Swarupa Bandyopadhyay

Associate Professor

M.A. Bengali ( Jadavpur University 1993)

M.Phil Bengali ( Jadavpur University 1997)

Ph.d.Bengali ( Jadavpur University 2005)

I started  teaching as a full time Lecturer in the Bankim Sardar College, 24 Parganas (South), in the year 1997 and gradually promoted to the post of "Reader" in the year 2006.

After completion of 13 ( Thirteen) years of service in that college I faced a massive Road Traffic accident in the year 2010. In that particular accident I lost my 13 years old elder son and I became a wheel chair user because of Spinal Chord Injury.

Later I joined in the Asutosh College, Kolkata as a full time faculty member in the year 2014.

I joined in the Presidency University in the year 2015.

I was awarded M.Phil degree in the year 1997 by the Jadavpur University. From that particular year I was working as full time Lecturer but I continued my research work. I was awarded the Ph.d degree in the year 2005 by the Jadavpur University, Kolkata. The topic of my Ph.d thesis was Hindu-Muslim in Bankim literature in the perspective of 19th Century Bengal.

I have also special interest in essays, short stories, novels of modern Bengali literature.

I have worked in the field of women studies, literary works of women writers and literature about marginal people.

I generally teach history of Bengali literature, medieval Bengali literature , literature of 19th Century Bengal and modern Bengali Literature also for UG and PG levels.

For PG level I teach medieval Bengali literature, modern Bengali novels and short stories and literary theory.

 I am interested in supervising postgraduate students in Modern Bengali Literature,  in the field of enligtenment of 19th Century,  history of Bengali literature etc.

Lifetime Member: Bangiya-Sahitya-Parishad

Lifetime Member: Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture

 Essays, articles, and chapters  (selected)  :

“Anandomoth” – Ouponibeshokatar potobhumite ek srijonshil sottar atmosonkot / Ouponibeshik o Uttor Oponibeshik Bangla Sahitya /Academic Staff  College, Jadavpur University /2001

Bankim parobortikaler Bangla probondho sahityer goti prokriti / Probondho Sanchayan / Ratnabali / 2006

Hridoyer swaakhyar - Ashapurna Devi r choto golpo / Ebong ei somoy - shit sonkhya - 1415/ Uthhok Prokashoni /2009

Prantobasir kotha : Mahasweta Devi r duti chotogolpo / Bhorai / Tourisam theory and practice society/ 2009

“Manobik mita” – Sotoborsher smorone Bishnu De / Yubashakti : sarod sankhya  1416 / 2009