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Lipi Biswas Sen

Assistant Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies,

School of Language Literature and Culture Studies

Room No

369, SLLCS-I

Off. Phone

011-26704265

Residence

011-26272004

lipibiswassen@mail.jnu.ac.in

Personal Webpage

http://www.jnu.c.in

Qualifications

B.A (Hons), M.A., M.Phil. from Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian & Latin American Studies, School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, (CSPILAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
PhD, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Colonial & Postcolonial Studies, Indigenism, Urban Narratives, Displacement, Memory Studies, Space & Place in Literature, Globalization.

Experience

Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada from 2002 to 2003.
Instructor, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, from 2003 till Winter Semester 2007.
Guest Faculty, CSPILAS: Monsoon Semester 2008 to Monsoon Semester 2012.
Winter Semester 2013 - Took a break for childcare, but worked as independent scholar and translator of literary works.
Assistant Professor, CSPILAS: From 5th June 2013 till present.

Awards & Honours

2004-2005: SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC-Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Govt. of Canada).
2002-2003: University of Toronto Fellowship, Toronto, Canada.
2001-2002: Mary Beatty Scholarship, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
2001-2002: International Recruitment Award, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

2011: "La narrativa de José María Arguedas, Arundhati Roy y Geetanjali Shree a través del lente postcolonial", in INTI: Revista de Literatura Latinoamericana. Providence College, Providence, R.I., Núm. 73-74, Primavera-Otoño 2011.

Spring 2009: "Nation and Nationalism in Raja Rao`s Kanthapura and Amitav Ghosh`s The Shadow Lines", in The Journal of the School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

2008: "Imaginación: un análisis breve de El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo de José María Arguedas e "Isla Blanca" de Óscar Colchado Lucio" in ("Imagination: a brief analysis of El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo by José María Arguedas and "Isla Blanca" ("White Island") by Óscar Colchado Lucio") in Hispanic Horizon, Journal of the Centre of Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Latin American Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Year XXIV, No.26.

2006: "Breaking the Linguistic Alienation in José María Arguedas’ Yawar fiesta", Politics and Culture, Journal brought out by Connecticut College, Aspen, No. 1, 2006. This article is also available on my webpage in Acdemia.edu.?Website- http://aspen.conncoll.edu/politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=511

Oct-Dec 2004: "Sí, el subalterno puede hablar: un análisis breve de la Nueva corónica y buen gobierno de Felipe Guáman Poma de Ayala y los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso de la Vega", La Torre, Puerto Rico, año IX, núm 34.?This article is now available online in the special section on Inca Garcilaso de la Vega maintained by the Cervantes Institute Virtual Library in collaboration with the National Library of Peru. Website: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/91393064809352273000080/p0000001.htm This article is also available on my webpage in Acdemia.edu.

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books

2016: Forthcoming- "Everything in its place and a place for everything: The City and the "outsiders" in contemporary narrative from Peru and India" in Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, No.53, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.