Dr. DEEPTANIL RAY

M.A, Ph.D

[email protected]
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AREA OF INTEREST

  • Area of Specialization: BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRINT CULTURES

    Area of Research and Interest: PRINT AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURES, HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY, SOCIOLOGY OF TEXTS, STUDIA HUMANITATIS, MARTIAL ARTS STUDIES

Academic Qualification

Degree Year Subject University/Institution
B.A. (Honours) 2001 ENGLISH JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
M.A. 2006 ENGLISH JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. 2013 ENGLISH JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY

Work Experience

Sl. No. Positions Held Name of the Institute From To
1 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH SREE CHAITANYA COLLEGE 2017 PRESENT
2 TWO CENTURIES OF INDIAN PRINT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW BRITISH LIBRARY, UK, & SCTR, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 2016 2017
3 GUEST LECTURER PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY 2016 2017
4 RESEARCHER AND ARCHIVIST (UPE-II FELLOW) SCHOOL OF CULTURAL TEXT & RECORDS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 2012 2015
5 COURSE COORDINATOR P.G. CERTIFICATE COURSE IN EDITING & PUBLISHING, SCTR, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 2012 2014
6 SYLFF DOCTORAL FELLOW DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY 2008 2012

Awards

Sl. No. Name of Award Awarding Agency Year
1 TWO CENTURIES OF INDIAN PRINT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP BRITISH LIBRARY, UK 2016
2 SYLFF DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP TOKYO FOUNDATION, JAPAN 2008

Projects

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Publication

Sl. No. Authored/ Edited Title Name of Book/ Journal Volume Page Year
EDITED VOLUMES
1 Edited by Deeptanil Ray and Nikhilesh Bhattacharya Astracharcha: Collected Works of Pulin Behari Das. Revised edition. Kolkata: Jadavpur University Press 2015, 2024
2 Edited by Gargi Gangopadhyay and Deeptanil Ray Folk Tales of Hindustan. Kolkata: Charchapada 2014
ARTICLES IN EDITED SCHOLARLY VOLUMES (INTERNATIONAL)
1 Deeptanil Ray and Abhijit Gupta “The Newspaper and the Periodical Press in Colonial India: Explorations in Early Media History.” In Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2017
2 Deeptanil Ray “Propaganda.” In The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Volume 1. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO 1 2018
3 Deeptanil Ray “Unionism.” In The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Volume 1. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO 1 2018
4 Deeptanil Ray “Trade Unions.” In The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia. Volume 1. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO 1 2018
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS (INTERNATIONAL)
1. Deeptanil Ray “Speculating ‘National’: Ownership and Transformation of the English-Language Press in India during the Collapse of the British Raj.” Media History Monographs 16, no. 2 2013-2014
2. Deeptanil Ray "Community and Mobilization in South Asia: Review of Youngblood, Michael, Cultivating Community: Interests, Identity, and Ambiguity in an Indian Social Mobilization." H-Net Reviews July, 2019
3. Deeptanil Ray "Ray on Desai: 'Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination'." H-Net Reviews July, 2017
4. Deeptanil Ray “Review of Karppinen, Kari, Rethinking Media Pluralism,” H-Net Reviews March 2014
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNALS (NATIONAL)
1. Deeptanil Ray “How to Read Alternate History? A SF Reader’s Guide to Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay’s Swapna labdha bhaaratbarsher itihaas.” Jadavpur University Essays and Studies 27 55-76 2013
2. Deeptanil Ray “The Technologist against the Ragpicker: Revisiting Walter Benjamin on Technology and Mediation.” Jadavpur University Essays and Studies 26 65-90 2012
ARTICLES IN EDITED SCHOLARLY VOLUMES (BENGALI)
1 Deeptanil Ray "Swadeshi samaj o meyeder astracharcha: ekti upekkhito itihasher suluk-sandhan" (Swadeshi society in Bengal and the martial arts practices of women: in search of a neglected history). In Mukto Karo Bhay: Narir Unish O Bish Shataker Path Chola Kolkata: Lyriqal Books 2022
2 Deeptanil Ray "Probahi adhunikata kaale" (In the Times of Liquid Modernity). In Adhunik Bangalir Adhunikota (The Modernity of Modern Bengalis). Kolkata: Tobuo Proyas 2020

Courses

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Seminar Attedance

Sl. No. Title of the Paper Presented Title of the Conference/ Seminar Organized by Level Year
1 "The Typographical Question in Early Print Cultures of Colonial Bengal." Two Hundred Years of Indian Vernacular Journalism Vidyasagar Centre of Indological Studies and Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University State 2018
2 "Under the Shadow of Print: The Institutionalization of Halhed’s Grammar and Its Consequences for the Bengali Character." International Academic Symposium on South-Asian Book History (The Book Unbound: Two Centuries of Indian Print) British Library, UK, and SCTR, Jadavpur University International 2017
3 “Swords, Sticks and Jujutsu: Pulin Behari Das and Anushilan as Martial Arts Practice.” Physical Cultures: Bengal and Beyond, International Conference. SCTR, Jadavpur University International 2014

Subjects

Sl. No. Paper title Paper code Semester
1 Literary texts and literary theory for undergraduate English courses under WBSU - -
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