Mahitosh Mandal

Assistant Professor

MAJOR ACADEMIC DEGREES

2019  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD),  Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

2012  Master of Philosophy (MPhil),  Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

2010  Master of Arts (MA),  Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

2008  Bachelor of Arts (BA with English Honours),  Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

2005  Higher Secondary in Arts, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata, India

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

2024 Summer University program on "Holocaust Testimonies and Their Afterlives" organised by Central European University, Budapest, HUNGARY.

2019 Bergen-Belsen International Summer School on "Transnational Memory: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives on the Holocaust" held at Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen, Anne-Frank-Platz, Lower Saxony, GERMANY

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2024 ICSSR-Sponsored IKS Workshops on "Unearthing Mathematical Tools from Sanskrit Astronomical Texts" and "Concept Development and Empirical Inquiry with the Indian Knowledge Systems" hosted at Vivekananda Global University in Jaipur, India

2022 UGC-Sponsored Online Refresher Course in English, UGC-HRDC, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India

2018 UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course in English, UGC-HRDC, University of North Bengal, India

2017 UGC-Sponsored Orientation Programme, UGC-HRDC, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

2014 Certificate Course in French, School of Languages, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

2011 Audit Course in Film Appreciation, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

AWARDS  & GRANTS

2024 Open Society University Network (OSUN) grant awarded to participate in the Summer University program on "Holocaust Testimonies and their Afterlives" organised by Central European University, Budapest, HUNGARY.  

2024 Honored with the title of 'Best Paper Presenter' for my work on Natyasastra at the International Conference on Anubhuti: A Journey Through Indian Knowledge Systems, hosted at Vivekananda Global University in Jaipur, India

2022 Seal of Excellence awarded to me and the University of Wolverhampton, UK, by European Commission for Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship

2021 Global Engagement Project Fund, University College London, United Kingdom

2019 Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation Grant (Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten) awarded to Dr Mahitosh Mandal to participate in the Bergen-Belsen International Summer School on “Transnational Memory: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives
on the Holocaust,” Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Germany

2012 NET with Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India

2011 Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India

2009 Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, Government of West Bengal, India

LANGUAGES KNOWN

Bengali, English, Hindi, Sanskrit, French, German

BOOKS

1. Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture.  Orient BlackSwan, 2018. 

2. Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization. Co-edited volume. Routledge, 2023.

SELECT JOURNAL ARTICLES

1. “From the Social to the Clinical: Towards a Psychopathology of Everyday Casteism.” Contemporary Voice of Dalit, OnlineFirst, 2022, pp. 1-10. 

2. “Overcoming the Sokal Complex: Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and the Limits of Understanding.” Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, 2022, vol. 24, pp. 82-120. 

3. “Dalit Resistance during the Bengal Renaissance: Five Anti-Caste Thinkers from Colonial Bengal, India.” Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, vol. 3, no. 1, 2022, pp. 11-30. 

4. “‘Eyes a man could drown in’: Phallic Myth and Femininity in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, vol. 19.no. 3, 2017, pp. 274-298.

BOOK REVIEW

1. "Underexplored Aspects of Vidyasagar in a New Translation." The India Forum, 13 Nov 2023.