Ms. Debarati Das

Publications (year wise) :

• Das, Debarati, and Rita Banerjee. "Enacting Resistance in History and Fiction: Counter-narratives of Tribal Historiography in Mahasweta Devi’s Writings".Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography, edited by Rita Banerjee, Routledge, 2020.
• Das, Debarati. “Patricia Rozema’s ‘Mansfield Park’-A Case Study”. Contemporary Essays in Commonwealth Literature .Ed. Dipankar Chakrabarti. New Delhi: Supriya Books, 2014.

Seminar/Conference/Workshop/Refresher/Orientations etc. Participated:

• Faculty Development Programme: Completed the Faculty Development Programme on Environmental Humanities: From Dominion to Kinship, organized by the Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University, Kolkata from 27^th to 31^st July, 2026.
• Summer School: Completed The Summer School in Medical Humanities: Discourses, Debates, and Directions organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal in collaboration with the South Asian Medical- Environmental Humanities Network from 17^th-23^rd July, 2025.
• Workshop by NIEPA: Completed the workshop on National Education Policy 2020: Financial Implications and Resource Mobilization by Higher Education Institutes organized by the Department of Educational Finance, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), New Delhi, held at Tripura University from 19^th -20^th December,2024.
• Presented a paper titled "Resistance Movements and the Role of History, Myth & Memory: A Reading of Particular Narratives from the Sub-Continent " at The International Conference on The Politics of Memory and History: Beyond the Postcolonial and the Postmodern, organized by the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod from 13-15th March 2023.
• Refresher Course: Completed the 2 Weeks 1st Refresher Course in Indian Languages, Literature & Culture Studies (IDC) held from 14th February – 26th February 2022, organized by the UGC-HRDC, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi -110067
• Faculty Development Programme: Completed the 4 Weeks 3rd Faculty Induction Programme held from 13/01/2021 to 11/02/2021, organized by the UGC-HRDC, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya.
• Presented a paper titled "Locating Myths in Mahasweta Devi’s Literary Works", at the Third Ireland India Institute Conference on South Asia, organized by the Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University, on 24th - 26th of April, 2019, and held at All Hallows DCU Campus, Dublin, Ireland.
• Chairperson, 6th Technical Session, & Moderator, Panel Discussion on Folk and Gender, at the Mystic Mountains, Magical Rivers: A Festival of North-Eastern Folkways, organized by the Department of English, Tripura University in collaboration with the North-Eastern Council, Ministry of DoNER and Sahitya Akademi, 2018 at Tripura University.
• Presented a paper titled "Creating 'History', Forging Resistance: Reading Mahasweta Devi", at the International Conference on Literature: Contemporary Perspectives on/in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature and Theory, held on 25-26th July 2018, at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia.
• Presented a paper titled "Unhistoric Acts in Mahasweta Devi's Literary Works", at the National Seminar on Writing India: Revisiting Historiographies, Ideology and Genre. organized by the Centre of English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, under the sponsorship of UGC-SAP-DSA (I), held on 16-17th January, 2017, at JNU, New Delhi.
• Presented a paper titled " Cinematic Interpretation and Literature: A Case Study of Patricia Rozema's 'Mansfield Park' ", at the UGC- sponsored National Seminar on Sharing Commonwealth Experience, held on 12-13th July 2013 at the Department of English, Govt. Degree College, Khumulwng, West Tripura.

Scholarships/ Fellowships/ Awards:

• Awarded UGC NET- JRF in 2013 in English Literature.
• Joint First Rank in BA(hons) English at university.

Deputation

• Deputed to West Bengal to oversee the Outbound Industrial Exposure and Cultural Immersion tour for the students of the MBA Programme at Tripura University in 2024.

Memberships and others

• Member, South Asian Medical-Environmental Humanities Network
• Member, Board of Postgraduate Studies in English, Tripura University
• Member, Expert Committee of TPSC, Government of Tripura
• Examiner, Administrative and Police Service Examinations, TPSC, Government of Tripura
• State-level Judge, 24^th National Youth Festival, Government of Tripura