- Dr. Sourav Banerjee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Dept. of English, of a Government sponsored college affiliated to The University Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience. He has been a University Research Fellow and has done his PhD on the projection of cultural nationalism in the novels of the Australian novelist, David Malouf. He is an Education Ambassador of the International Organisation of Educators and Researchers ... moreDr. Sourav Banerjee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Dept. of English, of a Government sponsored college affiliated to The University Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience. He has been a University Research Fellow and has done his PhD on the projection of cultural nationalism in the novels of the Australian novelist, David Malouf. He is an Education Ambassador of the International Organisation of Educators and Researchers Inc. (IOER), Philippines, the Series Editor of Tell Me Your Story (TMYS) International Projects and a member of TMYS Review editorial board, a member of the International Advisory Board of book series titled Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures of Rowman and Littlefield, an International Editorial Board Member of Asia Pacific Journal of Advanced Education and Technology (APJAET), published from Indonesia and Philipinnes, Book Review Editor of Journal of Ecohumanism, Reviewer of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, and also a Reviewer of Intersections, an e-journal of a Govt. sponsored college in Kolkata. He has published many papers and articles in many National and International Journals, and is writing a book on the Australian novelist, David Malouf. He has also delivered many Keynote Speeches, Plenary Addresses and Invited Lectures in India and abroad. He is the founder and joint convener of iSPELL, West Bengal, India, and a member of IELTA India.
He has conducted one to one online interviews of academic stalwarts like Prof Bill Ashcroft (one of the founding fathers of the Postcolonial theory), Prof Francesca Ferrando (one the leading Posthuman theorists of the present times), Evangelia Vassilakou, Paul Sharrad and Prof Samantak Das, and has co-interviewed stalwarts like Prof Bashabi Fraser (Professor Emerita of Edinburgh Napier University and recipient of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire), Dr. Anustup Basu (Associate Professor of University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign), and Dr. Nyla Ali Khan (former professor at the University of Nebraska-Kearney). His areas of interest include Australian Literature, Postcolonialism, Posthumanism, Gender and Culture Studies, Shakespearean Dramas, Romantic Poetry, Mythology and Popular Literature.
He believes that the purpose of education is not merely the learning of facts and theories but the training of the mind for better thinking and keener perception.edit - Prof Deb Narayan Bandopadhyay, Vice Chancellor, Bankura University, WB, India, Prof. Samantak Das, Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic), Jadvpur University, WB, India edit
It is a misconception that Multidisciplinary research is new and is only applicable to the disciplines of science and technology. Recent trends have witnessed a sea change, and new innovations and multidisciplinary research are being... more
It is a misconception that Multidisciplinary research is new and is only applicable to the disciplines of science and technology. Recent trends have witnessed a sea change, and new innovations and multidisciplinary research are being practiced by the subjects of Humanities too. Research in English Literature is no longer confined only to studies based on themes, characters, and rhetoric. Recent research practices in English Literature have not only embraced multidisciplinary collaborations with other disciplines of humanities and social sciences, but also with disciplines of Science and Technology. In the present time people have witnessed how literary texts are being treated not only as stories but as alternative histories, subaltern narratives- providing voices to the economically weaker and the socially downtrodden people, whose stories are generally ignored in the state sponsored documents. Even popular genres like the Fairy Tales, comics and graphic novels are being reinterpret...
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It is a misconception that Multidisciplinary research is new and is only applicable to the disciplines of science and technology. Recent trends have witnessed a sea change, and new innovations and multidisciplinary research are being... more
It is a misconception that Multidisciplinary research is new and is only applicable to the disciplines of science and technology. Recent trends have witnessed a sea change, and new innovations and multidisciplinary research are being practiced by the subjects of Humanities too. Research in English Literature is no longer confined only to studies based on themes, characters, and rhetoric. Recent research practices in English Literature have not only embraced multidisciplinary collaborations with other disciplines of humanities and social sciences, but also with disciplines of Science and Technology. In the present time people have witnessed how literary texts are being treated not only as stories but as alternative histories, subaltern narratives-providing voices to the economically weaker and the socially downtrodden people, whose stories are generally ignored in the state sponsored documents. Even popular genres like the Fairy Tales, comics and graphic novels are being reinterpreted in multidisciplinary research, through the lens of Gender and Culture Studies, to show how culture and or behavioral patterns were being codified and propagated for women and children. Also, the concept of the "text" in English Literature, which traditionally meant a book has now broadened to include street signs, advertisements, movies, paintings, songs, styles of clothing, or even body language, or anything that has meaning, and people can draw information from. It will be the endeavor of this paper to analyze how this evolved concept of the "text" and use of research methodologies from other disciplines have helped research in English Literature become multidisciplinary and innovative. It analyzed the changed "text-methodology" relationship with respect to the use of philosophy in Calvin and Hobbes, cultural studies and postcolonialism in Tintin and feminist studies in popular Fairy Tales, to see how research in English Literary has embraced multidisciplinarity and innovation.