EFLU

Prof. Mousumi Guha Banerjee

Department

English Literature

School

Regional Campus, Shillong

Contact Details

: gmousumibanerjee@efluniversity.ac.in

Academic Details

Academic qualifications: S.No.

Degree/Diploma

University

1

Ph.D.

Jadavpur University

2

Postdoctoral Research

Amherst College, Massachusetts
Brief bio note: Prof. Banerjee is currently Director, The English and Foreign Languages University, Regional Campus, Shillong. She is also Professor and Head at the Department of English Literature at the Campus. Before her present assignment, she was the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) (Administration) and the OSD (Admissions and Examinations) at the University’s headquarters in Hyderabad, and taught in the Department of English Literature there. Besides numerous articles that have been published in national and international academic journals and anthologies, her books include Writings across Genres: Indian Literature, Language and Culture (2015), Daring to Write: The Two Creative Daughters of Victorian England (2015), and Emily Dickinson: Writing as a Woman (2017). She has been awarded with the Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2019-2020, by the United States-India Education Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright Commission of India, New Delhi, to pursue her postdoctoral research at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. She was also awarded Research Associateship of the UGC-Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla. She has had the honour of receiving a letter from the President of the United States, The White House, Washington, in appreciation of representing the country as a member of the Department of State Exchange Program.
Thrust areas of interest and research: ⚽ Literary Theories

⚽ Postmodern Criticisms

⚽ Western Philosophy

⚽ Text, Language, and Hermeneutics

⚽ Poetic Language

⚽ Women’s Writing and Writings about Women,

⚽ Communication Studies

⚽ Film Discourse

⚽ Twentieth-century Art

⚽ Cross-cultural Interfaces
Research articles published in peer reviewed journals with ISSN no.: ⚽ “We do not serve the dead – the past / is past!”: A Confrontation with Death’s Finality in the Poetic Philosophy of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’, published in the International Journal of English: Literature, Language and Skills, an online peer-reviewed journal, Volume 5, Issue 4, January 2017, ISSN 2278-0742. Source: http://www.ijells.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/January-2017.pdf, pp. 35-39

⚽ ‘“I feel your honoured excellence, and see / Myself unworthy of the happier call”: Christina Rossetti and the Thematics of Love and Renunciation’, published in Volume 6 Issue 2 (January – June 2017) of the International Journal of Research, a peer-reviewed biannual indexed journal with SJIF (2017) 5.002, ISSN 2231-6124. Source: Mousumi-Guha-Banerjee.pdf (internationaljournalofresearch.co.in), pp. 74-80

⚽ ‘Christina Rossetti’s Feminist Stance of Creativity’, published in Issue No. 16/October-2017 of The International Journal of Culture, Literature and Criticism, a Peer-reviewed Journal, ISSN 0976-1608, pp. 69-78

⚽ ‘Violence as a Social and Gendered Debate: Formulation of a Feminist Praxis’, published in Volume 6, Issue 2 (April-June 2018) of the Research Journal of English Language and Literature, an International Peer-reviewed Research Journal; ISSN 2395-2636 (P), 2321-3108 (O). Source: http://www.rjelal.com/6.2.18/45-49%20Dr.%20MOUSUMI%20GUHA%20BANERJEE.pdf, pp. 45-49

⚽ ‘Nature as a “never-failing principle of joy” and “purest passion”: Christina Rossetti’s Romantic Theorization of Nature as an Emblem of Divine Wisdom and Knowledge’, published in Volume 6, Issue 5, May 2018, of the International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, a peer-reviewed and an indexed journal, ISSN 2321-7065. Source: https://ijellh.com/OJS/index.php/OJS/article/view/3761/3403, pp. 276-288

⚽ ‘“And God / Is Revelation’s limit’: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic ‘Cup of Anguish’ Concerning the Religious’, published in the International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR), Vol. 5, Issue 3, July-September 2018, E-ISSN 2348-1269, Print ISSN 2349-5138. Source: ijrar_issue_1758.pdf, pp. 786-792

⚽ ‘“Had I the Art to stun myself / With Bolts of Melody”: Emily Dickinson’s “circumference of Expression” as her “Chiefest Apprehension” of a Hindered Creativity’, published in the Global Journal of Human Social Sciences: A (Arts and Humanities: Psychology, Public Administration, Library Sciences, Sports, Arts, Media, Music), a double blind Peer-reviewed International Research Journal, Vol. 18, Issue 5 (Version 1.0), Framingham, Massachusetts, USA, October 31, 2018, ISSN Online 2249-460X, ISSN Print 0975-587X. Source: Global Journal of Human Social Science (globaljournals.org), pp. 18-23

⚽ ‘“The proclamation of the Suns”: Nature as a Poetic Manoeuvrance in Emily Dickinson’s Work’, published in the International Journal of English Language, Literature in Humanities, an indexed and a peer-reviewed (refereed) journal, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2019, ISSN 2321-7065, pp. 1756-1778

⚽ ‘“He did not love me living; but once dead / He pitied me”: Death as the “Ultimate Gesture” in Christina Rossetti’s “Aesthetic of Renunciation”’, published in the International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR), Vol. 6, Issue 1, January – March 2019, E-ISSN 2348-1269, Print ISSN 2349-5138. Source: ijrar_issue_20543354.pdf, pp. 357-363

⚽ ‘Philosophy and Literature: A Discussion on the Two Contiguous Facets of the Concept of “Truth” and Knowledge’, published in Summerhill: IIAS Review, IIAS, Shimla, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (Winter 2019), ISSN 0972-1452, 67-71; URL: View of Philosophy and Literature

⚽ ‘“Mind Over Matter”: Age as a Transcendental Performative in Satyajit Ray’s “Agantuk”’ published in Literary Endeavour: An International Refereed / Peer-Reviewed Journal of English Language, Literature and Criticism, Vol. XI, No. 4, October 2020, ISSN 0976-299X. Source: 2020-10 00 Contents.pdf (literaryendeavour.org), pp. 48-52

⚽ ‘“… this moment knew – / Love Marine and Love Terrene – / Love celestial too –’: The Amorous “Female Subject” and the Curious Love Intrigue in Emily Dickinson’s Verse’, published in Volume 3, Issue 1, of the South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature, January-February 2021, ISSN (Print) 2664-8067, ISSN (Online) 2706-5782. Source: SARJALL_31_7-12.pdf (sarpublication.com), pp. 07-12

⚽ ‘The Legacy of Saajan Fernandes’s The Lunchbox: The Art of a Master-Thespian of Our Times’, published in Artists and Afterlives, the TMYS Review: A Digital Quarterly for Humanities, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Indore, March 2021, ISBN 978-81-948886-5-9

⚽ ‘The Philosophy of Psychologism: The Universal “Creed” of Buddhism’, published in the International Journal of Research in Education, Humanities and Commerce, Vol. 2, Issue 03, May-June 2021, ISSN 2583-0333. Source: http://www.ijrehc.com/doc/ijrehc02_27.pdf, pp. 120-127

⚽ ‘Preliterate Vaiphei Rites, Rituals and Superstitions: Communication of Cultural Nuances through Oral Narratives’ (with Nunchawii Hatlei), published in the Mizoram University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences: A Refereed Bi-annual Journal, Vol. VII, Issue 1 (June 2021), ISSN(P) 2395-7352, eISSN 2581-6780, pp. 81-87; URL: Microsoft Word - 09_Nunchawii (mzuhssjournal.in)

⚽ ‘The Problematics of Language in a Text: An Authorial Consternation of the Woman Writer and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh’, published in the International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts: An Open-Access, Peer-reviewed, Refereed Journal, Vol. 10, Issue 2, February 2022, ISSN 2320-2882, pp. a955-a962; URL: http://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2202122

⚽ ‘“I do not seek, I find”: The Postmodern Picasso and his Cubist Imagination’, published in the International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, an International Peer-Reviewed and Refereed Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 1, March 2022, P-ISSN 2349-5138, E-ISSN 2348-1269, pp. 870-879; URL: http://ijrar.org/viewfull.php?&p_id=IJRAR22A2179

⚽ ‘Emily Dickinson’s ‘Nature’: A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a Poststructuralist Hermeneutic’, published as a chapter in an anthology, entitled Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys (ed.) Sk Sagir Ali, London and New York: Routledge, 2022, ISBN: 978-0-367-47193-4, DOI: 10.4324/9781003043942, pp. 25-35

⚽ ‘Women and Neoliberal Capitalism: Envisioning Empowerment’, in an anthology, entitled Seduction of Feminism: The Masquerades of Global Capitalism (eds.) Dr. Chinnadevi Singadi and Dr. N. Rama Devi Murru, New Delhi: Authorspress, 2022, pp. 39-50

⚽ ‘On Time and History: A Philosophico-Literary Hermeneutic’, published in an anthology, entitled Time, History and Cultural Spaces: Narrative Explorations (ed.) Prof. Jayita Sengupta, London and New York: Routledge, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-032-28748-5 (hbk), ISBN: 978-1-032-31827-1 (pbk), ISBN: 978-1-003-31153-9 (ebk), pp. 34-43
Books authored, edited, chapters in books with ISBN no.: ⚽ Emily Dickinson: Writing as a Woman, Delta Book World: New Delhi, 2017, ISBN 978-93-85719-02-8 (Single authorship)

⚽ “… this is living art, / Which thus presents and thus records / true life”: A Diachronic Reading of Women’s Writing as an Expression of Rage, Creativity and Autonomy’, published in a book entitled Marginality Literature: The Voices from the Margin, New Delhi: Pearl Books, 2017, ISBN 978-93-83026-79-1

⚽ ‘Enacting the Post-Colonial: Cinematic Representations of the New Woman in Aparna Sen’s Paromitar Akdin and 15 Park Avenue’, published in an anthology entitled Postcoloniality in Transition: Essays on Cosmopolitanism, Transnationalism, and Globalization (ed.) N. Rama Devi Murru, Xpress Publishing (An Imprint of Notion Press), Chennai, 2020, ISBN 978-1-64783-490-6, pp. 268-276
Research projects (ongoing and completed): ⚽ “Gitanjali: An Exalted Manifestation of Buddhist Aesthetics”, Associateship of the UGC-Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (Availed Associateship during the years 2018 and 2019)

⚽ ‘A thought went up my mind today –’: An Inquiry into a Post-Kantian Transcendental Philosophy in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and Visting Scholarship (2019-2020), USIEF, the Fulbright Commission of India, and Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Administrative responsibilities: Current:

⚽ Director, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

Former:

⚽ Officer on Special Duty (OSD) (Administration), EFL University, Hyderabad

⚽ Officer on Special Duty (OSD) (Admissions and Examinations), EFL University, Hyderabad

⚽ Acted as an Observer, on three occasions, for the All-India Entrance Test 2019, conducted by the University on February 24, 2018, March 09 and March 10, 2019, and March 30 and 31, 2019

⚽ The In-Charge, Music Club, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Head, Department of English Literature, EFLU, Shillong Regional Campus, and the Ex-officio Chairperson and Convener of the Board of Studies (BoS) of the Department, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ One of the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor’s Nominee Faculty Members in the said BoS, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Moderation Committee, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Official Language Implementation Committee, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Coordinator for Ph.D. (English Literature), EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Admission Committee for Ph.D. (English Literature), EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Interview Committee for Admission to Ph.D. (English Literature, Linguistics and English Language Education), EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Admission Committee for M.A. (English Literature), EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Internet/Website Committee, a Committee Constituted to Look After and Monitor an ICSSR Minor Project, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, the EFLU Shillong Journal Editorial Board

⚽ Member, the Local Selection Committee for the Appointment of Guest Lecturers, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Women’s Cell, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, the EFLU Shillong Poetry Club, EFL University, Regional Campus, Shillong
Professional affiliations (membership, editorial board, etc.,): ⚽ Member, The Library of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts

⚽ Member, Jones Library, Amherst, Massachusetts

⚽ Member, 2019-2020, Robert Frost Library (including the Archives and Special Collections), Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

⚽ Member, Philosophy Club, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

⚽ Visiting Scholar, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts (2019-2020)

⚽ Member, Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

⚽ A Visitor to the Archives and Special Collections, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts

⚽ Life Member, National Library, Kolkata, West Bengal

⚽ Member, American Library, Kolkata, West Bengal

⚽ Member, Book Club, IIAS, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh

⚽ Life Member, Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (http://www.iaclals.com/members-in-india.html)

⚽ Member, International Society for Educational Leadership, USA, Australia, and India

⚽ Member, Board of Editors of the Mirrorview Journal: An International Peer-reviewed Refereed Journal of Fresh Poetry, Fiction and Literary Criticism (https://mirrorviewjournal.wordpress.com/board-of-editors/)

⚽ Ph.D. Examiner, Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad

⚽ Ph.D. Examiner, PG and research Department of English, Thiruvalluvar University, Tamil Nadu

⚽ Examiner, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Lucknow and Shillong

⚽ Member, Research Advisory Committee, Department of English Language Education, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Shillong Regional Campus, Shillong

⚽ Member, Research Advisory Committee, Department of English, Tripura University, Tripura

⚽ Member, Doctoral Research Committee, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya
Awards and recognitions: ⚽ The Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2019-2020, the United States-India Educational Foundation (USIEF), the Fulbright Commission, New Delhi, to pursue postdoctoral research at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

⚽ Letter from the President of the United States, The White House, Washington, in appreciation of representing the country as a member of the Department of State Exchange Program

⚽ Received invitation from the Robert Frost library, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, to facilitate the Fulbright work on the creative writing of Emily Dickinson

⚽ Received invitation from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, to support the Fulbright Fellowship, for the academic session 2019-2020, to work on Emily Dickinson’s poetics and offer lectures for the Smith community

⚽ Received invitation from the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, as a Visiting Scholar, for the period August 09 – June 08, 2020

⚽ Received invitation from Professor Karen Sánchez-Eppler, L. Stanton Williams 1941 Professor of American Studies and English, and the Chair of American Studies, Department of English, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, as a visiting Fulbright scholar, for the academic year 2019-2020, hosted by the Department of English, the Frost Library, and the Emily Dickinson Museum

⚽ Associateship of the U.G.C. Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (IUC), the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla

⚽ The Sushil Kumar Dey Memorial Prize, from the English Language Lovers’ Association, West Bengal, for securing the First Position in the M.A. Examination 2000, among the female candidates, of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata