Staff Profile | Department of English

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Current Courses

101.036Composition As Critical Inquiry

101.064Composition As Critical Inquiry

Teaching Interests & Areas

Cultural Studies

Research Interests & Areas

Environmental Humanities, Infrastructure, Humor and Cultural Studies

Climate Humanisms and Fictional Futures

School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University

Ithaca, New York

MA (Certificate) in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics

Jadavpur University

MA in English

Visva Bharati , Santiniketan

BA (Hons) in English Language & Literature

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira (University of Calcutta)

Elizabeth Hatmaker Memorial Graduate Scholarship

Illinois State University

2024

Wingword Poetry Prize (Finalist)

Delhi Poetry Slam

2020

Best Editor Award for the Short Film 'Putul'

JIS College of Engineering

2019

Mrinal Sen Memorial Prize for the Short Film 'Putul"

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira

2019

Debmoy Banerjee Memorial Prize for the play 'Porjotoker Pakkami' (Bengali)

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira

2018

After Dickens Writing Award

British Council India

2012

Creative Works/Broadcast Media

Mitra, A. Poems Divorce I and Divorce II. Vickey David (EDs), Heap of Broken Images: An Anthology of Today’s Poems. Notion Press (2022): 134.

Mitra, A. Brink. Riding On The Summer Train. Wingword Poetry Competition (2020): 87.

Presentations

Fire Spitting Humor: A Benign Violation Reading of 'Roast' Comedy. Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS 34). Texas A&M University. (2024)

Interweaving Justice: Exploring Latin American Folk Retelling in Eduardo Galeano and Francis Borges's Walking Words. Deep Histories, Material Memory and Sentient Justice. Illinois State University. (2023)

'Title'. Creative Writing Workshop. Visva Bharati. (2022)

Amartya Mitra