Dr. Pradipta Sengupta

Associate Professor M.U.C. Women’s College University of Burdwan, West Bengal

pradiptasg.eng@gmail.com

Bio-note

Dr. Pradipta Sengupta is an Associate Professor of English at M.U.C.Women’s College, Burdwan, West Bengal. He did his Ph.D. on “The ‘Hawthorne Novels’ of John Updike” from the University of Burdwan. He also completed a Postdoctoral research project on “Recasting Contemporary America: A Study of John Updike’s ‘Rabbit Tetralogy’” as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Osmania University Center for International Program, Hyderabad during September- October 2013. He has published national and international articles on Keats, Hawthorne, Tagore, Dickens, Robert Frost, Peter Carey, Joseph Heller, W. B.Yeats, Emerson and Updike, including publications in such journals as The Belgrade BELLS( University of Belgrade) , The John Updike Review(University of Cincinnati), Knijzenstvo and Lexington Book Series(New York). The name of Pradipta Sengupta figures in the Updike Bibliography, 2009-2015, prepared by the Updike critic James Schiff, and published from the University of Cincinnati.