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Jeetumoni Basumatary

Jeetumoni Basumatary

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. : Gauhati University

Research Interests:

Drama, Folklore, Writings from Indias Northeast, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Nationalism
Joined the University in Oct 9, 2015

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

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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. Before joining Cotton University in 2015, she had taught at Ramjas College, Delhi University from 2009 to 2015. She is interested in drama and translation. She has translated two Bodo works into English and has also scripted two plays in Bodo, one of which is a Bodo adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the other is based on a Bodo legendary woman called Thengphakhri. She has been a Resource Person for Katha Writers’ Workshop [Katha Utsav 2018 – East Zone], at Royal Global School, Guwahati, in 2018. She has also served as a member of the Sahitya Akademi Jury Board for the Translation Award in Bodo in 2020.

Teaching

Undergraduate Programme (B.A. Honours)

Semester II: 

ENG 201C: The Restoration till 1780

Semester III: 

ENG 303C: The Modern Period II

Semester V: 

ENG DSE I: Introduction to World Literature

Semester VI:

ENG 604 DSE IVa: Introduction to Modern European Literature

Postgraduate Programme (P.G.)

Semester I:

ENG 701C: Poetry I: Chaucer to Blake

Semester II:

ENG 802C: Drama II- Shakespeare

Semester III:

ENG 903C: Fiction II - Modern Fiction till the Present

ENG 904 SPL 2: American Literature I

Semester IV: 

ENG1002 SPL II: American Literature II

Experience

2009- 2015 - Assistant Professor (ad-hoc) at Ramjas College, University of Delhi

2015 onwards - Assistant Professor at Department of English, Cotton University 

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. ‘The Problem of Dying Languages’ in Aajwli, November, 2010.
  2. ‘An Analysis of Bodo-Kachari Myths’ in Aajwli, January, 2011.
  3. ‘British Romantic Mugayao Bigyan Arw Thunlai’ (Science and Literature in the British Romantic Period) in Aajwli, March, 2011. [In Bodo]
  4. ‘Feminism ni Jariminniphrai Mwnse Bilai’ (A Page from the History of Feminism) in Aajwli, September, 2011. [In Bodo]
  5. ‘Kamala Das: Mwnse Sinaithi’ (Kamala Das: An Introduction) in Ajwli, 2014. [In Bodo]
  6. 'Mohamari Arw Thunlai' (Pandemic and Literature) in Gambari, Vol. III, Issue X, July 2020 [In Bodo]
  7. 'Eliotni Khonthai Arw Kharphu Som' (Eliot's Poetry Today' in Gambari, Vol. III, Issue XII, January 2021 [In Bodo]
  8. "Colonial Ethnography and the Rhetoric of Bodo Identity" in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies (Latest Articles), 20th December, 2021 (online), Vol. 24, No. 8, 2022 (print), pp. -1247-1262;  ISSN - 1369-801(Print), ISSN- 1469-929 (Online). 
  9. "Witnessing the Bodo Identity Movement: A Reading of Mangalsingh Hazowary's Poetry", in dialog, No. 39 (Spring 2022), pp. 39-57.

Conference Proceedings till 2021

1. '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. ‘Folklore and Poetry: A Reading of Nongkynrih’s “A Day in Sohra”’ in Garima Kalita edited Reading India’s North East: Literature, Land and People, MRB Publishers, 2016, pp. 136-146.
  2. ‘Community Fiction: Mamang Dai’s The Legends of Pensam and Temsula Ao’s These Hills Called Home: Stories from a War Zone’ in Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, et al. edited Indian Genre Fiction: Pasts and Future Histories, Routledge, 2018, pp. 121-138.
  3. "Ratan Thiyam, The Composite Artiste: A Reading of The Manipur Trilogy" in Arunabha Bhuyan, edited, Innesrscape, Papyrus, 2019, pp. 156-167.
  4. "Structure of Bodo Legends: A Morphological Study" in Jogen Chandra Kalita and Shyamanta Chakraborty edited Kaleidoscope, Aank_A Creative Line, 2019, pp. 118-124. 
  5. "Uncomfortable Questions and Answers: Teaching Death in Venice" in English Teachers' Accounts: Essays on the Teacher, the Text and the Indian Classroom, edited by Nandana Dutta, 2022, pp. 170-182.
 

 

 

Book publication other than subject concerned

 
  1. The Hunt (2008), an English translation of Dharanidhar Wary’s Bodo novella Mwihoor.
  1. True Reminiscences of Life and Some Prayers (2011), English translation of Mongolsingh Hazowary’s poetry collection Jiuni Mwgthang Bisombi Arw Aroj.
  1. ‘Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts’ [A Lesson Plan], Virtual Learning Environment (Institute of Lifelong Learning), University of Delhi, 2014.
  1. ‘Toni Morrison’s Beloved’ [A Lesson Plan], Virtual Learning Environment (Institute of Lifelong Learning), University of Delhi, 2014.
  1. ‘Jean Genet’s The Balcony’ [A Lesson Plan], Virtual Learning Environment (Institute of Lifelong Learning), University of Delhi, 2015.
  1. William Shakespeareni Mwntham Comedy (2015), adaptations of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Bodo. 
  1. ‘Structure of Bodo Legends: A Morphological Study’ in Laithun: An Annual Mouthpiece of Bodo Writers’ Academy, 2016. [Conference proceeding]
  1. ‘Legends in Bodo Historiography’ in Zothanchhngi Khiangte, Ed., Orality: Quest for Meaning, 2016. [Conference proceeding]    

 
 

Other Informations

Papers presented:

1. ‘Rao Danslainaini Makhase Gwnang Khanthi’ [Some Important Laws of Translation] presented at the Symposium on History of Creative Bodo, Literature, Translation and Reception, Sahitya Akademi n collaboration with Bodo Writers’ Academy, Bijni (Assam), 18th March, 2017.

2.  ‘Constructing the Bodo National Identity: Literature and Its Role’ presented at the International Conference on Region/Nation/Trans-Nation: Literature-Cinema Interface, BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, 31 January – 2 February 2019.

3. Panellist on “Celebrating Diversity in Literature with Young Writers and Actors” at the 2nd Kokrajhar Literary Festival [Literature for Peace & Harmony], 6th-8th January 2023, held at Kokrajhar, Assam, India.

4. Participated and read from self-written work at a national-level women writers' meet titled “Women’s Lives, Women’s Words: Life Stories, Stories of Life” organized by SPARROW, Mumbai and Department of English and Cultural Studies, Mizoram University [25th-27th February 2023].

5. Presented a paper titled "The Other Narrative: Women in the Bodo Identity Movement" at the two-day National Seminar on Climate Change, Conflict and Pandemic: Literary Responses from India's Northeast organized by the Department of English, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, Assam on 30th and 31st March 2023.

 

Workshops Attended:

1. Special Training Programme for Teachers of Cotton College (28-29 December, 2015), IQAC, Cotton College, Guwahati,.

2. Regional Research Workshop on Theory (26-27 October, 2017), Department of English, Gauhati University.

3. Capacity Building Programme on Career Guidance and Counselling (24-27 September, 2018), Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development, Chandigarh and IQAC, Cotton University.

 

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:

2020

  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

2021

1. Arundhati Das - "A Study of Kinship, Conflict, Guilt and Repercussions of the Traumatic Warfare in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner"

2. Rima Rani Baishya - "William Congreve's Play The Way of the World as a Satire on Restoration Era Marriage: A Study With Reference to Fainfall, the Materialistic Person"

3. Priyanka Sirwal - Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan: A Critique of Victorian Society"

2023

1. Fojilatul Laila - "Exploring Female Sexualities in Ismat Chughtai’s Selected Short Stories"

2. Anikita Ghosh - "Female Sexuality and Masculine Anxiety in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting"

3. Subhankar Ghosh - "Colonialism and its Impact: A Reading of Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide"

4. Shailaja Pradhan - "Role of the Institution of Marriage and Social History: A Reading of Draupadi in Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee's The Palace of Illusion (2008)"

 

 

 

 

 

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