• PhD in Linguistics, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
• M.A in Linguistics, University of Calcutta
• B.A Hons in English Literature, South Calcutta Girls’ College, University of Calcutta

Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of English, Adamas University, Kolkata (1st February 2021 – 5th December 2025)
• Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Vellore Institute of Technology, Bhopal (14th June 2019 – 22nd January 2021)
• Guest Faculty, School of Language and Linguistics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata (2nd January 2019 – 12th June 2019)
• Guest Faculty, Department of Linguistics, University of Calcutta (February 2026 – June 2026)

• Principal Investigator of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) funded major project titled “Developing an AI Based Toto-Bangla-English Trilingual Language Learning Application: A Step Towards Digital Archiving of the Endangered Toto Language of West Bengal.”

• Principal Investigator of Adamas University Seed Fund Project titled ‘Developing Metacognitive Awareness, Critical Thinking Ability, and Prediction System through ICT based Language Learning Application: A Case Study of Dormant English as Second          Language Learners.’

• Ph.D scholar: 1 (submitted doctoral thesis)
• Topic: Representation of Queer in the Comics of Batman and Batwoman

• Invited to deliver talk in a Seminar on South Asian Syntax: In Memory of Prof. Probal Dasgupta, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi.
• Interviewed   on   Saussure’s   Structuralism   and   Derrida’s Deconstruction. The session was conducted by the organization Rashtrabiggyan Charchakendra and the interviewer was Dr. Pradip Basu, Former Professor, Department of Political Science, Ex Dean of Arts, Presidency University.
• Invited in a focus group discussion, organized by the Oxford University Press, India, for reviewing the contents and providing quality inputs for improvement of the title Bengali-English Dictionary.
• Invited to conduct a session of Pragmatics in a workshop on Linguistic Field Survey and Analysis, organized by the School of Language and Linguistics, Jadavpur University in collaboration with the Department of Humanities and Social Science, IIT Delhi.
• Invited as a panelist in a Symposium on Structuralism and Cognition, conducted by the School of Language and Linguistics, Jadavpur University.
• Invited as a Head Tutor in the Workshop on Formal Semantics organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Delhi.

• Presented a paper titled ‘Syntax of the Bangla Discourse Particle ba’ in the Workshop on Discourse Particle in South Asian Languages from 22nd – 23rd December 2025, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi.
• Presented a paper titled ‘ki: the interrogative disjunction morpheme in Bangla’ at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 11, held on March 26-28, 2021 at University of Minnesota.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Wh movement in the Bangla DP’ at Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 8 (FASAL8), held on March 31-April 1, 2018 at Wichita State University.
• Presented a poster titled ‘Focus and Nominal Ellipsis in the Bangla DP’ at GLOW in ASIA XI, held on 20-22 February, 2017 at National University of Singapore.
• Presented a co-authored poster on ‘Modal and Tense-Aspect interaction in Bangla’ with Prof. Utpal Lahiri at GLOW in ASIA X, held on 24-26 May, 2014 at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
• Presented a paper titled ‘ki and naki: Alternative Question Particles in
• Bangla’ in the 43rd International Conference of Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI 43), held at CIIL Mysore, from 21 – 23 December 2021.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Focus and Deletion in the Bangla DP’ in       the 38th International Conference of linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI 38), held at IIT Guwahati from 10-12 November, 2016.
• Presented a paper titled ‘Leftward movement of adjectives in the Bangla DP’ in the 12th International Conference on South Asian Languages and Literature (ICOSAL-12), held at the Centre for Endangered Languages and Mother Tongue Studies, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad from 7-9 January 2016.
• Presented co-authored paper titled ‘Modal and Lexical properties of paraa in Bangla and Odia’ with Bhamati Dash in the 35th International Conference of linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI), held at CIIL Mysore from 27-29 November, 2013.

• Authored Book titled Issues in the Syntax of the Determiner Phrases in Bangla published in Brill EALT series, July 2023.
• Co-authored a book chapter on ‘Information and Communication Technology Tools in Language Learning Classroom: Developing Metacognitive Skills and its Social Ramifications’, published in Springer Nature, July 2023. Scopus Indexed publication.
• Book chapter on A Comparative Study of the Lexicalization of the Bangla Polar Question Particle ‘ki’ and the Assamese polar Question Particle ‘ne’, published in Springer Nature, September 2023. Scopus Indexed publication.
• ‘Ki: the interrogative disjunction morpheme in Bangla’, published in the conference proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 11 in the site of Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 2022.
• ‘Wh-movement and the Distribution of Sei and Wh in the Bangla DP’ published in the conference proceedings of Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 8 in the site of Journal of South Asian Linguistics, 2020.
• ‘Focus and Nominal Ellipsis in the Bangla DP’ in the proceedings of GLOW in ASIA XI, volume 2, edited by Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine, has been published with Massachusetts Institute of Technology Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017.
• ‘ki and   naki:   Alternative   Question   Particles   in   Bangla,’ published in the Indian Journal of Language and Linguistics, 2022.
• ‘Unique and Anaphoric Definiteness in the Bangla DP’ in the Jadavpur Journal of Languages and Linguistics, volume 3, no.2, 2019.‘Origin of the Bangla Modal para and its Semantics when it Interacts with the Progressive’ in The EFL Journal, volume 8; No 1 (2017), edited by Rahul Balusu.