Curriculum Vitae

Rupendra Guha Majumdar

Designation: Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts,
University of Delhi, Delhi-7, India.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Ph.D. Delhi University, 1990. (Topic: "The Significance of Heroism in Modern
American Drama." Supervisor: Prof. Vinod Sena. Examiners of dissertation:
Prof. Gerald Weales, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Prof. Leonard Neufeldt,
Purdue University, USA; Prof. D.V.K. Raghavacharyulu, Guntur University,
India.)
M.A. English Literature, Delhi University, 1972.
B.A. English (Honours), St. Xavier's College, Calcutta University, 1970.
I.S.C. (Senior Cambridge), St. Xaviers School, Hazaribagh, 1966.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Total: 39 years in Delhi University

Undergraduate level (37 years): Postgraduate level (35 years) :

Courses taught : Classical Literature: Aeschylus; Virgil

17th & 18the cent. Drama: Shakespeare, Moliere,
John Gay
Romantic Poetry: Shelley; Keats, Byron
Modern Drama: Brecht, Pirandello; Eugene
ONeill; Arthur Miller, Albee.
American Literature: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman.
Mark Twain, Ginsberg, Levertov, Hughes.
Literature and the Visual Arts in Europe( Landscape)
Indian Literature: Bankimchandra, Tagore, Attia
Hosain, Imtiaz Dharkar
Modern European/Russian Novel: Conrad, Kafka,
Gogol

FELLOWSHIPS/HONOURS/GRANTS:
U.G.C/ D.U. Travel Grants to attend literary conferences in U.S.A/Europe.: 1999/ 2005/
2008/ 2011.
Fulbright Fellowship (Post-Doctoral): English Dept., Yale University, 1992-1993.
Fulbright Fellowship (Pre-Doctoral): English Dept., Yale University, 1981-1982.
U.G.C. Teacher Fellowship, Delhi University, 1980-1981.
The Writers Workshop-Sheaffer Award for Poetic Excellence, 1991 (for my book
of poems The Hiroshima Clock, 1990).

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PUBLICATIONS:
CRITICAL WRITING
Book:
a) Central Man: The Paradox of Heroism in Modern American Drama;
Brussels, Belgium: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2003.
Articles in Journals/Books/Encyclopedias/Websites:
a) "The Importance of Being Black in Modern American Drama," Indian
Journal of American Studies Vol.16, No.2 (Summer 1986): 65-76 (Listed in
the MLA Bibliography.)
b) Eugene ONeills American Precursors. In eOneill.com, ed. Harley
Hammerman, 2006
c) Seven articles in Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, ed. Evert Sprinchorn &
Gabrielle H. Cody( New York: Columbia University Press, 2007).
d) Five articles in World Poetry From 1900 to the Present, ed. R. Victoria
Arana (New York: Facts on File, 2007).
e) Ravanas Navel and the Paradox of Dismemberment in Illustrations of The
Ramayana. In Essays on Ravana, ed. Indira Goswami (New Delhi: BR
Publications, 2008)
f) Don Quixote and the Legacy of a Caricaturist/Artistic Discourse, in
Cervantes and Don Quixote: Proceedings of the Delhi Conference on Miguel
de Cervantes, ed. Vibha Maurya and Ignacio Arellano (Hyderabad:
EMESCO Books, 2008).
g) Four articles in Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: A Literary Reference
to His Life and Work, ed. Robert M. Dowling. New York: Facts on File,
2008.
h) The Predicament of Freedom in the Works of Arthur Miller and Harold
Pinter. In Journal of Drama Studies, Vol.3, No.1 ( Jan 2009).
i) Deep in My Silent Sea: The Influence of Coleridges The Ancient
Mariner on Eugene ONeill. Intertextual Exchanges, ed. Drew Eisenhauer
& Brenda Murphy, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011
j) ONeills Tryst with the Power of Blackness. In Critical Insights: Eugene
ONeill. Ed. Steven F. Bloom. New York: EBESCO/ Salem Press, 2011.
k) Hidden Treasures: Intimations of The Count of Monte Cristo in ONeills
One Act Plays in Eugene O'Neill's One-Act Plays: New Perspectives. Ed.
Michael Bennet & Benjamin Carson. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011
l) A High Noon of Love and Death. In Cowboy Love: Lonely Hearts and
Happy Trails in Western Film and Television. Ed. Sue Matheson. New York:
Palgrave, 2012.
m) On Four films of Ingmar Bergman. In World Directory of Cinema. Ed
Marcelline Block. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2011.

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 n) Beyond the Glass Menagerie: From Tennessee Williams to Liv Ullmann via
Begrmans Cinema. In Tenessee Williams in the Nordic and Baltic Region.
Ed. Dirk Gindt. Sweden: Lambda Nordica, 2012
Review Articles on Exhibitions/Talks:

a). Theatre in India--The Emerging of a New Formthe 11th Rosalind Wilson

Memorial Lecture,IIC, by Bhashkar Ghose ( IIC Website July 2003).
b). Muslim Architecture of Ahmedabad, Talk by Dr. Jutta Jain, IIC (IIC Website,
30th August,2003).
c). Bengal: Views from the 18th, 19th and 20th Century, IIC Exhibition of prints &
photographs , (IIC Website, October 2005)
d). Ornament in Traditional Indian Architecture, IIC Talk by Dr. Parul Pandeya Dhar,
(IIC Website, 14 July, 2006)
e). Sketches From Madhya Pradesh, IIC Exhibition of drawings by Yochi
Yamagata, Japanese artist. (From Japan With Love: Sketches of Madhya
Pradesh by an Itinerant Biologist. IIC Website, 18 August,2007).
f). Pre-publication manuscript-review of Dipak Kumar Barkakotis novel, Upatyakar Para
Upatyakalir (From Valley to Valley), Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 17th April, 2007.
g). Music Therapy, IIC Talk by Dr. T. V. Sairam,. (The Open Secret of Music Therapy,
IIC Website, 16th April, 2008).

CREATIVE WRITING
a) Collections: of poetry in English, fourpublished by Writers Workshop, Calcutta:
Blunderbuss (1971); Apus Initiation (1975); Tomcat (1980); The Hiroshima
Clock (1990).

b) Anthologies: My poems have been featured in various anthologies like: Modern Indian
Poetry in English, ed. P. Lal, 1971; Indo-English Poetry in Bengal, ed. K.C. Lahiri, 1974;
Vyasas Mahabharata: Creative Insights, ed. P. Lal, 1992; The Oxford Book of Animal
Poems, ed. Michael Harrison & Christopher Smart-Clark, London: Oxford University
Press, 1992; Spotlight On Poetry: Poems Around the World 3, ed. Brian Moses & David
Orme (London: Harper Collins, 1999); Here and Now,2 Vols.,.ed. A.
Dahiyabadshah(Delhi, 2008); Muse of Murmur: Art & Poetry Collection, ed. S. Bondo(
Delhi,2008); The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry, ed. Rubana Huq (Writers
Workshop, 2008)
c) I am preparing a fifth volume of verse, Sanguine River; a collection of limericks,
Levitational Hazards and other Limericks; and a volume of my Selected Poems for
publication
TRANSLATION
(i) I have helped translate poetry into English from Romanian (Ion Iuga; Lucian Blaga)
and Hungarian (Miklos Radnoti) languages. The latter translation was published in the
Journal of Modern European Languages, 1988
(ii) Rabindranath Tagores play, Roktokorobi into English, The Essential Tagore
(Harvard University Press, 2011).

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Conference Papers/Lectures:

a) The American Literature of the 1920s, Madras, 227 May 1977

(Auspices of The United States Educational Foundation in India). Paper title:
The Vanishing Hero in the American Drama of the Twenties..
b) The Ethnic Factor in American Studies, Delhi, 17 Dec. 1983. (Auspices of
Delhi University, JNU, USEFI, American Studies Research Centre,
Hyderabad). Paper title: The Importance of Being Black in American
Drama.
c) National Seminar on Federico Garcia Lorca, Delhi, 23-24 April 1998
(Auspices of Embassy of Spain, Centres of Spanish Study, Delhi University,
Jawaharlal Nehru University & CIEFL, Hyderabad). Paper title: Saturnian
Meditations in the Works of Goya, Unamuno and Lorca.
d) International Conference on Eugene ONeill, Bermuda, 6-11 January 1999
(Auspices of Eugene ONeill Society, USA & Bermuda College, Bermuda).
Paper title: Eugene ONeills American Predecessors.
e) Folk Art in Bengal, Lectures delivered at Lalitha Kala Akademi,
Ernakulam, Kerala, 26-27 August 2000.
f) Crucible of Cultures: Anglophone Drama at the Dawn of a New
Millennium , Brussels, 16-19 May 2001(Auspices of University of Brussels,
Belgium). Paper title: The Predicament of Freedom in the Works of Arthur
Miller and Harold Pinter.
g) International Conference on Cervantes and Don Quixote, Delhi, Jan 31-Feb
2, 2005 (Auspices of Dept. of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of
Delhi & University of Navarra, Spain). Paper title: Don Quixote and the
Legacy of a Caricaturist/ Artistic Discourse.
h) Jaina Sculpture, Lectures delivered at the 1st Indo-U.S.A. Summer-
Workshop on Jainism, Delhi, 13th June 2005; and at the Jain Center, Boston,
U.S.A., 20th June 2005.
i) International Conference on Eugene ONeill, Provincetown, Massachusetts,
USA, June 15-20, 2005 (Auspices of Eugene ONeill Society, USA). Paper
title: Eugene ONeills Poetry: A Parallel Discourse.
j) International Conference on Ramayana: Our Life and Culture, Guwahati,
Assam, November 3-9, 2005 (Auspices of Asom Kalatirtha & Srimanta
Sankardeva Kalakshetra, Guwahati). Paper title: Ethical Principles in The
Ramayana.
k) Rites of Passage: Exploring Changes in the Travel Motif, Delhi, March 3-4,
2006 (Auspices of Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University
of Delhi). Paper title: To Provincetown, Cape Cod: Notes on Self-Reliance at
the Periphery of a New World.

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 l) Jaina Art and Sculpture, Lectures delivered at the 2nd Indo-U.S. Summer
Workshop on Jainism, Delhi, 26 July 2006.
m) Third International Conference on Bhakti Movement and Srimanta
Sankaradeva, March, 9-11, 2007; (Auspices of Asom Kalatirtha and
Pragjyotish College, Guwahati). Paper title: Passion Play: Syncretic Legacies
of the Bhakti Movement in Assam and Bengal.
n) Jaina Art and Sculpture, Lecture, 3rd International Summer Workshop on
Jainism, Delhi,27th July 2007.
o) International Conference on Eugene ONeill, Danville, California, USA;
June 11-15, 2008; Auspices of Eugene ONeill Society. Paper title: ONeill,
Ancient Mariner, Wedding Guest.

SEMINARS/CONFERENCES:
Over the last three decades I have participated in seminars/conferences addressed by
(amongst others) the following:
Molly Mahood, M.C. Bradbrook, Martin Banham, Cicely Berry, Jerome
Lawrence, C.B. Cox, Girish Karnad, Harold Clurman, Leslie Fiedler, Elizabeth
Hardwick, Kathleen Healy, D.V.K. Raghavacharyulu, Charles Anderson, Ralph
Salisbury, Harold Jenkins, Sisir Das, Gerald Weales, Bharati Mukherjee, Kathleen
Raine, Paul Levine, Harold Bloom, Richard Gilman; Helen McNeil, His Holiness
the Dalai Lama, Norman Mailer, Robert Brustein, Theodore Mann.

AFFILIATIONS (Past & Present)

Fulbright Alumni Association, New Delhi; American Studies Research Centre,

Hyderabad; The Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale; The Art Gallery
Associates, Yale; The National Geographic Society of America; The Eugene
O'Neill Society; The Marlowe Society of America; Conservation Society of
Delhi; Association of Writers and Illustrators for Children, New Delhi; WWF,
New Delhi; Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi; India International Centre, New
Delhi

INTERESTS:

Painting, photography, sculpture (participated in the National Exhibition of Art,

Lalit Kala Akademi, 1984, with a bronze sculpture titled Bengali Youth);
architectural design; history of art; folk & classical Indian music; the theatre;
nature & environmental studies.
PERSONAL DATA
Date & Place of Birth : 10th May 1951; Cooch Behar, West Bengal, India
Fathers Name : Late Dhirendranath Guha Majumdar
Nationality/ Religion : Indian/ Hindu
Marital Status: Married: to Dr. Karabi M. Guha Majumdar

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MAILING ADDRESS:
i) # 42/4 Chhatra Marg, Delhi University Enclave, Delhi-110007, India
(Phone: Residence: 91-11-27662171; Mobile: 9871420762).
ii) Permanent Address: #242, Ghalib Apartments, Parwana Road, Pitampura,
Delhi-110034, India
iii) Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, Delhi-
110007, (Ph: 91-11-27666757).
iv) E-mail:<rupendraguha@gmail.com>