1. Professional Communication (HSS51) for B.Tech. 1st/2nd Semester
2. Soft Skills (HSO 544) for B.Tech. 5th Semester
3. Public Speaking (HSO 853) for B.Tech. 8th Semester
4. Classics of Literature (HSO852) for UG 8th Semester
5. Research Methodology (XE9031) for PhD Scholars
UG Students
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Doctoral Students
Prasanta Rakshit
Ongoing
Disability Studies
Embodies Narratives: Disability Representation in Select Indian Texts and Personal Reflections
Prasanta Rakshit
Ongoing
Disability Studies
Embodies Narratives: Disability Representation in Select Indian Texts and Personal Reflections
Sayantan Pahari
Ongoing
Literary Theory
Toward a Postcritical but not Anti-Critical Study of Reception: A Dialogic Recalibration of Literary/Cultural Reception after Postcritique
Sayantan Pahari
Ongoing
Literary Theory
Toward a Postcritical but not Anti-Critical Study of Reception: A Dialogic Recalibration of Literary/Cultural Reception after Postcritique
Tanushree Mitra
UGC Research Fellow
World Literature
Contrasting Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism at the Centre and the Periphery of the Imperial Machinery: A Comparative Study of the Select Novels of Henry James and Rabindranath Tagore
Tanushree Mitra
UGC Research Fellow
World Literature
Contrasting Conceptions of Cosmopolitanism at the Centre and the Periphery of the Imperial Machinery: A Comparative Study of the Select Novels of Henry James and Rabindranath Tagore
Anindita Ghosal
Institute Research Scholar
Visualising the Anthropocene: Exploring Ecological Dystopia in Contemporary English Graphic Narratives
Anindita Ghosal
Institute Research Scholar
Visualising the Anthropocene: Exploring Ecological Dystopia in Contemporary English Graphic Narratives
Shibaji Bose
Professional Scholar
Understanding People's Perceptions through Visual Research Methods in Climate Change Affected Uncertain Landscapes: The Case of Indian Sundarbans and Kutch, Gujarat
Understanding People's Perceptions through Visual Research Methods in Climate Change Affected Uncertain Landscapes: The Case of Indian Sundarbans and Kutch, Gujarat
Shibaji Bose
Professional Scholar
Understanding People's Perceptions through Visual Research Methods in Climate Change Affected Uncertain Landscapes: The Case of Indian Sundarbans and Kutch, Gujarat
Understanding People's Perceptions through Visual Research Methods in Climate Change Affected Uncertain Landscapes: The Case of Indian Sundarbans and Kutch, Gujarat
Asoke Howlader
Awarded on 11-04-2023
The Spectrum of Global Concerns in the Light of Glocalization: A Study in the Select Plays of Mahesh Dattani
Asoke Howlader
Awarded on 11-04-2023
The Spectrum of Global Concerns in the Light of Glocalization: A Study in the Select Plays of Mahesh Dattani
Pallabi Maji
UGC Research Fellow
Healing the Trauma of Sexual Abuse: the Health Humanities Approach
Pallabi Maji
UGC Research Fellow
Healing the Trauma of Sexual Abuse: the Health Humanities Approach
Avijit Pramanik
PhD Awarded on 08/06/2020
Survival as Triumph in Paul Auster's Novels
Avijit Pramanik
PhD Awarded on 08/06/2020
Survival as Triumph in Paul Auster's Novels
Saptorshi Das
PhD Awarded on 13/04/2015
Feminist Approaches—Indian and European—to Classical Women Characters, with Special Reference to Draupadi, Antigone, Medea, Lady Macbeth, Clytemnestra, and Sita
Saptorshi Das
PhD Awarded on 13/04/2015
Feminist Approaches—Indian and European—to Classical Women Characters, with Special Reference to Draupadi, Antigone, Medea, Lady Macbeth, Clytemnestra, and Sita
Abhik Mukherjee
PhD Awarded on 20/08/2014
Travel Writings of D. H. Lawrence: the Literary Dimensions
Abhik Mukherjee
PhD Awarded on 20/08/2014
Travel Writings of D. H. Lawrence: the Literary Dimensions
Mita Bandyopadhyay
PhD Awarded on 20-05-2021
Digital Visual Effect in Movies: Beyond Spectacle and Illusion
Mita Bandyopadhyay
PhD Awarded on 20-05-2021
Digital Visual Effect in Movies: Beyond Spectacle and Illusion
Summauli Pyne
PhD Awarded on 01/03/2016
Transcendental Leadership and Social Responsibility: Management Insights from Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda
Summauli Pyne
PhD Awarded on 01/03/2016
Transcendental Leadership and Social Responsibility: Management Insights from Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda
Aditi Bhunia Chakraborty
PhD Awarded on 19/03/2018
Whose Power is Perpetuated at the Expense of Whom: An Exploration into the Linguistic Function of Cultural and Literary Texts in Depicting Gender Images in Bangla
Aditi Bhunia Chakraborty
PhD Awarded on 19/03/2018
Whose Power is Perpetuated at the Expense of Whom: An Exploration into the Linguistic Function of Cultural and Literary Texts in Depicting Gender Images in Bangla
Debi Prasad Misra
PhD Awarded on 11/12/2015
Tagore in English Translation: A Postcolonial Perspective
Debi Prasad Misra
PhD Awarded on 11/12/2015
Tagore in English Translation: A Postcolonial Perspective
Annesha Mandal
PhD Awarded on 25/10/2016
Postmodern Elements in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry
Annesha Mandal
PhD Awarded on 25/10/2016
Postmodern Elements in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry
Md. Abu Barkat Ali
PhD (Ongoing)
From Sight to
Insight:
Psychopathological
Interpretations of
Abnormality of
Shakespeare’s
Characters
Md. Abu Barkat Ali
PhD (Ongoing)
From Sight to
Insight:
Psychopathological
Interpretations of
Abnormality of
Shakespeare’s
Characters
Satorupa Ghsoh Das
PhD (Ongoing)
The Yellow Book
and the Alternative
Literature at the
Turn-of-the-Century
by New Women
Writers and Poets of the Periodical
Satorupa Ghsoh Das
PhD (Ongoing)
The Yellow Book
and the Alternative
Literature at the
Turn-of-the-Century
by New Women
Writers and Poets of the Periodical
1.Pallabi Maji & Arindam Modak. "Rape: A H(Heinous) E(Execrable)
R(Repulsive) O(Objectionable)
I(Infamous) C(Contemptible) Act!"
International Conference on Malay,
Arabic and English Literature
2022
2021
2.Arindam Modak. "Reconciling Poetic Autonomy and Poetic Relevance."
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Humanities, Oxford, United Kingdom, 11-14 March 2021, pp. 60-66.
2021
2019
3.Asoke Howlader & Arindam Modak. "Religious
Fundamentalism and Culture of Gender Violence: Representation in Contemporary
Indian English Theatre."
International Conference on Culture, Thought and Religion: Edges and Exchanges, East Calcutta Girls’ College, Kolkata, 28th January, 2019.
2019
2019
4.Asoke Howlader & Arindam Modak. "Image of the ‘New Woman’ in Select Plays of Mahesh Dattani."
International Conference on South Asian Literature, Culture and Society, BarabazarBikramTudu Memorial College, Purulia, 27- 28 February, 2019
2019
2019
5.Avijit Pramanik & Arindam Modak. "Survival Through Storytelling: A Critical Study of Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, and Leviathan." International Conference on Social Science, Humanities and Business Management Puri, 10th August, 2019, pp. 1-3
International Conference on Social Science, Humanities and Business Management, Puri, 10 August 2019
2019
2019
6.Avijit Pramanik & Arindam Modak. "Writing as a Panacea to Death in Paul Auster’s Fictional World."
Proceedings of the International Conference on Arts and Humanities New Delhi, 8th Sept. 2019, pp. 1-3
2019
2014
7.Arindam Modak. “Ransom on the Sonnets of
Shakespeare.”
Proceedings of the 7th Biennial World Shakespeare Conference, BHU, 3-5 December 2012. Eds. Bryan Reynolds, Amitava Roy, Subir Dhar, and Tapu Biswas. Kolkata: Avantgarde Press, 2014. 154-159.
2014
2014
8.Arindam Modak. "Poetic Relevance of Philosophy: the New Critical Argument."
Proceedings of the Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, the University of London, 5-8 November 2013. 7.1 (2014): 317-319.
2014
2012
9.Arindam Modak. “Historicity of Literature in the New Critical Paradigm.”
Proceedings of the UGC-sponsored National Conference on History in Literature—Literature as History: The Issue Revisited, Kulti College, 11-12 January 2012. Ed. Priyadarsee Chakraborty. Kolkata: Levant Books, 2012. 285-288.
2012
2012
10.Arindam Modak. “Poetry, Science, and
Technology: the New Critical Approach.”
Proceedings of the International Conference on the Role and Responsibilities of Humanities and Social Sciences in Technical Education, SRM University, NCR Campus, 16-17 March 2012. Eds. Vijay Kumar Roy and Upendra Gami. New Delhi: Alfa Publications, 2012. 69-71.
2012
2012
11.Arindam Modak. “Re-contextualising the Teaching
of English in India.”
Proceedings of the 7th International ELTAI Conference, Chennai, 19-21 July 2012. 42-44.
2012
Books
ID
Title
Asoke Howlader and Arindam Modak. "Religious Fundamentalism and Culture of Gender Violence in Contemporary Indian English Plays." Published as a Book Chapter in Perspectives on Culture and Cognition, eds. Sukla Hazra, et al, East Calcutta Girls' College, 2019.
Secured First Class Second Position in the M.A. Examination.
Awarded State-funded Research Fellowship in 2003.
Chaired a session at the Anglo-American Conference for Academic Disciplines at the University of London on 5 November 2013.
Acted as Resource Person at the UGC-sponsored National Seminar on “In Time of the Breaking of Boundaries: Swami Vivekananda in the 21st Century Global Village at Netaji Subhash Ashram Mahavidyalaya, Suisa, Purulia on 21 & 22 March 2012.
Acted as Resource Person in the Orientation Programme for TGT (English) at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Durgapur from 01.06.12 to 10.06.12.
Acted as Observer for UGC-NET, JEE Mains, WBJEEM a number of times.
Secured a position among the Top 10 Contestants out of around 6500 contestants in ICICI Bank-sponsored Talent Hunt Contest by playing the Santoor and was given the opportunity of shooting an advertisement for ICICI Bank with Mr Prasenjit Chatterjee, the Superstar of Bengali Film Industry. The advertisement was aired on TV channels for a fortnight and the Incumbent was felicitated at ITC Royal by Mr Prasenjit Chatterjee.
Administrative Responsibilities
1. Head of the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, from 17-07-2022 to 13-06-2024
2. Deputy Chairperson, Institute Continuing Education Cell, from 06-05-2022 to 05-05-2024
3. Convener, Institute Induction Programme Organising Committee, from 16-08-2024
4. Joint Convener, Institute Induction Programme Organising Committee, from 19-06-2018 to 15-08-2024
5. Faculty Advisor, Institute Dance Club, from 28-04-2026 to 11-01-2024
6. Departmental Academic Coordinator, UG Programmes, from 19-07-2019 to 17-07-2022
7. Departmental Convenor, Screening Committee for Faculty Recruitment, 02-08-2019 to 17-07-2022
8. Departmental Representative, Institute Class Routine Committee, from 26-08-2020 to 17-07-2022
9. Departmental Nodal Person for MOODLE Management System, 31-08-2020 to 17-07-2022
10. Member, Departmental Research Programme Committee
11. Member, departmental Academic Committee
12. Member, Committee for Physical Verification of Fixed Assets/Inventory
13. Former Warden, Rabinfranath Tagore Hall of Residence, NIT Durgapur
Contact
Mobile : +91-9434788053
Email : amodak.hu@nitdgp.ac.in
Miscellaneous
Interested in music. Regularly performs on the Chromatic Harmonica and the Santoor.
Golden Book of World Record holder for most people participating in harmonica playing simultaneously at a single location.
Secured a position among the Top 10 Contestants out of around 6500 contestants in ICICI Bank-sponsored Talent Hunt Contest by playing the Santoor and was given the opportunity of shooting an advertisement for ICICI Bank with Mr Prasenjit Chatterjee, the Superstar of Bengali Film Industry. The advertisement was aired on TV channels for a fortnight and the Incumbent was felicitated at ITC Royal by Mr Prasenjit Chatterjee.
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