Oly Roy

Oly Roy has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St. Xavier’s College, Burdwan from 2018 to April, 2026. She is also a Research Scholar of Trauma Studies in the Department of English at Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, West Bengal. Currently, she works as a Coordinator for Academic Events at The Asiatic Society, Kolkata.

Tathagata Sagar Pal

Tathagata Sagar Pal has a Master of Arts in English from University of Hyderabad (2021). He has completed his Ph.D. Coursework in the Department of English from Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University (2022) and is currently conducting research there as a senior research fellow. He has also worked as a research intern at the Indian Knowledge System Division, Ministry of Education, Government of India. His research area includes tantric deities and their iconographic analysis. 

Dr. Soutik Chakraborty

Dr. Soutik Chakraborty is a faculty of the Department of English, Balurghat College, West Bengal, India. His doctoral thesis is on Kalighat Patachitra. He has worked extensively on the cultural memory preserved through embodied performance. He has done an internship programme as a researcher at Indian Knowledge System Division (Ministry of Education, Govt. of India) on the preservation of scroll painting traditions in modern times.

Sagnik Chakraborty

Sagnik Chakraborty is a State Aided College Teacher (SACT I) in the Department of English at Calcutta Girls’ College and a PhD scholar at Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University. He holds an M.A. in English from Presidency University and completed his M.Phil. as a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of English, University of Calcutta. His principal areas of specialisation are Partition Literature, Trauma Studies, and representations of the Holocaust in film and literature. His wider research interests include post-Partition pogroms, border conflicts, memory, displacement, and narratives of violence against women in India.

His scholarship has appeared in refereed journals and edited academic volumes. His chapter, “Trailing through Trauma: Musical Narratives of the 1939 Holocaust,” was published in Narrative Explorations (Volume One): Time, History and Cultural Spaces by Routledge India. His recent publications include “The Route to the Root: Exploring the Socio-Cultural Evolution of the ‘Tusu Porob’” in IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science and “The Well of Memories: Women, Setting and Plurality in Khamosh Paani” in Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal. His article “Something is Rotten in the State of the State: Kaushik Sen’s Macbeth and Contemporary Bengal” has been shortlisted for publication in the South India Journal of Social Sciences.

He has presented papers at international conferences and UGC-sponsored seminars. Through his teaching and research, he examines how literature, cinema, music, and performance preserve contested histories and articulate the cultural afterlives of collective trauma. His work foregrounds memory, displacement, border conflict, cultural trauma, ethical remembrance, cultural plurality, and the representation of historical violence, with particular attention to the voices of marginalised communities.