Dr.

Doyeeta Majumder

Department : Department of English

Designation : Assistant Professor

E-Mail: doyeeta.majumder@jadavpuruniversity.in

About

I completed my first two degrees from Jadavpur University and my PhD from the University of St Andrews. Having taught at the University of Edinburgh, and then at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi, I rejoined JU as Assistant Professor of English. My primary research and teaching interests include early modern studies, medieval poetry, law and literature, early modern and 20th c. political theory, history of ideas, translation.

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Research Interests

• Early Modern (European) Studies, Law and Literature, History of Ideas, Political Philosophy,

Notable Activities

• I am part of Fact or Value (https://factorvalue.org/about/)-- a new online forum based in Calcutta, with a focus on politics, literature and intellectual history. Our effort is to trace the genealogies of ideas which inform the inheritance of the human condition.

Journal Papers Published

• Book: Tyranny and Usurpation: The New Prince and the Problem of Lawmaking Violence in Early Modern Drama, ISBN: 9781786941688, English Association Monograph Series, (Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2019). • Book: Rajpurush, trans. Doyeeta Majumder, Niccolo Machiavelli’s Il principe, translated from the original Italian. 156 pp. ISBN 978-81-86854-76-7. (Calcutta: Jadavpur University Press, 2012).• ‘Tragedy in Bangla Literature’,a translation of Mohitlal Majumdar’s ‘Bangla Sahity-e Tragedy’, in Critical Discourse in Bangla, eds. Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta and Subrata Sinha, (London: Routledge, 2021), eBook ISBN9781003224686. . • ‘Machiavelli and Tyranny’ in Machiavelli Then and Now, eds. Prasanta Chakravarty and Sukanta Chaudhuri, Online ISBN:9781009030120, (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp.54-72. • ‘The Political Morality Play: Educating the Tudor/Stuart Prince’, Jadavpur University Essays and Studies, 30 (2017), pp. 56-77, ISSN number: 0975-3478. • ‘Absolutism in Gorboduc: The Changing Poetics of Tudor Political Drama’, Renaissance Studies, 32:2 (2018), pp. 201-218. • ‘Counselling the Counsellors: Sir David Lyndsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis’, Scottish Literary Review, 8:2 (Winter, 2016), pp. 1-18• “Revisiting the Received Image of Machiavelli in Business Ethics Through a Close Reading of The Prince and Discourses” (co-authored with M. Maity, N. Roy), Journal of Business Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05481-2, 2023. • ‘Law of Nature in Inns of Court Drama’. In: Mukherji, S., Roberts, D. (eds) Literature and the Legal Imaginary. Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature, vol 4. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74093-0_3, Jan. 2025.

NBA Accreditation:UG-CSE,ETCE (6yrs) & UG-IT,IEE,PE (3yrs)

Dr.

Doyeeta Majumder

Department : Department of English

Designation : Assistant Professor

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NBA Accreditation:UG-CSE,ETCE (6yrs) & UG-IT,IEE,PE (3yrs)