I am looking for students who will work in the area of computational humanities and computational literary studies. For this applicants should have a strong grounding in any area in the humanities and either have a familiarity with computer programming or have the willingness to invest time and effort to learn basic computer programming through courses like Working with Humanities Data.
For familiarizing yourself with Digital Humanities methods and concerns you can follow some of my lectures available online and reading material available on the website of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
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phd students
Awarded
Mriganka Sekhar Sarma: Sub-national Imagination in Assam and Modern Assamese Theatre
Devjani Ray : A study of Children’s Periodicals in Bengali: 1885-1920
Devjani's Publications:
“Reading Crime and the Criminal in Indian Children’s Literature: A Brief Note”, WE-A Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Peer-Reviewed Research Journal, University of Delhi (Under Review for the June 2025 issue)
“Where are the Little Girls? Conceptualising Girlhood in Early Bengali Children’s Periodicals”, Mizoram University Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (MZUJHSS), Vol X(i), June 2024, pp. 166-176. ISSN(P): 2395-7352, ISSN(Online): 2581-6780 (Peer Reviewed)
“Reading the 'Political' in Sukumar Ray’s Nonsense Poems”, Himachal Pradesh University Journal (Humanities and Social Sciences), Vol 12, Issue 1, June 2024, pp. 193-208. ISSN-2277-1425, E-ISSN 2277-1433 (Peer Reviewed)
“The Question of Identity in Sukumar Ray’s Sandesh”, Research Review International Journal (Aditi Mahavidyalaya, Delhi University), Vol. 9, Issue 5, May 2024, pp. 29-36. ISSN 2455-3085 (Peer Reviewed)
Sandip Debnath: Badal Sircar and Beyond: Third Theatre Network in Twenty-first Century Bengal, 1971 – Present
Sandip's publications:
“Internal Workshop: The Third Theatre Methodology of Embodying Hunger.” Global Performance Studies , vol. 6, nos. 1–2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.33303/gpsv6n1-2a129
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay: From Rupture to Resilience: Memory and Identity in Oral Narratives of Refugees arriving from East Pakistan to West Bengal. (1947-1970).
Sumallya was awarded distinction for his doctoral dissertation by IIT Delhi.
Sumallya's publications:
Mukhopadhyay, S. (2022). “I Am a Refugee in This Land”: Performative Narration, Recollection, and Resilience in Refugee Narratives of West Bengal, India. Narrative Culture 9(1), 197-216. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ncu.2022.0009.
---------------. (2021). Memories of the 1947 Bengal Partition and Its Aftermath: Tanvir Mokammel’s Seemantorekha. Studies in People’s History (SAGE), 8(1), 135-146 https://doi.org/10.1177/2348448921999039.
---------------. (2021). Who is a Refugee? Understanding the Figure of the Refugee Against the Backdrop of the Bengal Partition (1947-1970). Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 13(2), 1-11. DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v13n2.31.
---------------. (2019). Thinking of Migration through Caste: Reading Oral Narratives of Displaced Person(s) from East Pakistan (1950-1970). Journal of Migration Affairs (TISS), 2(1), 113-131. DOI: 10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.113-131.
Mukhopadhyay, S. (2025). Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualising Memoryscape and Historical Time in Oral Reminiscences of East Pakistani Refugees in West Bengal. Edited by Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj. Memory Studies in India: Texts and Contexts. Brill. ISBN- 978-90-04-72251-4, pp. 215-229. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004722514_015.
---------------. (2024). Life Stories and Material Objects: Revisiting the Memory of the 1947 Bengal Partition. Edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Rituparna Roy & Jayanta Sengupta. The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Identity. Routledge. ISBN- 9781003317210, pp. 107-121. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317210-8.
Jyotirmay Das: Traditional Performances of Goalpara region in Assam
Jyotirmay's publications: (Forthcoming). 'Identity Playfield: Festivals of the Goalpara Region of Assam in Northeast India' in Vinod Pavarala ed. Community Communication in India. Routledge India.
Tiyana Jovanovic: Communication and Social Movements: Continuities and Discontinuities (Jointly with Pradip Thomas, University of Queensland)
Ongoing
Pritam Majumdar: The Oral Performance Tradition of Manasa Palagaan
Reeturaj Kashyap: An alternative Imagination of Assamese Identity
Tasnim Nazifa Choudhury: A Study of Stand-Up Comedy as Urban Folk: The Artist, the Audience and the Spatio-temporal configuration
Shubhabrata Patra: Revisiting Traditional Theatre: An Inquiry into the Swang Jatra of (South) Bengal
Spandita Das: Digital (Re)Invention of Bengali music
Alishah Ali: Virtual Archive of Urban Heritage through Community Engagement
Tinka Dubey: History of Kolkata theatres
minor projects
Available Minor/Major Project Ideas
Shot detection and exporting of central frame from video files
Completed Minor Projects (Selected)
‘Campus Theatre’ by Akansh Jain, Anshika Gupta, Antara Choudhary, Misha Khurana, Vishakha Shankar [Semester Two 2013-14]
‘Impact of Patents on Research and Innovation in Physics’ by Gourav Khullar [Semester Two 2012-13]
‘A Look into the World of Grimm’s Fairy Tales’ by Somit Pangtey and Shashank Sinha [Semester Two 2012-13]
‘Viral Marketing’ by Anurag Tiwari and Shaurya Pratap [Semester Two 2011-12]