Associate Professor of English Shumona Dasgupta

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, presented the paper “Memory, Trauma, and Violence: The Partition in Indian Cinema​” at the 28th annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies conference in Savannah, Georgia, on February 16, 2019.

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, presented a paper on Bollywood and the Partition, entitled “Mothers of the Nation: Gender and Identity in Indian Partition Cinema,” at the 29th annual Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association conference in Baltimore (November 8-9, 2018). The paper has since been nominated for the MAPACA Donald Award, which recognizes an outstanding paper and presentation delivered at MAPACA’s annual conference. ​

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently presented two conference papers, “A Counter Discourse to Bollywood: Gender, Nation and Violence in Bengali Partition Cinema” at the Association of Asian Studies Conference in Washington, DC March 22-25 and “An(other) Story: Memory, Trauma and Identity in Muslim Narratives of the Partition” at the American Comparative Literature Association’s annual conference hosted by UCLA in Los Angeles March 29-April 1.

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently published an article and gave an invited talk. The article, “‘His Blood Was Pure English’: Border Anxiety, Race, and Mimicry in Post-Imperial Mutiny Fiction,” appeared in The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 2016, pp. 85-100. The invited talk, “From the Other Side of Silence: Indian Women Write the Partition,” was given at the South Asian Millennials Conference, organized by the South Asian Students’ Chapter at Columbia and Yale Universities February 3-4, 2018, at Columbia University in New York.

Shumona Dasgupta, assistant professor of English, presented the paper “Beyond the Postcolonial: Post-national Longing in Ritwick Ghatak’s Partition Cinema” on Jan. 3, 2017, at the 17th Annual Conference of the South Asian Literary Association in Philadelphia.

Shumona Dasgupta, assistant professor of English, presented the paper “Decolonizing Trauma Studies: Writing the Partition of Bengal” at the American Comparative Literature Association’s annual conference held in Boston on March 17-20.

Shumona Dasgupta, assistant professor of English, has had her article “Partitions of Memory: Trauma and Narrative in Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning” published in South Asian Review 36.3 (Dec. 2015): 51-65. A description of the essay can be accessed here.

Shumona Dasgupta, assistant professor of English, presented the paper titled “Representing the Partition: Memory, Mourning and Trauma in Bengali Cinema” at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association’s annual conference held in Philadelphia Nov. 5-7, 2015.