Shumona Dasgupta (sdasgupt)

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Associate Professor

Combs Hall Room 325
sdasgupt@umw.edu
540-654-1536


Academic Degrees

B.A., M.A., University of Delhi; Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook

Shumona Dasgupta in the News

Dasgupta Presents on the Indian Partition at Two Conferences

Associate Professor of English Shumona Dasgupta recently presented on representations of the Indian partition at two professional conferences. She presented “Subaltern Pasts: Other Archives of the Indian Partition (1947)” at the thirtieth annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies conference (BCPSC) hosted by the Georgia Southern University, GA (February 15-19, 2021) and Read more…

Dasgupta Presents at Memory Studies Conference in Spain

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently presented a paper titled “Everyday Trauma: Memorializing the Indian Partition” at the third annual Memory Studies Conference (MSA) at the Complutense University Madrid, Madrid, Spain (June 25-28, 2019). [...] The post Dasgupta Presents at Memory Studies Conference in Spain appeared first on EagleEye. Read more…

Dasgupta Presents at Postcolonial Studies Conference

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, presented the paper “Memory, Trauma, and Violence: The Partition in Indian Cinema​” at the 28th annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies conference in Savannah, Georgia, on February 16, 2019. [...] The post Dasgupta Presents at Postcolonial Studies Conference appeared first on EagleEye. Read more…

Dasgupta Presents at Popular Culture Conference

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, presented a paper on Bollywood and the Partition, entitled “Mothers of the Nation: Gender and Identity in Indian Partition Cinema,” at the 29th annual Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association conference in Baltimore (November 8-9, 2018). The paper has since been nominated for the MAPACA Donald Award, which recognizes an Read more…

Dasgupta Delivers Two Conference Papers

Shumona Dasgupta, Associate Professor of English, recently presented two conference papers, "A Counter Discourse to Bollywood: Gender, Nation and Violence in Bengali Partition Cinema" at the Association of Asian Studies Conference in Washington, DC March 22-25 and "An(other) Story: Memory, Trauma and Identity in Muslim Narratives of the Partition" at Read more…
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