Primarily literary research and writing for post-doctoral studies and projects.
Public Lectures attended:
Attended the 4th Tarun Chandra Dutt Memorial Lecture "The Indian state and Bengali refugees: A Fresh look at a fraught relationship" by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay at Jadunath Bhavan Museum and Resource Centre, a unit of the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta on 10th February 2024;
Attended a Two-day lecture on the Planetary and the Political by Dipesh Chakraborty at the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta on 5th and 6th February 2024;
Attended Regimes of the monsoons in the Indian Ocean world at the onset of the early modern times: Transactions, travels and trajectories of polities (c 1000 - 1600 CE) by Ranabir Chakravarti at the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta on 30th January 2024;
Attended At Home in the City: Home Improvements and the Making of a Modern Bombay by Abigail McGowan at the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta on 15th January 2024;
Attended Critique of Power and the Indian Artist by Sunanda K. Sanyal at the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta on 12th January 2024;
Attended the R. C. Dutt Memorial Lectures delivered by Maitreesh Ghatak at the Centre for the Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta on 28th and 29th December 2023;
Faculty Development Programs attended:
Attended the Two-Week online Faculty Development Programme, "Translation Studies from the Global South", organised by the Academic and Administrative Development Centre of the Association of Indian Universities-Sri Sri University in collaboration with the Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies, Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha from 19th February 2024 to 5th March 2024;
Attended Reading and Researching the Literature of Crisis: One Week Online Faculty Development Programme on by NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, in association with The UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD (Certificate not taken) 22nd January 2024 - 28th January 2024;
Papers:
Literary Theory in World Literature: the Case of Bioethics: https://sites.google.com/view/rajnandinishaw-ma-dissertation/ ;
Shifting Trajectories: Response to “Geographies of the Cinematic Public: Notes on Regional, National and Global Histories of Indian Cinema” (2010) by Ravi S. Vasudevan; and “Toward a New Frame for Regional Films: Manbhum Films and the Other Side of (Indian) Cinema” (2016) by Madhuja Mukherjee;
Migration in Indian regional Cinema: A Euology to the Land;
Exposition: What is Philosophy?;
World Literature in Popular Culture//Popular Culture in World Literature;
Locale in Film and Literature: “Mannahatta” (1888) and “Manhatta” (1921);
Heidegger and the Object: Poetry, Art, Technology;
Postcolonial Studies and the Canon;
Literary Theory and Bioethics;
Imagery in William Carlos Williams's Poems: Pictures from Brueghel;
Winter 2020;
Corporate Wrongs;
Review: When I Was 25 by Shaili Chopra;
Review: The Rivered Earth by Vikram Seth;
"We are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on?" February 2020;
Subjective Experience: Intellectual Source for the Reader and the Writer in Aniket Jaaware's "Introduction" to Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching (2018);
"Passing": Reading Yashica Dutt's Coming Out as Dalit (2019);
Vlaue:Price- Kind and Nature of value in Daniel Bye's The Price of Everything (2010);
The making of the Artist in The Moon and Sixpence (1919), April 2018;
A Comparative Analysis of Tennessee Williams's Female Characters: Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie (1944) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947);
An Eco-critical Reading of Ted Hughes's 'The Hawk in the Rain" (1957);
An Analysis of Macbeth's Character as a Renaissance Individual in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, September 2017;
A Comparative Analysis of William Somerset Maugham's Alienated White Women Characters in "The Force of Circumstance" and "The Letter" in The Casuarina Tree (1926);
The Animated Spielberg, March 2016;
Personality Development March 2016;
Caste in Literature (2014);
Presentations:
28-29 July 2021: Shakespeare and the Value of Time: a Wittgensteinian Reading of “Sonnet 18” and Culture and Value- Abstract; "Shakespeare and/as Value" seminar at the World Shakespeare Congress 2021: participation through Financial assistance for registration and attendance as a seminar participant;
2 July 2021: "'Masterpiece' in World Literature" paper at "Politics, Poetics and World Literature" colloquium, 2021 Summer School, Institute for World Literature (IWL), Harvard University; participation through financial assistance from the IWL;
17 February 2021: "Toward Folklore in Popular Culture" for Seminar- II Popular Culture, Centre for English Studies (CES), JNU;
11 February 2021: Akira Kurosawa’s Rashōmon (1950), Ryonosuke Akutagawa’s “In a Grove” (1922) and “Rashomon” (1915), Notting Hill (1999) and Gone Girl (2014): A Discussion, for Film and Literature course, CES, JNU;
November 2020: Academic Discussion: A Routine Task for Students for Presentations: Speaking so that People Listen, University of California, Irvine, Coursera;
November 2020: Writing and Thinking: Interesting Aspects about Being a Postgraduate Student for Presentations: Speaking so that People Listen, University of California, Irvine, Coursera;
November 2020: Air Pollution: A Current Problem in New Delhi for Presentations: Speaking so that People Listen, University of California, Irvine, Coursera;
November 2020: The Best Places to go to in my Cit(y/es) for Presentations: Speaking so that People Listen, University of California, Irvine, Coursera;
10 December 2020: Fernando Pessoa: Life, Works, Philosophy for English Poetry II, CES, JNU;
8 October 2020: "Literary Theory" for Readings in Literary Theory and Criticism, CES, JNU;
2 March 2020: Utopia after Utopia (1516) for English Novel I course, CES, JNU;
24 September 2019: 'Modernity, Post-coloniality and the New Humanities: Towards a non-holistic reading of caste', Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial Perspectives, CES, JNU;
November 2017: Myth of Anger and the Archetypal figure of Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger;
2016: Chemos in Paradise Lost, Book I (lines 406-418)
October 2015: Dating of Shakespeare's Sonnets
September 2015: Alterations in the family system in India
Discussions:
August 2021: Emergence/y, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment- on registration grant;
Graphic Design:
12 September 2019: Room 16;