MAJOR ACADEMIC DEGREES
2019 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2012 Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2010 Master of Arts (MA), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2008 Bachelor of Arts (BA with English Honours), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2005 Higher Secondary in Arts, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata, India
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
2024 Summer University program on "Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives" organised by Central European University, Budapest, HUNGARY.
2019 Bergen-Belsen International Summer School on "Transnational Memory: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives on the Holocaust" held at Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen, Anne-Frank-Platz, Lower Saxony, GERMANY
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2024 ICSSR-Sponsored IKS Workshops on "Unearthing Mathematical Tools from Sanskrit Astronomical Texts" and "Concept Development and Empirical Inquiry with the Indian Knowledge Systems" hosted at Vivekananda Global University in Jaipur, India
2022 UGC-Sponsored Online Refresher Course in English, UGC-HRDC, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India
2018 UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course in English, UGC-HRDC, University of North Bengal, India
2017 UGC-Sponsored Orientation Programme, UGC-HRDC, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2014 Certificate Course in French, School of Languages, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2011 Audit Course in Film Appreciation, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Open Society University Network (OSUN) grant awarded to participate in the Summer University program on "Holocaust Testimonies and their Afterlives" organised by Central European University, Budapest, HUNGARY.
2024 Honored with the title of 'Best Paper Presenter' for my work on Natyasastra at the International Conference on Anubhuti: A Journey Through Indian Knowledge Systems, hosted at Vivekananda Global University in Jaipur, India
2022 Seal of Excellence awarded to me and the University of Wolverhampton, UK, by European Commission for Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship
2021 Global Engagement Project Fund, University College London, United Kingdom
2019 Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation Grant (Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten) awarded to Dr Mahitosh Mandal to participate in the Bergen-Belsen International Summer School on “Transnational Memory: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives
on the Holocaust,” Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Germany
2012 NET with Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India
2011 Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India
2009 Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, Government of West Bengal, India
LANGUAGES KNOWN
Bengali, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, French, German
BOOKS
1. Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture. Orient BlackSwan, 2018.
2. Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization. Co-edited volume. Routledge, 2023.
THESES
1. Vivekananda and the Other Question: A Critique of Alterity and Subalternity. 2019. Jadavpur University, PhD thesis. Shodganga, 2021.
2. A Psychoanalytical Study of the Man-Woman Relationships in the Novels of John Fowles. 2012. Jadavpur University, MPhil thesis.
SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES
1. “From the Social to the Clinical: Towards a Psychopathology of Everyday Casteism.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit, OnlineFirst, 2022, pp. 1-10.
2. “Overcoming the Sokal Complex: Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and the Limits of Understanding.” Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, 2022, vol. 24, pp. 82-120.
3. “Dalit Resistance during the Bengal Renaissance: Five Anti-Caste Thinkers from Colonial Bengal, India.” Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, vol. 3, no. 1, 2022, pp. 11-30.
4. “‘Eyes a man could drown in’: Phallic Myth and Femininity in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, vol. 19.no. 3, 2017, pp. 274-298.
BOOK REVIEW
1. "Underexplored Aspects of Vidyasagar in a New Translation." The India Forum, 13 Nov 2023.
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