Faculty of Arts - English

Academic contribution in last five years

Prodosh Bhattacharya, who was a State Scholar of the Government of West Bengal from 1984-88, specialized in Old English and Early Middle English literature at Oxford. His early publications were articles on Old English poetry, particularly Beowulf and The Dream of the Rood. Subsequently, he started working on the late-Victorian and early-twentieth century popular novelist Marie Corelli. In March-April 2006, he presented a paper entitled ‘Marie Corelli: an Indian Encounter’ at an international seminar on Marie Corelli and other popular women novelists at Stratford-upon-Avon. The seminar was jointly organized by the University of Birmingham and Liverpool John Mooores University. Recently, he completed a Minor Research Project on Corelli, entitled ‘The Popularity of Marie Corelli in Britain and India’. In October 2007, he was awarded a Ph. D by Jadavpur University for his thesis entitled ‘The Novels of Marie Corelli’. His recent publications are: ‘Revolt of the Angel in the House: Two Novels of Marie Corelli’ in the Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Professor Kajal Sengupta Memorial Volume (2006-7).; ‘Three “Begging Poems” in Old English and Early Middle English’ in the departmental journal, Essays and Studies, nos. XIX-XX (2006-7), ‘The Reception of Marie Corelli in India’ in the book New Readings in the Literature of British India, c. 1780-1947, ed.  Shafquat Towheed (Ibidem Verlag: Stuttgart). Forthcoming publications are:

‘Strange Visitations: Aliens in the Fiction of Marie Corelli’ in the book Moneta’s Veil: Essays on the Nineteenth Century, ed. Malabika Sarkar; ‘Two Bengali Transformations of Sherlock Holmes’ in the book Reading Children, ed. Nilanjana Gupta and Rimi B. Chatterjee.

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