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MIDNAPORE CITY COLLEGE
Employee Information System
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Name : Dr. Rajkumar Bera
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Designation : Assistant Professor & HOD |
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Qualification : M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D |
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Subject : ENGLISH |
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Department Name : Humanities |
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D.O.B : 6th May, 1988 |
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Contact No. : 9775578201 |
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Email ID : rajkumarbera.bera@gmail.com |
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Address : Reripur, Narayangarh, Paschim Medinipur - 721424 |
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Educational qualification
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| Degree Name |
Board / University |
Subject/Field of Specialization |
Year of passing/awarded |
| Ph.D |
Ravenshaw University |
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2022 |
| M.Phil |
Ravenshaw University |
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2016 |
| B.ED |
Maharshi Dayananda University |
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2012 |
| M.A |
Guru Ghasidas Central University |
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2010 |
| B.A. |
Vidyasagar University |
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2008 |
| H.S |
WBBHSE |
Bengali, English, Geography, Agronomy, Biology |
81.1 |
2005 |
| M.P |
WBBSE |
Bengali, English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Life Science, Physical Science |
64.87 |
2003 |
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CAREER PROFILE / TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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- Midnapore City College - From 13th January,2020 to Present
- Ravenshaw University - From 5th August ,2017 to 9th December, 2019
- K.D. College of Commerce and General Studies - From 1st August, 2015 to 31st August,2017
- Midnapore College - From 1st July,2011 to 28th February, 2013
- Faculty Development Programme- From 26/08/2024 to 31/08/2024 Organised by MMTTC, UGC Sponsored
- Faculty Development Course - From 28/01/2025 to 03/02/2025, Organised by MMTTC, UGC Sponsored
- Faculty Induction Programme- From 21/07/2025 to 20/08/2025. Organised by MMTTC, UGC Sponsored
- Short Term Training Programme- From 7th August to 13th August, Organised by MMTTC, UGC Sponsored, Iswar Saran P.G. College
- Refresher Course- From 17th August to 31st August, Organised by MMTTC, UGC Sponsored, North-Eastern Hill University
- Short Term Course- From 28.07.2026 July to 03.08.2026 August, Organised by MMTTC, UGC Sponsored, Kannur University
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SPECIALIZATION / RESEARCH AREA
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| Field of Specialization |
Research Area/ Areas of Interest |
| Amitav Ghosh and Michel Foucault |
Indian Writing in English, Literary Theory, Postmodern Studies, Diaspora, New Literatures |
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COURSE/ SUBJECT TAUGHT
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- 1. Middle English Drama 2. Romantic and Victorian Literature and Literary Criticism in English 3. Modern English novels and poems 4. Indian English poems and novels 5. Dalit Literature 6. American Literature 7. New Literatures in English 8. Contemporary
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CONFERENCE/ SYMPOSIUM /JOURNAL PAPER / BOOKS PUBLISHED Total : 26
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International Publication |
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Author |
Journal Name |
ISBN/ISSN |
Page No/Internet DOI |
Impact Factor |
Year |
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| 1 |
The Gift of Legacy from a Father: A Transnational Study of
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s The Last Gift |
Bera, Rajkumar and Subhadip Das |
SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH |
ISSN: 2582-3574 |
162-175 |
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2026 |
| 2 |
The Fragile, Vibrant Earth: Ecological Posthumanism in Samantha Harvey’s Orbital |
Bera, Rajkumar and Subhadip Das |
GLOBAL JOURNAL
OF HUMAN SOCIAL SCIENCES - A: ARTS & HUMANITIES |
ISSN: 2249-460X |
1-6 |
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2026 |
| 3 |
Echoes of Empire: Imperialist Pursuit and Monetization
of Nature in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Afterlives |
Bera, Rajkumar and Subhadip Das |
Migration Letters |
ISSN: 1741-8992 |
65-73 |
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2026 |
| 4 |
Power Absorbency and Transmogrified Life: Traversing the Survivance in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel Dottie |
Bera, Rajkumar and Subhadip Das |
Scope Journal |
1177-5661 |
709-719 |
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2024 |
| 5 |
Fighting the Freaks; Secular Individualism Vs Religion in Neal Stephenson Snow Crash |
Bera, Rajkumar |
The Golden Line |
2395-1591 |
1-6 |
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2023 |
| 6 |
Lack of Communication and Reconciliation: A Study of Metempsychosis in Edward Albees The Zoo Story |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal |
2278-9529 |
1-6 |
5.47 |
2021 |
| 7 |
Commodification and Ecocidal Exploitation of Nature: Re-configuring Ecological Imperialism and Eco-Cultural Imbroglio in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace |
Bera, Rajkumar |
International Journal of English and Studies |
2581-8333 |
9-21 |
5.42 |
2020 |
| 8 |
Friction and Fraction: Cultural Exigency and Struggle for Cultural identity in Bharati mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter. |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Research Journal of English |
2456-2696 |
154-162 |
6.03 |
2020 |
| 9 |
Disempowering and silencing the women: A Critique of Patriarchal Gaze and Power Game in Vijoy Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Asia Pacific Journal of Research |
2347-4793 |
42-44 |
6.58 |
2020 |
| 10 |
Death, Decay and Disillusionment: A Study of Cynicism and Agnosticism in Philip Larkin’s Select Poems |
Bera Rajkumar |
Journal of English Language and Literature |
2349-9753 |
67-73 |
4.09 |
2020 |
| 11 |
Identity, Freedom and Destabilisation: A Study of Quest- Motif in Amitav
Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
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Bera, Rajkumar |
RJLCS |
2231-2773 |
56-65 |
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2019 |
| 12 |
Social Outlook in Keats’ World: A Study of Humanism in
Keats’ Select Letters
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Bera, Rajkumar |
The Criterion: An International Journal in English |
0976-8165 |
103-110 |
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2018 |
| 13 |
Stephen Gill’s Selected Poem: An Eco-critical Study |
Bera, Rajkumar |
8. Stephen Gill’s Selected Poem: An Eco-critical Study
Bera, Rajkumar
Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
2278-9529
43-50
International
2017
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2278-9529 |
43-50 |
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2017 |
| 14 |
Identity Politics in Amitav Ghosh’s Writing: A Postcolonial Study of The Shadow Lines and Sea of
Poppies
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Bera, Rajkumar |
Literary Herald |
2454-3365 |
471-478 |
2.24 |
2017 |
| 15 |
Reflectivity of ‘Self’as a Poet- Critic: A Critical Study of Keats’ Selected Letters |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Indian Scholar: An International Multidisciplinary Research e-
Journal
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2350-109X |
547-553 |
5.7 |
2017 |
| 16 |
Decolonizing the Mind in Amitav Ghosh Writing: A Postcolonial Study of The Shadow Lines |
Bera , Rajkumar |
International Journal Online of Humanities |
2395-5155 |
1-7 |
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2017 |
National Publication |
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Title |
Author |
Journal Name |
ISBN/ISSN |
Page No/Internet DOI |
Impact Factor |
Year |
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| 1 |
Anthopocentric Labefaction and Eco-Warrior: An Ecocritical Study of Ranjit Lal’s Faces in the Water |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Department of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India |
0448-1690 |
95-104 |
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2025 |
| 2 |
Overpowering the Power and Enunciating the Resistance: A Foucauldian Discourse in Temsula Ao’s “The Jungle Major” and
“The Last Song” from These Hills Called Home: Stories from a Warzone |
Bera, Rajkumar |
JEC Printing Press (Ekalavya
Research Foundation)
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978-93-6175 -937-6 |
90-102 |
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2025 |
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Remapping Indian Diaspora: Literary and Socio-Cultural Representations |
Bera, Rajkumar |
YKing Books, Jaipur, India |
978-81-974585-4-5 |
207-217 |
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2025 |
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Edited Book entitled "Decolonizing Nature: Literary Contexts" |
Bera, Rajkumar, Arpita Raj, Abhishek Chakravorty |
Banga Bandhu Publishing House |
ISBN: 978-81-969007-4-8 |
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2024 |
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Exploitation and Pharisaical Proclivity: An Eco-Marxist Study of
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Desertion |
Bera, Rajkumar |
RABINDRA BHARATI JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY |
ISSN: 0973-0087 |
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2023 |
Book Published |
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Author |
Journal Name |
ISBN/ISSN |
Page No/Internet DOI |
Impact Factor |
Year |
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Intersections of Ecology, Culture and Conservation: Beyond Green |
Bera, Rajkumar and Sakti Sekhar Das |
Bloomsbury Publishers (To Be Published) |
979-8-2163-8253-9 |
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To be published soon |
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Circulation of Power and Construction of Identity: Reconfiguring Cultural Exegency and Populism in Arvind Adiga Last Man in Tower |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Post-Colonial Praxis: Ramifications and Intricacies (Notion Press) |
978-1-63633-4967 |
175-183 |
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2020 |
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Objectification, Dehumanization and Disfigurement of Women: Discourse of Marginality in Margaret Atwood The Handmaid Tale |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Marginalization in Literature: Critical Perspectives ( Authors Press, New Delhi) |
978-93-90155-26-2 |
96-107 |
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2020 |
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Migrancy, Displacement and the Quest: A Transnational Approach to Amitav Ghosh The Circle of Reason |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature (Bird Nest/ Pakshighar Prakashanee, Bhubaneswar) |
978-81-932167-3-5 |
187-193 |
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2019 |
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Kamala Das Select Poems: A Review in the Light of Feminist Consciousness |
Bera, Rajkumar |
Indian English Prose and Poetry (Amritalok Sahitya Parishad) |
81-89365-69-X |
187-190 |
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2012 |
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PH. D. THESIS GUIDENCE Total : 4
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Scholar name |
Thesis Title |
Co Supervisor |
Status |
Complete in Year |
| 1 |
Subhadip Das |
Reconstructing and Negatiating Identities: A Transnational Study of the Select Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah |
No |
Pursuing |
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| 2 |
Koushik Ghosh |
Unmasking Power and Narrative of Control in Peter Handke’s Select Novels: A Bourdieusian Reading |
No |
Pursuing |
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| 3 |
Nabadwip Mandal |
Shades of Trauma: Ethical Dilemma and Participatory Narrative in David Greig’s Select Plays |
No |
Pursuing |
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| 4 |
Soumen Maity |
Ideological Fantasy and the Real: A Zizekian Reading of the Select Novels of Laszlo Crasznahorkai |
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Pursuing |
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INVITED LECTURES Total : 1
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Title |
Organized by |
Venue |
Year |
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Do We Differ or Do We Defer: A Discourse on Deconstruction |
Department of English |
Tulasi Women's College, Kendrapara, Odisha |
2023 |
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CONFERENCE / SEMINAR / WORKSHOP - ATTENDED / ORGANISED / OTHERS Total : 13
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Title |
Year |
Role |
Held at and Organiser |
Funding agency |
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Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature |
2019 |
Paper presenter |
Department of English, Berhampur University, Orissa |
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| 2 |
National Seminar on Critical Theory |
2018 |
Paper presenter |
Department of English, Ravenshaw University, Orissa |
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| 3 |
Indian English Prose and Poetry: New Perspectives |
2012 |
Paper presenter |
Department of English, Midnapore College, West Bengal |
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| 4 |
Personality Development and Communicative Skill: Tools for the Present Era |
2017 |
Attendee |
Career and Counselling Cell and Department of English (K.D. College of Commerce and General Studies) |
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Recent Trends in Literature: New Horizon |
2020 |
Joint Convener |
Department of English (Midnapore City College) |
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| 6 |
Narrative Space in Literature: Theoretical Perspective |
2021 |
Joint Convener |
Department of English (Midnapore City College |
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| 7 |
Decolonizing Nature: Literary Contexts |
2024 |
Convener |
Department of English
(Midnapore City College) |
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| 8 |
Indian Literatures and Cultures: Theories and Reflections |
2024 |
Paper OPresenter |
Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University |
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| 9 |
Framing of UG Syllabus of English in View of CCFUP (NEP, 2020)
(Workshop)
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2024 |
Participant |
Vidyasagar University, West Bengal |
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| 10 |
Human, Animal and Natural History: An Ecocritical Approach to World Literature |
2025 |
Paper Presenter |
Department of English, Ravenshaw University |
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| 11 |
Architectural Dystopia: Broken Space and Broken Bonds in David Greig’s The Architect |
2025 |
Paper Presenter |
Department of English, Jawaharlal Nehru University |
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| 12 |
Liminality of Power: Identity and Authority in Peter Handke's Offending the Audience |
2025 |
Paper Presenter |
Department of English, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar College and Nagar College, collaborated with Consortium Journal |
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Politics of Narratives: Contextualizing Indigeneity and Cultural Anxiety in Literature |
2025 |
Convener |
Department of English
Midnapore City College |
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AWARDS Total : 1
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Award name |
Awarded by |
Year |
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NET |
UGC |
2014 |
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Dr. Rajkumar Bera |