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Name : Dr. Abhishek Chakravorty

Designation : Assistant Professor
Qualification : M.A. PhD
Subject : English
Department Name : Humanities
D.O.B : 28th January, 1992
Contact No. : 7003653169
Email ID : zerocode0075@gmail.com
Address : Khudiram Nagar, Paschim Medinipur - 721101
 

Educational qualification

Degree Name Board / University Subject/Field of Specialization Year of passing/awarded
Secondary Ramakrishna Mission Vidyabhawan ENG, BNG, PHY SC., LIFE SC., HIST, GEO, MTM, ADDITIONAL
89.125
2007
Higher Secondary Ramakrishna Mission Vidyabhawan ENG, BNG, PHY, CHEM, BIO, MTM
80
2009
B.A. in English Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur ENGLISH
60.62
2012
M.A. in English University of Calcutta ENGLISH
60.37
2014
Ph.D Midnapore City College(Vidyasagar University) ENGLISH
0
2026
B.ED. West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration (WBUTTEPA) ENGLISH
89
2021

CAREER PROFILE / TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • UG and PG level teaching experience in English literature in Department of English at Midnapore City College (February 13,2019 to Present)
  • UG and PG level teaching experience in English communication in Department of BBA in Hospital Management and Masters of Hospital Administration at Midnapore City College (February 13 to Present)
  • PG level teaching experience in English Literature in CCAE at Department of English, Vidyasagar University (2022 to Present)
  • Completed online course in INTRODUCTION TO ARCHAEOLOGY in 2023
  • Completed online course in POSTHUMANISM AND ITS NETWORK by DR. ASIJIT DATTA organised by VALLATH EDUCATION in 2024
  • Completed UGC Sponsored Faculty Development Programme in ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION IN INDIAN CONTEXT organised by UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE SANT GADGE BABA AMRAVATI UNIVERSITY in 2024
  • Completed an Interview Session with Karbong Lepcha, Curator of Lepcha Tribal Museum at Kalimpong in March, 2024
  • Completed an Email Interview Session with Professor Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English, University of Hyderabad & UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies in November-December, 2024
  • Completed an Interview Session with Professor Cagdas Dedeoglu, Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities, Yorkville University, Canada in December, 2024
  • Completed NPTEL (SWAYAM) Faculty Development Programme on POSTHUMANISM AN INTRODUCTION with Silver Rank by Professor Pramod K. Nayar in 2024
  • Acted as a Judge in Mobile Photography in District Level Yuva Utsav 2024
  • Completed UGC Sponsored Faculty Development Programme in CRITICAL HUMANITIES AND THE FUTURE WE IMAGINE ORGANIZED BY UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE & UNIVERSITY OF KERALA in 2025
  • Completed Faculty Development Programme in EMPOWERING EDUCATORS: A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE organized by Dept. of Computer Science in association with O/o UG Secretary and Computer Centre, Vidyasagar University in 2025
  • Completed Faculty Induction Programme in NEP-2020 AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA organized by UGC-MMTTC, Assam University, Silchar
  • Completed Short Term Training Programme on Environment and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Prospects organized by UGC-MMTTC, Iswar Saran P.G. College
  • Completed Short Term Course on Gender, Culture and Society organized by UGC-MMTTC, Kannur University in 2026
  • Completed Refresher Course in Language, Heritage and Culture organized by UGC-MMTTC, North-Eastern Hill University in 2026
  • Completed NPTEL-AICTE Faculty Development Programme in Film Appreciation (Silver Rank) in 2026

SPECIALIZATION / RESEARCH AREA

Field of Specialization Research Area/ Areas of Interest
Indian writing in English Tribal Studies & Indigenous Studies
Classical Literature Myth & Folklore
Comparative Studies Relation between Literature & Science
Popular Literature Detective Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Literary Theory Posthumanism and Ecocriticism
Film Studies European, American, Japanese and Indian

COURSE/ SUBJECT TAUGHT

  • Environmentalism and Posthumanism
  • Indigenous Studies and Folk Literature
  • Popular Literature
  • Shakespearean Studies
  • Modern and Postmodern Literature
  • Postcolonial Literature
  • Detective Fiction
  • Science Fiction
  • High Fantasy
  • Classical Literature
  • Gothic Fiction

CONFERENCE/ SYMPOSIUM /JOURNAL PAPER / BOOKS PUBLISHED Total : 15

International Publication

Sl no.Title Author Journal Name ISBN/ISSN Page No/Internet DOI Impact Factor Year
1 Planetary Cosmopolitanism and South Asian Cinemas: Tribal Representation of Non-humans in Dawa Lepcha’s Dhokbu: The Keeper (2017) & Jwngdao Bodosa’s Hagramayao Jinahari (1995) Chakravorty, A, Singha Mahapatra, Antara & Raj, A Taylor and Francis (Routledge) 1474-6697 277-288
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2026
2 Voices from the Marsh: An Ecocritical Mapping of the Representations of Wetlands in the Folk Narratives of Select North-East Indian Tribes (Book Chapter)  Chakravorty, A, Singha Mahapatra, Antara & Raj, A Routledge To be assigned -
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2026
3 "Revisiting Environmental Sustainability and Rural Resilience in Indigenous Worldview: An Ethnoecological Study in Santal Society" in book Rural Futures Innovation, Resilience, and Sustainable Development Raj, A, Raj, A & Chakravorty, A Routledge 978-9815129939 459-490
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2026
4 Review of "Around the Heart : Khasi Legends" by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Chakraborty, A & Raj, A MZU Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies 2348-1188 203-208
-
2023
5 Laso Mung and Lepchas Fight for Survival A Political Interpretation of Lepcha Movement in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal (Book Chapter) Chakraborty, A & Raj, A Bangla Samaj, Sanskriti, Sahityacharcha Bahumatrik Chetanay 978-93-87003-46-0 304-308
-
2023
6 Caeser and Road to an Empire: A Hobbesian Reckoning of Rome (60 BC- 44 BC) Chakravorty, A. International Journal of English Literature and Social Science 2456-7620 167-170
2021
7 Existentialism, Man and Eternal Recurrence: A Biblical Analysis of Netflixs Dark Chakravorty, A. International Journal of Recent Scientific Research 0976-3031 42316-42319
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2021
8 Wild men of Central Asia: A Cryptozoological analysis of Jonathan Swifts Yahoo Chakravorty, A. Research Journal of English 2456-2696 1-5
-
2021
9 The Count and The Vetal: A Search for Origin Chakravorty, A. International Journal of English and Studies 25818333 19-26
-
2020
10 Misinformation, Fake News, and Ideological State Apparatus: A Study of Communication in the light of Covid-19 Pandemic Chakravorty, A. & Sengupta, S. Journal of English Language and Literature 2349-9753 45-51
-
2020
11 The Unconscious Within: A Psychological Study of Shinji Mikamis The Evil Within Chakravorty, A. Research Journal of ENglish Language and Literature 2395-2636 259-265
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2020
12 Frankensteins Monster: Humanity Unbound and Alive Chakravorty, A. Anudhyan An International Journal of Social Sciences 2455-6319 59-67
-
2019

National Publication

Sl no. Title Author Journal Name ISBN/ISSN Page No/Internet DOI Impact Factor Year
1 Existence of Weretigers among the Garos and the Khasis of Meghalaya: A Posthuman Perspective Chakravorty, A & Raj, A UGC-CARE Enlisted Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University 0973-3671 1-14 - 2024

Other Publication

Sl no. Title Author Journal Name ISBN/ISSN Page No/Internet DOI Impact Factor Year
1 Edited Book entitled "Reimagining the Wizarding World: Critical, Cultural, and Posthuman Readings of Harry Potter" Editor- Chakravorty, A Edited Book (Bangabandhu Publishing House) 978-81-69483-14-8 - - 2026
2 Edited Book entitled "Decolonizing Nature: Literary Contexts" Editors- Bera, R. & Raj, A. & Chakravorty, A. Edited Book (Bangabandhu Publishing House) 978-81-969007-4-8 - - 2024

INVITED LECTURES Total : 1

Sl no Title Organized by Venue Year
1 Mapping the Politics of Environmental Justice in the Indo-Aryan Philosophies of Ancient India: An Eco-Critical Perspective Department of Humanities and Science Maryland Institute of Technology and Management, Jharkhand 2024

ASSOCIATION WITH PROFESSIONAL BODIES Total : 8

Sl no Type of Professional Activity Period
1 Guest Faculty in CCAE, Department of English, Vidyasagar University 2022 - Continuing
2 Exam Cell Member of Midnapore City College 2019 - Continuing
3 Sports Cell Member of Midnapore City College 2020 - Continuing
4 Member of Cultural Committee, Midnapore City College 2019 - Continuing
5 Coordinator of Movie Mavericks (Movie Club of Midnapore City College) 2024 - Continuing
6 Member of Defenders of Wildlife, USA 2025 - Continuing
7 Member of Centre for Folklore Studies and Research 2025- Continuing
8 Member of Global Plant Humanities Network 2025- Continuing

CONFERENCE / SEMINAR / WORKSHOP - ATTENDED / ORGANISED / OTHERS Total : 32

Sl no Title Year Role Held at and Organiser Funding agency
1 International Webinar on "Recent Trends in Literature: New Horizons"
2020
Organizing Secretary Department of Humanities (English & Bengali), Midnapore City College -
2 National Webinar on "Digitization and Library: Changing Nature of Reading Habit and Learning Environment In Corona Pandemic Scenario"
2020
Organizing Secretary Midnapore City College Library -
3 National Webinar on "Narrative Space in Literature: Theoretical Perspective
2021
Organizing Secretary Department of Humanities (English), Midnapore City College -
4 National Webinar on "Online Education & Rural Studies: Implications & Its Limitations"
2021
Host Department of Education, Midnapore City College -
5 International Webinar on "Futuristic Trends in Mathematics"
2021
Host Department of Pure Sciences (Mathematics), Midnapore City College -
6 International Webinar on "Current Trends in NeuroImmune Pharmacology"
2021
Host Department of Biological & Para-medical Sciences, Midnapore City College -
7 International Webinar on "Paradigms of Learning: Language and Literature"
2020
Attended Department of English, Indas Mahavidyalaya -
8 National Webinar on "Importance of Philosophy in Present Day"
2020
Attended Department of Philosophy & Department of Education, Santal Bidraha Sardha Satabarshiki Mahavidyalaya -
9 Paper entitled "The Myth of Weretigers among the Khasis and the Garos and its Interpretations" Two Day International Seminar on "Basic Values Embodied in Indian Culture and their Relevance to the Contemporary Society"
2023
Paper Presenter Department of Sanskrit and Philosophy, Debra Thana Sahid Kshudiram Smriti Mahavidyalaya ICPR
10 Paper entitled "Laso Mung and Lepchas' Fight for Survival: A Political Interpretation of Lepcha Movement in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal" in One Day International Seminar on "Bangla Samaj, Sanskriti, Sahityacharcha Bahumatrik Chetanay"
2023
Paper Presenter Department of Humanities (Bengali), Midnapore City College -
11 Paper entitled "Understanding the Land: An Environmental Study of the Garo Legend of Dikki and Giting" in ICSSR Approved International Conference on "Endangered Folk Literature and Culture of the Jetor and other Indian Indigenous Communities"
2024
Paper Presenter Department of English, Vidyasagar University ICSSR
12 Paper entitled "Representations of Land Ethics in the Indigenous Beliefs of the Garo Community of North-East India: A Study" in International Conference on 'Cross Religious Exchanges in Eastern Indian Cultural and Literary Traditions'
2024
Paper Presenter School of Language & Literature, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology -
13 Paper entitled "Planetary Cosmopolitanism and South Asian Cinemas: Tribal Representation of Non-humans in Dawa Lepcha’s Dhokbu: The Keeper (2017) & Jwngdao Bodosa’s Hagramayao Jinahari (1995)" in International Conference entitled "Disruptive Frames"
2024
Paper Presenter Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous) -
14 One Day National Seminar on "Decolonizing Nature: Literary Contexts"
2024
Organizing Secretary Department of Humanities (English), Midnapore City College -
15 Paper entitled "Representation of Indianness in the Trans Communities of India: A Sociopolitical Reading of the Select Poems of Kalki Subramaniam, Vidya Rajput and Mrittika Chatterjee" in International Conference on "Indian Literatures and Cultures"
2024
Paper Presenter Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University -
16 Paper entitled "Voices from the Marsh: An Ecocritical Mapping of the Representations of Wetlands in the Folk Narratives of Select North-East Indian Tribes" in International Conference on "Precarious Wetlands in Anthropocene: Representations in Literature
2024
Paper Presenter School of Liberal Arts and Humanities & CoE-Literature Studies, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India -
17 Paper entitled "Sense of Affiliation and Double Consciousness: Question of Identity in Bodo and Lepcha Folk Performances" in National Conference on "Off the Stage"
2024
Paper Presenter Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur -
18 Paper entitled "Rewilding the Apocalypse: Fungal Networks, Posthuman Landscapes and the Decay of Human Civilization in Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us (2013) & The Last of Us Part II (2020)" in National Seminar on "Dystopian Universes"
2025
Paper Presenter Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math Kalpabiswa Publications, Joydhak Publishers & the Antonym Collections
19 International Seminar on “Politics of Narratives: Contextualizing Indigeneity and Cultural Anxiety in Literature”
2025
Joint Convener Department of Humanities (English), Midnapore City College -
20 Paper entitled “Exploring ‘Hydrocommons’ through Indigenous Lenses: Posthuman Awareness and ‘Bodies of Water’ in the Selected Folk Tales of the Garos and the Khasis" in Three-Day International Seminar on “Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav"
2025
Paper Presenter Durgapur Women’s College ICSSR & Peter Lang
21 Paper entitled "Ecological Enchantments: The Representation of Witches in Ratan Thiyam’s Macbeth and the Intersection of Environment, Myth, and Power" in Two Days International Conference on "Indian Drama"
2025
Paper Presenter Ateswartala Sanskritik Manch, Radhakantapur, Raidighi, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal in collaboration with Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur and Jana Sanskriti, Centre for the Theatre of the Oppressed Peter Lang
22 Paper entitled "Wandering Earth, Posthuman Futures: Exploring Postcolonial Hyperspaces in the Folk Narratives of Select North-East Indian Indigenous Communities" in National Conference on "Climate Justice"
2025
Paper Presenter The Department of English, Faculty of Science and Humanities, AMET University
23 Paper entitled "The Animal Question in Planet of the Apes (2001): A Posthumanist Exploration of Species, Hierarchy, and Otherness" in Two Day International Conference on "Thinking Other-Wise"
2025
Paper Presenter Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University -
24 Paper entitled "Extinction, Identity and Indigeneity: Remapping the Folk Tales of the Garos and the Khasis of North-East India in the Chthulucene" in 2nd International Young Folklorists Conference, 2025
2025
Paper Presenter Centre for Folklore Studies and Research and University of Hyderabad -
25 Paper entitled "Mycelial Networks and Post-Human Futures: Fungal Agency, New Species, and the Reconstruction of Human Existence in HBO's The Last of Us (2023)" in 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities
2025
Paper Presenter Global Plant Humanities Network University of Notre Dame, Australia, Medhavi College, Nepal & Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya, India
26 Paper entitled "Playable Post-truth: Immigration, and Narrative Control in Headliner: NoviNews" in Two-Day International Conference on Narrative Warfare and the Crisis of Meaning: Exploring Truth, Myth and Ethics in a Fragmented World
2025
Paper Presenter Jadavpur University Comparative Literature Research Scholar's Forum -
27 Paper entitled "Artificial Consciousness and the Struggle for Freedom: Analyzing AI Rights and the Anti-Slavery Narrative In Detroit: Become Human in 6th International e-Conference
2025
Paper Presenter New Literaria, School of Language and Literature and Indian Knowledge System (IKS) Cell, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Jammu and Kashmir, India and Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy -
28 Paper entitled "Humans are Killable Players: Biopolitics, Game Systems, and Class Warfare in Squid Game (2021) in International Conference on Reconfiguring Media: Society, Culture & Politics in 21st Century
2025
Paper Presenter Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Sidho Kanho Birsha University, Purulia -
29 Paper entitled "Turtle Worlds and Sacred Waters: Indigenous Cosmologies as Proto-Climate Wisdom in Santali and Anishinaabe Traditions" in ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on Tradition, Transmission and Transformation: Orality and Indigenous Knowledge Sys
2026
Paper Presenter Department of English, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University ICSSR
30 Paper entitled "Thinking Forests and Feeling Roots: Plant Sentience in the Folk Cosmologies of North-East Indian Tribes" in 3rd International Young Folklorist Conference 2026
2026
Paper Presenter CFSR & University of Hyderabad -
31 Paper entitled "Mythological Taboos as Indigenous Conservation Ethics: Protecting the Hoolock Gibbon through Mishmi Oral Traditions in National Seminar on Biodiversity Conservation for Environmental Sustainability in North-East India
2026
Paper Presented Department of Botany and Sociology, Namrup College ICSSR
32 Paper entitled "Painting the Sacred Earth" Environmental Consciousness in Tibetan Thangka Art through the Lens of Buddhist Ecology" in International Seminar on Revisiting Indigenous Knowledge Systems
2026
Paper Presenter Iswar Saran Degree College & RC-33, Indian Sociological Society ICSSR

AWARDS Total : 1

Sl no Award name Awarded by Year
1 SET West Bengal College Service Commission
2023

Dr. Abhishek Chakravorty