1993-1995: M. A. English Literature,Jadavpur University,Calcutta

1990-1992: B.A. English Literature, University of Calcutta

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, December 2005 onwards
Associate Fellow
Political and Cultural theory
Literary Theory

Department of English, Fall 2005
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Seventeenth-Century European Culture and Literature
Political and Literary Theory

Department of English, Fall 2004-Summer 2005
Assistant Professor, State University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia
English Composition
Seventeenth-Century Political Thought
British Literature Survey

Department of English, Fall 2003-Spring 2004
Adjunct Professor, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Law and Literature
English Composition

Department of English, Fall 1999-Summer 2003
Teaching Assistant, The State University of New York, Buffalo
Courses Taught (total of 7 sections):
Law And Literature
Advanced English Composition
Basic English Composition

Department of Comparative Literature, Fall 2000
Teaching Assistant, The State University of New York, Buffalo
Course taught (total of 1 section):
Fashion And Literature

Department of English, Summer 2001
Lecturer, Millard Fillmore College, Buffalo, NY
Course taught (total of 1 section):
Basic English Composition

PAPERS PRESENTED

August 2007, Dept. of English, Bangalore University
Lecture: “History of Ideas, Illocutionary Acts and the Early Broadsides of John Milton.”

April 2007, Centre for South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lecture: “The Ethics of Radical Monism: The Case of Aurobindo Ghose.”

January 2007, Centre for Advanced Studies, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University
Lecture: “Practice as Renunciation: The Anarchist Milieu and the Archaisms of Aurobindo Ghose.”

November 2006, Dept. of English, Pondicherry University
Lecture: “Here and Now, There and Then, Everywhere and Always: John Milton and the Classical Republican Tradition.”

August 2006, Centre for Political Institutions, Governance and Development, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore
Seminar Lecture: “The Illiberal Challenge: The Politico-Theological Moment.”

August 2006, The National Law School of India University, Bangalore
Lecture: “Two Kinds of Liberalism: Critical Not Moderate.”

July 2006, The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti House, New Delhi
Seminar Lecture: “Gerrard Winstanley and the Nature of Liberal Thought.”

February 2006, The Book Review Literary Trust Seminar, Changing Balance of Power in a Globalized World, India International Centre, New Delhi
Panelist and Discussant: “War, Peace and World Hegemony in Twenty First Century,” by Eric Hobsbawm, “On Globalization,” by Prem Shankar Jha and “Human Security in East Asia: Against the Odds, Twice,” by Paul M. Evans.

March 2005, The Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
Participant and Discussant: “British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory”

December 2004, Jadavpur University, Dept. Of English
Calcutta, India
“The Nature and Scope of Heresy in the Early Modern Times”

November 2003, Literature and the Political Symposium
The Folger Institute, Washington, D.C.
Participant: “Networks and Practices of Political Exchange: Britain and Europe, 1651-1748”

October 2003, Renaissance Prose Conference, Dept. of History
Purdue University, Indiana
“Religion and Activism in Millenarian Literature of the 1650s England”

May 2003, Culture and the State Conference, Dept. of English
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
“The Universal in the Local: Gerrard Winstanley and Digger Resistance Revisited”

February 2002, 11th Milton Plesur Colloquium in History. Dept. Of History,
State University of New York, Buffalo
“Radicalism from the Center: The Republican Moments Of John Milton”

March 2000, Poetics Of Space. Dept. Of Romance Languages, Binghamton University, New York
“Spatial Dialectics within the Arena: Of Boxing, Wresting & Cock-Fighting”

March 1999, Questioning The Canon. Dept. Of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
“Oriental Overtures and the language of Reason in Graphic Novels: The Case of Herge’s Tintin”

September 1998, Religion and Literature. Dept. Of English, University Of Calcutta
“Literary Innovations in Early Islam and its Sociological Implications”

September 1997, Interdepartmental M.Phil Seminar. Dept. Of English, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
“Is There a Bengali mentalite? On the early novels of Amitav Ghosh”

January 1997, New Perspectives in Literature, Bidhan Nagar College, Calcutta
“Limits of Metaphysicality: John Donne as a Spenserian”

New Perspectives in Literature, Bidhan Nagar College, Calcutta
“What was Ferdinand Saussure Reacting Against?”

March 1994, Modernisms: Theory & Practice, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
“Uttara Upaniveshvad and Neo-Colonialist Overtures in Literary Theory”

PUBLISHED BOOKS AND PAPERS

Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War (New York and London: Routledge, 2006)

The Warp and the Weft: Trajectories of Political Theology in India (forthcoming 2008, Sage Publications).

University of Alberta, Culture and State Conference, 2003 Proceedings
“The Universal in the Local: Winstanley and Digger Resistance Revisited”

AREAS OF INTEREST

Early Modern and Contemporary Political Thought
Religion and Cultural Studies
Law and Literature
Literary Theory