QUALIFICATIONS
MAJOR ACADEMIC DEGREES
2019 — Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Dissertation: “Vivekananda and the Question of the Other: A Critique of Alterity and Subalternity”
2012 — Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Dissertation: “A Psychoanalytical Study of the Man-Woman Relationship in the Novels of John Fowles”
2010 — Master of Arts (MA), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
2008 — Bachelor of Arts (BA Honours), Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING
2024 — Summer University Programme 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, Lower Saxony, Germany.
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
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
SELECTED AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 — Open Society University Network (OSUN) Grant, awarded to participate in the Summer University programme on “Holocaust
Testimonies and Their Afterlives,” organised by Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
2024 — Best Paper Presenter, International Conference on Anubhuti: A Journey Through Indian Knowledge Systems, hosted by Vivekananda Global University, Jaipur, India, for a paper on Nāṭyaśāstra.
2022 — European Commission Seal of Excellence, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship, for a research proposal on casteism, submitted with the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
2021 — Global Engagement Project Fund, University College London, UK.
2019 — Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation Grant (Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten), awarded 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 — Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), University Grants Commission, India.
RESEARCH METRICS
Google Scholar — 52 citations · h-index 4 · i10-index 2
Scopus — 10 documents · 5 citations · h-index 1
Web of Science — 2 publications · 4 citations · h-index 1
Metrics as of September 2026.
LANGUAGES
English, Bengali — speaking, reading and writing
Hindi, Sanskrit, French, German — reading competence