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Jeetumoni Basumatary

Jeetumoni Basumatary

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : Gauhati University

Research Interests:

Indian Writing in English and Translation, Writings from India's Northeast, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Nationalism, World Literature, Drama, Folklore Studies, Translation Studies
Date of Joining : Oct 9, 2015

Phone: 9560643708
Email: jeetumoni.basumatary@cottonuniversity.ac.in

Jeetumoni Basumatary CV    Vidwan Profile
About Teaching Experience Research Paper Publications Conference Proceedings Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented) Book publication other than subject concerned Other Informations

About

Jeetumoni Basumatary is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Cotton University. She earned her Ph.D degree from Gauhati University in 2023 under Prof. Nandana Dutta's guidance. Her thesis was titled "Cultural Nationalism and Identity Formation: Literature and the Berber Cultural Movement in Algeria". She has contributed chapters to books on her research interests. She has also contributed articles to various journals and little magazines on her research interests.  Her other interests are theatre and translation, and she has scripted two plays in Bodo and has translated Bodo poetry and fiction into English, and vice versa.

Teaching

  • Forms and Elements of Literature (Reading Drama)
  • World Literature
  • Modern European Literature
  • Postcolonial Literatures in English
  • Women and Literature
  • American Literature
  • Indian Literature
  • Drama
  • Poetry
  • Fiction
  • Indian Literature in Translation

Experience

2007-2008: Teaching Assistant at the Department of English, University of Delhi, Delhi.

2009- 2015: Assistant Professor (ad-hoc) in the Department of English, at Ramjas College, University of Delhi, Delhi.

2015 onwards: Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Cotton University, Guwahati. 

Research paper publications

2023

1. Jeetumoni Basumatary, From Exile to Cultural Nationalism: Reading Fadhma Amrouche as a Kabyle Cultural Nationalist, The Journal of North African Studies, vol. online, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2021.2015700

2022

1. Jeetumoni Basumatary, Colonial Ethnography and the Rhetoric of Bodo Identity, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, vol. 24, 1247-1262, 8, 1369-801, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2021.2015700

2. Jeetumoni Basumatary, Witnessing the Bodo Identity Movement: A Reading of Mangalsingh Hazowary’s Poetry, dialog: A bi-annual peer-reviewed journal , vol. 2022, 39-57, 0975-4881, 2022

Research paper publications till 2021

 

  1. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “An Analysis of Bodo-Kachari Myths.” Aajwli, Vol. 5, January, 2011.
  2. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “British Romantic Mugayao Bigyan Arw Thunlai” (Science and Literature in the British Romantic Period), Aajwli, Vol. 6, March, 2011.
  3. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Feminism ni Jariminniphrai Mwnse Bilai” (A Page from the History of Feminism), Aajwli, Vol. 8, September, 2011.
  4. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Kamala Das: Mwnse Sinaithi” (Kamala Das: An Introduction), Aajwli, Vol. 11, March, 2014.
  5. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Mohamari Arw Thunlai” (Pandemic and Literature), Gambari, Vol. III, No. X, 2020.
  6. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Mahatma Gandhini Santhou Arw Kharphu Somni Thasari” (Mahatma Gandhi’s Philosophy and Contemporary Times), Gambari, Vol. III, No. XI, 2020.
  7. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Gwdan Mugani Biban” (Duty in Modern Times), Mugani Sakhi (Annual Mouthpiece of All Bodo Students’ Union), No. 26, 2021.
  8. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Eliotni Khonthai Arw Kharphu Som” (Eliot's Poetry Today), Gambari, Vol. III, No. XII, 2021.
  9. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Boroni Mahariary Sinaithi Danai - Thunlai Aarw Bini Biphao” (Bodo National Identity Construction – Literature and its Role), The Bodo (Annual Mouthpiece of Bodo Sahitya Sabha), No. 50, 2022.
  10. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Mwnse Gwdan Jangkhrithai Lubwina Angni Phongnwisw” (A Few Words on the Desire for a New Revolution), Mugani Sakhi (Annual Mouthpiece of All Bodo Students’ Union), No. 27, 2022.
  11. Jeetumoni Basumatary. Editorial - “Laimwn Habakhou Hwbthanayao Phaothaini Biban” (The Role of Theatre in Preventing Child Marriage). Swrjini Phungkha, No. 2, 2023.

Conference Proceedings till 2021

  1. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Legends in Bodo Historiography” in Zothanchhngi Khiangte edited Orality: Quest for Meaning, Partridge, 2016, pp. 167-173.

Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)

 

  1. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Uncomfortable Questions and Answers: Teaching Death in Venice.” English Teachers’ Accounts: Essays on The Teacher, The Text and The Indian Classroom edited by Nandana Dutta. Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978-1-032-25014-4, pp. 170-182.
  2. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Folklore and Poetry: A Reading of Nongkynrih’s ‘A Day in Sohra’.” Reading India’s North East: Literature, Land and People. MRB Publication, 2016. ISBN 9789383403035, pp. 136-146.
  3. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Legends in Bodo Historiography.” Orality: Quest for Meaning edited by Zothanchhingi Khiangte. Partridge Publishing India, 2016. ISBN 9781482886719, pp. 167-173.
  4.  Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Community Fiction: Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone.” Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories edited by Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, et al. Routledge, 2018. ISBN 978042985095, pp. 121-138.
  5. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Structure of Bodo Legends: A Morphological Study.” Kaleidoscope edited by Jogen Chandra Kalita and Shyamanta Chakraborty. Aank_A Creative Line, 2019. ISBN 978819389376, pp. 118-124.
  6. Jeetumoni Basumatary. “Ratan Thiyam, The Composite Artiste: A Reading of The Manipur Trilogy.” Innerscape: Exploring Literatures from India’s North East edited by Arunabha Bhuyan. Papyrus, 2019. ISBN 978-81-938964-2-6, pp. 156-167.
 

 

 

Book publication other than subject concerned

 
  1. Jeetumoni Basumatary. A Lesson Plan on Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts for Virtual Learning Environment (Institute of Lifelong Learning), University of Delhi, 2014.
  2. Jeetumoni Basumatary. A Lesson Plan on Toni Morrison’s Beloved for Virtual Learning Environment (Institute of Lifelong Learning), University of Delhi, 2014.
  3. Jeetumoni Basumatary. A Lesson Plan on Jean Genet’s The Balcony for Virtual Learning Environment (Institute of Lifelong Learning), University of Delhi, 2015.
  4. Jeetumoni Basumatary. Two SLM units on Eugene Ionesco’s Chairs for PG programme, Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, 2019, ISBN 978-93-87940-92-5.
  5. Jeetumoni Basumatary. An SLM unit on Eugene Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist for UG programme of Institute of Distance and Open Learning, Gauhati University, 2020, ISBN 978-81-94268-95-6.
  6. Jeetumoni Basumatary. An English translation of Dharanidhar Wary’s Bodo novella Mwihoor (1980), published as The Hunt (2008).
  7. Jeetumoni Basumatary. An English translation of Mangalsingh Hazowary’s book of Bodo poetry Jiuni Mwgthang Bisombi Arw Aroj (2003), published as True Reminiscences of Life and Some Prayers (2011).
  8. Jeetumoni Basumatary. Short story adaptations of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Bodo, published as William Shakespeare-ni Mwntham Comedy (2015).
 

Other Information

 

Workshops/Trainings/FDPs/PDPs Attended:

1. Attended a one-day awareness programme on “ORCID and INFLIBNET Services for Scholarly Communities” organized by Department of Library and Information Science, and Krishna Kanta Handiqui Library, Gauhati University, Guwahati in collaboration with INFLIBNET Centre (an IUC of UGC), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, May 20, 2024.

2. Successfully completed 2-day workshop on “Quality Assurance in Higher Education Institutions in North East India” organized by NIEPA and Gauhati University, March 21-22, 2024.

3. Successfully completed one-week online FDP titled “Reading and Researching the Literature of Crisis” organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Trichy in collaboration with the UNESCO Chain in Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad, January 22-28, 2024.

4. Successfully completed short-term Professional Development Program on “Implementation of NEP 2020 for University and College Teachers” organized by Indira Gandhi National Open University, Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on teachers and Training, Ministry of Education, GoI, June 12-20, 2023.

5. Successfully completed the NPTEL Online Certification course on “Introduction to Modern Indian Drama” (8 weeks, 2 credits) during February-April, 2020.

6. Participated in two-day Capacity Building Programme on “Career Guidance and Counselling” organized by Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chandigarh and IQAC, Cotton University, September 24-27, 2018.

Plays Scripted:

  1. Thengphakhri Tehsildar, performed by “Okhrang-The Sky”, December, 2016.
  2. Nangwl Jangkhra Horni Simang, performed by “Okhrang-The Sky”, November, 2017.

 

M.A. Dissertations supervised:

PG 2022-2024 Batch

  1. Sriya Kar (ENG2261004): “Double Marginalisation of Women in the Intersections of Caste and Gender: Reading of Bama’s Sanghati and Baby Kamble’s The Prison We Broke”
  2. Sabba Nazrana Rahman (ENG2261025): “Women and Partition: Selected Readings from Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence”
  3. Chiranjita Borah (ENG2261039): “In the Acquisition of Agencial Autonomy: A Comparative Analysis of the Protagonists of Antareep and Mayabritta”
  4. Nazia Hasan (ENG2261042): “A Study of Waiting for Godot as a Postmodern Play, Incorporating Pozzo-Lucky Relationship”
  5. Choyanika Das (ENG2261057): “Beyond Borders: Unraveling the Notion of Home and Displacement and Political Ideologies in Indian and Pakistani Partition Narratives”

PG 2021-2023 Batch

  1. Shailaja Pradhan (ENG 2161033): “Role of the Institution of Marriage and Social History: A Reading of Draupadi in Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee's The Palace of Illusion (2008)”
  2. Fojilatul Laila (ENG 2161009): “Exploring Female Sexualities in Ismat Chughtai’s Selected Short Stories”
  3. Anikita Ghosh (ENG 2161033): “Female Sexuality and Masculine Anxiety in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting”
  4. Subhankar Ghosh (ENG 2161041): “Colonialism and its Impact: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide”

PG 2019-2021 Batch

  1. Arundhati Das (ENG1961020): “A Study of Kinship, Conflict, Guilt and Repercussions of the Traumatic Warfare in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner”
  2. Rima Rani Baishya (ENG1961053): “William Congreve's Play The Way of the World as a Satire on Restoration Era Marriage: A Study of Fainfall, the Materialistic Person”
  3. Priyanka Sirwal (ENG1961055): “Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan: A Critique of Victorian Society”

PG 2018- 2020 Batch

  1. Nasrin Shahnaz: “War Memory, Trauma and Rewriting of History: A Study of Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”
  2. Sagarika Kalita: “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A Feminist Reading”
  3. Hridyesha Gogoi: “Reading Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Through a Postmodernist Lens”
  4. Rashmi Rekha Deka: “Gandhi’s Affirmation of Indian Culture in Hind Swaraj”
  5. Teena Kandali: “The Crisis of Identity Emerging out of Islamic Fundamentalism and Diaspora: A Reading of The Kite Runner”

 

Extra-Curricular Activities

 

 

 

 

Conference

1. Presented a paper titled “Constructing the Bodo National Identity: Literature and Its Role” at the International Conference on “Region/Nation/Trans-Nation: Literature-Cinema Interface” 
Institute : Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (Goa Campus)
Place : Goa
Type of Conference : International
Date of Conference : 2019-01-31 to 2019-01-31

2. Spoke on and read from the Bodo play Thengphakhri Tehsildar (self-authored) in English translation at the National Conference on “Women’s Lives, Women’s Words: Life Stories, Stories of Life” during 25-27 February 2023.
Institute : SPARROW, Mumbai in collaboration with the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Mizoram University
Place : Aizawl (Mizoram)
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2023-02-25 to 2023-02-25

Panel Discussion

1. “Celebrating Diversity in Literature with Young Writers and Actors” at the 2nd Kokrajhar Literary Festival [Literature for Peace & Harmony]
Institute : BTR Government
Place : Kokrajhar
Type of Conference : International
Date of Conference : 2023-01-06 to 2023-01-06

Seminar

1. Presented a paper titled “Structure of Bodo Legends: A Morphological Study” in the Special National Seminar on “Bodo Literature and Multi-lingual Poet Meet”
Institute : Bodo Writers’ Academy
Place : Delhi
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2016-03-16 to 2016-03-16

2. Presented a paper titled “The Other Narrative: Women in the Bodo Identity Movement” at the National Seminar on “Climate Change, Conflict and Pandemic: Literary Responses from India's Northeast”
Institute : Department of English, Bodoland University
Place : Kokrajhar
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2023-03-30 to 2023-03-30

Symposium

1. Presented a paper titled “Rao Danslainaini Makhase Gwnang Khanthi” [Some Important Laws of Translation] in the National Symposium on “History of Creative Bodo Literature, Translation and Reception”
Institute : Sahitya Akademi and Bodo Writers' Academy
Place : Bijni
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2017-03-17 to 2017-03-17

Workshop

1. Spoke as a resource person on “Spin the Yarn and Let it Flow” at the Katha National Writers Workshop East Zone (Katha Utsav) at during 26-27 October, 2018
Institute : Katha
Place : Royal Global School, Guwahati
Type of Conference : National
Date of Conference : 2018-10-26 to 2018-10-26