Mrinmoy Pramanick
Mrinmoy Pramanick
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre of Indian Languages
School of Language Literature and Culture Studies
Room No
375, SLL&CS
Email
mrinmoy[at]mail[dot]jnu[dot]ac[dot]in, letterstomrinmoy[at]gmail[dot]com
Personal Webpage
https://www.jnu.ac.in/Faculty/mrinmoy/cv.pdf
Qualifications

  • PhD in Comparative Literature, 2015, University of Hyderabad 

  • MPhil in Translation Studies, 2010, University of Hyderabad 

  • MA in Comparative Indian Language and Literature, 2009, University of Calcutta 

  • BA with Bengali (Honours), 2007, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, University of Calcutta 

  • Certificate in Translation as a Skill, 2009, CENTIL, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2009, Jadavpur University 

  • Certificate in Malayalam Language, 2009, School of Languages and Culture, Rabindra Bharati University 

  • Certificate in Tamil Language, 2009, Dept. of Languages, University of Calcutta

Areas of Interest/Specialization
  • Translation Studies
  • Caste
  • Politics of Language
  • Partition-Migration-Border-Diaspora
  • School/s of Comparative Literature, and World Literature
Experience

  • Associate Professor, in the Centre for Indian Languages, SLL & CS, JNU, since 1st December, 2025. 

  • Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, University of Calcutta, 5th August, 2015 - 30th November, 2025

  • Founder Coordinator of the Centre for Translation and Literary Geography, 24th September 2024 - 30th November, 2025

Awards & Honours

  • Sahitya Akademi Translation Prize 2023, Sahitya Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Government of India (Announced on 11th March 2024 and Award received on 12th July 2024), for Dalit Nandantattwa, Bengali translation of Marathi author Sharan Kumar Limbale’s Dalit Sahityache Soundarjyashashtra. 

FELLOWSHIP:

  • Charles Wallace India Trust Translation Fellowship 2025 in the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. 20th January - 16th March, 2025. 

International Collaboration/Consultancy

GRANTS AND BURSARIES:

  • Travel Bursary for attending Feminist Translation Network Slam, 6th-7th February, 2025, University of Birmingham, UK. 

  • Eurasian Congress of Linguists Grant to cover the full trip  for Presenting a Paper in the First Eurasian Congress of Linguists in Moscow, Russia, 9-13 December 2024.

  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong Grant for Presenting Paper on Translation, 8-9 December 2023.

  • ICSSR-ERC, Govt. of India, Book Grant for Editing Dalit Sahitya Charcha, 2022, published by Gangchil, Kolkata.

  • UGC-UPE-II, Govt. of India, Grant for presenting paper in TransCollaborative Workshop, Monash University Centre, Prato, Italy, 3-4 July 2017.

  • Haskel Block Travel Award- University of South Carolina and American Comparative Literature Association, 6-8 July, 2017.

  • Institute of World Literature, Harvard University Grant for attending the institute, 22 June-16 July 2015.

  • UGC-UPE-II, Govt. of India, Grant for presenting a paper in an international seminar on Translation at the University of Helsinki, Finland, 3-4 April 2015.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. Ghosh, Ayan, and Mrinmoy Pramanick. “A Community Saga of the Riverine Island: Reading Sadri Novel Baman Burir Char.” Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, vol. 11, no. 1, July 2025, pp. 184–210. https://doi.org/10.24193/mjcst.2025.19.08.

  2. Pramanick, Mrinmoy. “Bahubhashikatar Khetra O Anubad Gabeshana Kendra.” Alochanachakra, edited by Chiranjib Sur, vol. 39, no. 1/58, Jan. 2025, pp. 320–331. ISSN: 2231-3990.

  3. Pramanick, Mrinmoy. “Telling, Writing and Translating: Narratives of Reclaiming People’s Rights.” Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature, edited by S. K. Sagir Ali and Avijit Basak, Springer, 2024, pp. 185–198. eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-4544-9. Print ISBN: 978-981-97-4543-2.

  4. Pramanick, Mrinmoy. “Bhadraloker Bhugol O Colony Kolkatar Mon: Prasanga Jyotirindra Nandyr Baro Ghar Ek Uthon.” Alochanachakra, edited by Chiranjib Sur, vol. 38, no. 2/57, Aug. 2024, pp. 320–331. ISSN: 2231-3990.

  5. Pramanick, Mrinmoy. “Kalikata Bishwabidyalaya O Bharatiya Sahityacharchar Eksha Bachar.” Anustup, edited by Anil Acharya, no. 58/2, 2024, pp. 200–221. ISSN: 0974-2697.

  6. Das, Pratim, and Mrinmoy Pramanick. “Maistry System in Burma.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 58, no. 48, 2 Dec. 2023. ISSN: 0012-9976 (Print), 2349-8846 (Online).

  7. Pramanick, Mrinmoy, Sudeshna Ghosh, and Tamoha Majumder. “Contesting Space: Crisis of Linguistic and Cultural Identity of the Kokborok in Post-Partition Tripura.” Antarmukh, edited by Shampa Bag, vol. 13, no. 2, Oct.–Dec. 2023, pp. 121–137. ISSN: 2249-3751.

  8. Pramanick, Mrinmoy, translator. Jataka’s Call for War, by Anil Gharai. Indian Literature, vol. 67, no. 5 (337), Sept.–Oct. 2023, pp. 100–104. ISSN: 0019-5804.

  9. Pramanick, Mrinmoy. “A Nostalgic Tale of the Sarai: McCluskieganj.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 58, no. 33, 19 Aug. 2023. ISSN: 0012-9976 (Print), 2349-8846 (Online).

  10. Pramanick, Mrinmoy. “World Literature: An Indian Way of Thinking.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Culture, edited by David Porter and Omid Azadibougar, 2023, pp. 76–89. ISSN: 2096-4374. DOI: 10.53397/hunnu.jflc.202302006. 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

  1. “Locating Bengali Dalit Literature: An Introduction” in Bengali Dalit Literature: Reflections on Caste, Culture and Representation. edited by Kalyan Kumar Das, Routledge, forthcoming, 2025.

  2. “Amita Bhose: Translator, Comparativist and Cultural Ambassador.” Between Two Worlds: Romania and India - Essays on Expanding Borders through Culture, edited by Mihaela Gligor and Lipi Ghosh, Presa Universitară Clujeană, Romania, 2023, pp. 35-60. ISBN: 978-606-37-1734-5

  3. “Sugana and Savitribai Phule: Translation of Bengali Play.” Trauma, Protest, Transcendence: Voice of a Bengali Dalit Playwright, edited by Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis, KTU, 2023, pp. 55-70. ISBN: 978-609-02-1848-8.

  4. “Translating Poet, Discovering World, Identifying Self: Reading Octavio Paz in Bangla.” Octavio Paz and India: Enduring Resonances, edited by J. Prabhakar Rao, Tutun Mukherjee, and Ranjeeva Ranjan, Prithavi Prakashan, 2018, pp. 114-131. ISBN: 978-81-86845-61-5.

  5. “Manohar Mouli Biswas Talks Dalit Aesthetics in Bangla.” in Bangla Dalit Writer Writes Back: Selected Essays on Life and Works of Manohar Mouli Biswas, edited by Jaydeep Sarangi, Authors Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-93-88332-56-9.