Ananya Chatterjee is an Assistant Professor of English at Balurghat College. She had formerly been an Assistant Professor at JIS College of Engineering and a lecturer at JIS University, Agarpara. She has completed her graduation and her master’s degree in English from the University of Calcutta. She is also pursuing her Ph.D. from Techno India University, Kolkata. She has co-authored a book, and contributed chapters and research articles to reputed academic anthologies and scholarly journals on authors including Rabindranath Tagore, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anita Desai, J.M. Coetzee, and others. She is a music-lover, and a published poet and short-story writer.
Publications:
- “Contrivances of Female Empowerment and the Millennial Wave in Disney Movies”, in Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Volume 1: Essay on Film Representation, 2012-2019 by McFarland and Company. (pISBN: 978-1-4766-7766-8, eISBN: 978-1-4766-3760-0) https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Fourth_Wave_Feminism_in_Science_Fiction.html?id=j6C3DwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
- “Death Matrix, Thanatopolitics and Gendered Expressions of ‘Death’ in J.M. Synge’s Riders to the Sea’, in Revisiting Modernism: Special Issue from The Spring Magazine on English Literature, Vol. iii, Number 1, 2017. (E-ISSN 2455-4715) http://springmagazine.net/V3/n1/v3n107.pdf
- “The Limits of Sentience and the Non-Normative Bodies from Heaney’s Bog”, published in Body Politics: Rethinking Gender and Masculinity (ISBN 978-81-948850-0-9), by Akhand Publishing House, 2021.
- ‘The Other Side of Empowerment: A Green Study of Desai’s The Village by the Sea’ in Ecocritical Representation of Literature: An Indian Perspective (ISBN 978-81-939342-6-5), published in 2019 by Akhand Publishing House.
- “Questioning the Paradigm: Examining Widowhood During Bengal Renaissance” in Into the Nuances of Culture: Essays on Cultural Studies (ISBN 978-93-87945-89-0), published in 2021 by Yking Books.
- “The Limits of Intertextuality, the Passion for Transgression, and Borges’s Aesthetics”, published in Off the Line: Transgression and Its Representation in Literature and Culture (ISBN 9788126931125), by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd, 2020.’
Gender and Posthumanism, Tagore studies, and Indian Literature in English.
Statement of Interest:
The intersection between popular culture and philosophical posthumanism forms the key to a contemporary understanding of the global dynamics, and, in this respect, the Indian Posthumanism Network can bring about a welcome change to the dominant trends in Indian academia. My interest in posthumanism stems from the feminist critique of anthropocentrism and the need to study the manners in which particularly popular media makes the general public accustomed to the post-anthropocentric posthuman paradigm. This necessitates a radical rehauling of those prevalent discourses on subjectivity, agency, identity and the Capitalocene which keep us from a proper appreciation of and critical insight into the workings of twenty-first century cultures. The Indian Posthumanism Network shall provide an effective platform that will initiate new ideas on this particular area and inspire open discussions.