Curriculum Vitae
Amit
Shankar Saha
Address: 46/27, S.N. Banerjee
Road, Kolkata-700 014.
Telephone: (033) 2265-6533. Mobile:
9836291134
Website:
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/ss0/
Email: saha.amitshankar@gmail.com
Date of birth: 6th January 1978.
Current status: Doing Ph. D. Thesis research on the works of Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta, and Jhumpa Lahiri. (Registration: 10 January 2006, Calcutta University).
Academics
2003. Passed M.A. in English from Calcutta University.
2001. Passed Special B.A. in English from Calcutta
University.
1999. Passed B.Sc. from Maulana Azad College (Calcutta University).
1996. Passed Higher Secondary exam with English as first
language from Maulana Azad
College (W.B.C.H.S.E.).
1994. Passed Secondary exam with English as first language from St. Anthony's High School (W.B.B.S.E.).
Computers
2001. One-year Honours Diploma in Web-Centric
Computing from NIIT.
2000. Swift India certificate course from NIIT.
Extra-curricular achievements
2008. Won all the six Best of Bookers short-listed titles
at the Best of Bookers Quiz (British Council Library, Kolkata).
2002. Won 'Journey Without Maps: A Pictorial Retrospective of V. S. Naipaul' at the V. S. Naipaul Quiz (British Council Library, Kolkata).
Languages known: English, Bengali, and Hindi.
Interests: Researching, Reading, Writing, Blogging (http://www.amitss6.sulekha.com
and http://www.amitss6.blogspot.com),
Cricket.
List of relevant publications
1. “Exile Literature and the Diasporic Indian Writer”, Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities: An Online Open Access E-Journal, Volume 1, Number 2, Autumn 2009, ISSN 0975 – 2935, Ed.Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Pp. 186-196. <http://rupkatha.com/journalvol1no2.php>
2. " The Problem of Personal Identity: A Philosophical
Survey through the Selected Fictions of Anita Desai, Bharati
Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta,
and Jhumpa Lahiri in the
Context of the Indian Diaspora", Humanicus:
Academic journal of humanities, social sciences and philosophy, Issue 3,
Summer 2009, ISSN 1803-7836, Ed. Srdjan Jovanovic, Czech Republic, Pp. 60-74. <http://www.humanicus.org/global/issues/humanicus-3-2009.pdf>
3. "So Good in Black by Sunetra
Gupta: Bespoke Ethics", MuseIndia: A
Literary e-Journal, Issue 27, September-October 2009, ISSN 0975-1815. <http://www.museindia.com/showcurrent16.asp?id=1417>
4. "More Light ... by Sanjukta Dasgupta: A Review", Boloji, 24 May 2009. <http://boloji.com/bookreviews/177.htm>
5. "The Psychological Sense of Exile and Alienation: A Selection from Anita Desai’s Fictional Characters", Boloji, 3 May 2009. <http://boloji.com/literature/00141.htm>
6. “Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: A tour de force”, MuseIndia:
A Literary e-Journal, Issue 23, January-February 2009, ISSN 0975-1815. <http://www.museindia.com/showcurrent12.asp?id=1182>
7. “Parent-Child Relationship in Diasporic
Life: Engagement with the issue by Anita Desai, Bharati
Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta,
and Jhumpa Lahiri”, Families:
A Journal of Representations, Vol 5 No 2 & Vol 6 No 1, December 2008, Ed. Sanjukta
Dasgupta, Pp. 30-44.
8. “The Namesake: The Book and the Film”, DesiLit
Magazine, Issue 3, October 2007. <http://www.desilit.org/magazine/issues/2007/winter/
>
9. “Loneliness in Diasporic Life as Depicted by
Anita Desai”, Cerebration, Issue II, May 2005, The Caspersen
School of Graduate Studies, Drew University, USA, Eds. Smita
Maitra and Amrita Ghosh. <http://www.cerebration.org/issueaprilmayjune.html>
Seminars and conferences attended
1. “Breaking the Silence: Reading Virginia Woolf,
Simone de Beauvoir, and Ashapurna
Devi”, International Conference organized by the
Department of English (DRS, SAP-III, Phase-II) and the Women’s Studies Research
Centre, Calcutta University, Kolkata (CSSH Hall, Alipore campus), 15 & 16 January 2009.
2. “Imperial Constructions and Indigenous Self-fashioning”, International Conference under UGC-Assisted DRS (SAP-III) organized by the Department of English, Calcutta University, Kolkata (Derozio Hall, Presidency College), 10 & 11 January 2006.
