Amrita Ghosh

Department of English

Assistant Professor

Amrita.Ghosh@ucf.edu

Campus Location

Trevor Colbourn Hall 252H

Office Hours

Tuesday, 12-1 pm, Thursday- 3-4 p.m and by appointment

Website

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Biography

Amrita Ghosh is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature in the Department of English at UCF. Previously, she was a researcher at South Asian Center SASNET, Lund University in Sweden. She has also worked on a postdoc at Linnaeus University, Center of Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Sweden (2017-2019). Ghosh is the author of the monograph Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts, Lexington Books, 2023. Ghosh's new cowritten book India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives, FDU Press is coming out soon in 2024.

Ghosh is also the co-editor of ReFiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality and Migration. Brill, 2023. Apart from that, Ghosh is the co-editor of the anthology: Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Reenvisioning (2022), published by Brill publications. This volume encompasses various themes of translation, authorship, the Nobel controversy between the two writers, and also focuses on art, performativity and rethinking modernism in the two iconic writers.

Right after her Phd, Dr. Ghosh was a full time lecturer in the English Department, at Seton Hall University, USA (2012-2017). Dr. Ghosh has a PhD in Postcolonial literature and theory, specializing in Partition Literature, from Drew University, New Jersey, USA. She has had a fellowship at Cornell University, Critical Theory School during summer 2008. In her doctoral dissertation, she studies the representation of borders and border crossings by human and nonhuman subjects in the aftermath of the Partition and how such Partition narratives rewrite the nation-state through the border subjects.

Dr. Ghosh has been published in the field of postcolonial and decolonial studies, gender and agency, memory and nostalgia, colonialism and representation, and border studies, especially the Indo-Bangladeshi borderlands and enclaves. She also is the co-editor of Cerebration, a peer-reviewed, biannual literary journal that strives to bring in academic and non academic circles in an exchange through significant topics in a transcultural space.

Publications

Books

Forthcoming Ghosh, Amrita, Shringarpure, Bhakti, Dasgupta, Rohit. India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives. United States, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2024.
Ghosh, Amrita. Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts. United States, Lexington Books, 2024.
Ghosh, Amrita. ReFiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration. Germany, Brill, 2023.

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
83357	ENG3014	Theories and Tech of Lit Study	Mixed Mode (M)	Tu 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Unavailable
Theories of Literature is a gateway course designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of contemporary approaches to the academic study of literary and cultural texts. The course introduces you to the practice and theory of literary criticism. It covers multiple techniques of analysis, theories of interpretation, and application of critical approaches to selected works. You will learn how to apply these critical theories—drawn from a wide range of literary theorists, philosophers, cultural critics, commentators, and scholars of literature, history, and language—to a variety of different texts.
83687	ENG3014	Theories and Tech of Lit Study	Mixed Mode (M)	Tu 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM	Unavailable
Theories of Literature is a gateway course designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of contemporary approaches to the academic study of literary and cultural texts. The course introduces you to the practice and theory of literary criticism. It covers multiple techniques of analysis, theories of interpretation, and application of critical approaches to selected works. You will learn how to apply these critical theories—drawn from a wide range of literary theorists, philosophers, cultural critics, commentators, and scholars of literature, history, and language—to a variety of different texts.
83778	LIT3931	Topics in World Literature	Web-Based (W)	7:00 PM - 7:00 PM	Unavailable
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was the largest forced human migration in history during which about approximately twelve million people deracinated from their homes and a million killed. This course is aimed to introduce you to the literature that emerged from this catastrophic founding trauma of the Indian-Bangladesh-Pakistani nation-states that became free from the reign of a long British colonialism. While the fledgling nation-states of India and Pakistan celebrated the end of a long and painful British colonialism, millions were uprooted from their homes and borders were arbitrarily drawn as violence ensued in the communities and religious nationalism took over. In this course, we will study significant literary and visual texts that help to underscore the human tragedy of the Partition. We will watch some films on the Partition made by the largest film industry in the world: Bollywood, along with films that belong within a certain critical discourse, labeled as "parallel" films. We will read iconic Partition writers, from the Progressive Writers' movement and study Partition as one of the most significant haunting memories that have scarred South Asia, its people and politics through popular culture, art and songs. One of the larger questions we will investigate is how the Partition of 1947 has shaped the Indian subcontinent in crucial ways and how does it still linger into the legacies that inform cross border politics, mobility, migration and nationalisms?

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
20230	ENG4114	Literature and Film	In Person (P)	M,W 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Unavailable
POST-1865. The practice of adapting literary works to the silver screen has been in place since the beginning of motion pictures. Indeed, early filmmakers often turned to classic literature as a way of not only appealing to audiences but also seeking to legitimize the fledgling art form. As the tradition of adaptation has evolved over the past century, however, cinema has developed a much more complex relation to literature, at times exceeding the limits of the page with an audio-visual spectacle barely resembling its literary source. This course will explore adaptation as a concept and theoretical practice, as a radical rewriting, challenging the conventional treatment of adaptation that often privileges literature over film. Yet, in the selected literature and its filmic versions in the course, we will pose the question of how intertextuality plays out in the two mediums, and how each medium tells a story in different ways. By examining a range of films both classic and current, in conjunction with the literary works that function as their source material, this version of ENG 4114 will open up the idea of adaptation as a form of representation and rewriting, moving beyond the relation between film and literature to include the cinematic adaptation of significant historical events, ruptures, postcolonial relations and their impacts on our present moment. This course will be useful to anyone who has an interest in learning about films, literature and history, and how the written word is adapted to the screen, and cultural and historical aspects of adaptation. or those who have an interest in literature, film, history, and culture. We will think about films in their relation to the original text and view the films from a variety of perspectives.
12559	LIT6216	Issues in Literary Study	In Person (P)	W 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM	Unavailable
Topics in Postcolonial Literatures: Conflict, Colonialism and the Postcolonial Nation This course explores some of the key concepts in postcolonial studies, focusing on postcolonial identity, nation-state, colonial aftermaths in border conflicts, subalternity and the making of contemporary postcolonial South Asia. We would be reading a variety of key award winning anglophone and some translated texts from South Asia framed by historical ruptures like Partition, caste alienation, borderland conflicts, gender and subaltern resistance. The course introduces students to some of the key postcolonial theoretical concepts as well as iconic literatures, films, and short stories from colonial and postcolonial junctures to examine literary and cultural representations of postcolonial South Asia. The selected theories and literatures also enable a vital introduction and engagement with the major movements, transformations and research occurring within postcolonial studies at the present time.