Robyn Andrews & Anjali Gera Roy ed. Beyond the Metros: Anglo-Indians in Smaller Towns and Cities. International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies 21.2(2021): 39-45. ISSN 1327-1652. SCOPUS Listed.
9.  Rev. of Himadri Lahiri’s Asia Travels: Pan-Asian Cultural Discourses and Diasporic Asian Literatures in English. New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 23.2 (December 2021): 79-81. ISSN 1174-8915.
10.  Rev. of Claire Chambers ed. Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia. Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 15.1(March 2022): 111-116. ISSN (on-line) 2288-1204. Indexed in Elsevier’s SCOPUS.
11. Rev. of Esther David’s Bene Appetit: The Cuisine of the Indian Jews. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature16.1(June 2022): 199-202. ISSN 1985-3106, SCOPUS indexed.
12.  “Locating Indianness in Anglo-Indian Fiction Writers.” Special Issue on Anglo-Indian Writers Reflect on Writing in International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies 22.2 (2022): 5-23. ISSN 1327-1652, SCOPUS listed. (Shyamasri Maji guest-edited this special issue with Robyn Andrews)
13.  Rev. Judith Misrahi-Barak & Ashutosh Bharadwaj eds. Kala Pani Crossings: Revisitings 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspectives. South Asian Review. Published online 2 March, 2023. Print ISSN: 0275-9527 Online ISSN: 2573-9476. SCOPUS INDEXED Q1 Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2023.2184561

NATIONAL:

1. “Shakespeare’s Cleopatra: An Oriental Other, A Victim of Sexism.” The Atlantic Literary Review: Quarterly 9.3(July-Sept. 2008): 1-10. Print. ISSN 0972-3269.
2. “Writing History, Writing Identity: Reading Hearts Divided in the Raj.” The Visva-Bharati Quarterly. 21.3&4, 22.1&2 (Oct. 2012—Sept. 2013): 183-191. Print. ISSN 0972-043X.
3. “Defamiliarising the Text: Narrative Strategies in The Flight of Pigeons and Junoon.” Wesleyan Journal of Research 7.1 (June, 2014): 13-23. Print. ISSN: 0975-1386.
4.  Rev. of Diaspora Theory and Transnationalism by Himadri Lahiri. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Vol.II (May, 2019): 174-176. ISSN 2348-652X
5.  Rev. of Kobi & Rani: Memoirs and Correspondences of Nirmalkumari Mahalanobis and Rabindranath Tagore. Trans. & ed. by Somdatta Mandal. The IACLALS Journal 6(2020): 246-249. ISSN 2395-1206.
6.  “Reading Anglo-Indian History in Non-Fiction Cinema: A Study of Select Documentary Films.” SRFTI Take One. Ed. Sougata Bhattacharya. Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. Vol. Two, Issue One, May 2021. 44-61, Print. RNI No. WBENG/2019/78442
7.  “Anglo-Indian Identity through Culinary the Lens.” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 57 Issue no. 31, 30 July, 2022. ISSN (Print) – 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) – 2349-8846. Pp. 63. Shyamasri Maji | Economic and Political Weekly (epw.in)
8.  Rev. of poetry books—The Quiet Archway of Words by Vinayan Bhaskaran and On the High Wire by Siddhartha Menon. Indian Literature (Sahitya Akademi), IL, September-October, 2022, # 331, pp.206-208.
9.  “The Lost Glory of the Gunj.” Invited article on the Anglo-Indians in McCluskiegunj. Outlook India magazine. April, 2023. 23rd March, 2023 (online). Ed. Chinki Sinha. https://www.outlookindia.com/national/the-lost-glory-of-mccluskieganj-magazine-271762
10.  “Coral Woman: The Story of Uma Mani’s Ecofeminist Zeal.” Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 58 Issue no. 33, 19 August, 2023. ISSN (Print) – 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) – 2349-8846. Pp. 63-64. Coral Woman : The Story of Uma Mani’s Ecofeminist Zeal | Economic and Political Weekly (epw.in)

BOOK REVIEWS IN OUTLOOK MAGAZINE(India), KITAAB (Singapore) and ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS (Hong Kong):

1.  Review of Knotted Grief by Naveen Kishore (Collection of Poems), Speaking Tiger, 2022. Book Review: Knotted Grief by Naveen Kishore – KITAAB
2. Review of Mai: Silently Mai by Geetanjali Shree trans. by Nita Kumar (Fiction), Niyogi Books, 2017. Book Review: Mai- Silently Mother by Geetanjali Shree (Translated from Hindi, with an Afterword by Nita Kumar) – KITAAB
3. Review of Woman by the Door by Kashiana Singh (Collection of Poems), Apprentice House Press, 2022. Book Review: Interior Monologue of A Diasporic Woman (outlookindia.com)
4. Review of Those Women of the Coromandel by Ranga Rao (Fiction), Aleph, 2022. Book Review: Those Women of the Coromandel by Ranga Rao – KITAAB
5.  Review of Ranis and the Raj by Queeny Pradhan, Penguin, 2022 (Non-fiction). Asian Review of Books. “Ranis and the Raj: The Pen and the Sword” by Queeny Pradhan (asianreviewofbooks.com)
6.  Review of Yamuna’s Journey. “Yamuna’s Journey” by Baba Padmanji (asianreviewofbooks.com), January 2023.
7.  Review of Nilanjana Sengupta’s Chickpeas to Cook and Other Stories (Penguin Books, 2022) in Kitaab Book Review: Chickpeas to Cook and Other Stories by Nilanjana Sengupta – KITAAB
8. Review of Ankit Raj Ojha’s poetry collection Pinpricks (Hawakal Publishers, 2022) in Kitaab. Book Review: Pinpricks-Poems by Ankit Raj Ojha – KITAAB
9.  Review of Needle at the Bottom of the Sea (Trans. by Tony K. Stewart, University of California Press, 2023) in Asian Review of Books (“Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides” by Tony K Stewart (asianreviewofbooks.com))
10.  Review of Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen’s Behind Latticed Marble (Trans. by Apala G. Egan, Niyogi Books, 2023) in Asian Review of Books “Behind Latticed Marble: Inner Worlds of Women” by Jyotirmoyee Devi Sen (asianreviewofbooks.com)

Conference

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

1.  “Between and Betwixt Two Identities: A Study of Anglo-Indian Identity.” UGC Sponsored National Seminar on “Assertion of Identities: A Re-reading of Texts in Literatures in English” organised by Dept. of English, Kazi Nazrul Islam Mahavidyalaya, Churuliya. (5th-6th Feb. 2013)
2. “Ruth, Mariam and Sepoy Mutiny: A Study of A Flight of Pigeons. International Conference on “Literature to Cinema: Appropriation, Adaptation, Adulteration” organisedby Dept. of HSS, NIT Durgapur. (1-3 June 2013). AWARDED the BEST PAPER PRESENTER of the session.
3.  “Race and Memory in Patricia McGready-Buffardi’s Memoir Hearts Divided in the Raj.” Young Researchers’ National Conference on “Race, Class, Gender and Caste” organised by the Dept. of English, the University of Burdwan. (4-5 Sept. 2013)
4.  “The Anglo-Indian Woman in the Diaspora: Reading Esther Mary Lyons’s Autobiography Bitter Sweet Truth.” UGC sponsored International Seminar (under DRS SAP programme) on “Reconstructing the English Literary Map.” Department of English, the University of Burdwan (10-11 March 2016).
5.  “When Vindaloo Travels: Reading the Anglo-Indian Immigrant in Keith Butler’s The Secret Vindaloo.” International Conference on Nexus: Anglo-Indian Literature and Anglo-Indian Life, organised by the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University in collaboration with New Zealand India Research Institute and Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata. (18-19 January 2017)
6.  “Perspective on Anglo-Indian ‘Homing Desire.’” International Seminar and Workshop on Anglo-Indian Studies at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (4-5 August 2017).
7. “Shame and Guilt in Alison McQueen’s The Secret Children.” Second International Conference on Anglo-Indian Studies: Researching the Anglo-Indians in India and the Diaspora. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India (4-5 August 2018).https://nptel.ac.in/courses/128/106/128106004/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEjg9dnAmTg#action=share
8.  “Anglo-Indian Women in Calcutta: A Study in Fiction Films and Documentary Cinema.” International Interactive Workshop on “Anglo-Indians in Bengal: With Special Reference to Asansol.” Centre for Studies of Society and Culture in Bengal, and Department of History, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol. (26th March, 2019).
9.  “The Agonies of the Constitution Bill: The Anglo-Indian Perspective” (August 1, 2020). International Web Conference titled The Agonies of Nationhood: Cultural Reflections from the Indian Subcontinent, organised by the Department of English, School of Humanities in Collaboration with the Centre for Language, Translation and Cultural Studies, Netaji Subhas Open University, from July 31-August 2, 2020.
10.  “The Healing Touch of Memory in Select Memoirs of the Anglo-Indian Community.” Online international conference on Memory and Past in South Asia, organised by South Asian Research Centre at SOKA University, Japan, 26-27 November, 2021.
11. “Reading ‘Bangladesh’ in Select Culinary Narratives: A Study in Cultural Memory.” International online conclave on “A Dialogic ImagiNation of Bangladesh: Literary-Linguistic-Cultural Representations, Non-representations and Misrepresentations.” University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 25-26 February, 2022
12.  “Anxiety of Anglo-Indianness: A Study of Select Anglo-Indian Writers.” CU Workshop on Anglo-Indian Studies, on 26th August, 2022. Calcutta University

ORCiD

0000-0002-8847-2250

Name and Address of Your YouTube Channel

Shyamasri Maji (YouTube): Lectures on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and T.S. Eliot’s “Prufrock”

Any Other Relevant Information

FELLOWSHIP : –

Recipient of Independent Research Fellowship 2018-2019 at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. Title of the project: “Reading Anglo-Indian History in Non-Fiction Cinema: A Study of Select Documentary Films” (Status: Completed)

INVITED LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS:-

1.  Presented a paper titled “The Anglo-Indian Diaspora: Some Literary Perspectives” in International Web Lecture Series organised by Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya (affiliated to Bankura University) from 12/6/2020 to 18/6/2020
2. Invited lecture on Manjula Padmanabhan’s Lights Out in a State-level Webinar organized by Durgapur Government College (affiliated to Kazi Nazrul University Asansol) on 29th April, 2022.