Academia

Academia

PhD Thesis

Title: Another World Had Indeed Been Staged: Theatre in Calcutta from the 1940s to the 1970s

Primary supervisor: Professor Nicholas Ridout, Professor of Theatre, Queen Mary University of London
Secondary supervisor: Dr Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, Queen Mary University of London

External examiners: Professor Tony Fisher, Professor of Theatre, Politics and Aesthetics, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Dr Shayoni Mitra, Senior Lecturer, Barnard College, Columbia University

Peer-reviewed essays

“Making Brecht UnBrechtian But Is That a Good Thing? Brechtian Epic As Alienated Melodrama in India,” Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium 8:1, 29-50 (2023). Click here to read.

“Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay, Nandikar, and the World: Staging World Literature in Bengali,” South Asian Review 41:3-4, 316-335 (2020). Click here to read. (This is paywalled. Please email souradeep.roy@qmul.ac.uk if you want a copy.)

with Senjuti Chakrabarti, “Introduction: A Writing Pedagogy of Failure,” Sanglap Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 7:1, 01-27 (2020). Click here to read.

Edited Issues

with Senjuti Chakrabarti and Aakshi Magazine, Writing (in) the Post-colony: Practising Academic English in Indian Higher Education. Sanglap Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry 7:1, (2020). Click here to read.

Book Chapters

“Suman Mukhopadhyay”, “Koushik Sen” and “Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay,” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors, edited by Maria Delgado and Simon Williams (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025).
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“Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay, Nandikar, and the World: Staging World Literature in Bengali,” in Madhurima Chakraborty, ed. Global South Asia: South Asian Literatures and the World (London: Routledge, 2022). Click here to buy.

First Master of Philosophy Thesis

Material Modernisms in Indian English Poetry: A Study of Adil Jussawalla’s Missing Person (University of Delhi, 2017)
Primary supervisor: Professor Rimli Bhattacharya (University of Delhi)
External examiner: Professor Amlan Das Gupta (Jadavpur University)

Second Master of Philosophy Thesis

The Life (Not Death) of Keya Chakraborty (1942-1977): Towards a Feminist Historiography of the Progressive Amateur Theatre Movement in Calcutta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2021)
Primary Supervisor: Professor Dr Bishnupriya Dutt (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Secondary Supervisors: Dr Mallarika Sinha Roy and Dr Ameet Parameswaran (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
External examiner: Dr Anuradha Kapur

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