Rhea Mitra

Smt. Rhea Mitra

M.A., M.Phil.
Department English
Designation Assistant Professor (Stage 1)
Qualification M.A. (2002, University of Calcutta),
M.Phil (2005, University of Calcutta)
Specialization American Literature, Gender and Race Studies
Email rhea.mm@gmail.com

Teaching Experience

  • Since Aug  2014

Colleges served

  • P .R. Thakur Government College : Aug 2014 to Jan 2023

  • Bethune College, Kolkata : 2023 - till date
     


Research Interest

  • Poetry, Ethnicity Studies, Queer Literature, Post-Modernism, Post Colonialism

Teaching Responsibilities: UG And PG Courses

UG SYLLABI:

  1. History of english poetry (augustan satire, pre-romantic poetry), ted hughes' "crow's fall"
  2. History of english prose (caroline and neo-classical period)
  3. G. B. Shaw's Arms and the Man, Langston Hughes' "Harlem", Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloin'd Lletter"
  4. Summary writing and critical appreciation
  5. William Congreve's the way of the world, P.B.Shelley's poems, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness", Vijay Tendulkar's Silence ! The court is in session, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", M. K. Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth


PG SYLLABI:

  1. John Milton's Paradise Lost book Iv, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Sir George Etherege's The Man of Mode
  2. Eliot's "Tradition And The Individual Talent", Lord of The Flies, Pinter's The Homecoming
  3. Toni Morrison's Beloved, Henry James' "The Art of Fiction", Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
  4. Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters In Search of An Author , Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Resource Person

  • Special Invited Lecture on "Plautine Comedy, with special reference to The Pot of Gold" on 29/11/2019 at Sushil Kar College, Champahati
  • Resource Person at a Webinar conducted by Vidyanagar College, South 24 Parganas, on 02/09/2020, the topic of presentation being "Mary Wollstonecraft: A Counter -Revolutionary in the Guise of a Revolutionary"

Publications

  • "The Changing Position of the Implied Reader: A Brief Study of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Rajmohan's Wife and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide" [published in May 2017 in SANDHAN: A Multi-Disciplinary Peer Reviewed Research Journal on Society, Culture and Literature, ISSN: 2349 - 0136]