Prof. Ipshita Chanda
Academic Details
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S.No.Degree/DiplomaUniversity1PhD, Faculty of ArtsJadavpur University, Kolkata
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- Ipshita Chanda has taught Comparative Literature since 1993, first at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and since 2017 at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She held the ICCR Chair of Indian Culture at Georgetown University, Washington DC in 2013-14. Her books include Packaging Freedom: Feminism and Popular Culture(Stree 2003); Reception of the Received (ASIHSS Program in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2006); Tracing the Charit as a Genre (DSA program in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2003); , Selfing the City : Single Women Migrants and their Lives in Kolkata(Sage, Delhi 2017). Edited volumes include Literary Historiography (CAS program in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2006) Locating Cultural Change:Theory, Method, Process (Sage, Delhi, 2011) Shaping the Discourse ( with Joyeeta Bagchi, Stree Kolkata 2014), Emotion, Expression and Aesthetics ( Sahitya Akademi Delhi, 2018), Literature and the Other Arts (Sahitya Akademi, Delhi) She translates between Bangla, Hindi and English and has translated Sukumar Ray (Lakshman’s Shaktishail and Chalachitta Chanchari Sahitya Akademi 2006), Satinath Bhaduri (Dhorai Charit Manas, Sahitya Akademi Katha Bharati series, 2013), Phaniswarnath Renu and Mahasweta Devi (Bitter Soil, 1996 and The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh, 2002, both from Seagull, Kolkata).
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- Plurality and Ethics, Virtuality and Alterity in transcultural contexts; Francophone and Anglophone African literature and drama, South and West Asian contactual relations.
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- S.No.Title of the journal with ISSN no.1“Role of Communicative English and Soft Skills in Business Management in the Present Scenario”, International Journal of Technology and Business Management, Volume 3 | Issue 1 | January-March 2017, ISSN No.: 2319-6815.
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- Book Chapters⚽ Categories for a Comparative Historiography of“Indian” Literary Culture : Tracking Namah in Bangla Literatures », Le Comparatisme comme approche critique. Local et mondial : circulations / Local and Global: Circulations, Tome 5, Local et mondial : circulations / Local and Global: Circulations, p. 421-434 DOI : 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06536-4.p.0421DOI : 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-06536-4.p.0421Classiques Garnier 2017⚽ “Comparative Literature in India :The State of Play” : in Literary Culture and Translation : New Aspects of Comparative Literature, eds Dorothy Figuiera & Chandramohan Primus , Delhi 2017 ISBN 978-93-84082-51-2⚽ “So What If You Are Big?”: Divisive Identities and the Ethics of Pluralism in Medieval Indian Literatures of Devotion” in Faultlines of Modernity : The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature eds D. Figuiera & K. J. Millet, Bloomsbury 2018 ISBN: 9781501316685⚽ “Afterwords” in Chandrabati’s Ramayan trans. N.Dev Sen, Zubaan Books, Delhi 2020 ISBN-10 : 9385932942⚽ “Two and a Half Syllables of Love : Questions on Mysticism and Poetry” in Mysticism and literature / Mysticisme et literature eds J. Bessiere and D Figuiera, Honoré Champion,collection "Bibliothèque de littérature générale et comparée", 2020. EAN13 : 9782745353443.⚽ “Plural Cultures, Pluralist Ethics and the Practice of Comparative Literature”in Minor Minorities and Multiculturalisms ed. Dorothy Figueira eum, 2022 isbn 978-88-6056-777-2 (print)Isbn 978-88-6056-778-9 (on-line)Books (2017-22 ONLY)⚽ Selfing The City : Women Migrants and Their Lives in Calcutta , Sage with Stree,, Delhi, 2017⚽ Emotions, Expression, Aesthetics Sahitya Akademi Delhi 2018 (edited with an Afterword) ISBN13: 9789387989153⚽ Literature and the Other Arts Sahitya Akademi Delhi 2018 (edited) ISBN13 9789387989160
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Ongoing:⚽ Member, International Comparative Literature Association research committee on "Religion, Ethics and Literature".⚽ The Namah as a cross-cultural genre; UGC Centre of Advanced Study; Comparative Literature Phase I; Published as “Journey of the Namah : A Case Study” in Work in Progress Volume I, UGC CAS in Comparative Literature, Phase II Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2011; ongoingCompleted (only within 2017-2022)⚽ Principal Investigator; Selfing the City, UPE - Studies in Cultural Processes, Jadavpur University; Publication : Selfing The City : Women Migrants and Their Lives in Calcutta , Sage/Stree, 2017⚽ Principal Investigator, ‘ Interface between Art and Industry” as part of the project “Protecting Cultural Diversity”, funded by the University with Potential for Excellence Programme (II) at Jadavpur University, completed 2018.
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- ⚽ Head Dept of Comparative Literature & India Studies, the English & Foreign languages University, 2018-2021⚽ Coordinator, MA Program in Comparative Literature, School of Literary Studies, EFL University, since 2018
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- ⚽ Secretary to the Executive Council of the International Comparative Literature Association since 2022; member Executive Council, since 2016.⚽ Membership of academic regulating bodies :
- Board of Studies, Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Viswa Bharati, Shantiniketan, external member 2013 – 2017
- Board of Studies, Dept of Hindi, Presidency University, external member Kolkata 2015-2017
- Academic Advisory Council, Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad external member 2018 – 22 (2 terms)
- Goldsmith’s Research Centre in Comparative Literature, Goldsmith’s College London, Expert Consultant since inception in 2020
- Member, Governing Body of the Institute of Language Studies and Research, Department of Higher Education, Government of West Bengal (since 2022)
- Member, Academic Advisory Committee of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Languages and Literary Studies ,Central University of Punjab, Bathinda since 2022
⚽ Membership of Editorial Boards of academic journals- Member, Board of Advisers , Postcolonial Interventions ISSN 2455 6564 Online – Open, Access – Peer-Reviewed
- Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Language Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies ISSN2457-0044
- Member, Advisory Board, Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053)
- Member International Board of Editors, Journal of East-West Comparative Literature Association of Korea since 2022
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