Amartya Mitra
PhD Student
English
Office Hours
STV 424B
Stevenson Hall
Tuesday- 11am-1pm
Stevenson Hall
Tuesday- 11am-1pm
Email
- About
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Current Courses
101.036Composition As Critical Inquiry
101.064Composition As Critical Inquiry
Research Interests & Areas
Humor Studies, Ecotheory, Digital Humanities, Cultural Studies, European Modernism
MA (Certificate) in Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics
Jadavpur University
MA in English
Visva Bharati , Santiniketan
BA (Hons) in English Language & Literature
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira (University of Calcutta)
Wingword Poetry Prize (Finalist)
Delhi Poetry Slam
2020
Best Editor Award for the Short Film 'Putul'
JIS College of Engineering
2019
Mrinal Sen Memorial Prize for the Short Film 'Putul"
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira
2019
Debmoy Banerjee Memorial Prize for the play 'Porjotoker Pakkami' (Bengali)
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira
2018
After Dickens Writing Award
British Council India
2012
Creative Works/Broadcast Media
Mitra, A. Poems Divorce I and Divorce II. Vickey David (EDs), Heap of Broken Images: An Anthology of Today’s Poems. Notion Press (2022): 134.
Mitra, A. Brink. Riding On The Summer Train. Wingword Poetry Competition (2020): 87.
Presentations
Fire Spitting Humor: A Benign Violation Reading of 'Roast' Comedy. Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS 34). Texas A&M University. (2024)
Interweaving Justice: Exploring Latin American Folk Retelling in Eduardo Galeano and Francis Borges's Walking Words. Deep Histories, Material Memory and Sentient Justice. Illinois State University. (2023)
'Title'. Creative Writing Workshop. Visva Bharati. (2022)