Dr. Abhik Mukherjee

Assistant Professor

About

Email	abhik.mukherjee@bcrec.ac.in
Date of birth	1982-01-01
Date of joining	2024-09-18
Department	Basic Science and Humanities
Address	Village, Post Satgachia, Dist. Burdwan (East), Pin code 713422
Vidwan ID
About Me	Abhik Mukherjee, Assistant professor of English, Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College Durgapur, India published a number of articles on literature and film. He worked on a Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral project (2018-19) in Women's and Gender studies at Washington State University Vancouver with Carol Siegel on "D.H. Lawrence and Satyajit Ray's Contributions to Understanding the Construction of Gender." He attended some national and international conferences that include the biggest annual international film conference, The Society of Cinema and Media Studies in 2019 in Seattle. He was invited to give talks in India and abroad including a research talk at Washington State University Vancouver Library on Ray and Lawrence. He received a travel grant from WSU Vancouver in April 2019 to visit the D.H. Lawrence Archive in Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin for his research on D.H. Lawrence. He is the member of Modern Language Association (MLA), D. H. Lawrence Society of North America and Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Research ID links: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8701-3650 https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=58309798200
Specialization / Research Interest	Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Modern British Literature, Film Studies

Qualifications

Educational Qualifications

Postdoctoral Research on Fulbright Nehru Postdoctoral Grant for twelve months on "D.H. Lawrence and Satyajit Ray's Contributions to Understanding the Construction of Gender" Grant No. 2412/FNPDR/2017 Date of issue: July 26, 2018 (http://www.usief.org.in/scholar- profile/scholarprofiledetails.aspx?fellowid=11736)
Washington State University Vancouver, USA - 2019
Ph.D.
National Institute of Technology Durgapur - 2014

Teaching and R & D experience

Teaching	Research	Industry
17 years	1 year

Abhik Mukherjee taught at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Vellore and XIM University Bhubaneswar among others

1. Communication Skills (communication theories, presentation, group discussion, interviews)

2. Shakespeare

3. Modern British Literature

4. Academic Writing

Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Modern British Literature, Film Studies

(i) Selected and worked as a reviewer (subject expert) of the Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Applications (2023-24) in the field of Language and Literature

(ii) Selected and worked as a reviewer (subject expert) of the Fulbright Nehru Doctoral Research Applications (2022-23) in the field of Language and Literature.

(iii) Worked as Reviewer for Springer Nature, SAGE Publication and Scopus-indexed journals.

(iv) Worked as an adjudicator (external) of the dissertation relating to award of Doctor of Philosophy in English under Faculty Council of Post-Graduate Studies in Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal (a state university)

(v) Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Grant (2018- 19)

Activities

Expertise

Communication skills, Soft Skills, Modern British Literature, Gender

Other distinctions

Worked as an adjudicator (external) of the dissertation relating to award of Doctor of Philosophy in English under Faculty Council of Post-Graduate Studies in Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal (a state university)

Invited Lectures

SL. No.	Location	Topic
1	Invited as a Resource Person for a talk on to the Department of Business Administration, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal on 22 April, 2025.	“Interpersonal Skills”
2	Invited as a Panellist and Session chair to the 2nd International Conference on Using Extensive Reading to Develop Communicative Competence at NSHM Knowledge Campus Kolkata on 28 and 29 February 2024.	"Reading Skills"
3	Invited as a resource person to conduct a three- day Workshop from 11-13 July 2022 at ICAR- NDRI Karnal, Haryana (India) under National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP)	“How to Improve Your Presentation Skills”
4	Invited as a resource person to conduct a two- day Workshop from 24-25 February 2023 at ICAR-NDRI Karnal, Haryana (India) under National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP)	“Academic Writing”
5	Invited as a resource person to Haldia Institute of Technology Haldia, West Bengal. Five-Day National Webinar (10-14 Nov. 2021)	"It is Impossible to Say What I Mean."
6	Invited as a resource person to Gobinda Prasad Mahavidyalaya, Amarkanan, Bankura,West Bengal . International Webinar Series (June 27-July 4, 2020) .	"The Odes of John Keats."
7	Invited to give a Research talk to Washington State University Vancouver Library, USA on March 5,2019.	" A Beautiful Connection: D.H. Lawrence, Satyajit Ray and International Feminism "

Membership of professional bodies

SL. No.	Professional Body
1	(i) Modern Language Association (MLA), New York (ii) D. H. Lawrence Society of North America (2019 Directory) iii) Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 640 Parrington Oval, Wallace, Old Science Hall#300, Norman, Oklahoma 73019-3060 US 405.3258075 scms-office@ou.edu

Publications

Journal

Date	Title	Journal	DOI	Link
04-12-2024	Subhadeep Ray and Goutam Karmaker, Eds, Modernist Transition: Cultural Encounters between British and Bangla Modernist Fiction	Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies	DOI	View

Book Chapters

Date	Title	Book Title	Editor	ISBN	DOI	Link
12-12-2024	. "An analysis of Select Hindi and Bengali Films from Feminist Perspective."	Multiculturalism and Social Realism in Contemporary Literature	Dr. M. Kannadhasan and Dr. V. Saravanan	978-81-972143-3-2	DOI	View

Participations

Participation In Seminar / Conference / Symposium / Workshop / Discussion Meeting

SL. No.	Event	Duration	Year
1	Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore: Faculty Development Programme on “Recent Trends in English Language Teaching and Interdisciplinary Approaches”	13 March to 12 June, 2021	2021
2	ATAL FDP on "life Skills Management"	5 days	2025
3	Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur; Vinod Gupta School of Management: AICTE approved Short Term Course on "Customer Behavior: Role of Market Research"	4-8 May 2015 (5 days)	2025
4	(iv) Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kharagpur ; Centre for Educational Technology (CET): MHRD/ AICTE sponsored Short Term Course on Educational Leadership	19-25 September, 2011 (7 days)	2011
5	Infosys Campus Connect soft skills Programme Bhubaneswar	22-24 July	2010
6	National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training and Research, Bhopal: MHRD/ AICTE sponsored summer School Programme on "Student Counseling and Motivation for Attitude Development and Positive Thinking"	21to25 July,2008	2008

Faculty Development Programmes

Start Date	End Date	Title	Organizer
30-12-2024	03-01-2025	FDP on "Life Skills Management	School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Managment, IIT Bhubaneswar
13-01-2025	17-01-2025	One week FDP on "Advanced Pedagogy and Classroom Deleivery Enhancement Techniques in Higher Education	E&ICT Academy, IIT Guwahati

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