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Dr. Rindon Kundu

Dr. Rindon Kundu

Director,

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Assistant Professor of English,

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Qualification

  • Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2023

  • M.Phil. in Translation Studies from the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India, in 2014

  • M.A. in Comparative Literature, from the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, India, in 2012

  • M.A. in English, from the Department of English, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, in 2010

Journals

  • Kundu, Rindon. “Colonial Politics of Finding Equivalence: Interpreting ‘Translation’ and anubad through Nineteenth Century English to Sanskrit/Bengali Dictionaries”, Translation Today, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2019, pg. 35-59. ISSN: 0972-8740 EISSN: 0972-8090. [UGC CARE and MLA indexed journal] https://doi.org/10.46623/tt/2019.13.2.ar3

  • Kundu, Rindon. “Rūpāntar as Ropoṇa: Forming a Third Meaning of Rūpāntar by comparing it with the Biological Metaphor of ‘Adaptation’”, Special Volume on “Translation, Nation and Knowledge Society”, Translation Today, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2019, pg. 129-139. ISSN: 0972-8740 EISSN: 0972-8090. [UGC CARE and MLA indexed journal] https://doi.org/10.46623/tt/2019.13.1.ar11

  • Kundu, Rindon and Saswati Saha. “Rubén Darío’s Modernismo: Modernism away from Europe”, Spring Magazine on English Literature, (a special issue on Modernism, Guest-edited by Maria-Ana Tupan), Vol. III, No. 1, 2017, pg. 21-25. E-ISSN: 2455-4715. http://springmagazine.net/V3/n1/v3n104.pdf

What subject you teach at SSU ?

Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, World Literature, Classical European Literature, Modern European Literature, Twentieth-century British Literature, and Modern Indian Literature

Awards

International:

  • Volkswagen Foundation Grant from Volkswagen Stiftung in 2021
  • Young Researcher Travel Grant from the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) in 2019
  • British Academy Full Grant in 2019
  • International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Bursary in 2018

    National:
  • Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA 2.0) Travel Grant from the Ministry of Education, Government of India, in 2019
  • Jadavpur University Travel Grant in 2016
  • UGC Junior Research Fellowship (UGC JRF) in Comparative Literature in 2013.

Interests

  • Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, Comparative Indian Literature, World Literature, Modern European Literature, Latin American Literature; Oral History.

Other Accomplishments

  • Treasurer of the Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI) from March 2019 to present. [Elected] https://www.clai.in/office-bearers/

  • Steering Committee Member of the Leadership Group of the International Comparative Literature Association Translation Committee from 2023 – 2026. [Elected] https://www.ailc-icla.org/translation-committee/

  • Editorial Board Member of Sāhitya, the Journal of the Comparative Literature Association of India, ISSN: 2249-6416.