Debapriya Basu

Associate Professor in English at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. Teaching responsibilities include undergraduate electives on Classical and Renaissance drama and detective fiction, graduate courses in literary studies and digital humanities, and research supervision. Academic interests are editing and bibliographical studies, digital archiving and textual editing, early modern English women's writing. Projects on documenting Phalee language (Co-PI), digital critical edition of the Examinations of Anne Askew (PI)

• "Speaker centric documentation of Phalee to understand generational language change and loss." Funded by the JPN Center of Excellence in Humanities, IIT Indore. 2024. Co-PI.
• The Examinations of Anne Askew Online. Funded by Erasmus Mundus and IIT Guwahati. PI.

• Ng Mawonthing and Debapriya Basu, ""Animals are Killed by Their Spoor and Men by their Words: ”

The Rhetoric of Speech and Silence in Phalee Proverbs< Proverbium, forthcoming.

• Debapriya Basu, "Here doth shee mourne: Epitaphic Compulsion in Isabella
  Whitney's Lament upon William Gruffith's Death," Women's Writing, Taylor and
  Francis. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2024.2284046
• Sheetal Madhav Gokhale, Debapriya Basu and Ravi Mokashi-Punekar, "The
  TIME IS CIRCLE/CYCLE metaphor in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival (2017),"
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Research into Design 2019,
  Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0428-0_8
• Debapriya Basu (tr.), "The Termination of Sri Gauranga's Leela"
  (Dineshchandra Sen), "The Early Poets" (Iswar Chandra Gupta), "The Sign of
  the Epic" (Ramendrasundar Trivedi) in Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta and
  Subrata Sinha eds. Critical Discourse in Bangla, Routledge, 2022.
• Debapriya Basu, "[A]s sometimes Poets dream: Liminality and the Female
  Writer in the Poetry of Anne Finch," Dream and Literary Creation in Women's
  Writings in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Anthem Press, 2021, pp.
  75-90.
• Debapriya Basu, "'Tis for our Selves, not them, we Write: Generic Crossovers in
  Women's Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century," Jadavpur University Essays
  and Studies, Jadavpur University Press, vol. 34, (Eighteenth Century
  Crossovers: Gender, Genre, and Geography), pp.1-25, 2020.
• Debapriya Basu, "Owning the Body of the City in Isabella Whitney's "Wyll and
  Testament,"" Littcrit: An Indian Response to Literature, Thiruvananthapuram:
  Littcrit, vol.44:02:00, Issue no.86, 2018, pp.7-12.
• Debapriya Basu,"All Things Done Unto Edifying: Anne Dowriche and the Play
  of History," Disnarration: The Unsaid Matters, Orient Blackswan, 2016,
  pp.54-68, https://www.orientblackswan.com/BookDescription?is
• Debapriya Basu, "Gender, Heresy and Law: A Sixteenth Century Execution,"
  eXcommunicated, Journal of the International Society for Heresy Studies, 2018.
• Debapriya Basu (tr.) 3 essays in Joyita Bagchi and Ipsita Chanda eds.
  Shaping the Discourse, Women's Writings in Bengali Periodicals (1865-1947),
  Stree, 2011.
  

• Scholarship awarded by the Renaissance Society of America for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI 2020) at the University of Victoria, Canada.
• Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship to the National University of Ireland, Galway, 2017.
• Government of India University Grants Commission Post-Doctoral Fellowship to Women Candidates 2015 (declined due to appointment as Assistant Professor, HSS, IIT Guwahati)
• Erasmus Mundus EMINTE Post-Doctoral fellowship for 9 months to the University of Amsterdam. Awarded in April 2014. Fellowship from September 2014–May 2015.
• Inlaks Research Travel Grant for three months in the UK (April-August 2011)
• Junior Research Fellowship in the University Grants Commission of India National Eligibility Test (UGC NET) held in June 2005.
• University Medal and Jogendranath Das Bronze Medal for standing first in the M.A. English Examination 2003.
• Bonomali Das Silver Medal and Dr. Dinesh Chandra Biswas Memorial Gold Centred Silver Medal for securing highest marks in Paper V (Shakespeare) in the M.A. English Examination 2003.

French (L’Alliance Francaise de Calcutta)