Time, History and Cultural Spaces

Jayita Sengupta is professor of English at Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, India. She was a British Council Fellow, UK in 2000, a Fulbright-Nehru Teaching Fellow at Stanford University, USA and a teaching fellow to National Kaosiung Normal University and Soochow University in Taiwan in 2013. As a member of the Society for Activities and Research on the Indian World (SARI), France, she has received travel grants for presentations at their Annual Colloquium several times. Her research interests include gender, cultures of memory, narrative and translation studies. Besides academic essays and books, she has also published her visual storybook, comprising four short stories with her paintings, titled Shivelight and Other Stories, 2020. Her English translation of Bani Basu's novel, titled Gandharvi: Life of a Musician, 2017 was nominated for the Muse India Translation Award in 2018. Jayita is also a Mentor of the Indian Knowledge Systems, a division of the Ministry of Education and is actively engaged in guiding the short research projects of the scholars selected for IKS Internships Programme.