Kalpana Bora
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. : Indian Institute of Technology GuwahatiResearch Interests:
Postcolonial Literatures, Spatial Theory and Narratives of Space, Urban Fiction, Postcolonial Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Environmental HumanitiesDate of Joining : Jul 8, 2010
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Email: kalpana.bora@cottonuniversity.ac.in
About
Kalpana Bora has a PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati where she worked on the interface between spaces of the urban and literature, pivoting her research on the representation of Bombay/Mumbai in contemporary Indian Fiction in English. She now engages with postcolonial literatures, the interstices of space and literature, literatures of/on the environment, queer literatures and Anglophone writings from India’s North East.
She is particularly interested in narratives of the urban and has been exploring the complexities of the urban-spatial intertextualities in literature.
Teaching
- Renaissance Drama
- Postcolonial Literarures in English
- American literature
- Women and Literature
- New Literatures
- Writings from India’s North East
- Poetry
- Fiction
Experience
- April 2006 to December 2006: Guest Faculty at North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh
- July 2010 till present: Cotton College (erstwhile) and Cotton University
Research paper publications
2019
1. Kalpana Bora, Review. Temsula Ao's "Aosenla’s Story", Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, vol. Vol. 13, pp. 155-58, 1, 1985-3106 , 2019 https://doi.org/10.31436/asiatic.v13i1.1494
2011
1. Kalpana Bora and Rohini Mokashi Punekar, ‘Maximum City[i]’: Bombay, Spatial Politics, and Representation, Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, vol. 1, 151-166, 3, ISSN: 2154-8676 (Print), ISSN: 2154-8684 (Online), 2011 https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8676/CGP/v01i03/5380
Chapters/Articles publications in Books (Research Oriented)
2021
- Kalpana Bora and Rohini Mokashi-Punekar, “‘Maximum City[i]’: Bombay, Spatial Politics, and Representation” in The Many Faces of the City—Exploring the Metropolis. ed. Stefan Litz. Global Studies Book Imprint/Common Ground Research Networks, pp. 19-36 DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/978-0-949313-1-6/CGP
- Kalpana Bora, "Through the Postcolonial lens: Reading the Environment in Narratives from India's North East." In Shubhanku Kochar and M. Anjum Khan, eds. Environmrntal Postcolonialism: A Literary Response. Lexington, 2021, pp. 61-74
2019
- Kalpana Bora. “The Spaces of the Everyday: A Reading of Temsula Ao's Laburnum for My Head.” Innerscape: Exploring Literatures from India’s North East edited by Arunabha Bhuyan. Papyrus, 2019. ISBN 978-81-938964-2-6, pp. 126-140.
Book publication other than subject concerned
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Kalpana Bora. One SLM unit on Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” for the PG programme, Gauhati University, 2024.
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Kalpana Bora. One SLM unit on Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” (Supplementary Unit) for the PG programme, Gauhati University, 2024.
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Kalpana Bora. One SLM unit on British Short Story: Major Practitioners for PG programme, Gauhati University, 2023, pp 255-268.
- Kalpana Bora. One SLM unit on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be King” (Background) for PG programme, Gauhati University, 2023, pp 269-284.
- Kalpana Bora. One SLM unit on Rudyard Kipling’s “The Man Who Would be King” for PG programme, Gauhati University, 2023, pp 285-300.
- Kalpana Bora. One SLM unit on Birendra Bhattacharya’s Love in the Time of Emergency (Earuingam) for PG programme, Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, 2019, ISBN 978-93-87940-93-2, pp 129-161.
Other Information
Papers published:
1. "Multiple Negotiations: A Reading of Leila Seth's On Balanace: An Autobiography." in Negotiations: A Peer Reviewed Journal of the Department of English, Cotton College, Vol. 2, 2012, pp. 61-70
2. "A journey in the footsteps of Xuanxang: Mishi Saran's Chasing the Monk's Shadow." In Negotiations: A Peer Reviewed Journal of the Department of English, Cotton College, Vl. 3, 2015, pp. 97-110
FDPs/STCs Attended:
- Successfully completed the 12-week NPTEL Online Certification Course and FDP on “Vulnerability Studies: An Introduction” (8 weeks, 2 credits) during February-April, 2024.
- Successfully completed the 12-week NPTEL-AICTE Faculty Development Programme on “Feminist Writings” (12 weeks, 3 credits) during July-October 2021.
- Successfully completed a one week online Short-Term Program on Gender Sensitization organized by the Human Resource Development Centre, University of Hyderabad from 16 to 21 August, 2021.
- Successfully completed a Faculty Development Programme in English Studies titled “Re-Mapping the Indian Novel in English,” organized by Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi and the Faculty Development Centre, Mizoram University, Aizawl under the Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMMNMTT) of MoE, 21-25 June 2021.
M.A. Dissertations Supervised:
PG 2022-2024 Batch
- Nina Hazarika (ENG2261006): “Children of War: Locating Biafrian Childhood in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun"
- Jupitara Das (ENG2261021): “Language as a Powerful Apparatus in the Social Presentation of Reality - A Study of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion”
- Monmita Roy (ENG2261041): “Women - An Agency of Patriarchy"
PG 2021-2023 Batch
- Alisha Das (ENG2161001): “Forbidden Spaces Inhabited by German Children During the Holocaust - An Exploration”
- Priyanka Dutta (ENG2161030): “Partition and Its Aftermath in The Shadow Lines”
- Ansumee Boro (ENG2161035): “A Study of Celie's Psychological growth in The Color Purple”
- Janki Devi (ENG2161041): “Tradition and Ritual in Prajwal Parajuly's The Gurkha's Daughter”
PG 2020-22 Batch
- Basabi Bora (ENG2061006) – Reading Relationships Between the Child, the Adult and the Environment in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess.
- Krishangini Das (ENG2061018) – Criticism of the 19th Century Victorian Society as Portrayed in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
- Adhiraj Rajkhowa (ENG 2061033) – “Psychology and Dynamism: Aa Evaluation of the Exploiter and Exploited in Mulk Raj Anand’s The Untouchable
- Debashree Choudhury (ENG2061047) – Feminine Identity and Its Burdens in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
PG 2019-21 Batch
- Debalina Baruah (ENG1961002) - The Role of Motherhood in the Formation of Identity in Toni Morrison’s Sula
- Priyanka Purkayastha (ENG1961009) - Reading Society and Culture in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
- Kasturika Aniruddha (ENG1961012) Re-assessing Absurdism through Ritesh Batra’s The Lunch Box
- Jimani Nath (ENG1961040) - Reflection of Nationalism and Cultural Identity in the Songs of Dr. Bhupen Hazarika
PG 2018- 2020 Batch
- Mansur Ahmed (ENG1861002) - Realization of Self in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
- Irani Bordoloi (ENG1861019) - Women Through the Eyes of Women
- Dalima Mushahary (ENG1861025) - Wide Sargasso Sea as a Re-reading of Jane Eyre
- Tina Haloi (ENG1861041) - Different Draupadis: Select Representations in Contemporary Fiction
- Somee Das (ENG1861043) - Re-establishment of Female Identity in R. K. Narayan’s The Guide
Chair
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1. Chaired a panel on "Understanding Narratives of Crises: Cultures of Trauma, Tragedy, and Healing" at the during the Research Scholars' Conclave 2024, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati
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Conference
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1. Presented a paper titled "Resistance and Resilience: Protest Narratives from India's North East" in Ethics of Representation,Forms of Resistance and Narratives of Discomfort, the South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Annual Conference
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2. Presented a paper titled "Queering the City in Nemat Sedat's The Carpet Weaver" in Queer (Second) Cities Conference
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3. Presented a paper titled "Brahmaputra Tales: The River and Its Ecosphere in Select Fiction from Assam" in "'Without Water We Are Nothing': Poetics and Politics of Water in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures (20th-21st centuries)"
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4. Presented a paper titled "Geographies of Nostalgia: A Reading of Jahnavi Barua's Undertow and Daribha Lyndem's Name Place Animal Thing" in 'Metropolis and Margins: Shifting Configurations in Literature and Language Studies", the Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
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5. Presented a paper titled "The City of the flâneuse: Spatiality and Representation in Villette"
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6. Presented a paper titled “The City at the Margins: A Reading of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance and Kiran Nagarkar’s Ravan and Eddie” at the (Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies) Annual Conference on “Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile”
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7. Presented a paper titled “Writing Nature in India’s Northeast: Poetry and Perspectives” in the National Seminar on "Climate Change, Conflict and Pandemic: Literary Responses from India’s North East"
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8. Presented a paper titled “Narrating the Self: A Reading of Easterine Iralu’s A Terrible Matriarchy and Temsula Ao’s Once Upon A Life: Burnt Curry and Bloody Rags” at the IACLALS Annual Conference on "Location, Identity, Solidarity – Hegemonic Formations and Contestations (With Special Focus on the Northeast)"
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Invited Lecture
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1. Invited as Guest Lecturer to speak on "Western Exoticization of the East: Perspectives from India's North East" in 2023 Postcolonial Literature in English Postgraduate Seminar Series
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Panelist
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1. Panelist in the discussion on “Tribal Identity and Culture II: Tribal Literature and Tribal Representation in Literature” TMYS (Tell Me Your Story), a Women’s Narratives and History Project, curated by Koral Dasgupta
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