Sayan Chattopadhyay

PhD (University of Cambridge)

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Interest

 

Education

  • PhD, University of Cambridge, 2014
  • M.Phil, University of Calcutta, 2008
  • M.A., University of Calcutta, 2006
  • B.A., Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, 2004

Website(s)

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  • "Disowning "Indianness": Images of Indian Womanhood and the "English" Self of Cornelia Sorabji". Prose Studies: History, Theory Criticism (Routledge). 37 (1): 2-20, 2015

  • "Return as a Stranger: Dom Moraes and the Ambiguity of Homecoming". Ex(tra)territorial: Reassesing Territory in Literature, Culture and Languages/Les Territoires littéraire, culturels et linguistiques en question. Eds. Didier Lassalle and Dirk Weissmann. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopoi. 313-320, 2014.

  • "Homeward Journey Abroad: Nirad C. Chaudhuri and the Tradition of Twentieth Century Indian National Autobiographies". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Sage). 49 (2): 157-172, 2014.

  • ""Things of Stylized Beauty": The Novels of Sudhin N. Ghose and the Fragments of an Indian Tradition". Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (University of Calgary, Canada). 43 (3): 7-33, 2013.

  • "Of Ex-White Men: Whiteness and Nationalist Self-Fashioning in Rabindranath Tagore's Gora and Nirad Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian". Images of Whiteness. Eds. Clarissa Behar and Anastasia Chung. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013.

  • "Reconstructing the History of Exile and Return: A Reading of Dom Moraes's The Long Strider". Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge). 48 (1): 79-91, 2012.

  • "Dom Moraes". The Literary Encyclopedia, 2012. 



  • 2017 Baden-Wuerttemberg Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Recipient of the 2010-2013 Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship offered by Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, which fully funded my PhD degree in the University of Cambridge.
  • Recipient of the 2010 Overseas Endowment Travel Fellowship offered by the University of Calcutta.
  • Recipient of the 2004 Nripesh Chandra Guha Memorial Prize for securing highest marks in B.A. exam (with English honours) in Asutosh College.

 

Office

Faculty Building (Room 673)
Humanities and Social Sciences Department
I.I.T. Kanpur
Kanpur 208016
India

Office Phone: 0512-259-6105 (O)

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