Prof Indrani Ray is an Assistant Professor at the department of English, Katwa College affiliated to the University of Burdwan. She has worked as a lecturer in the department of English , Shri Shikshayatan College , Kolkata from 2008 to early 2017 before joining Katwa College.
Her MPhil is on Challenges of Teaching Communicative English in the Colleges of Kolkata.
Parallel Milestones :
She has earlier taught the paper on Linguistics at the Post Graduate Level in the department of English, WBSU and the paper on Communicative English at the Department of Library Science, University of Calcutta. At present she also addresses Post Graduate students of the department of English, Shri Shikshayatan College affiliated to University of Calcutta.
Resourcing :
She has been a resource person for a career readiness camp organized by Vikramshila Education Society in collaboration with the American Centre Kolkata in 2016. She has Worked as a facilitator with American Fulbright Scholars on a teaching project “Bolo American English” organized by American Centre, Kolkata.
She has been invited as a resource person to Faculty Induction programmes , Special Lectures and judges at various literary events .
Research Interests : Language Teaching , Classroom dynamics , Partition Literature , Dalit theatre
Publications :
- "Stepping Down the Altar : The Inclusive Classroom" in Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) ISSN :2349-5162 December 2022 VOL,9 ISSUE 12
- "Looking at Sita and the Forest in Volga’s retelling, The Forest of Enchantments and Reamker" in Praxis International Journal of Social Science and Literarture ISSN : 2581-6675 March 2023, Volume 6 Issue 3
- "Floating signfication : Language Maintenance in the Diasporas" in Literary Research review ISBN : 978-9391741-22-8 (Levant books)
- Appreciating/Appropriating wealth through Women: Devdutt Pattanaik's Mythmaking in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts ISSN 2320-2882 Vol 12 Issue March 2024.
- 5. “identity in the designed and emergent world of video games” in a ugc assisted drs (sap iii) phase ii national seminar, university of Calcutta, department of ENGLISH ON post post-colonial theory and texts. 2011
6. “opium DeQuincy and the fractured romantic" in the vol 6 2014 issue of literati on intoxication and literature-journal of the department of English ,Prafulla Chandra college issn- 2321-88
- 7. “oneness of life death and environment: nichiren Buddhism in the poet-creator Dylan Thomas” (the journal of the dept. of English, university of Calcutta, 2016) VOL xxxix, issn 2249-4537, 2014-15)
8. “challenges of teaching communicative English in the colleges of Kolkata” in modern trends in language and literature ed. by dr. Nageswara Rao KONDA, V. RAJASHEKHAR, dr. pavan Chakravarthy i and dr. b. ashok.Hyderabad, TELANGANA, October 2016. isbn 978-81-927323-3-6
- 9. “digital games and elt – agency, ownership and control”in beyond the zoned space: teaching and learning English in the digital era , edited by dr. sukanti Dutta. published by city college of commerce and business administration. august 2016 ISBN: 978-81-928721-4-8
Her presentations include :
- Paper on Diaspora(s) in International Conference on Literarture ,School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Paper in Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies, Auckland, New Zealand
- Paper in International seminar on Responding to Disparities and Poverty: A Focus on The Women Empowerment Perspectives in Diamond Harbour Women's University
- Paper in Multi-lingual International Seminar on Parttiton of 1947 organised by Benaras Hindu University
- Paper on Dalit Women's writing in Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS), Memory, Security, Sustainability IIT Madras
She has been an active thinker and constant force behind the functioning of Chrysanthemum, the Literary Society of the Department.
