Neelanjana Basu

Smt. Neelanjana Basu

M.A.,M.Phil.
Department English
Designation Assistant Professor (West Bengal Education Service)
Qualification M.A., M.Phil. (J.U.)
Specialization 19th Century British Literature, Thomas Hardy, Cultural Studies
Email neelanjanabasu09@gmail.com

Teaching Experience

  • Since 2014

Colleges served

  • Bethune College : 2014-till date

Research

  • Pursuing PhD on Thomas Hardy

Paper Presentation/ Resource Person

  • Presented paper on Reinventing the Christmas Ghost Story with Thomas Hardy at International Conference "Fireside Tales of Terror: The Gothic and Winter" organized by University of Warwick, U.K., December 2022
  • Lecture on How to Prepare for an Interview, Communicative English Workshop, organized by Career Counselling Cell, Bethune College, April 2022
  • Public Lecture on the Life and Works of Michael Madhusudan Dutta on the occasion of his birth anniversary, Kolkata, January 2019
  • Presented paper on Lives and Afterlives of a 'Victorian' Text: Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge at International Conference "Nineteenth Century Synergies" organized by Presidency University, Kolkata, February 2018
  • Presented paper on the Supernatural in Thomas Hardy's Short Stories at the 20th International Thomas Hardy Conference organized by the Thomas Hardy Society, Dorchester, U.K., August 2012

Publications

  • Trust but in Poesy to wing your flight': Bethune's Tryst with Poetry in John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune: Chhayapather Ek Bichitra Abhijatri. Bethune College & Sopan. 2022. ISBN: 978-93-94113-11-4.
  • Member, Editorial Board, John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune: Chhayapather Ek Bichitra Abhijatri. Bethune College & Sopan. 2022. ISBN: 978-93-94113-11-4.
  • Member, Editorial Board, Prohor Punthi: Otimari 2020. Bethune College. 2020. ISBN: 978-81-948279-0-0.
  • 'To Correct the Misrelation': Reading Hardy's Wessex Tales in Thomas Hardy's Short Stories: New Perspectives. Ed. Juliette B. Schaefer and Siobhan Craft Brownson. Routledge. 2017. ISBN: 97814-724-80033.
  • '... he had been else a mere artificial Adam': Reason and Freedom in Milton's Paradise Lost in the peer reviewed journal Heritage, a publication of Bethune College, 2015. ISSN 2349-9588.
  • Hardy in India: The Reception of His Work in a Multilingual Country in The Hardy Review, a publication of the Thomas Hardy Association, U.S.A., Vol. 16 No.1, 2014. ISSN: 1934-8908, E-ISSN: 1934-8916.
  • 'The ghost did not play his part': Interrogating the Supernatural in Hardy's Short Stories in Thomas Hardy Journal, Vol. XXVII, Autumn 2012. ISSN: 0268‐5418, ISBN: 0‐904398‐51‐X.