My research explores the intersections of psychoanalysis, trauma, caste, and cultural memory.
I am the author of Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture (Orient BlackSwan, 2018) and the co-editor of Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts (Routledge, 2026) and Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization (Routledge, 2023).
My research has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and has been presented at international conferences and workshops hosted by academic institutions in India, Bangladesh, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, and the United Kingdom.
My work has received international recognition, including the Seal of Excellence from the European Commission for the Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship. I have also been awarded research and mobility grants by the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation (Germany), the Open Society University Network (OSUN), and the University College London Global Engagement Fund.
My research contributes to interdisciplinary debates on literary form, cultural identity, memory, and the politics of marginality.
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
2025 UGC-Sponsored Online Short-Term Programme on "Digital Professors: Transforming Higher Education with ICT", UGC-MMTTC, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India
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
Monograph:
1. Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture. Orient BlackSwan, 2018.
Edited Volumes:
1. Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts. Co-edited volume. Routledge, 2026.
2. Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization. Co-edited volume. Routledge, 2023.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. "Caste Atrocities." In Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts, edited by Mahitosh Mandal and Sanjiv Kondekar, Routledge, 2026.
2. "Dalit." In Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts, edited by Mahitosh Mandal and Sanjiv Kondekar, Routledge, 2026.
3. "Dalit Music." In Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts, edited by Mahitosh Mandal and Sanjiv Kondekar, Routledge, 2026.
4. "Fundamentals of Dalit Studies: An Introduction" (co-authored). In Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts, edited by Mahitosh Mandal and Sanjiv Kondekar, Routledge, 2026.
5. "Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: A Critical Introduction" (co-authored). In Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization, edited by Mahitosh Mandal and Priyanka Das, Routledge, 2023.
RECENT 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.
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