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MAHARASHTRA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY MUMBAI

CETTM MTNL Building, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra State, India - 400076

(Established on 27th June 2014 by Government of Maharashtra under Act VI of 2014)

Recognized By the U/S 22 UGC Act 1956 Approved by BCI
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Mr. Upamanyu Sengupta

Mr. Upamanyu Sengupta

Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. English Literature
DAAD Fellow, TU Dresden
Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai

upamanyu@mnlumumbai.edu.in

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Research: Travel Writing

About

Mr. Upamanyu Sengupta is an Assistant Professor of English at Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai.

His doctoral dissertation examines the hermeneutics of travel writing. He was awarded a prestigious DAAD Fellowship for a semester’s study at the Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany.

His work explores the intersections of literature, law, and culture, with a focus on narrative, space, and identity.

Education & Fellowship

Ph.D.
Ph.D. in English Literature
EFL University, Hyderabad
Thesis: Hermeneutics of Travel Writing
Fellowship
DAAD Fellowship
Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany
Semester Study Program

Research Interests

Studies of Space and Place Travel Writing Translation Studies Anglo-Indian Studies Affective Mapping Literature and Law Hermeneutics

His research reflects on how narratives construct place, identity, and community, with particular attention to marginalized voices and cross-cultural dialogue.

Publications

Journal Articles

  • ‘Boundaries as Crossovers: The Shoreline as a Digressive Site in Ramkumar Mukhopadhyay’s 'Dhanapatir Sinhalyatra'’, Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 12(3), June 2020
  • ‘A Sign in Twilight: Semiotic Interpretations of Sandhayabhasha Metaphors in the 'Charyapada'’, Translation Today, 13 (1), January 2019
  • ‘Voicing a Return: The Impact of the BPO Sector on the Anglo-Indian Community in Secunderabad’, International Journal of Anglo Indian Studies 16 (1), July 2016

Chapters in Books

  • ‘Storytellers across Digital Regionscapes: Affective Mapping as a Tool for Iran-India Dialogue’ in India and Iran in Contemporary Relations (eds.) R. Sidda Goud and Manisha Mookherjee, Allied Publishers, 2014
  • ‘Re-Enchanting the Western Front: Sepoys, Scribes and their Epistolary Travails in the Western Front’ in The Great War and Our Mindscapes: Centenary Essays (eds.) Fakrul Alam, Tahmina Ahmed and Zerin Alam, writers.ink for Dhaka University Press, 2017

Papers, Workshops & Conferences

Feb 2020
Paper Presentation
‘Beyond Wilderness: Representation of Forests in a Contemporary Judgment and a Poem’
IACLALS Conference, Jadavpur University
Oct 2019
Workshop Participation
‘Bharata’s Natyashastra’
Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune
Aug 2017
Paper Presentation
‘No Place Called Home: The Inhabited Place in Ruskin Bond’s Short Stories’
Anglo Indian Studies Seminar and Workshop, DHSS, IIT Madras

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