Call for Papers for Essays in Honour of Professor Krishna Sen – a Festschrift
Call for Papers
for
Essays in Honour of Professor Krishna Sen – a Festschrift
Every once in a while one comes across an academic who is able to combine expansive erudition with excellence in classroom teaching, international acclaim with cordial affection for young students and scholars, scholarly brilliance with jargon-less lucidity. Such individuals become a source of inspiration for countless scholars across generations who carry within themselves scattered specks of light emanating from that phenomenal mentor which continue to light their heterogeneous journeys with the constancy and illumination of a pole-star “whose worth’s unknown, though height be taken”. The University of Calcutta has been blessed to have several such teachers across different disciplines who have contributed to its abiding search for excellence. One such Teacher of Eminence is Professor Krishna Sen, a stalwart of the Department of English who not only enchanted hundreds of students across decades but directly and indirectly shaped the evolution of a discipline in numerous ways, both through her individual contributions and through a whole host scholars and academics who owe much of their blossoming to her mentorship. The proposed anthology, Essays in Honour of Professor Krishna Sen, seeks to foreground her contributions and pay homage to her genius through a tripartite structure that will help to illustrate her role as a teacher, a guide, beyond the context of dissertations, and as a precious human being whose life and company offer manifold lessons in humanistic virtues, in particular the virtue of humility. The anthology will be edited by Dr. Abin Chakraborty, Dr. Piyali Gupta and Sayan Aich Bhowmik.
The first section will include essays on different aspects of the texts that she had taught during her long tenure in the University of Calcutta such as Aristotle’s Poetics, Joyce’s The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, T.S. Eliot’s The Murder in the Cathedral, Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines, Anita Desai’s The Clear Light of Day, Virginia Woolf’s Essay on Modern Fiction, Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, various aspects of diasporic literature and cosmopolitanism and much more.
The second section will feature papers written by her former students who will demonstrate how some of her teachings and insights which stayed with them led to the germination of individual critical insights in their own areas of research across different genres and periods.
The third section will include recollections illustrating her wonderfully warm personality through experiences shared by academics and students who have come to know her well over the last five decades or so.
Contributions are invited from academics across the world in particular from the many scholars whose academic journeys Professor Krishna Sen, our beloved KS, has helped to shape.
The anthology would be published by a reputed publisher with ISBN number. The proposal would be submitted after the screening of the submissions.
Submission Guidelines:
1. Papers for the first category, focusing on texts taught by Professor Sen, should be within 5000 words in MLA 9 format, with parenthetical citations and a works cited list without endnotes/footnotes.
2. Papers for the second category should carry an opening section about how the paper was inspired by particular insights shared by Professor Sen.
3. Papers for the third category should be within 2000 words.
4. All papers for the first two categories should be accompanied by an abstract of 500 words, 5 keywords and a 75 words bio-note of the author. Papers for the third category would require only bio-notes.
5. The abstracts and submissions should be sent to tribute2KS@gmail.com within 30th November 2024.
6. All prospective contributors are free to share their queries about the publication by sending an email to the aforementioned mailing address.
Editors:
Dr. Abin Chakraborty, Assistant Professor in English, Chandernagore College
Dr. Piyali Gupta, Assistant Professor in English, Bethune College
Sayan Aich Bhowmik, Assistant Professor in English, Shirakole Mahavidyalay
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Dr. Abin Chakraborty
