Professor Ujjwal Jana
Dr. Ujjwal Jana is Professor in the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, Delhi, India. His areas of interests are Indian Literature, Classical Indian Poetics, Translation Studies and Digital Humanities. He has published several research papers in peer reviewed national & 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,New Delhi 2011),Ecological Criticism for our Times: Literature, Nature and Critical inquiry(Authorspress, New Delhi 2011)and Subaltern Vision: a Study in Post-colonial Indian English Novel(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK 2012). He was a Fulbright visiting Lecturer, India Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA in 2007-2008. He was nominated for Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in UK for the year 2013. He received the Sahitya Akademy Travel Grants Award in 2014. He was visiting faculty in Department of English, Leipzig University in 2014 sponsored by ICSSR, INDIA and DFG, GERMANY. He was a visiting faculty in the Department of English, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, sponsored by lCSSR ,lndia and NIHSS, South Africa in 2017. Dr. Jana successfully completed two Research Projects funded by UGC and ICPR (2012-2014). He was awarded with the MHRD, Govt of India Funded International Collaborative Project in Digital Humanities in Indian Rim under SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) to collaborate with Western Sydney University, Australia for 2019-2021. He was selected for Faculty Mobility Award sponsored by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and Ministry of Human Resource Development for 2020-2021. Dr. Jana was awarded with Hungarian state scholarship in the academic year 2021-2022 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. He received the same Hungarian State scholarship for 2022-2023, funded by Tempus Foundation of the Government of Hungary to carry out a collaborative research at the ELTE Department of English Studies, EötvösLoránd University, Budapest Hungary. Dr. Jana’s Bengali translation of Amit Chaudhuri’s Sahitya Akademi Award-winning English novel, A New World (2000) by the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters has been published in 2021. Dr. Jana has been awarded a Hungarian State scholarship for 2022-2023, 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. Professor Jana has edited an anthology on Digital Culture in Humanities: Contemporary Trends published by ABS Books, a Delhi-based publishing house in January 2023. Dr. Jana is presently the Indian Principal Investigator of SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) International Project on “Indian-European entanglements: exploring trans-cultural relationships through Digital Humanities”,to collaborate with Ghent Centre for Digital humanities- Ghent University, Belgium funded by Ministry of Education, Govt of India from 2023-2025.Dr. Jana is currently carrying out a Research Project funded by the Indian Council of Historical Research, India on the 19th century Poet Saint of Odisha Bhima Bhoi for the year 2024 to 2026.
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Address: Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, North Campus,Delhi-110007, INDIA
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Phone: +919487602640
Address: Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, North Campus,Delhi-110007, INDIA
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