Prof Ujjwal Jana

e-mail: ujana@english.du.ac.in

Office No: Room no, 52 A, Faculty of Arts, North Campus

Preferred Contact hours: Please set up by email

PhD (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagur 2008), MA (Calcutta University 1999), BA (Calcutta University 1997)

Areas of Interest/Research:

Indian Literary Theory and Criticism, Indian Literature, Digital Humanities, Comparative Poetics, Disability Literary Studies, Pilgrimage Studies, Translation Studies,

Work History

Professor: February 22,2023- : Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, Delhi

July 15, 2019-February 21,2023: Department of English, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

Associate Professor: July 15,2016-July,14 2019: Department of English, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

Assistant Professor: 17th September 2010-14th July 2016: Department of English, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry

17th March , 2009-September 16, 2010:Department of English, West Bengal state University, Kolkata

9th July 2003-16th March 2009:Department of English, Bajkul Milani Mahavidyalaya, (Government Sponsored Degree College affiliated to Vidyasagar University), West Bengal

Areas of Research Interest

Indian Literary Theory and Criticism, South Asian Literatures, Translation Studies, Digital Humanities, Theory of Emotions

Awards and Fellowships

2022-2023

Awarded Hungarian State scholarship for 2022-2023, funded by Tempus Foundation of the Government of Hungary to carry out collaborative research at the ELTE Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Hungary

2021-2022

Awarded Hungarian state scholarship in the academic year 2021-2022 funded by Tempus Foundation of Government of Hungary to pursue collaborative Research Project in the Institute of English and American Studies, Debrecan University, Hungary

2014

Sahitya Akademi (Govt of India, Ministry of culture) Travel Grant Award

2007-2008

Fulbright Fellow, India Studies academic Programme, Indiana University, Bloomington,USA

2008

Special Award by Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, for securing Highest Marks in B.A. Examination, 1996.

1993

Jindal Scholarship

Research Projects

 

2024-2026

Awarded  Research Project by the Indian Council of Historical Research, India  to carry out the  Project as Principal Investigator on on the 19th century Poet Saint of Odisha Bhima Bhoi  for the year 2024 to 2026.

2023-2025

Awarded Grant under Ministry of Education, Government of India sponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaborations’ (SPARC) to carry out a Project as Principal Investigator on “Indian-European entanglements: exploring transcultural relationships through Digital Humanities ” with Ghent Centre for Digital humanities- Ghent University, Belgium

2019-2023

Awarded Grant under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of

India sponsored ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research

Collaborations’ (SPARC) to carry out a Project as Principal Investigator on “Digital

Humanities in Indian Rim ” in collaboration with Western Sydney University,

Australia 2019 – 2021, extended to 2023

2016-2017

Indian Lead Collaborator, Joint Research Project on “The Literature of Resistance: A comparative study of Dalit and anti-Apartheid Literature” under ICSSR (India) NIHSS (South Africa) joint Research Programme in Social Sciences with the Department of English, University of Johannesburg, South Africa,

2014-2015

Indian Lead Collaborator, Joint Research Project on “The Guru Challenge: Spirituality, Psychology and literature in East-West Encounters” under ICSSR (India) DFG (Germany) joint Research Programme in Social Sciences with the Department of English, University of Leipzig, Germany,

2012-2014

Awarded Major Research Project by University Grants Commission, India  to carry out the  Project as Principal Investigator on Dalit Literature in Bangla: A historical study and Literary analysis of select Texts  from May 2012- May 2014

2012-2014

Awarded Major Research Project by Indian Council of Philosophical Research, India   to carry out the  Project as Principal Investigator on Influence of various Philosophical schools of India on Rasa theory of Indian Poetics  from May 2012- May 2014

 

Publications

Representative Publications

 

Edited Volumes

2023

Editor, Digital Culture in Humanities: Contemporary Trends published by ABS Books,

New Delhi-India

2017

Edited  a Special Issue of the Journal Literary Miscellany ( An International Journal of Literary Studies) on Indian Poetics: Theory and Praxis  (Vol 1, No 1,) in  2017, published by Bahri Publications, New Delhi, India

2012

Co-editor [with Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh],Subaltern Vision: A Study in

Postcolonial Indian English Text, Newcastle-upon-Tyne:Cambridge Scholars

Publishing, UK ISBN: 1-4438-3665-6

2011

Co-editor[withV.Rajakrishnan],Green Symphony:Studies in Ecocriticism,Sarup and Sons, New Delhi-India, ISBN- 978-81-7625-5

Articles in Journals

2024

Glynis Machado and Ujjwal Jana “  The city in film: Reading Dhobi Ghat and Island City as cinematic representations of Mumbai.”Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2, Dec 2023, p. 269 – 283

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00074_1

2023

Arijit Mondal and Ujjwal Jana (2023). “Mapping the Poetics of Memory: A CriticalReading of Manoranjan Byapari’s Interrogating my Chandal Life as Cultural Archive.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit, PP. 1-9,

DOI: 10.1177/2455328×221150558

2021

Mohaiminul Islam,and Ujjwal Jana. “Text as a Cultural Archive: A Close

Reading of Madan Vasishta’s Deaf in Delhi: A Memoir.” Journal of Literary &Cultural Disability Studies, vol. 15 no. 2, 2021, p. 203-218. (ISSN (Online)1757-6466)Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/790622.

2021

Ujjwal Jana & and Tanushree Dutta. “Memory, Culture and Identity: A

cultural reading of The Legends of Pensam” Ostrava journal of English

Philology, vol.13, no. 1, 2021 p.51-60 (ISSN 1803-8174

(print))

 DOI: 10.15452/OJoEP.2021.13.0004

 

Articles in Books

2023

Islam, Mohaiminul and Jana, Ujjwal. “20. Disability Life Writing in India”. Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez, New York, USA: New York University Press, 2023, pp. 210-217.

DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9781479819386.003.0023

2022

“From Imitation to Ingenuity: Bengali Theatre from 1795-1857.” Indian Aesthetics:Convergences and Divergences. DK Printworld. ISBN: 978-81-246-1143-2

2022

“Forgiving Three Times.” Indian Folk Narratives. Sahitya Akademi. ISBN: 978-93-5548-1122-2.

TRANSLATION

2021

Notun Prithibi–  A Bengali translation of Amit Chaudhuri’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning English novel, A New World (2000) by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters

Invited Talks and Letures

2023
Invited Talk on Histriography of Ancient Indian Drama in the ICPR sponsored workshop on “Contemporary readings of Natyashastra and its Philosophical significance” from 8th May to 12th May 2023 organized by Lakshmibai College, University of Delhi

Invited talk on Creativity and Aesthetic Reflections in the one day seminar cum workshop on CREATIVE WRITING IN THE LITERARY REALM organized by the Department of English and Modern European Languages, Gautam Buddha University, Noida on April 24, 2023

Invited talk as a plenary speaker on Mapping Alternative Paradigms: Ecology, Language and Translation in the ICSSR sponsored national-level seminar on ” Mapping Language, Ecology, and Cultural Diversity in India: An Ecolinguistic Approach on 9th and 10th February, 2023,organized by The Dept of English, West Bengal State University, West Bengal

2022
Invited talk on Indian literary criticism in the one day National seminar on “Indian Classical Literature: Theory and Praxis”organized by the Department of English, Dumdum Motijheel College, Kolkata on December 23, 2022 Invited talk on Ambedkar and his contribution to culture studies in the Two Days International Seminar on ‘Socio-Economic Philosophy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: The Indian & Global Perspective organized by Dr. Ambedkar Chair in Social Justice and Empowerment, Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, Amarkantak (M.P.) on 15 &
16 December, 2022

Invited Talk on Translating Vernacular literatures in India in the online English Refresher Course, organised by The Department of English, in collaboration with the UGC-HRDC, Pondicherry University on October 10, 2022 2019

Invited Talk on Digital humanities in India for College and University Lecturers, English Refresher Course, Academic Staff College, Dr. Hari Singh Gour Viswavidyalaya,Sagar, Madhya Pradesh November 11

Invited talk on Gandhi and his impact on Indian LiteratureOne day Seminar on Gandhian principles of Ahimsa and its Relevance Today, Centre for Gandhian Studies, Pondicherry University, October 10

Invited Talk on How to read a Literary Text: Contemporary approaches, Siddhinath Mahavidyalaya, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India, August 21-22.

Invited Talk on Philosophical Speculations of Gandhian Ideas: Some Reflections, ICPR Sponsored National Seminar on Gandhian principles of Ahimsa and its Relevance Today, Department of Philosophy and English, Panchanan Barma University, April 8-10

Invited Talk on English Language, Literature and Culture: contemporary Trends Two day National Conference on “English Language, Literature and Culture” organised by VivekanandhaCollege for Women, PG and Research Department of English, Tiruchengode, Namakkal, Tamil Nadu, March 11& 12

Invited talk on Research Methodology for Humanities Department of English, Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai February 9

Invited Talk on Linguistics and Phonetics, Department of English, Garhbeta College, Paschi Medinipur, West Bengal, January 5
2018

Invited Talk on Indian Literary Theory: Critical Evaluation for College and University Lecturers, English Refresher Course, Academic Staff College, Pondicherry University, September 9

Invited Talk on Impact of Social movements on Indian Literature, National Seminar, Dept of Tamil. English, and History ERK Arts & Science College, Tamilnadu, India July 27. 2017

Invited Talk on Dalit Literature in India: Growth, origin and Development, One- day Symposium, Department of English, University of Johannesburg, May 18

Invited Talk onDhvani Theory of Indian poetics: a Linguistic Study, Department of English, Panskura Banamali College, Purba Medinipur, India January 2017

2016

Invited Talk on Translation in Pre-colonial India: problems in constructing Theoretical Framework, National Seminar, Department of English, Annamalai University, April 4-5

Invited Talk on Scope of Rasa in Applied Criticism: A study of Santa rasa National Seminar on Revisiting the Tenets of Indian Aesthetic Tradition: An Interface with the Arts, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi April 19-21

Invited Talk on Text as socio-cultural archive: A reading of Binodini Dasi’s My Story and My Life as an Actress National Seminar on Exploring the Self: Autobiography in the Indian Context Centre for Comparative Literature School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad September 15-16 2015

Invited Talk on In search of an alternative idiom: ‘New language’ in contemporary Bangla Dalit poetry, National Seminar on OTHER AS PLURAL: NARRATIVIZING MARGINAL SELF, HISTORY AND CULTURE Centre for Comparative Literature School of
Humanities, University of Hyderabad October 28-30.

Invited Talk on Serampore Mission and Translation Project in colonial Bengal: Text and ContextUGC-DSA International Seminar ‘Imagining the East: New Research, New Pathways’ Department of English, University of Hyderabad, February 23- 25. 2011

Two Lectures on ‘Indian Aesthetics’ for College and University Lecturers, English Refresher Course, Academic Staff College, Dr. Hari Singh Gour Viswavidyalaya, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh July 28-29

Delivered two Lectures on ‘English Consonants and Vowels’, organized by the Department of English, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, June 12.

Lecture on “Reading of Diphthongs” for a 3 Day Training Programme on Teaching of Phonetics to Lecturers in Government Higher Secondary Schools, organized by Staff Training Centre, Directorate of School Education, Government of Puducherry on
February 8

Invited Talk on Theory of Emotions in Sanskrit Drama National Seminar Karnataka Sanskrit University in collaboration with Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi March 27-28

Invited Talk on Gender Representation in Indian Literature National Seminar AVS College of Arts and Science, Salem, Tamilnadu, India March 5 2006

Delivered A Special Lecture on “Wyatt’s I find No Peace”, delivered at Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya, Jhargram, West Bengal, November 2
2010

Two Lectures on ‘Ecocriticism: some thoughts on its emergence, concepts and interdisciplinary relevance’ for College and University Lecturers, English Refresher Course, Academic Staff College, Sambalpur University, Orissa,
September 8-9, 2012