Faculty
Manas Ray
Professor in Cultural Studies
Ph.D. (Griffith University, Australia)
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
R–1, Baishnabghata Patuli Township, Kolkata – 700 094, India
Tel : +91 (0)33 2462 7252 / 5794 / 5795 / 2436 8313 / 7794 / 95 / 97
Room Extn. : 216 Fax : +91 (0)33 2462 6183
Email : manas04@gmail.com
Currently, Manas Ray is a Professor of the School of Liberal Studies, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun. He retired as Professor of Cultural Studies in 2018 at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), one of the most prestigious social science and humanities research and higher learning institutes of India. He works at the interface of contemporary political theory and cultural studies. He has published on a wide spectrum of areas including biopolitics, continental European philosophy, critical legal theory, Foucault and governmentality, visual culture, diaspora and Bollywood, disaster migration, and memory and locality in post-partition Kolkata. He has held visiting fellowships and teaching positions in leading institutions of the United Kingdom, Germany, France, The Netherlands, Australia and South Africa. His essay, ‘Growing Up Refugee’ (History Workshop Journal, 2002) is widely regarded as a classic (see, for instance, https://academic.oup.com/hwj/pages/introduction). A sequel to this piece, ‘The Volatile 70s: Naxalbari Uprising in Calcutta and the Bangladesh War’, is forthcoming in History Workshop Journal (e-version: December 2022; print version: May 2023).