Saumitra Chakravarty

Saumitra Chakravarty teaches English Literature in the Postgraduate programme, National College, Bangalore, India. She is engaged in active research on various aspects of the 'feminine' in literary and religious texts, and has a PhD in English Literature from Calcutta University, India. Dr Chakravarty has presented papers at various international conferences. Her research articles have been published in international journals like Intersections of the Australian National University, Canberra,...See more

Saumitra Chakravarty teaches English Literature in the Postgraduate programme, National College, Bangalore, India. She is engaged in active research on various aspects of the 'feminine' in literary and religious texts, and has a PhD in English Literature from Calcutta University, India. Dr Chakravarty has presented papers at various international conferences. Her research articles have been published in international journals like Intersections of the Australian National University, Canberra, in Le Simplegadi and Il Bianco e il Nero of the University of Udine, Italy, in Bells of the University of Barcelona, in the History Research Journal , U.S.A., in the Journal of Religion and Spirituality , U.S.A., in the Asian Literature and Translation , University of Cardiff, in the Athens Journal of Philology , Greece. Her poems have been included in an anthology of 50 Indian women poets entitled Roots and Wings . Her books include Three Sides of Life , a volume of poetry The Silent Cry , and a book of essays entitled The Endangered Self as co-author. Her articles have been included in five books. See less