CURRICULUM VITAE

Guru Charan Behera, Professor of English (Contemporary Literature)

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

I. Date of Birth: 04. 01. 1952

II. Educational Qualification: M.A., Ph.D. (English), P.G. Diploma in Translation Studies
III. Specialization: Postcolonial Literature, Contemporary Drama, Theory, Translation Studies
IV. Teaching and Research Experience: 41 years, 25 years
V. Research Guidance
5 Scholars awarded Ph.D. degree, 8 scholars currently working

VI. Awards and Distinctions

1. Keynote Speaker. Study India Day. Department of English, University of Muenster,
Muenster, Germany. 08 June, 2015. “Perspectives on English Literature Studies in
Indian Universities.”
2. UGC Academic Fellow, Department of English, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur. 27
January to 07 February 2015
3. Sabbatical Leave Project, Banaras Hindu University 2016. “South Asian Canadian
Novel: Culture and Identity”
4. Banaras Hindu University Research Grant 2011. “The Third Space: A Study of Indo-
Canadian Novel”.
5. Senior Fellowship by the Department of Culture and Tourism, Govt. of India 2002-
2004. Field. English: Subfield: Theatre.“Elements of Folk Culture in Contemporary
Indian Drama”
6. Indian Literature (Sahitya Akadimi Journal, New Delhi) Golden Jubilee Literary
Competition Award under Oral Literature category, 2007
VII. Publications
A. Books
1. Reality and illusion in the Plays of Harold Pinter. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1998
2. Appropriating Folk Culture: A Study of the Post-Independence Indian Drama. Delhi:
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 Authorspress, 2008
B. Select Publications in Refereed Journal
1.“Development and Welfare Discourses, Marginality and Cultural Interventions in
Mahasweta Devi’s Aajir”. Asiatic. Volume10, Number1 June 2016. Malayasia.
2. “Perspectives on English Literature Studies in Indian Universities : Focus Banaras Hindu
University”. Research and Criticism Volume I, 2015. Department of English, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi
3. “Hegemony and Resistance in Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language”. Notes on Contemporary
Literature. Vol.XLII No.3, May 2012. Carrollton, USA
4. ”Postcolonialism, Folk Culture and Girish Karnad’s Nagamandala”. South Asian Review. 2011
University of Pittsburg, USA
5. Interrogating Colonialism, Migration and Diaspora: Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear
the Nightbird Call?” Research and Criticism, Volume II, 2011. Department of English
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
6.. “Oriya Bhakti Poetry Tradition and Niranjan Mohanty’s Prayers to Lord Jagannatha.
Apperception. VOL. V 2011. Journal of the Department of English and Other Modern
European Languages. Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan.
7. “Indian Literature, Multiculturalism and Translation”. Translation Today Vol. 7 No. 1 & 2,
2010. Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore
8. “Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient : An Intertextual Perspective”. The Icfai Journal
of English Studies. Vol.V Nos.1 &2 March & June 2010, Vol.1, 2010
9. “The Hybridization of Machine and Organism: A Study of Michael Ondaatje’s
The English Patient”. Creative Forum. Vol. 22 No. 1 Jan- June 2009. The
Department of English, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
10. “ Locating the Self: A Diasporic Perspective on Lorraine Hanaberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
and Adrienne kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro.” The Icfai Journal of English Studies.
Vol. II No. I March 2007. The Icfai University, Hyderabad
11. “Negotiating Identities: A Study of Adrienne kennedy’s ‘The Owl Answers”. The Journal
of Language and Culture Studies (JLS}. Spring 2007, New Series. Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi
12. “ Interrogating Cultural Politics: Girish karnad’s Hayavadana. Notes on Contemporary
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 Literature. Vol 345. No. 5 November, 2004. Carrollton, USA
13. “Interrogating Class, Caste and Gender: A Study of Mahasweta Devi’s Aajir. The
Visva Bharati Quaterly. New Series Vol 11 No 3 &4: October 2ooo2-March 2003.
Visva-Bharati, Shantiniketan.
14. “The Flower of Love in idleness in Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana : A Cultural
Appropriation of Shakespeare”. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature 40, 2002-
2003 Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
15. Review Article. Review of Terry Eagleton’s How to Read a Poem. Research and
Criticism. New Series, Vol.I, 2010 Department of English, Banaras Hindu University.

VIII. Involvement in Curriculum Planning and Other Academic Activities

 As the convener of Ph.D. English Syllabus Committee, BHU-2010 and 2013
 As a member of the B.A. & M.A.English Syllabus Committee, BHU-2010
 As the Organising Secretary of International Seminar on ‘Reading/Understanding
Fiction in Contemporary Times’ at BHU, March 5-6, 2014
 Acted as the Co-ordinator, Refresher Course in English, ‘ Literature and Ideology’
BHU, October 8-28, 2014
 Visit to the Department of English, University of Muenster, Germany , Key note
lecture on ‘Perspectives on English Literature Studies in Indian Universities: Focus
Banaras Hindu University’ at the Study India Day seminar on 8 June 2015 and
interaction with its faculty and students on possibility of exchange and collaboration
on 9 and 10 June, 2015.
 30 Talks at Refresher Courses. Chief guest at the inauguration of the refresh course
and 4 talks on Travel Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur November 24 &
25, 2014
 Chaired the inaugural session of The Purohit Memorial Lectures, Department of
English, BHU , 21 August 2015.
Talks at Seminars (Recent)
As a panellist at Linguistics Seminar, BHU, Varanasi, 06 November 2015. ‘Localizing
English Literature Studies in Indian Context’

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 ‘Trajectory of Foucault’s Theory: Structuralism to Post-structuralism’. Odisha
Association for English Studies, Balasore,Odisha 19 February 2016
 Resource Person, U.G.C. National Seminar, Department of Odia, Ravenshaw
University, Cuttack, Odisha. Talk on ‘Granth, Itihas O Sanskruti’(Text, History and
Culture) 03 March 2016
 Keynote Speech. UGC Seminar, MPC Autonomous College, Baripada ,Odisha.
‘Postcolonial Theory and Indian Literature’. 19 March 2016
 Chief Guest. UGC Seminar. Baripada Women’s College, Baripada, Odiaha. Talk:
‘Multiculturalism, Translation and Indian Literature’. 28 August 201

IX Membership of Professional Bodies/Academics

Life Member ( presented papers at a number of seminars organised by these
associations)
1. Indian Association for Canadian Studies
2. Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies
3. Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
4. Indo-American Centre for International Studies (American Studies Research
Centre), Hyderabad
X. Additional Information: Creative Writing and Translation
1. Aneka Adhunikata [ Multiple Modernities ]. A Collection of Criticism in Oriya
Cuttack: Agraduta 2007
2. National Book Trust of India assignment of the translation of Tribal Folk Tales of
South Orissa. Voices of Wilderness. Under Publication
3. Odia Translation of the English Prose Version of Homer’s The Odyssey published by
Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi 2004
4. Edited (jointly) Tetish Odia kavi ( Thirty Three Odia Poets ): A collection of
Contemporary Odia Poetry. Cuttack: New Age Publishers 2010
5. Translations of many Odia Poems and Short Stories in Sahitya Akadmi (New Delhi)
anthologies and its journal Indian Literature. Won Jndian Literature Golden Jubilee
Literary Competition Prize under Oral Literature Competition, 2007
6 Short Stories and Criticism in Odia Published.
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