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Department of English

Faculty Details

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Dr Devapriya Sanyal

Assistant Professor,English

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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
Academic Degree Subject University Address of the University Rank/ Medals
Post Doc Cinema JNU ICSSR and JNU
PhD English JNU New Delhi
MPhil English and Film JNU NEW DELHI
M.A. ENGLISH JNU NEW DELHI
B.A. English UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA CALCUTTA
Eligibility Details
Category Subject Status
NET ENGLISH Cleared
PhD Details
Title of Thesis University / Institution University Address Date of Registration Date of Completion Details of papers published (Enter the total number of papers published / under process as part of Phd) Current Status
A Study of the Representation of Women in Ray's Cinema Jawaharlal Nehru University G5Q8+WHC, New Mehrauli Road, JNU Ring Rd, New Delhi, 110067 01-07-2011 10-02-2015 1 Awarded
Post Doc Details
Institution Name Institution Address Start Date End Date Subject Outcome
JNU JNU &ICSSR 06-02-2017 05-02-2020 FILM AND GENDER I have converted it into a study of Aparna Sen's films which has been accepted by Rupa Publications
Books Published
Title Type No of Authors or Editors Your authorial position Year ISBN Publisher Details
Failed Masculinities Authored 1 1st 2023 978-1399511148 Edinburgh University Press
Salman Khan The Man, The Actor, The Legend Authored 1 1st 2022 9789388414715 Bloomsbury
Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films Authored 1 1st 2021 9781032051727 Routledge UK
Through the Eyes of a Cinematographer A Biography of Soumendu Roy Authored 1 1st 2017 9789352770359 Harper Collins,India
Book Chapter Published
Article Title Book title Book editor Article pages No of Chapters Year ISBN Publisher Details
The trauma and the triumph: The Case of the Nowhere People in Srijit Mukherjee’s Rajkahini and Goutam Ghosh’s Shankhachil. Migration, Identity and Resistance in Post-Colonial Nation-States Sk Sagir Ali et al 195-203 1 2025 9781032868882 Routledge
Radical Landscapes: Analysing Ecodisaster and Human Rights Violations in Irada and Kadvi HawaRights Ecodisaster Imagineries in India: Essays in Critical Persepctives Scott Slovic et al 225-236 1 2023 978-1-66693-641-4 lexington Books, Rowman and LIttlefield
Decolonising Encounters of the Indian Kind: Reading the Postcolonial 'Other' in Vandana Singh's The Science Fiction in India Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms Shweta Khilnani and Ritwick Bhattacharjee 50-58 1 2022 9789354353437 Bloomsbury Academic, India
Publications
Title Journal Name Year DOI/URL Your authorial position How many authors Clarivate IF
The Bengali Detective: Satyajit Ray’s The Elephant God FILM INTERNATIONAL 2025 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/fiin.17.4.78_1 1st and corresponding 1 0.05
A Path to a Rural Cinema An interview with Rishabh Shetty on Kantara Film International 2024 https://doi.org/10.1386/fint_226_7 1st 1 0.01
Book Review: M.K. Raghavendra, The Writing of the Nation by Its Elite: The Politics of Anglophone Indian Literature in the Global Age (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), vii + 221 pp. South Asia Research 2024 https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272354 1st 1 0.9
Small Is Big Now: The emergence of Hatke cinema in Bollywood FILM INTERNATIONAL 2020 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/fint_00057_1 1st and corresponding 1 0.05
Projects
Title of Project Category Level Department Current Status Principal Investigator Funding Agency Project Start Date Project End Date Amount
Vande Mataram: Nationalism and National concerns in Bengali Cinema Minor National ENGLISH Ongoing Devapriya Sanyal ICSSR 07-03-2025 30-04-2026 5 lakhs
Popular Media Articles
Serial Number Name of Article Name of the Magazine / Media Year Link
2 What explains Salman Khan's flop show? Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/entertainment/what-explains-salman-khans-flop-show-1216135.html Deccan Herald 05-05-2023 https://www.deccanherald.com/entertainment/what-explains-salman-khans-flop-show-1216135.html
3 The mighty influence of Ray on Indian cinema Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/entertainment/the-mighty-influence-of-ray-on-indian-cinema-1113128.html Deccan Herald 22-05-2023 https://www.deccanherald.com/entertainment/the-mighty-influence-of-ray-on-indian-cinema-1113128.html
1 Is Masculinity in flux and under threat? Deccan Herald 03-09-2023 https://www.deccanherald.com/features/gender/is-masculinity-in-flux-and-under-threat-2669161
4 Modern Love The New Indian Express 01-12-2023 https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2023/Dec/02/modern-love-2637587.html
Previous Experience
Designation Institution Name Start Date End Date
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE, BENGALURU 21-02-2022 30-06-2023
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (GUEST/ADHOC) DYAL SINGH COLLEGE 17-02-2021 31-12-2021
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (GUEST) HINDU COLLEGE 24-09-2019 31-12-2020
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GALGOTIAS UNIVERSITY 22-08-2016 12-05-2019
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (GUEST) DEPARTMENT OF GERMANIC AND ROMANCE STUDIES 06-01-2016 31-05-2016
CONTRACTUAL LECTURER SURENDRANATH COLLEGE 02-09-2014 31-03-2015
Research ids
Google Scholar id ResearchGate id Orcid id Scopus Author ID Vidwan
Devapriya Sanyal,JNU 0000-0001-8443-8672 57221741571
Devapriya Sanyal,SJU Devapriya Sanyal, JNU 0000-0001-8443-8672 57221741571 521384
Devapriya Sanyal, St Joseph's University Devapriya Sanyal,JNU 0000-000184438672 57221741571 521384

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