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Dr. Gautam Chakrabarti

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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am AB Prof. Küpper {EU-Projekt (ERC Grant) DramaNet} mit dem vollendeten Projekt "Familiarising the Exotic: Introducing European Drama in Early Modern India"

Lehrbeauftragter in AVL und Deutsche & Niederländische Philologie (Modulpaket Berlin- und Deutschlandstudien)

Vita

Seit WiSe 2014-15, Lehrbeauftragter in Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie („Modulpaket Berlin- und Deutschlandstudien für internationale Gaststudierende“) an der Freien Universität Berlin

Seit WiSe 2012-13, Lehrbeauftragter im Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Freien Universität Berlin

WiSe 2010-11, SoSe 2011 & SoSe 2012 Lehrbeauftragter in Englische Philologie an der Freien Universität Berlin

WiSe 2011-12 & WiSe 2012-13, Lehrbeauftragter in Englische Philologie an der Universität Potsdam

2011-14, Dissertationsprojekt „Familiarising the Exotic: Introducing European Drama in Early Modern India" im Rahmen des ERC-Projektes „DramaNet“ (Prof. Joachim Küpper, Erstgutachter); eingereicht am 30.07.2014, Disputation mit der Auszeichnung „Summa Cum Laude“ am 03.11.2014.

Juli 2003-Mai 2010, Lehraufträge in Anglistik und Kulturwissenschaften an  verschiedenen Instituten der University of Delhi (2003-2005, angestellt seit 2005)

Januar 2006-Juli 2009, Forschung für das Projekt „Literature and Politics in the Cold War“ an verschiedenen Universitäten und Archiven in Finnland, Polen, Tschechien, Deutschland, Russland, u.a.

Oktober 2008-Januar 2009, Gastdozent für Englische Sprache, Philologie und Kultur an verschiedenen Universitäten in St. Petersburg, Russland

1995-1998, Bachelor-Studium (Honours) und 1998-2000, Master-Studium der Anglistik und Kulturwissenschaften an der Jadavpur University (MA, 2000) und 2002-2005 an der Jawaharlal Nehru University (MPhil, 2005) in Indien

Weitere Forschungsinteressen: Indologie, jüdische Literatur-und Kulturgeschichte und Ethnomusikologie

Weitere Lehraufträge und Konferenzteilnahmen an den folgenden Institutionen: Universität of Tartu (Januar 2006, Mai 2007), Moskau Staatliche Universität, Russische Staatliche Universität für Geisteswissenschaften und das Institut für Orientalistik, Moskau, Universität of Tartu, Estland (Mai-Juli 2009), Karls-Universität, Prag (Juni 2009) und Jagellonische Universität, Kraków (September 2011 und März-April 2012; Lehraufträge in Anglistik, indische Philologie und englische und indische Kulturgeschichte.

 

Gautam Chakrabarti is an Assistant Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature and "Berlin and German Studies" at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he has finished his PhD on "Familiarising the Exotic: Introducing European Drama in Early Modern India" (2011-14, submitted on 30.07.2014, defended with the highest grade, namely "Summa Cum Laude“, on 03.11.2014), under Prof. Joachim B. Küpper, within the ERC-Project "DramaNet". He has studied English Literature and Culture Studies in Jadavpur University (MA, 2000) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (MPhil, 2005), India, and has taught the same in various colleges of the University of Delhi (2003-10, tenure from 2005). He was a Visiting Lecturer in English language, literature and culture and Hindi in a couple of universities and institutes in St Petersburg, Russia, in Autumn-Winter, 2008-9. In Spring-Summer, 2009, he made a conference-cum-fieldwork-tour of various universities and archives in Finland, the Baltic States, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany and Russia, for a research-project on "Literature and Politics in the Cold War"; and is also interested in Indic Studies, Jewish literary-cultural history and Ethnomusicology, themes on which he hopes to work in the future. He has also lectured in the University of Tartu (2006-7), the Moscow State University, the Russian State University for the Humanities and the Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow, the University of Tartu, Estonia (2009), the Universitas Karolinas, Prague (2009), and the Jagellonian University, Kraków, (2011-12) on the above topics, Indian writing in English and Indian cultural history.

 

Lehrveranstaltungen

S: PHILGEIST_S_16855_14W: 'Glocal' Berlin: In/Outsider Narratives (WiSe 2014-15, FU-Berlin)

V (MA): PHILGEIST_V_16429_14W: Asian Literary-Cultural Theories: A Survey (WiSe 2014-15, FU-Berlin)

HS: PHILGEIST_H_16423_14S: The Diasporic Indian Novel (SoSe 2014, FU-Berlin)

HS: PHILGEIST_H_16416_13W: European Drama and Indian Dramaturgy: Texts and Contexts (WiSe 2013-14, FU-Berlin)

PS: PHILGEIST_S_16406_13S: The Novel in World-War-2 London & Berlin (SoSe 2013, FU-Berlin)

S/HS: PHILGEIST_S_16434_12W: Yet Another Manthana: Contemporary Indian Poetry 1950-2010 (WiSe 2012-13, FU-Berlin).

AS: PHILGEIST_S_17326_12S: S-Introduction to Cultural Studies II: The British Cold War Novel: a Literary-Political History (SoSe 2012, FU-Berlin).

BS:GC-Intro2LitStud: Introduction to Literary Studies(WiSe 2011-12 and WiSe 2012-13, Uni-Potsdam).

AS: PHILGEIST_AS_17318_11S: Surveying English Literatures II:The City” after the Restoration: A Literary History (SoSe 2011, FU-Berlin).

AS: PHILGEIST_AS_17325_10W: Intro. Cult. Stud.II: The British Cold War Novel: a Literary-Political History (WiSe 2010-11, FU-Berlin).

BA (Honours) lectures and tutorials and MA tutorials on different texts, genres, authors and theories and periods in English Literature and Culture Studies, in different colleges in the Universities of Calcutta (Winter 2010-Summer 2002) and Delhi (Summer 2003- Spring 2010).

Familiarising the Exotic: Introducing European Drama in Early Modern India

In diesem Promotionsprojekt wurden vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund literarisch-kultureller Historiographie die eher asymmetrischen als reziproken interkulturellen Austauschphänomene zwischen Europa und dem ‘frühneuzeitlichen’ Indien untersucht. Die Untersuchung stützt sich dabei unter anderem auf Archivmaterial zur frühkolonialen britisch-indischen Theater- und Sozialgeschichte, und auch legt die Wechselwirkungen offen zwischen dramatischen Texten aus England, Frankreich und Deutschland sowie den aufkommenden frühneuzeitlichen indischen Dramen und seinen sanskritischen Vorläufern. Weiter wird am Beispiel von Ariane Mnouchkines (1939-) L'Indiade analysiert, inwieweit das moderne europäischen Theater durch mögliche Rekonfigurationen der antiken indischen Theaterpraktiken und -strukturen beeinflusst und verändert wurde. Die historisch-inhaltlichen Grundlage dieser Arbeiten stellen die Biografien von Gerasim Lebedev (1749-1817) und Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-73), die Text- und Aufführungsgeschichte von Dinabandhu Mitras (1829-74) Stück The Indigo Planting Mirror—v. a. die darin verarbeitete vergleichende Verknüpfung von anglo-europäischem Realismus und Naturalismus und einem im 19. Jahrhundert aufkeimenden indischen Kulturnationalismus—die theoretischen Äußerungen von der Nāṭyaśāstra und ihre Einflüsse auf zeitgenössische europäische Dramatiker wie Mnouchkine dar. Theoretisch greift die Dissertation zurück auf Homi Bhabha's Arbeiten zu Hybridität und 'in-between' Räume, Stephen Greenblatts Theoretisierung kultureller Mobilität und Joachim Küppers Konzeption der ‘Ideologeme’.Dadurch beleuchtet die Arbeit gleichzeitig die Literatur- und Kulturhistoriographie der sozio-politischen Konsolidierung Indiens innerhalb des britischen Imperiums und die Konfiguration eines kosmopolitischen indischen Selbst.

This Dr.-Phil.-project seeks to investigate—using, primarily, the theoretical frames of literary-cultural historiography—the intercultural transactions, more asymmetric than reciprocal, between Europe and 'early-modern' India, using, inter alia, the early-colonial British-Indian theatre- and social-history-archives. One also seeks to explore and uncover the resonances between nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, French and German drama and both the nascent 'early-modern' Indian drama and its Sanskritic precursor. Further, in a chapter on Ariane Mnouchkine (1939-) and L'Indiade, one analyses how, through a possible reconfiguration of ancient Indic dramaturgical praxis and structures, the modern European stage was impacted and even transformed. Thus, the biographies of Gerasim Lebedev (1749-1817) and Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-73), the textual and performative histories of Dinabandhu Mitra’s (1829-74) play The Indigo Planting Mirror—through a comparativist bridging of Anglo-European socio-political realism and naturalism and burgeoning Indian cultural nationalism in the mid-nineteenth century—theoretical postulates from the Nāṭyaśāstra, which do seem to inform and impact certain thematic and performative strategies of contemporary European theatre-directors like Mnouchkine—deploying Homi Bhabha's work on hybridity and 'in-between' spaces, Stephen Greenblatt's theorisations of cultural mobility and Joachim Küpper's formulations of the 'ideologeme'—have helped in the framing of a thesis that seeks to problematise both the literary-cultural historiography of India’s socio-political consolidation within the British Empire and the configuration of the cosmopolitan Indian Self.


 

2004-6:

Śabda’ as ‘Sanskriti’: Socio-Cultural Categories in the Arthaśāstra, a paper read on 4th February, 2004, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in the seminar on ‘Śabda: Text and Interpretation in Indian Thought’. This was published, later in 2004, as part of an edited Festschriftto Prof. Kapil Kapoor-- eds Makarand Paranjape and S. K. Sareen-- published by Mantra Books, Delhi.

2007:

"Noncommittal Involvements: Graham Greene's Cold War Travelogues", a paper presented, on 21/02/2007, in the International Conference on Travel Literature and India, held in the Satyawati (Evening) College, organised jointly by that College, the Department of English, University of Delhi, and the Nottingham Trent University, UK, during February 20-1, 2007. Awaiting publication in a volume to be published by the organisers.

“‘Culture Every Shore’: the Civilising Influence of Strong Women in Indian English Literature”, a paper read on 19th March, 2007, at the National Seminar on the ‘Changing Status of Women: India and Canada’, in the Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi, held during 19th-20th March, 2007. Awaiting publication in a volume to be published by the organisers.

2008:

"Hei-Ren-Hei-Hu: Be/longing in/to the Homeless Middle Kingdom", a paper read on 21st February, 2008, at the International Seminar on "Diasporic Writing: The Dynamics of Be/Longing" at the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. An article based on this paper is currently in print.

2009:

“Sacralised Squirrels: Ambient Nature-Images in Ambai’s Oeuvre”, a paper read on 6th June, 2009, at the Institute of South and Central Asia, Philosophical Faculty, Charles University in Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC, during the “Pandanus ’09: International Seminar on Nature in Literature, Art, Myth and Ritual in MemoriamKamil V. Zvelebil”, which was sponsored by the Czech Ministry of Education and the ICCR, New Delhi. An article based on this paper is due to be published in 2012.

2010:

“'Koī to Zimmā le': Sudeep Sen and the Translator’s Burden”, a paper read on 2nd February, 2010, at the Rajdhani College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, during the two-day UGC- and Sahitya-Akademi-sponsored National Seminar on “Lost & Found in Translation: Indian Writers, Translators, Texts and Contexts”, which was organised by the Department of English there. An article based on this paper is due to be published in 2012.

2011:

The 'Bhadralok' as Truth-Seeker: Towards a Social History of the Bengali Detective", a paper presented on 17th September, 2011, at the Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland, during the three-day (15th- 17th September, 2011) International Conference on „History and Society as Described in Indian Literature and Art“. An article based on this paper is due to be published in 2012.

2004-6:

‘Saffron is Rampant’: the Visual Dynamism of Hindu Nationalism, a paper read on 18th December, 2005, at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, in the Second International Conference on Religions and Cultures in the Indic Civilization.

2007:

From Āsamudrahimācalamto Mitakuye Oisin: the Cultural Evolution of the Indian-American Diaspora”, a paper for the National Seminar on “Diaspora and Cultural Diversity: India and Canada”, held on 28th March, 2007, at the Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi.

Āsamudrahimācalam: Socio-Cultural Strategisations in Cānakya’s Arthaśāstra, a paper accepted for the Moscow State University’s International Youth Scientific Forum’s XIVth International Conference, “Lomonosov—2007”, held during April 10-15, 2007 at Moscow, Russia.

“Balancing Fine Minds: Six Different Indian Writers in English”, a lecture delivered on 27th June, 2007, at the Department of Indian Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

2008:

"The Newest Manthana: Issues in the Politics of India's Academia", a paper read on 17th February, 2008, at the National Seminar on "Indian Sanskrit Poetics: Issues and Applications" at the Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar.

"'Old Wine in New Bottles': Modernity and Mass-Culture in Russia and India", a paper read on 5th March, 2008, during the International Conference on "Narrating Nations: Dialogue of Cultures" at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

“‘Until the Very End’: the  ‘British’ Public School in/as Hogwarts”, a lecture delivered on 20th May, 2008, at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

"Diasporae of the Mind: Selected Works of Naipaul and Rushdie", a lecture delivered on 28th May, 2008, at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

“Secularising the Sacral and Vice Versa: Indian Religions in Popular Performance”, a lecture delivered on 18th June, 2008 at the Centre for Religious Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia.

“Under a Rajput Sun: Vignettes of Polity and Poesy from India”, an audio-visual presentation made on 21st June, 2008, at the Department of Indian Philology, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

"A New Manthana: the Socio-Cultural Synergy in Bankim's Visions of a Hindu India", a lecture delivered on 23rd June, 2008, at the Centre for Indian Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Hiraṇyagarbhah Samavartatāgre: Ordaining a Brave New Indian Cultural Schema”, a paper read on 3rd August, 2008, at the India International Centre, New Delhi, India, during the Kalaikoodam-organised Seminar on “Arts and Culture for Indian Resurgence”.

“Revisiting The Golden Boat: Reading the Bengali Classics”, an invited talk given on 9th December, 2008, at the Department of Indian Philology, Faculty of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.

“From the Diasporic to the "Glocal": Indic Beliefs and Western Perspectives”, an invited talk given on 19th December, 2008, at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia.

“Towards Liberation through Matter: Indic and Kindred Concepts of Caturvarga”, a lecture delivered on 23rd December, 2008, at the Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, St Petersburg, Russia. 

2009:

“From ‘Diasporic’ to ‘Glocal’: ‘Indic’ Manoeuvres andWestern’ Perceptions”, a paper read on 13th January, 2009, at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi, India, during the “Rethinking religions in India II” International Conference organised by the Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap, Ghent University and the Centre for the Study of Local Cultures, Kuvempu University.

Lumpaid for the Blei: the Socio-Political Resonances of a Religio-Cultural ‘Tribal’ Discourse”, a paper read on 16th May, 2009, at Domus Dorpatensis, Tartu, ESTONIA, during the international symposium on "Stories about India and Indian Stories: Expressive Culture and the European Understanding", which was organised by the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore and Research Centre of Culture and Communication, University of Tartu, the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory (CECT), and the India Platform UGent, Ghent University.

2011:

“'Culture Every Shore': the 'Improving' Hubris of Soviet Imperialism in the Baltic States”, a paper presented on 14th June, 2011, at the Södertörn University, Stockholm, during the three-day (12th- 15th June, 2011) International “Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe”.

2012:

From the Early Modern to Modernity: Blurring Borderlines between
'Global' India and 'Provincialised' Europe”, a talk delivered at the Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland, on 29th March, 2012, within the “Interdisciplinary Workshop on Eurasian Studies”.

Presentation on Ruta Schats-Mariasch at the Freie Universität Berlin, on 6th June, 2012, during the two-day (6th-7th June, 2012) "International Workshop on 'Fields of Belonging. Interpreting Jewish Literatures'".

"'Back to the Future’: towards a Rehabilitation of Sustainable Indic Socio-Cultural Paradigms", a presentation made at the Botanisches Museum, Freie Universität Berlin, on 11th June, 2012, on the occasion of the "India Science Day".