Priyanka Chatterjee

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Priyanka Chatterjee

HOD of Humanities at BBIT

Kolkata, India

Priyanka Chatterjee has done M.A. and M.Phil in English from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Her M.Phil topic was Malefriendship in the plays of Samuel Beckett: a study of Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Presently she is pursuing her Doctorate Programme from Ludwig Maximillian Universitet, München on Theatre Studies. Her topic is Beckett between Cultures: reception of Samuel Beckett in the theatres of India. She was the Convener of Indian Society for Theatre Research’s (ISTR) IXth Annual International Conference in 2013. She was the Research Assistant of University Grants Commission’s (UGC) project Ibsen, Chekov and Brecht in Bengal: Negotiating Differences in University of Calcutta. She has presented research papers at University of Oxford, UK, University of Gdansk, Poland, Osaka University, Japan, Buddhasravaka Bhikshu University, Srilanka, Faculty of Letters, Morocco, University of Reading,UK, University of Lapland, Finland University of Warwick, UK, Stockholm University, Sweden and so on. She is one of the Board members of Jura Soyfer Society, Vienna (Austria). Currently, she is the Head of the Department of Humanities at Budge Budge Institute of Technology, Kolkata. She is one of the Managing Committee members of BBIT Public School, Kolkata. She is the Joint Secretary of Indian Society for Theatre Research, India.