Class on Wednesday, 18th March 2009

Dr. Rimi B. Chatterjee will take the third class on Research Methodology at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 18th of March, 2009.

For those who have the CULTURAL STUDIES option

Alright, first things first, we will have class on Friday, 20 March 2008 at 2:00 PM.

The following is the schedule for the Cultural Studies classes, till mid-April. Nothing, of course, is set in stone, but this is more or less what we can expect for the nest month or so.

16th & 20th March: CULTURAL STUDIES (Nilanjana Gupta)

23rd & 27th March: RAYMOND WILLIAMS (Nilanjana Gupta)

30th March & 3rd April: THE VICTORIAN BEST SELLER (Prodosh Bhattacharya)

6th April: SOCIOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY (Dalia Chakraborty)

10th April: SCIENCE & CULTURE (Kunal Chattopadhyay)

13th & 17th April: CULTURES OF PRINT (Swapan Chakravorty)


We will be informed about the remaining lectures at a later date.

Also, please see previous post.

Reading List for Cultural Studies optional

Professor Nilanjana Gupta has furnished us with the following reading list, so that we can get started.

Reading List (Nilanjana Gupta)

Raymond Williams: Culture

Raymond Williams: The Politics of Modernism

Stuart Hall: “Encoding, decoding”

Anthony Easthope: Literary into Cultural Studies

Pepi Leistyna: Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action



Other books and works may, of course, be added in due course.

Class(es) on Wednesday, 4th March 2009

Dr. Rimi B. Chatterjee will take the second class on Research Methodology at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 4th of March, 2009.


Students who have opted for the Cultural Studies optional course are requested to meet Professor Nilanjana Gupta at 1:40 p.m. on the same day. The meeting will take place in the office of the School of Media Communication and Culture, which is located on the ground floor of the UG Arts Building.

Class on Wednesday, 25th February 2009

Dr. Rimi B. Chatterjee will take a class on Research Methodology at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, the 25th of February 2009.

Special Background and Special Theory.

Please check Hrileena's post on Special Background options, and do contact your coordinators soon.

The course being offered under the Special Theory head is "Principles of Scholarly Writing", being offered by Dr Rimi B. Chatterjee. She is currently attending a course, and will be free only towards the end of the month. But do talk to her and fix up times and schedules.

Amlan Das Gupta

Attention please

We have two options for our Special Background paper (see the very first post on this blog if you need to jog your memory). These are:

1. Cultural Studies (coordinator: Prof. Nilanjana Gupta)

2. Post-Colonial Studies (coordinator: Dr. Nilanjana Deb)

Please come on Wednesday and contact the coordinator of the paper you wish to take.