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Paloma Chaterji is about to complete her PhD in English. Her thesis is a postcolonial feminist work emphasizing on contemporary women’s literature from Nagaland in Northeast India. She completed Masters in English and cleared the UGC NET (English) before joining as a research scholar at St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata. She has been an active participant in cultural activities and received the ‘Microsoft Create to Inspire’ fellowship that campaigned against the accumulation of electronic waste through the medium of the performing arts. She taught English Literature, Communicative English, and Functional English at a university in Kolkata for over three years before joining CVV in Aug 2024. She simultaneously engaged in research and teaching, and has a considerable research experience. She has earned a few grants during her PhD and presented her works in conferences in India and abroad. Her areas of interest include Feminist Studies, Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Studies, Literature and Environment, and Spatiality Studies.

EDUCATION

• PhD English (Pursuing) (2019-), St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata
• B. Ed (Bachelor of Education) (2018), Burdwan University
• MA English Literature, Rabindra Bharati University (2016)
• BA English, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, University of Calcutta (2014)

• Paper titled ‘Understanding Women-Nature Dynamics: Eco-consciousness as a Quest for Identity in Selected Texts from Assam’ published in double-blind peer reviewed Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (ISSN 0975-2935) Indexed by UGC, UGC CARE LIST, Web of Science, Scopus, DOAJ, ERIHPLUS Special Conference Issue (Vol. 12, No. 5, 2020. 1-6).
  https://rupkatha.com/V12/n5/rioc1s15n1.pdf
• Paper titled ‘Understanding Human -Nature Interaction through Selected Texts of Easterine Kire’ published in Shakespeare Society of Eastern India’s journal of International Journal of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences Vol.-XI, No.-XIV ISSN No. 2347-4777, Pg 45-50 (UGC Approved Multidisciplinary Peer-Reviewed Journal, currently Indexed in UGC Carelist) on June 2020.
• Paper titled ‘Narrating the Spaces of Growing up: Childhood, Space and the Quest for Identity’ published by Shakespeare Society of Eastern India in International Journal of Cultural Studies and Social Sciences Vol.-XIX, No.-XXII ISSN No. 2347-4777, Pg 140-149 (UGC Approved Multidisciplinary Peer-Reviewed Journal, currently Indexed in UGC Carelist) in June 2023 Issue.
• Article titled “Enquiring the ‘Marriage Question’” published in the periodical Frontier Weekly, Vol 56, No 5, ISSN 0016-2094, Pg 9, Issue July 30-Aug 05, 2023. https://frontierweekly.com/articles/vol-56/56-5/56-5-Enquiring%20the%20Marriage%20Question.html
• 2024 “Book Review of Geographical Imaginations: Literature and the ‘Spatial Turn’” by Acarya, Indranil and Ujjwal Panda, OUP, India, 2022 in Women’s Link: An International Bi-Annual Peer Reviewed Jamia Journal, Vol. 31 No. 1. ISSN 2229-6409, Pg 99-100.
• Accepted book chapter- Manuscript of chapter titled ‘Transcending the Anthropocene: Ecology and the Posthuman in Southeast Asian Fictions’ has been accepted for publication in an edited anthology of essays, titled “Posthuman Southeast Asia: Ecocritical Entanglements Across Species Boundaries” to be published by Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield, edited by Dr Ignasi Ribo.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

• Presented Paper titled ‘Understanding Women-Nature Relationship through Selected Texts from Assam’ in 1st Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities, 2020.
• Presented Paper titled ‘Challenging Colonial and Neocolonial Interventions through Interaction with Environment: A study of Ecological Behaviour of the Naga Tribes’ in International Seminar on Climate Change organized by National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata on Jan 18 2020. 
• Presented paper titled ‘Approaching the Selected Novels of Easterine Kire through a Postcolonial Lens’ in Three Day International Conference and Workshop on World Literature organized by Shakespeare Society of Eastern India in collaboration with ICCR Kolkata on 9, 10 and 11 Oct 2019.
• Presented paper titled ‘Exploring Space, Ecology and Gender in Literature from Nagaland’ at the Second Doctoral Colloquium 2020 by St Xavier’s University, Kolkata. 
• Presented paper titled ‘Exploring Personal and Collective Memories of Women in Select Texts from Nagaland’ in the International Conference on ‘Memory in Transition: Intersections: Contestations, Futures’ organized by IISER Bhopal from 3-5 March 2022. 
• Presented paper titled ‘Narrating the Spaces of Growing up: Childhood, Space and the Quest for Identity in Select Texts from Nagaland’ in the International Conference on “Spaces/Places of Growing Up: Mapping the Geographies of Childhood,” held on 15th -16th September 2022 organized by Department of English, Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, Kolkata.
• Presented paper titled ‘In Pursuit of Identity: Childhood and the Growth of Self’ in the International Conference on “Language Literatures, Theatre, Folk Forms and Society Across Cultures,’ organized by Shakespeare Society of Eastern India in collaboration with ICCR Kolkata on 13th and 14th May, 2023.
• Presented paper titled ‘Contextualizing Identity through Environmental Consciousness in Southeast Asian Fictions’ at ‘5th ASLE/ASEAN International Ecocritical Conference: Posthuman Southeast Asia’, hosted by the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand on 23, 24, and 25 November 2023. 

• Awarded ‘Microsoft Create to Inspire’ Fellowship in 2015 for creating awareness against e-waste through performing Arts.
• Received Certificate of Merit by CBSE for notable academic performance in class 12.
• Successfully completed One day Faculty Development Programme on ‘Teaching Communicative English’ organized by Department of English, Sister Nivedita University on September 10, 2022. 
• Awarded by Sanmarg Patrika for outstanding performance in Hindi in class 12.
• Served as an instructor to the students of St Xavier’s University, Kolkata, at the Summer Reading Camp in 2022. My duties involved teaching and discussing the particular critical texts followed by correction of assignments. 
• Participated as a speaker on the theme of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility on the opening day of Kolkata Book Fair 2023, at the pavilion of the US Consulate in the presence of the Consul General of the United States of America, Melinda Pavek. 
• Organized and participated in a group performance on country songs from India and USA on the opening day of Kolkata Book Fair 2023, at the pavilion of the US Consulate in the presence of the Consul General of the United States of America, Melinda Pavek. 
• Delivered a lecture in the Young Scholar Lecture Series (IX) organized by Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies (IAAPS) on 26. 08. 2023 at 5.30 pm on ‘Reclaiming Space and Identity Through Naga Literature in English’ chaired by Dr. Amrita Sen, Honorary Director, Women’s Studies Research Centre, University of Calcutta.
• Received travel grant from a secondary source for paper presentation at the 5th ASLE/ASEAN International Ecocritical Conference, hosted by the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand in November 2023. 
• Served as the Student Convener for the Two-Day National Conference on ‘War and Literature’ organized by the Department of English, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, on 17 and 18 January 2024. 
• Participated virtually in the workshop “Engaged Gendered

Research” in April 2024 at Durham University Business School (UK).

Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth, Ernakulam (Aug 2024 to present)
Assistant Professor of English
Sister Nivedita University (Oct 2020 to November 2023)
Part-Time faculty in English