ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Ph.D.: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
  
• M.A.: Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal
  
• B.A.: Presidency College (University of Calcutta), Kolkata
  

 

 

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JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Mukhopadhyay, S. (2023). To Give Voice to the Voiceless. Quarterly Review of Film and Video [online first] (Taylor & Francis) [https://doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2023.2264148]
• —————. (2022). “I Am a Refugee in This Land”: Performative Narration, Recollection and Resilience in Refugee Narratives of West Bengal, India. Narrative Culture (Wayne State University Press), 9(1): 197-216 [doi:10.1353/ncu.2022.0009]
• —————. (2021). Memories of the 1947 Bengal Partition and Its Aftermath: Tanvir Mokammel’s Seemantorekha. Studies in People’s History (SAGE), 8(1): 135-146 [https://doi.org/10.1177/2348448921999039]
• —————. (2021). Who is a Refugee? Understanding the Figure of the Refugee Against the Backdrop of the Bengal Partition (1947-1970). Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 13(2): 1-11 [DOI: 21659/rupkatha.v13n2.31]
• —————. (2019). Thinking of Migration through Caste: Reading Oral Narratives of Displaced Person(s) from East Pakistan (1950-1970). Journal of Migration Affairs (TISS), 2(1): 113-131 [DOI: 10.36931/jma.2019.2.1.113-131]
• —————. (2019). Reminiscence/Reticence: Interpretive Conflict in Oral Narratives. Alteritas: EFLU Journal of Literary Inquiry, 1(1): 121-136 [https://www.efluniversity.ac.in/Journals-Literary%20Studies/Sumallya%20Mukhopadhyay.pdf]
• —————. (2017). Of Forgotten Histories. Muse India, 74 (2017) (ISSN: 0975-1815) [http://www.museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=articles&issid=74&menuid=7391]
• —————. (2015). In Search of Identity: Sexuality, Subversion and Expansion in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Condition. Manan: An Academic Journal of All Bengal State Government College Teachers’ Association, 2(2): 82-88 (ISSN: 2348-3849)

 

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 BOOK CHAPTERS

• Mukhopadhyay, S. (Forthcoming 2024). Life Stories and Material Objects: Revisiting the Memory of the 1947 Bengal Partition. Edited by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Rituparna Roy & Jayanta Sengupta. The Long History of Partition in Bengal: Event, Memory, Identity. Routledge
• —————. (Forthcoming 2024). Mnemohistorical Reading of the Past: Conceptualising Memoryscape and Historical Time in Oral Reminiscences of East Pakistani Refugees in West Bengal. Edited by Avishek Parui and Merin Simi Raj. Brill Handbook of Indian Memory Studies. Brill.
• Mukhopadhyay, S. & Kaveri. (2023). Understanding Climate Change and Its Impact on Myanmar: Migration, Migrants and Legal Framework. In Environment, Climate Change and Migration in South Asia. Routledge. ISBN-9781003367802, pp. 145-164 [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003367802]

 

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BOOK REVIEWS

• Mukhopadhyay, S. (2023). A Reading of Violence in Partition Stories from Bengal. Summerhill: IIAS Review, 28(2), 92–93 (ISSN: 0972-1452) [http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/summerhill/article/view/1531]
• —————. (2022). On Memory and History: Inherited Memories. The Book Review Journal, 46(9): 32-33 (ISSN: 0970-4175) [https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/on-memory-and-history/]
• —————. (2022). Revisiting Partition. South Asian Diaspora, 15(1): 114-116. [https://doi.org/10.1080/19438192.2022.2123148]
• —————. (2021). Refugees, Rights and Rehabilitation: Anindita Ghoshal’s Refugees, Borders and Identities’ The Book Review Journal, 45(7): 25 (ISSN: 0970-4175) [https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/refugees-rights-and-rehabilitation/]
• —————. (2021). Victory Colony: Bhaswati Ghosh’s Victory Colony, 1950. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, 7(2): 155-161 (ISSN: 2349-8064) [https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/156]
• —————. (2020). Modern Consumerism Parodied: Perumal Murugan’s Estuary The Book Review Journal, 44(9): 30-31 (ISSN: 0970-4175) [https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/modern-consumerism-parodied/]
• —————. (2020). Of Reconciliation and Repatriation: Kavita Puri’s Partition Voices. The Book Review Journal, 44(5): 16 (ISSN: 0970-4175) [https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/of-reconciliation-and-repatriation/]
• —————. (2019). Story of the World on the Brink: Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island. The Book Review Journal, 43(9): 28 (ISSN: 0970-4175) [https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/story-of-the-world-on-the-brink/]
• —————. (2019). Of Homelessness and (Be)Longing: Dina Nayeri’s The Ungrateful Refugee. Muse India, 88 [https://museindia.com/Home/ViewContentData?arttype=book%20review(s)&issid=88&menuid=8639]
• —————. (2017). Our Stars have Blood Clots: Re-reading the 1947 Partition of India: Yasmin Khan’s The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Caesura, 2(1). (ISSN: 2454-9495) [https://www.caesurae.org/reviews-reports]

 

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SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Mukhopadhyay, S. (September 2023). Negotiating ‘Postcolonial Disaster’: From Rift to Recollection through Football in Post-Partition West Bengal. From Colonial Modernity to Decolonisation: The British Empire & Beyond. University of Auckland, New Zealand
• —————. (July 2023). Learning to Affectively Listen in a Digital Age. 22nd International Oral History Association Conference. The School of Social Sciences of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. FGV CDPOC, Brazil
• —————. (June 2022). ‘I Belong There’: Affective Geography of Space in Refugee Reminiscences from Bangladesh and West Bengal. American Comparative Literature Association. National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
• —————. (June 2022). Life, Loss and Longing: Performative Narration, Recollection and Memory of East Pakistani Refugees in West Bengal. University of Bamberg, Germany
• —————. (March 2022). The Narrator, the Interviewer and the Listener: Affective Listening and Digital Oral History Archives. Seventh Oral History Association of India Conference. Jadavpur University, Kolkata
• —————. (March 2022). Conceptualising Memoryscape and Historical Time in Oral Reminiscences of East Pakistani Refugees in West Bengal. Memory in Transition, IISER Bhopal
• —————. (August 2021). ‘[A]ll Time is Eternally Present: Conceptualising Time in Oral History Narratives’. 21st International Oral History Conference, The National Archives of Singapore, Singapore
• —————. (April 2021). Refugees in the Making: The National Register of Citizens and its Politics of Documentation. Fourth Ireland India Conference, Dublin City University, Ireland
• —————. (December 2020). ‘Remembering ‘Legacy’ and Establishing ‘Linkage’: The National Register of Citizens and Memory Politics in Assam. Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University, Sweden

 

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AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

• Awarded the International Oral History Association Scholarship in February 2023 by the International Oral History Association (IOHA)
• Awarded the South Asia Speaks Fellowship in 2022, working on a book based on the 1947 Partition of South Asia
• Awarded the Research Excellence Travel Award by IIT Delhi in 2022
• Awarded the TATA Trusts – Partition Archive Research Grant by the 1947 Partition Archive in association with the University of Delhi in April 2021

 

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RESEARCH PROJECT

• Lead Research Associate (2021-2022) in Kolkata Partition Museum’s initiated project ‘Virtual-Kolkata Partition Museum’ [https://virtual-kolkata-partition-museum.org/]

 

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INVITED TALKS

• Invited talk on Enabling Conservation Through Digital Engagement at ICDE 2023, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India on 27 September 2023
• Keynote titled ‘Learning to Affectively Listen in a Digital Age’ delivered at the 22^nd International Oral History Association Conference, the School of Social Sciences of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. FGV CDPOC, Brazil on 25 July 2023
• Invited talk at the Department of English, Manikchak College, West Bengal in June 2023 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K7SmpkO-Wg (Part 1) & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM40xc5q554 9 (Part 2)]
• Chaired a panel titled ‘Oral History and Documentation’ at the 8th Oral History Association of India Conference, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad on 11 March 2023
• Invited talk at HSS Research Scholar Forum, BITS Pilani – Goa Campus on 10 December 2022. The title of the talk was ‘Remembering the 1947 Bengal Partition: Narration, Representation and Contestation’
• Invited talk at the 1947 Partition Archive podcast series to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Partition [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMEBmqYcv9c]
• Invited talk at the international symposium ‘Lives Redefined: Partition, Refugees and Settlement Colonies’ at Amity University (Delhi-NCR) where I presented the paper ‘Mapping Out the Contours of the City: Refugee Settlements and Changing Cityscape of Lucknow and Calcutta’ on 13 May 2021
• Moderator of the session titled ‘Making a Space of One’s Own: IITD and Beyond’ to commemorate the International Women’s Day at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT), New Delhi on 8 March 2021 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=4kfnrXaVgR0&feature=youtu.be]
• Invited talk at the Fourth Orientation Programme on Migration in Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS), Patna where I presented the paper ‘Who is a Refugee? Understanding the Figure of the Refugee against the Backdrop of the Bengal Partition (1947-1970)’ on 13 February 2020

 

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MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES

• Asian representative and scholar member, International Oral History Association (2023-2025)
• Executive committee member, Oral History Association of India (2022-2024)
• Student member, American Comparative Literature Association (2022-2023)