Dr Baidik Bhattacharya
Lecturer in Colonial/Postcolonial Literature
- Email: baidik.bhattacharya@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)191 222 5316
- Fax: +44 (0)191 222 8708
Research Interests
Postcolonial Theory and Literature; Critical Theory; 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy; English Novel; Indian Literatures; Intersection between Literature and Social Sciences.
Selected Publications
- Bhattacharya B; Srivastava N, ed. The Postcolonial Gramsci. New York: Routledge, 2010.
- Bhattacharya B. Public Penology: Postcolonial Biopolitics and a Death in Alipur Central Jail, Calcutta. Postcolonial Studies 2009, 12(01), 7-28.
- Baidik Bhattacharya. Naipaul's New World: Postcolonial Modernity and the Enigma of Belated Space. NOVEL A Forum on Fiction 2006, 39(2), 245-267.
- Baidik Bhattacharya. “Jokes Apart: Orientalism, (Post)colonial Parody, and the Moment of Laughter”, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2006), 276-94. 2006.
- Baidik Bhattacharya. “Domain, Domination and Domesticity: Nationalism, Gender and Women's Writing in Colonial Bengal”, Signifying the Self: Women and Literature. (eds.) Malashri Lal, Shormishtha Panja and Sumanyu Satpathy (Delhi: Macmillan, 2004). 2004.
- Baidik Bhattacharya. “Romance of the Nation: Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s Historical Romances and the Allegory of Nation”, Space, Sexuality and Postcolonial Cultures, (ed.) Manas Ray (Calcutta: Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, 2003). 2003.
Projects
- Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia
Project Leaders: Dr Neelam Srivastava and Dr Baidik Bhattacharya
A 3-year collaborative project between Newcastle and other UK and Indian universities, on theories and practices of translation in 5 Indian languages: Bengali, English, Hindi, Malayalam, and Tamil.
Qualifications
D.Phil (2007) University of Oxford
M.Phil (2002) Jawaharlal Nehru University
MA (2000) Jawaharlal Nehru University
BA (1997) University of North Bengal
Postgraduate Teaching