Member Profile
Name:
Dr Saswati Halder
Institution:
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Academic status:
University/college academic
Main discipline:
Literary Studies
Additional disciplines:
Other societies:
1. Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA)
2. Ecosophical Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment (EFSLE)
2. Ecosophical Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment (EFSLE)
Research interests:
Dr. Saswati Halder is an Associate Professor in the Department of English of Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She is also the Coordinator of the Centre for Victorian Studies Her research interests revolve around 19th Century British Literature, Literary Ecology and Culture, Functional and Communicative English. She is the Editor of The Confidential Clerk, an international, interdisciplinary online journal of the Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University. Under the grant of a UKIERI ‘Faculty Exchange Programme,’ she visited the School of English and Victorian Studies Centre of the University of Leicester, UK, to facilitate towards cementing the connections between the Victorian Studies Centres of the two institutions. She is also the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Award for Short Research.
• PhD thesis is on ‘A Goodness Entirely Human’: The Influence of Feuerbach on George Eliot’s Fiction.
• Completed a research project on The Spanish Gypsy and Daniel Deronda: George Eliot’s “Others-at-Home,” under Jadavpur University Research Fund (February 2013- February 2015).
• Currently Principal Investigator of a research project on Literary Ecology in Nineteenth Century Bengal. It proposes to investigate the representation and interpretation of the relationship between humans and the non-human nature in the context of the radical transformations in the physical and ideological landscapes that characterized nineteenth century Bengal.
• PhD thesis is on ‘A Goodness Entirely Human’: The Influence of Feuerbach on George Eliot’s Fiction.
• Completed a research project on The Spanish Gypsy and Daniel Deronda: George Eliot’s “Others-at-Home,” under Jadavpur University Research Fund (February 2013- February 2015).
• Currently Principal Investigator of a research project on Literary Ecology in Nineteenth Century Bengal. It proposes to investigate the representation and interpretation of the relationship between humans and the non-human nature in the context of the radical transformations in the physical and ideological landscapes that characterized nineteenth century Bengal.