Assistant Professor

Dr Asijit Datta

Department of Liberal Arts

Interests

  • English Literature and Cultural Studies
  • Theatre and Cinema
  • Setting up an Independent Academic Channel on YouTube comprising interviews of Renowned Scholars.

Education

2007

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur
India
BA English

2009

Presidency College
India

MA English

2017

Jadavpur University,
India

PhD (Film Studies)

Experience

  • June 2022- July 2023 – Asst Prof II, KIIT University (Bhubaneswar)
  • June 2021 – Assistant Editor, Journal of Posthumanism (London)
  • August 2016 - May 2022 - Asst Prof II and Head, The Heritage College (Kolkata)
  • July 2012- July 2016- IB Teacher, Calcutta International School
  • September 2009- June 2016- Guest Lecturer, RKM Narendrapur, Presidency University, Vidyasagar University
  • Research Interest

  • Posthumanism, Beckett Studies, Disability Studies, Modern European Theatre, World Cinema, and Psychoanalysis
  • Publications

    • “An intercultural dialogue: the Buddha, Schopenhauer and Beckett. Angela Moorjani in Colloquy with Asijit Datta” published in Textual Practice, (10.1080/0950236X.2023.2214128) 2023.
    • Co-edited a book, Literaturizing the Popular with Dr. Amrita Chakraborty (Avenel Press, 2023).
    • ‘Winding Spools and Speaking Stones: How to Play Beckett’s Tape Recorder and Listen to Handke’s Stone Woman?’ published in Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care edited by Ambika Aiyadurai, Arka Chattopadhyay, Nishaant Choksi (Orient Blackswan), March, 2023.
    • “The Idea of Minor Literature by Deleuze and Guattari with reference to Naga Identity, Psyche and Victimization of Indigenous Communities in Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories From A War Zone” published in Literature from the Peripheries: Refrigerated Culture and Pluralism (Rowman and Littlefield), February 2023.
    • "On Gaian Systems: An Interview with Bruce Clarke'' has been published by symplokē, Vol. 30, Nos. 1-2 (WOS journal maintained by the University of Nebraska Press), pp. 431-451, November, 2022.
    • ‘Donna J. Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Cthulucene: A Review’ published in Consortium: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Volume 1, No. 2, pp. 112-115, December 2021.
    • ‘Subtracting and Entering Shakespeare: Locating a Malayali Macbeth in Dileesh Pothan’s Joji’co-written by Patrali Chatterjee published in Issue 98 of Muse India, October 2021.
    • ‘Politics of Dark Rooms and Neurotic Urbanity through Padmanabhan’s Lights Out’ in Beyond Consumption India’s New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times, Routledge,October, 2021.
    • ‘Zombies and Diseased Bodies: A Discourse on the Living Dead’ published in Studies in the Fantastic, No. 11 Summer 2021, University of Tampa Press.
    • ‘Dialogue on Posthuman Life, Death and COVID-19’ (conversation between Dr Francesca Ferrando and Dr Asijit Datta) published in Journal of Posthumanism, Volume: 1, No: 1, pp. 107–120, May 2021. (https://journals.tplondon.com/jp/article/view/1281/993)
    • ‘Mind of a Playwright’ (conversation with the renowned Marathi Playwright Ashutosh Potdar) published online at Indian Cultural Forum on May 7, 2021. (https://indianculturalforum.in/2021/05/07/the-mind-of-a-playwright/).
    • ‘Dialogue on Posthuman Life, Death and COVID-19’ (conversation between Dr Francesca Ferrando and Dr Asijit Datta) published in the book Posthuman Imagination: Literature at the Edge of the Human (2021).
    • ‘Imagining Extinction inside Viral Body without Organs’ published in Rupkatha Journal (Vol. 12, No. 5) on 17 October 2020. (SCOPUS INDEXED). (http://rupkatha.com/V12/n5/rioc1s25n5.pdf)
    • ‘Cadavers, Transactions and Birth of Knowledge: Scanning Disposable Bodies in Padmanabhan’s Harvest and the Visible Human Project’ in the journal postscriptum Volume V Number I (January 2020), (Editor/s) Anubha Singh, Arindam Das. (UGC APPROVED TILL 2019)
    • ‘Carnival of Maleness and Surplus Violence as Transnational Voices in Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright’ in the book Film and Literature edited by Debashis Bandyopadhyay, 2020.
    • (Dis)Abling Body And Consciousness: Technological Afterness And After-Humans In Realive And Upgrade’ in "Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada", maintained by the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, September 2019, pp. 704-718. (MLA Indexed (https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/tla/article/view/8655529)
    • ‘Song as Subversion and Individualism: Encountering Poetry as Performance in Bhardwaj’s Haider’ in the book, Shabd aur Sangeet–Unravelling Song-Text in India edited by Shubha Mudgal, Aneesh Pradhan, Kunal Ray, August 2019.
    • ‘Disappearance and Afterness: Vanishing Postself and Posthuman in Beckett and DeLillo’ published in JUES XXXII (Jadavpur University Essays and Studies), edited by Prof Nilanjana Deb (2017), pp. 44-58. (https://juenglishorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/10/jues_vol.-32-2018.pdf#page=44)
    • ‘Impossibilities of Screening the Vanishing Minds and Selves in Samuel Beckett’s The Unnamable’ Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, Volume 29, Special Issue: Endlessness of Ending: Samuel Beckett and Extensions of the Mind / Samuel Beckett et les extensions de l'esprit, 2017. (SCOPUS INDEXED)
    • ‘Endless Endings and Unending Frames in Beckett’s The Unnamable’ published in Connecting Texts: Literature, Theatre and Cinema, ed. Chinmoy Guha and Sinjini Bandyopadhyay, (Kolkata: Dasgupta and co., 2016).
    • ‘Psychoanalysing and Deciphering Language Games in Pinter’s The Birthday Party’ in Heritage: An Academic Journal, Kolkata: Bethune College (2015).
    • ‘Queer as Subaltern: Role of Zeitgeist from Christopher Marlowe to Derek Jarman’ in Journal of the Department of English, West Bengal: Vidyasagar University (2014). (UGC-CARE LISTED)
    • ‘The Representation of India within the Hollywood Narrative: The Politics of Exchange and Othering’ in the Jadavpur University Society for American Studies (JUSAS) July, 2014 Archive. Online [https://jusasonline.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/the-representation-of-india-within-the-hollywood-narrative-the-politics-of-exchange-and-othering/]

    Forthcoming Publications:

    • ‘The Posthuman in the Burial Ground: Unraveling the Headless and the Crematorial Kali’
      (Bloomsbury Press)
    • ‘Writing Disability and Disabled Writing: Gazing at Dattani’s Tara through a Glass Impaired’ (Worldview)

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