Uddalak Dutta

Biography

I completed my graduation with honours in English from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata in 2011. I moved on to Jadavpur University and completed M.A in English in 2013. Presently, I am engaged in Ph.D research work at the Department of English, Jadavpur University under the supervision of Prof Ananda Lal. The research focuses on the dramatic works of Utpal Dutt. My areas of interest include twentieth century Indian and European theatre, and Shakespeare. I have been teaching in the Department of English, St. Xavier’s College since July 2013. I have also taught courses in Compulsory English to a bunch of enthusiastic learners at the rural campus of the college at Raghabpur. My paper entitled Representation of Race in Four Shakespearean Plays: Titus Andronicus, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice was published in the September 2013 issue of The International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (ISSN 2286-4822). I have presented a paper entitled Representation of the Subaltern in Select Plays of Tagore at the National Conference (‘Writings from the Margin’) organized by the Department of English, Vidyasagar University (4-5 March, 2014). I have presented a paper entitled ‘Is black so base a hue?’, focusing on some of Shakespeare’s plays, at the UGC International Conference ‘Shakespeare Reconsidered’ organized by the Department of Drama, Rabindra Bharati University (17-20 March, 2015). I presented a paper entitled The ‘Inside’ and the ‘Outside’: Depictions of Private/Public Spaces in Select Plays of Utpal Dutt at the International Conference “Exploring Moral Interfaces: Private Worlds and Public Systems” organized by the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad in October 2015.

Research Interest

Twentieth century Indian and European theatre, and Shakespeare