Debasmita Biswas

Assistant Professor
Department: English
Email id: [email protected]

I. Personal Information:

Sex: Female
Birth Place: Kolkata
Languages known: Bangla, English, Hindi
Nationality: Indian
Permanent Address: Kolkata

II. Career Objectives and Goals:

1.Preparing students to thrive in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
2.Inculcating within students a love for their culture and encouraging them to explore the heritage and history of the nation so they may remove the last vestiges of Macaulayan conditioning in their thought process.
3.Motivating students, especially first generation learners to actualise their potential.
4.Encouraging female students to be financially independent and focus on building their careers.
5.Re-skilling oneself in a rapidly evolving era.

III. Educational Qualifications:

Degree	Year of Passing	Specialisation
M. Phil in English From Christ College	2012	Film Studies
M.A. in English from EFLU, Hyderabad	2009	Cultural Studies, English Literature, Postcolonialism
B.A. from Presidency College, Kolkata	2007	Honours in English

IV. Employment History:

Institution	Period	Designation
Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	`2017- present`	Assistant Professor
Adamas Institute of Technology	2014 – 2017	Assistant Professor
Adamas University	2015 – 2016	Guest Faculty
Kingston Polytechnic College	2012 – 2015	Lecturer

Publications

1.Book Chapter-Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution-ISBN: 978-93-95824-07-1-Debasmita Biswas-2023-Bikali College

VI. Conference/ Seminar/ Workshop Presentations:

Papers Presented at International/ National Level Seminars/ Workshops:

Sl.No	Organised by	Level (International/ National/ State Level)	Title of Conference/ Seminar/ Workshop	Title of Paper
01	Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange, Alipurduar College et al.	International Level	Environmentalism, Globalism and Morality	Environmentalism and Posthumanism in the Age of the Anthropocene: Alternative Narratives in Transnational Capitalist Reality
2	A.B.N Seal College and IGNOU	National Level	Approaches to Environment: Society, Culture, Polity and Economy	Grappling with the Anthropocene: The Posthuman Turn
3	Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University and Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange	International Level	Cognitive Science, Language and Reality	The Posthuman in the Anthropocene: Cyborgs, Subalterns and the Postcolonial Other
4	Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University	International Level	Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar: Dusho Boshorer Punarbikshan	Vidyasagar and the Woman Question
5	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	National Level	Pathways of Eternal Wisdom: Unveiling the Depths of the Indian Knowledge System	Decolonising India through Indian Knowledge Systems
6	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	National Level	Virtues and Values in Indian Philosophical Thought	Vaisheshika Philosophy in the 21^st Century
7	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	National Level	Resilience and Evolution: Unveiling the Journey of Indian Women from Antiquity to Modernity	Rishikas in Ancient India and Warrior Queens of India: Women Scholars and Warriors of Bharat
8	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	National Level	Women Participation in Politics: Barriers and Challenges	A Brief Survey of Self-Made Women Politicians of India
9	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	National Level	Human Rights and Gender Justice: Issues and Challenges	Human Rights and the Rhetoric of Self-Righteousness: A Non-Western Perspective
10	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	National Level	Mahatma Gandhi: From Holy Deeds to Unholy Death	Questioning the Narrative of the Mahatma: Re-evaluating M.K. Gandhi’s Holy Deeds

VII. Webinars/ Seminars Participated:

1.National Level-Orientation Programme for UG and PG Counselors and Content Writers of Bengali and English-29.4.2022-Netaji Subhas Open University
2.State Level-AI in Education-Webinar-27.3.24-The Government of West Bengal, Dept. of Higher Education and the International Centre of Excellence, Kolkata

VIII. Courses Attended:

Sl.No	Type & Level	Title of Course	Date	Organised by
1	FIP	FIP	2 – 23 March 2022	The Teaching Learning Centre, Tezpur University
2	RC	Literatures of North-East India	13-27 Dec 2022	The Teaching Learning Centre, Tezpur University
3	RC	Indian Literature and Language	`16 – 29 Aug 2023`	UGC-HRDC, Kumaun University, Nainital
4	FDP	FICT Tools for Effective Teaching-Learning	18-23 March 2024	The Teaching Learning Centre, Tezpur University

IX. Special/ Invited Lectures:

Sl.No	Organised by	Title of Lecture
1	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya, Department of Sanskrit	Women of Ramayana
2	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya, Department of Sanskri	Mahabharat from a Feminist Perspective
3	Cooch Behar College, Department of English	Renaissance
4	Cooch Behar College, Department of English	Posthumanism

X. Institutional Responsibilities Handled:

Sl.No	Responsibilities handled	Institution	Period
1	Convenor, Library Committee	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	2018-2019
2	Convenor, Anti-Ragging Committee	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	2022-present
3	Member. Board of Studies, BBA	Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University	2023-present
4	Member, Career Counselling Committee	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	2022-present
5	Member, IQAC	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	2022-present
6	Member, IQAInvited Faculty, PG	Cooch Behar College	2024-present
7	Member, Research Committee	Dewanhat Mahavidyalaya	2022-present

XI. Key Skills:

• Team Player
• Good communicator
• Critical thinking and analytical skills

XII. Areas of Interest:

• Posthumanism
• Anthropocene
• Human Subjectivity at the crossroads of advanced technologies
• Decolonisation of Indian epistemology and ontology

Any other skill/ information:

Member of NASGROUP since 2019, an environmentalist group of Cooch Behar headed by the environmentalist Mr. Arup Guha

NAAC Accredited with B