Manojit Mandal

Dr. Manojit Mandal is Professor of English and the Chair of the Department at Jadavpur University. He began his academic career as a Lecturer in English at Assam University, Silchar, in 2000, before joining Rabindra Bharati University, where he served until March 2005. Since then, he has been associated with the Department of English at Jadavpur University, where he was appointed Professor in October 2018. Dr. Mandal earned his PhD from the Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University, with a dissertation titled Reinterpreting Tagore: Society, Culture and Decolonization. His research spans Shakespeare studies, postcolonial theory, Shakespeare in Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore, and disability studies. He has published extensively in national and international books and journals. His recent monograph, Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism: The Bard & the Raj, was published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) in 2024. He has also co-authored Education & Awareness among Persons with Disability in the Sunderban Areas: A Survey of Four Selected Blocks (Jadavpur University Press, 2017) with Dr. Sujitkumar Mondal and edited Higher Education, Universities and Excellence: The Bengal Narrative (Jadavpur University, 2017). Actively involved with the Centre for Studies in Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing (formerly the Centre for Disability Studies) at Jadavpur University since 2012, Dr. Mandal has been its Joint Coordinator since 2015. He has supervised UGC-UPE and university-funded projects on disability studies and is currently engaged in two UGC-RUSA 2.0 translation projects: (i) Rabijiboni ("Life of Rabindranath") in English: Translation, Transnationalism, and the Global South and (ii) Tagore in English: Essays of Decolonization.