1. Name of the Department :
ENGLISH
2. Year of Establishment : 1990
3. Name of the HOD : Dr. Ashes Gupta
4. List of Faculty :
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Name |
Designation |
Qualification |
Specialization |
E. mail address |
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Dr Shyamal Das |
Reader |
MA,PGDTE, M.Phil, Ph.D |
Linguistics &
Phonetics |
das0202ma@yahoo.com |
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Dr. Ashes Gupta |
Reader |
MA, Ph.D |
Literary theory
& Common Wealth Literature, Indian English Literature |
ash_gray@rediffmail.com |
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Partha Sarathi Gupta |
Lecturer |
M.A, M.Phil |
Ancient European
Literature in Translation,Indian English Drama |
p_s_gupta@yahoo.com |
5. On
going research project (apart from unassigned grant)
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Principal Investigator |
Title of the project |
Funding agency |
Amount sanctioned |
Number of research students engaged |
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6. List
of publications (From January, 2006 to date)
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Sl. No. |
Name of the Teacher |
Title of the Paper |
Name of the Journal with Volume Pages and Year |
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1 |
Dr. Shyamal Das |
Some Aspects of
Prosodic Phonology of Tripura Bangla & Tripura Bangla English |
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2 |
Dr. Shyamal Das |
Under specification
& the Phonology of NC effects in Malayalam |
Linguistic Theory
& South Asian Languages Ed. Josef Bayer et
al John Benjamins (NL) 217-236 (2007) |
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3 |
Dr. Shyamal Das |
Feature Checking,
Case & Word Order: A Minimalist Study of the Bangla Case System |
PILC Journal of
Dravidic Studies Pondichery (2006). Vol. 11:1, 11:2
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4 |
Dr. Ashes Gupta |
Reading Jayanta Mahapatra’s ‘Dawn at
Puri’ as an attempt towards circumscribing a local
space against the politics of universalisation |
Sarangi Jaydip
ed. The Indian Imagiviation of Jayanta Mohanatra Swarup and Sons, |
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5 |
Dr. Ashes Gupta |
Translations of Kokborok and Bengali
Poetry to English |
Indian Literature-Sahitya Akademi Bi-monthly
Journal, Vol-XLIX No-35 p.43,59,60,61,82,83,91-100 |
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6 |
Dr. Ashes Gupta |
Reading Arun Koltkar’s ‘The Bus’ as an exposition
of the vacillating duality of existence |
Sarangi Jaydip
ed. Explorations in Indian English Poetry, |
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7 |
Partha Sarathi
Gupta |
Fusion of Forms and
Influences in Mahesh Dattani’s ‘ Bravely Fought the
Queen’ and ‘Final Solutions’ |
Literature and
Criticism, Vol 4,2007 pubished
by ‘Literary Society of India’ |
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8 |
Partha Sarathi
Gupta |
Translation of 4
folktales from Kokborok/Bengali to English in a two-day
translation workshop organized by Sahitya Akademi |
published as a contribution to the
compilation of “Kokborok Folk Songs, Myths and Tales”in ‘Tales and
Tunes of Tripura Hills’ SAHITYA
AKADEMI,2007 |
7. List
of Published books:
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Sl. No. |
Name of Teacher |
Name of Book |
Publisher |
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01. |
Dr. Shyamal Das |
Metrical Phonology
and Tripura Bangla |
Kreativemind, Kolkata. 2007 |
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02. |
Dr. Ashes Gupta |
The Fragrant Joom & Translation of Kokborok
Poetry in English |
Akshar Publications, 2006
Agartala |
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8. Major
Thrust Areas of Research:
Dr. Shyamal das
i. Phonology
ii. Interlanguage
Phenomena
iii. Second Language Learning
iv.
Linguistic Marginalization/ Linguistic Rights
Dr. Ashes Gupta
i. Literary theory
ii. Color usage-Color Response Analysis
iii. Media Studies:
Semiotic Interpretations
iv. Culture Studies
v. Indo-Anglian
Literature.
Partha
Sarathi Gupta
i.
Renaissance Studies and Shakespeare
ii.
Ancient European Classics in English Translation
iii. Literary Theory
and Criticism
iv Indian- English Drama
9. Number of Ph. D. Scholars at present : 03
10.
Total number of Scholars awarded Ph. D. Degree since inception: 04