Devaleena Kundu

Assistant Professor

Total years in experience: 2 years

Book Chapters (International):

Kundu, Devaleena. “Aesthetics of Corpses in Popular Culture” (2020). In Death in Contemporary Popular Culture, edited by Adriana Teodorescu and Michael Hviid Jacobsen, 103-115. UK: Routledge.

Kundu, Devaleena. “The Paradox of Mortality: Death and Perpetual Denial” (2015). In Death Representations in Literature, edited by Adriana Teodorescu, 8-23. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journal Articles:

(International)

Kundu, Devaleena. “Transacting Death: José Saramago’s Death at Intervals and the Politics of the Death Industry” (2020). In Thanatos 8:2, edited by Ilona Pajari and Kaarina Koski, 203-216. Finnish Death Studies Association.

Kundu, Devaleena. “Is Memory Faithful to the Past? The Dynamics of Recollection in Carlos Fuentes’ The Death of Artemio Cruz” (2014). In The Human: Journal of Literature and Culture, edited by Mustafa Bal, 1-11. Ebscohost.

(National)

Rajan, Benson and Devaleena Kundu. “Churching Online: A Study on Religious Authority and Tourism in a Digital Age” (2019). In Atna: Journal of Tourism Studies 14:1, edited by Dr. Bindi Varghese, 47-81.

Kundu, Devaleena. “Looking at Life through the Eyes of Death: Studying the Literature of Death and Dying” (2017). In Language in India 17:9, edited by Dr. Sharada Allamneni and Dr. S. D. Sasi Kiran, 354-358.

Papers presented in conferences:

“Interminable Living: A Study on Corporeal Foreverness” (October 2019). Symposium on the Gothic on the Feast of Samhain, Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

“Transacting Death: The Politics of the Death Industry in José Saramago’s Death at Intervals” (March 2015). The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). Seattle, Washington.

“Looking at Life through the Eyes of Death: Studying the Literature of Death and Dying” (February 2015). LLCSKR — 2015, Vignan University, Guntur, India.

“Recognizing the Denial of Death in Fiction” (October 2014). Department of English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University. Hyderabad, India.

“Thanatology as the Emerging Lens of Critical Understanding” (September 2014). RAW.CON 2014, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. Hyderabad, India.

“Metropolis or Gerontopolis?” (February 2014). Urban Spaces 2014, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, India.

Citations: 4

h-Index: 1

Academic Background (Degrees, University Name & Year of Passing):

PhD English Literature, EFL University, Hyderabad, 2020

M.A. English Literature, EFL University, Hyderabad, 2013

B.A. (Honours) English, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, 2011

UGC NET (English), 2012

Career Graph:

Assistant Professor, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bangalore (May 2018 – September 2020)

Honours and Achievements:

Recipient of the Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Scholarship (2016-2017)

Host University: University of California, Berkeley

Second Rank, Undergraduate program (BA English Honours), St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata

Research:

Contribution:

Interests: Death representations in literature, social history of death and dying, cultural criminology, vampirism and the undead, Romantic poetry, Victorian literature, mythology, popular culture

Recent Publications:

Kundu, Devaleena. “Aesthetics of Corpses in Popular Culture” (2020). In Death in Contemporary Popular Culture, edited by Adriana Teodorescu and Michael Hviid Jacobsen, 103-115. UK: Routledge.

Professional Memberships/Fellowship:

Visiting Scholar (Past)
Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS), University of California, Berkeley

Personal interests:

Acrylic artwork, Origami