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BA in English, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta)


MA in English, Jadavpur University


PhD in TEEME (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe), University of Kent, Canterbury and Freie Universität Berlin

Dr. Angana Moitra

Assistant Professor of English, JSLL

Email angana.moitra@jgu.edu.in
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ORCID ID 0009-0001-7800-8892
Key Expertise Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, supernatural, fantasy, popular culture, political history, religious history, history of Christianity, history of art

BA in English, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (University of Calcutta)


MA in English, Jadavpur University


PhD in TEEME (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe), University of Kent, Canterbury and Freie Universität Berlin


Biography

Angana Moitra is Assistant Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. She completed her PhD in 2020 on the Erasmus Mundus TEEME (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe) Joint-Doctoral Programme where she was jointly based at the University of Kent and Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests span the length and breadth of the literary, religious, and political culture of the European medieval and early modern periods, and she is particularly interested in exploring the continuities and correspondences between the two. She has presented her work at conferences in London, Berlin, Paris, Leeds, Nicosia, Reading, Florida, Barcelona, Rome, Oxford, Cardiff, and Aachen, and her articles have been published by (among others) De Gruyter and Vernon Press. Her first monograph, titled The Evolution of the Fairy King: From Medieval Romance to Early Modern Prose, Poetry, and Drama is currently under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. She was awarded a research grant by O.P. Jindal Global University to conduct archival research at the British Library in London in June 2024, and she is scheduled to present her work at the Renaissance Society of America conference as well as the Medieval Academy of America centennial conference in Boston, the United States of America, in March 2025.

Foundations of Western Literature: Classical and Christian Tradition (Core)

All the World's a Stage: The Evolution of English Drama (Core)

Popular and Unpopular Literature (elective)

Love, Actually: The Evolution of the Romance from the Middle Ages to the Present (elective)

Fairies, Fairyland, and Fairylore (elective)

A Cultural History of Horror (elective)

Short-term Research Grant, O.P. Jindal Global University (June 2024)

“‘We wol been at oure large’: Chaucer, the Wife of Bath, and Medieval Womanhood”, in Jogamaya Devi College Lecture Series (2021–22)

“Fairy genealogy in Tudor England”, in Cusa, Giuseppe; Dorfner, Thomas (eds.). Genealogisches Wissen in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit: Konstruktion – Darstellung – Rezeption. De Gruyter.

“On the Margins of Society: Exclusion through Exile as a Structuring Motif in Sir Orfeo”, in Nieto-Isabel, Delfi I.; Miquel Milian, Laura (eds.). Living on the Edge: Transgression, Exclusion, and Persecution in the Middle Ages. De Gruyter.

“Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Persepolis’ was published 21 years ago. What does reading it today in India mean?”, in Scroll.in

“The Fairy Supernatural of Sir Orfeo” Critical Imprints

“From the Graeco-Roman Underworld to the Celtic Otherworld: The Cultural Translation of a Pagan Deity” Oxford Research in English

A Spirit of Another Sort: The Evolution and Transformation of the Fairy King from Medieval Romance to Early Modern Prose, Poetry, and Drama. PhD thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Andreas Mahler (Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Catherine Richardson (University of Kent)

“From Pagan God to Magical Being: The Changing Face of the Faerie King and its Cultural Implications”, in Cappa, Désirée; Christie, James E.; Gay, Lorenza; Gentili, Hanna; Schulze-Feldmann, Finn (eds.). Cultural Encounters: Cross-disciplinary studies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Vernon Press.

“Abduction and Exile: The Twin Absences of Sir Orfeo” Litterae Mentis: A Journal of Literary Studies
Email angana.moitra@jgu.edu.in
ORCID ID 0009-0001-7800-8892
Key Expertise Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, supernatural, fantasy, popular culture, political history, religious history, history of Christianity, history of art
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