Before joining Warwick, I have completed BA (Hons) in English Literature and MA in English Literature, both from the University of Calcutta in India. I have also completed MA in English Studies (20^th Century English Literature) from the University of Birmingham. My MA thesis was based on the Indian Nobel-Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and was titled, “Translating Tagore: A Diachronic Perspective of the Challenge to his Poetry in the West”. I was supervised by Dr. Alison Johnson for my thesis. I have also completed PGCE (Post-compulsory Education & Training) from the University of Greenwich and am a Lecturer in English at Bournville College of Further Education in Birmingham.

 

 

Proposed title of thesis:

Literary and artistic expressions of black and Asian women from the Midlands

 

Supervisor:

Dr Rashmi Varma

  

  

Research initiatives:

In 2007-2008 I organised a series of Seminars with the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender on “Women and Community”.

Key seminar:

“Child and/or Soldier: Two Stories in the Struggle over Comparative Literature", A talk by Professor Barbara Harlow

 

Research Interests: 

• Postcolonial Literatures and Theories

   

• Feminist theories and Women's Writing 

   

• Anthropology and Literature 

   

SUMANA RAY

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