Thirthankar Chakraborty, Assistant Professor

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EMail: thirthankar@iitmandi.ac.in
Address: Office: No.A17-02-08
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
North Campus, IIT Mandi, Kamand
Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India - 175005

Research interests

  • Comparative and World Literature
  • Modernism
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Indian Literature

Education

  • PhD (Comparative Literature): University of Kent, 2017
  • PGCHE (Higher Education): University of Kent, 2016
  • MA with Distinction (Twentieth Century Literary Studies): Durham University, 2012
  • Higher Course: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, 2009

Work Experience

Teaching and Academic Experience

  • 2022 - present, Assistant Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
  • 2020 - 2022, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
  • 2018 - 2019, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Eternal Universiy, Baru Sahib
  • 2015 - 2017, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Kent
  • 2012 - 2015, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Kent

  Professional Affiliations

  • Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy

Awards, Honors, and Invited Talks

  • 2017, ACLA Travel Grant for presenting at the annual conference, at Utrecht University
  • 2012 - 2015, fully funded 50th Anniversary Research Student Scholarship, University of Kent
  • 2015, Winner of the British Centre for Literary Translation Scholarship for attending the Institute for World Literature (IWL), Universidade de Lisboa
  • 2014, Winner of the Samuel Beckett Summer School International Bursary, Trinity College Dublin
  • 2011, Winner of the Josephine Butler Literary Competition, Durham University

Publications

Book Publications
Book Chapters

  • (forthcoming). "Samuel Beckett and World Literature." Oxford Handbook of Samuel Beckett. Eds. D. V. Hulle & M. Nixon. Oxford: Oxford UP.

  • "Translating Silence: Ashish Avikunthak's Cinematographic Version of Beckett's Come and Go." Beckett's Voices / Voicing Beckett Eds. N. Johnson, M. H. Tanaka, L. de Vos. Leiden: Brill, 2021.

  • "Translating Samuel Beckett into Hindi" Samuel Beckett and the Languages of the World Eds. J. F. Fernández, P. Sardin. Cham: Springer Nature, 2021.

  • "Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Post-War Translation." Samuel Beckett as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.

Journal Publications

Invited Lectures and Conferences

  • "Abstractifying Allusions for a Multilingual World," MLA Convention, Samuel Beckett Society Panel, 2022.

  • "Learning with Print and Electronic Media," AICTE ATAL Faculty Development Programme, Lendi Institute of Engineering and Technology, 2020.

  • "Interpreting and Connecting with World Literature," Jagran Lakecity University, 2020.

  • "Beckett and Translation: Towards an Acanonical Literature," Samuel Beckett and the End of Literature Conference, University of Reading, 2017.

  • "Beckett's Three-Phase Evolution," ACLA Conference, University of Utrecht, 2017.

  • "'tramp the world down!': Beckett and the Indian Postcolonial Scene," Samuel Beckett Performance/Art/Writing Conference, Institute of English Studies, London, 2016.

  • "'buried in the world': Rethinking World Literature" Translation and 'World Literature' Conference, University of East Anglia, 2014.

  • "Tectonic Shifts in Beckett's Worldly Whirl," BAMS International Conference, University of London, 2014.

  • "Translating Silence: An Indian Interpretation of Samuel Beckett," Samuel Beckett Working Group, IFTR Conference, Barcelona, 2013.

  • "Rethinking Reception: Samuel Beckett in India," IWL Originality and Imitation Affinity Group, Harvard University, 2013.