B.A.; M.A. (Visva-Bharati University);
M.Phil. (Jadavpur University);
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Assistant Professor
poulomi.das@jgu.edu.in | |
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Key Expertise | Ethnography, Theatre and Performance Studies, Folklore and Living Traditions, Tourism and Culture Studies, Academic literacy skills, Critical thinking and AI, Composition Studies, English Language Teaching, English Literature and Translation Studies. |
B.A.; M.A. (Visva-Bharati University);
M.Phil. (Jadavpur University);
Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
Dr Poulomi Das is a performance and cultural ethnographer, who is also trained in English literary studies, English language teaching (ELT) and translation. She has conducted extensive fieldwork and interacted intimately with the communities in the mangroves of the Bay of Bengal (on the Indian side) while writing her PhD thesis, “The Bonbibi Cult of Sundarbans: Expressions and Expectations in the Performances of Everyday Life” at the School of Arts and Aesthetics in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
She was invited twice in 2017 & 2018 to present her doctoral work at “Historiography seminars” at [sic!] (Summer Institute Cologne), jointly hosted by the University of Cologne and Northwestern University. She is currently working on the manuscript of her book on the Bonbibi Cult of Sundarbans.
Her MPhil thesis titled, “Source, Filter and Target texts: A case-study of two Badal Sirkar’s texts” was a tri-lingual research project analyzing the politics of translation of play-texts when ascending hierarchically positioned languages within the Indian language-scape (Bengali to Hindi to English). Apart from these research-level interventions, Dr. Das have been an educator for more than twelve years now.
She has been curating courses and facilitating classes and stand-alone workshops related to English Communication, English for Academic Purposes, Research/Academic Writing and Critical Pedagogy for heterogenous classrooms at Ashoka University, IGNOU, Netaji Subhas Open University, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University, Ambedkar University, Delhi Skill & Entrepreneurship University, Tata Consultancy Services & Haldia Institute of Technology to name a few.
She is deeply invested in understanding and experimenting with multi-lingual, multi-modal, care-infused pedagogies in her classrooms and beyond. She founded a vibrant and thriving writing community, The Writing Booth, and an initiative that promotes teaching and learning academic writing and communication skills, the LogosLab.
While she advocates for collaborative process-driven literacy skills, she also explores the possibilities and problems of the intersecting terrains of digital literacy, AI and writing across the curriculum. To follow her latest endeavours with ethnography, culture and living traditions; academic reading, writing & research go to https://linktr.ee/poulomi_das
Performance of/in Tourism: Agency and Economy in Fairs, Festivals and Cultural Markets; Thesis1 & 2; Comm. Skills 1 & 2; Introduction to Literary Studies
Received the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) Two-year Doctoral Fellowship for the years 2017-2018.
poulomi.das@jgu.edu.in | |
Key Expertise | Ethnography, Theatre and Performance Studies, Folklore and Living Traditions, Tourism and Culture Studies, Academic literacy skills, Critical thinking and AI, Composition Studies, English Language Teaching, English Literature and Translation Studies. |