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Ujjwal Jana
Dr Ujjwal Jana is a professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. His areas of interests are Indian poetics, literary studies, translation studies and digital humanities. He has published several research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. He is the co-editor of Green Symphony: Studies in Ecocriticism, Ecological Criticism for Our Times: Literature, Nature and Critical inquiry (Sarup & Sons, 2011), Ecological Criticism for Our Times: Literature, Nature and Critical Inquiry (Authorspress, 2011) and Subaltern Vision: A Study in Post-Colonial Indian English Novel (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). He was a Fulbright visiting lecturer, India Studies programme, Indiana University, Bloomington, in 2007–08. He was nominated for Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in United Kingdom for the year 2013. He has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Travel Grants Award in 2014. He was a visiting faculty in Department of English, Leipzig University in 2014 sponsored by (ICSSR) and (DFG). He was a visiting faculty in the Department of English, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, sponsored by ICSSR, India, and NIHSS, South Africa, in 2017. He has been awarded with the MHRD, Government of India-funded International Collaborative Project in Digital Humanities in Indian Rim under Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration to collaborate with Western Sydney University, Australia for 2019–21. He was selected for Faculty Mobility Award sponsored by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and Ministry of Human Resource Development for 2020–21. He was awarded with Hungarian state scholarship in the academic year 2021–22, funded by Tempus Foundation of Government of Hungary, to pursue collaborative Research Project in the Institute of English and American Studies, Debrecan University, Hungary, from June 2022 to July 2022. His Bengali translation of Amit Chaudhuri’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel, A New World (Penguin, 2000), has been published in 2021. He has been awarded a Hungarian State scholarship for 2022–23, funded by Tempus Foundation of the Government of Hungary to carry out a collaborative research at the ELTE Department of English Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He has edited an anthology on Digital Culture in Humanities: Contemporary Trends published by ABS Books, a Delhi-based publishing house in January 2023.
Contact: Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, North Campus, Delhi 110007, India.