Specialization:

Critical Theory, Literary Cultural Studies & Decolonial Gender Studies.

Visiting Professorships / Grants  /Membership in Professional Bodies:

1. USEFI Kolkata Nomination for Chancellor’s Overseas Non-Resident Award at University Of Missourie, Kansas  City (UMKC), U.S.A.  for Doctoral Research , in 1997.
2. ICSSR (India) and USIS (Singapore) Research  & Travel Grant for  presenting Research paper on American Studies at the National University of Singapore in 1999.
3. Teacher Associate Fellowship of Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla for 2001-03
4. Rotary Foundation Fellowship (U.S.A) under Group Study Exchange Programme (GSE) to Italy  and Rome in 2002.
5. Awarded Scholarship by the Centre for the Study of Citizenship, for presenting a research paper at the 17th Annual  International  Conference  on Citizenship (2020)  at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
6. UGC-Visiting Fellow to the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi from 20th- 27th January, 2013.
7. Visting Fellow, (UGC-SAP DRS II ) in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Burdwan from 23rd to 30th  of January 2020.
8. Member, School Board, School of Humanities, Assam University, Silchar
9. Member, Board of Studies, Department of English, Sikkim University.
10. Advisory Board Member, Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies.
11. Advisory Board Member, Women’s Studies Centre, Dibrugarh University, Assam.
12. Member, Society for the History of Emotions (SHE) Australia.
13. Life Member, North East India History Association (NEIHA)

Administrative responsibilities:

1. Head, Department of English NEHU Shillong from 1st August 2015 to 31st July 2018.
2. Chaired  Research Advisory Boards in several universities in India.
3. Member, Governing Bodies of several colleges in NEHU, Shillong.

Teaching Experience :

        30 years 

1. Professor, Department of English NEHU Shillong from December 2011 till present
2. Associate Professor, Department of English NEHU Shillong from December 2008  to  December 2011.
3. Reader, Department of English NEHU Shillong from December 2005 to December 2008.
4. Lecturer, Department of English NEHU Shillong from June 2003 to December 2005.
5. Lecturer, Department of English, Dibrugarh University Assam from November 1999 to November 2000 (on lien from  Gurucharan College, Silchar).
6. Lecturer, Department of English, Gurucharan College, Silchar (Affiliated to Assam University Silchar) from September 1996 to June 2003.
7. Lecturer, Department of English, Women’s College Shillong (Affiliated to NEHU Shillong) from September 1994 to September 1996.

Editorial Experience:

1. Peer Reviewer for the Indian Journal for Gender Studies (SAGE Journals)
2. Peer Reviewer for Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis)
3. Peer Reviewer for SAGE Open: peer reviewed open access journal for the social and behavioral sciences and humanities (www.sageopen.com).
4. Editor of Special Issue on “Identity Politics in North East India” of the journal North East India Studies, Vol I No. I June 2005
5. Copy Editor: Man & Society: A Journal of North East Studies (ICSSR).

Thesis/Dissertation supervised and awarded.

PhD.

1. Lakhimai   Mili    “Arundhati Roy as a Writer-Activist: A Study.”  awarded on        14^th June 2011.
2. S.Khaiminthang    “The Tribal World of Chinua Achebe’s Novels”    awarded on 8^th September 2011.
3. Sahab Uddin      “Kamala Markandaya’s Search for Roots: A Critical Study” awarded on  18^th October 2012.                                  
4. Priya Raghav    “Personal Narratives: Interpreting  Select Writings by ‘Women of Colour’ ” awarded on 10^th April 2014.
5. Persara Lyngdoh   “Text and Intertext in the Selected Novels of Orhan Pamuk” awarded on 5^th February 2018.
6. Mutum Roshni Devi    “Flora Nwapa’s Novels: A  Gynocritical Study” awarded on 2^nd September 2019.
7. Padumi Singha “The Politics of ‘Otherness’ in the Novels of John Maxwell Coetzee: A Select Study.”   
8. awarded on 30^th June 2022.
9. Parijat Biswas “Interpreting Alternative Female Stereotypes in the Popular Fictions of Suzanne   Collins and Stieg Larsson” awarded on 16^th October 2023.
10. Lede E. Miki Poshna “The  Queer Self and the Discourse on the Closet: A Reading of Select South Asian Fictions” awarded on 29^th July 2024.

MPhil

1. Priya Raghav  “Writing Her/Self: A Critical Study  of Buchi Emecheta's Novels” awarded on  6^th March 2009.
2. Mutum Roshni Devi “Women Characters in Chinu  Achebe’s Novels:  A Critical Study”  awarded on 20^th June 2011.

Post Doctoral:

• Guided Dr. S. Khaiminthang  from  2013 to 2018 under UGC- Post Doctoral Fellowship to SC/ST Candidates on “Emergence of Tribal Literatures in Northeast India”.

Publications

Books:

1. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa, (2013) Society, Representation and Textuality: The Critical Interface; SAGE, Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC. ( co-edited).
2. Bhattacharjee,Sukalpa (2006) Ethno-Narratives: Identity and Experience in NE-India, New Delhi, Anshah Publishing House.(co-edited).
3. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa (2004) Postcolonial Literature: Essays on Gender, Theory and Genres. New Delhi. Akansha Publications.
4. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa (2002)  Human Rights and Insurgency: The North-East India, New Delhi, Shipra,  (co-edited).

Select Papers and Articles:

1. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa (2024) “Theorizing Food  Studies: Gender and Ideologies”, in Debarshi Prasad Nath et al eds. Food Cultures of India. New Delhi: Manohar. pp 53-64.  ISBN 978-93-6080-855-6                                                                          
2. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa (2023) .”Re-telling (her) Stories: Sorties, Texts and Contexts from Northeast India” in Re-Markings: A Biannual Refereed International Journal of English Letters. Vol 22, No.2 September .pp 75-88. ISSN 0972-611X
3. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa (2023). “An/Other Modernity and the Literary Cultures of Northeast India “ in Nishat Zaidi ed. Indian Modernities: Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century. New York, : Routledge. pp 226-238.ISBN-13:978-1-032-2812-7
4. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa (2022). “Gendering Religion: A Feminist Perspective” in  Cecile Mawlong et al eds. Religion and  Society in Northeast India: An Interface. DVS Publishers,  Guwahati. pp  32-45 ISBN 978-93-85839-68-9.
5. Bhattacharjee, Sukalpa (2021).” Critical Pedagogy : Theorizing the literatures of Northeast India” in Nandana Dutta Ed. English Teachers' Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom. London, Routledge .pp 60-76.ISBN 978-1-032-25014-4
6. Bhattacharjee , Sukalpa. . (2020). R.N. Rai, M.S. Pandey and Anita Singh, eds. Revisiting Literary Theory and Criticism: Indian and Western Perspectives . Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 14 (1), pp 321-325. ISSN 1985-3106
7. ------------------------(2019) “ Re-presenting Otherness: Contemporary  Perspectives” in Man and Society: A Journal of North-East Studies, Volume XVI, Winter pp 1-16.ISSN 2229-4058
8. ---------------------------(2018) “Gendering Democracy: Recasting the Multitude” in Indian Journal of Gender Studies (SAGE Publications), Vol. 25, issue 3, 368-383.ISSN 0971-5215
9. -------------------------------(2018) “The Politics of Gendered Resistance: Body and Agency” in Bhagat Oinam, Dhiren A. Sadokpam eds. Northeast India: A Reader. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-36396-0
10. --------------------------------(2017) “Rethinking Sources for Gender History: Some Texts and Contexts” in Rethinking Gender History: Essays on Northeast India and Beyond. Manorama Sharma (Ed.) DVS Publishers, Guwahati/New Delhi, Chapter 12, pp 261-286.ISBN 978-93-85839-18-4
11. -------------------------------- (2017) “Body-Reparation-Invention: Cixous and Derrida on “Feminine “Writing” in Philosophy, Language and the Political -- Poststructuralism in Perspective. Franson Manjali and Marc Crépon (Eds.) Aakar Books:  New Delhi. Chapter 13.pp 193-203. ISBN   9789350024843
12. -------------------------------- (2016) “Theorizing Indian Writing  in English: Identities, Politics and Representation” in Sridip Mukherjee ed. Living the Postcolonial: Indian Literature in Perspective, Kolkata: Gangchil. pp 51-77. ISBN 978-93-84002-93-0
13. -----------------------------,---- (2015) “ Tagore’s Ideas on Nationalism: A Contemporary Perspective” in  Mrinal Miri ed. The Idea of Surplus: Tagore and Contemporary Human Sciences. New Delhi: Routledge India. pp 115-134. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0815376613
14. ------------------------------------ (2014) “Democracy, Development and Justice: A Gender Perspective” in K.S. Subramanian edited Security, Governance and Democratic Rights: Essays on the North-East New Delhi: Neogi Books. pp 209-219. ISBN: 978-93-83098-13-2
15. --------------------------- (2014)” Gendered Constructions of Identity in Northeast-India” in K.M. Baharul Islam edited Issues in Women’s Rights: A  Practioner’s Resource Book, New Delhi. Allied Publishers Private Limited. pp 318-327 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8184249101
16. --------------------------- (2014), Review Article  of David R. Syiemlieh  (edited),  On the Edge of Empire: Four British Plans for North-East India (941-1947.New Delhi: SAGE 2014.255 pages.Rs.795) in Man and Society: Journal of North-East Studies , Summer Volume..pp 167-172 ISSN 2229-4058
17. ---------------------------- (2014)” Creativity and Politics of Representation: Tribal Literature in Northeast India” in Nibir K. Ghosh and A. Karunaker edited Mirrors and Lamps: Global Perspectives, Hyderabad. Osmania University (Siri Publishers). pp 174-194 ISBN 978 98 83038 15 2
18. ---------------------------------(2012)  Review Article on Gunabhiram Barua, Ramnabami-Natak: The Story of Ram and Nabami.(trans. T.Misra, 2007) Indian Journal of Gender Studies 19(3) 481–487,  SAGE Publications Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC. ISSN 0971-5215
19. -------------------------------(2011) “Narrative Constructions of Identity and the Sylheti Experience” published in Tilottoma Misra eds. The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India (Poetry and Essays) New Delhi,  OUP .pp 245-258 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198067498
20. ------------------------------(2011) “Treasure Trove” (Translation of Shekhar Das’ “Koshagar”  in Bengali)  published in  Tilottoma Misra eds. The Oxford Anthology of Writings from North-East India ( Fiction) New Delhi,  OUP.pp 151-165 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198067481
21. ----------------------------,(2011) “Gendered Narratives: An/Other History, An/Other Subjectivity” in Sumita Parmar ed. Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol III, Number 3, Jun. pp 1-17
22. -----------------------------(2011), Narrative as an/Other History or His/Story Otherwise” in Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta et al edited Literature and Oratures as Knowledge Systems: Texts From Northeast India, New Delhi, Akansha Publishing House, pp 20-31 ISBN          8183702805, 9788183702805
23. ----------------------------(2010) “The Possibilities of Language: The ‘Forked ‘ Paths of Meaning” in Partha Ghose (Issue editor) eds. Materialism and Immaterialism in India and the West: Varying Vistas, Volume XII Part 5 of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (General Editor D.P. Chattopadhyaya) PHISPC, Centre For Studies in Civilizations, New Delhi .pp 577-590 ISBN:           9788187586425
24. _________________(2010); Review Article of Aparna Basu and Malavika Karlekar eds. In So Many Words: Women’s Life Experiences from Western and Eastern India  ( New Delhi: Routledge.2008) in  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, SAGE Publications Los Angeles/London/New Delhi/Singapore/Washington DC, 17:1, pp 175-183 ISSN 0971-5215
25. -------------------------------(2010) IGNOU  Module entitled “Folk Culture Of India” published in Folk Culture and Tradition Of India (OVA-011) published by IGNOU New Delhi .pp 1-48 ISBN 978-81-266-4948-8
26. ___________________(2009) ; “Gendered Constructions of Identity in Northeast India” in Th. Tarunkumar eds. Eastern Quarterly, Volume 5,  (Issues II & III, July-December 2008)  , New Delhi,  pp 104-114 ISSN 0975-4962
27. _________________(2008 ) Review Article  of Gail Omvedt’s Dalit Visions: The Anti-Caste Movement and the Construction of an Indian Identity(revised edition), Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2006(1995) in The NEHU Journal, Vol VI, Nos 1&2,.140-145.ISSN 0972-8406
28. --------------------------(2006) . Review Article of A.V. Afonso ed. Consciousness, Society and Values, Shimla:Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, 2006, in SUMMERHILL : IIAS Review.52-56 .Vol XII, No. 1 ISSN: 0972-1452
29. _________________(2005)  “ Kali in the World” Economic and Political Weekly, 40(40) 4321-4324. ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 |
30. ________________(2005) . “A Nation without a Subject: Multicultural Politics in  the United States” Visva Bharati Journal of English Studies, 2:14-19,
31. ________________(2005) . “ The Text As Narrative: Reading Ideology.” S.Mandal et al (eds.) Ethnic Literature of America. New Delhi, Prestige. pp 44-51.ISBN 81-7551-163-X
32. ________________ (2005)  “From Nairative to Narrative: The Narrative Turn” The Journal Of Interdisciplinary  Crossroads, Vol II, No. 1, April ,173-82.ISSN 0972-9801
33. _______________  (2004) ” Diaspora and  Migrancy: Theorizing a Literature of the in-Between” in Gautam Sarma et al eds. At the Frontier and Beyond: Literature and its Relations, Macmillan India Limited, New Delhi, pp 166-181 ISBN 1403 923574
34. ________________ (2003) “Transcreating Another Kali”  Economic and Political Weekly 38(22) 2137-2138. ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976 |
35. _______________  (2003) ”Rites Of Self and the Other: Naipaul’s Construction Of Muslim Identity” in P.C. Kar et al eds. Identities: Local and Global, Pencraft International, New Delhi. ISBN 8185753601
36. ---------------------------  (2001) , (co-author) “The Outsider, The State and Nations from Below: North East India as a Subject of Exclusion” in Kousar J Azam ed. Ethnicity, Identity And The State in South Asia, New Delhi: South Asian Publishers. pp232-259. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8170032564
37. _________________ (2001), “Towards a Theory of Native Informant “ Economic and Political Weekly;36(14-15) 1194-1198 ISSN (Print) - 0012-9976
38. -------------------------- (2000) . “The East-West Encounter: Towards a Pan-Ethnic Discourse” in  Chng Huang Hoon et al eds. Asia and America :Influences and Representations, National  University of Singapore, Centre For Advanced Studies Research Paper Series No. 26 pp 26-34.ISBN 981-04-3282-8
39. ---------------------------(2000) “Writing the Rabbi: Erasing Ideology-A Reading of Stanley Elkin’s The Rabbi of Lud”, in Sukhbir Singh ed. Ideology and the American Novel, Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, pp287-296. ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8176461719

Highlights of Research Papers accepted/Presented in Major International and National Conferences:

1. Paper entitled “Recasting America: The other Sub/ject or Subjects otherwise”  at the Conference on Global Perceptions and Intersection organized by the United States Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Rhodes Island on May 5th and 6th 2000.
2. Paper  entitled “Europe as an Other: Imagining Homelands”  at International Conference on Writing Europe 2001:Migrant Cartographies, Cultural Travellers and New Literatures held at the University Of Leiden and University of Amsterdam 22-24th March 2001.
3. Paper entitled “Imagining Homelands: The Possibilities of an alter/native Literature” at the Fifth Annual Red River International Conference on World Literature held at university of South Dakota, Fargo, U.S.A on 26th to 28th April 2002.
4. Paper entitled “Strategies of Intervention: Sublimated Tales in Postcolonial Representation” at the Conference on History and Fiction at the University of Turku, Finland, 8-10th May 2003.
5. Paper entitled “Rhetoric of Otherness: Naipaul’s Excursions into Islam” at  the Conference on Intercultural Narrative held at Lancaster University, U.K. between 14-16 December 2003.
6. Paper entitled “Recasting Kali: Towards New Constructions of Gendered identity” at the 9th International Congress on Women, June 19-24, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul.2004
7. Paper  entitled  “Eastern Stereotypes  in a Globalized World “ at the International Workshop  and Dialogues Session on Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations held at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand  on the 14th -15th  of December 2009.
8. Paper entitled “ Seeing Sameness and Differences: The Problem of Representation in Social Theory “ in the Academic Session on Beyond Standpoint at  the 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology on After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics at New Delhi  between the 16th-19th of February 2012 ,  organized by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi in collaboration with the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala
9. Paper entitled Body-Reparation-Invention : Cixous and Derrida on “Feminine Writing” at the International Conference on “Philosophy, Language and the Political” organized at JNU New Delhi from 10th to 12th December 2014.
10. Paper entitled  “Teaching Humanities: Access, Quality and Development” at the Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR)  National Seminar on 'The Place of Humanities in Our Universities' organized by ICPR –Delhi on the 14th of January 2014 at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
11. Paper entitled " The Construction of Gendered Subjectivity in Dalit Writings: Agency and Representation" at the  2-Day ICPR-Sponsored National Seminar on Dalit Epistemology and Feminism, on  the 27th of  February 2015, organized by the  Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University.
12. Delivered Keynote Address entitled “Theorizing Indian Writing in English: Identities, Politics and Representation” at UGC-DEB sponsored National Seminar on Postcoloniality, Subalternity and Indian Writing in English: The Open Learning Praxis organized by the School of Humanities  Netaji Subhas Open University on the 1st  of October 2015.
13. Paper entitled “‘Non-human Humans’ and the Politics of Representation” at the International Conference on  Reconfiguring Human and Non-Human: Texts, Images and Beyond  on the 29–30th October 2015, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
14. Paper entitled “Non-Human Humans and the Gendered Price of Food” as Plenary Lecture at the National Seminar on “Food Cultures of India”  organized by the Department of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University in collaboration with Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) at Tezpur  on the 2nd  of December 2016.
15. Paper entitled “An/Other Story of Partition: Spacing  Place, Gender and Agency” as Plenary Lecture  at the National Seminar on   "Revisiting Partition: concepts, dynamics and manifestations with special focus on North East India" organized by the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati in association with the Institute of Social Change And Regional Development (ISCARD), Assam on the 10th of February 2017.
16. Paper entitled “Emotion as Agency: A Feminist Perspective”  in Perth on the 12th of December 2017  at the International Conference on Emotions of Cultures/Cultures of Emotions: Comparative Perspectives held at  The University of Western Australia in Perth, from 11th  to 13th  December 2017 and organized by  the Society for the History of Emotions.
17. Paper entitled “Alternative Democracies: Gendered Selves and Collectives” in the panel Democracy, Diversity and Postcolonial Dilemmas: India @ 70 at the 25th World Congress of Political Science  held in Brisbane (Australia) in  July 21-25, 2018.
18. Paper entitled "Otherness and the Politics of Literary Cultures in Northeast India" in the one-day national symposium on ‘Translating Modernity: A Study of Literary Culture in India’ organised by the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, in collaboration with the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi on the 20th of February 2019 in Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
19. Paper entitled 'The Map is not the Territory': Tale (ing)  An/Other  History" at the  National Seminar on “Responsibility, Guilt, Forgiveness: Affective Dimensions of Border Crossing Events” organized by the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Burdwan on  the 27th of Jan 2020.
20. Paper entitled “Oedipus Complex   and the Maternal Symbolic: India’s Gendered  ‘Citizenship’ Discourse” at  the 17th Annual  International  Conference  on Citizenship at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. from 2nd April 2020 to 4th April 2020.(paper accepted, presentation deferred due to pandemic).
21. Paper entitled “Critical Pedagogy and Ethical Engagement in a Postcolonial Literature Classroom” in  the  23rd International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, USA,  held between October 6 – 8, 2022.
22. Paper entitled “The ‘Non-Human Others’ in Literary Representations: A Decolonial Perspective”, at the the World Philosophy Congress held at Sapienza University of  Rome, Italy  between 1-8^th August 2024.