Avishek Parui

KMS Membership Secretary: India.

I am a first year Ph.D. student in English at Durham University researching on the dialectics of perception and cognition in twentieth century cultural modernity with reference to the work of Virginia Woolf. I am being supervised in my Ph.D. by Professor Patricia Waugh. I hold a first class MPhil degree in English from Rabindra Bharati University, India and a first class B.A(English) degree from Calcutta University, India, both as toppers in the respective years.  Prior to arriving in UK, I had been a lecturer in English both at the undergraduate as well as the postgraduate levels in colleges affiliated to the University of Calcutta, India. I taught Mansfield in the short story module at the UG level and Virginia Woolf in the Modernism module at the PG level in my colleges. I am a published poet and short story writer, having won the Short-Fiction Competition, 2010 by Platform Magazine in an issue featuring Salman Rushdie; the Poetry Competition titled Journeys by Sampad Arts, Birmingham, UK, and featured in the anthologies of Best Poetry for the year 2009 and 2010 by Forward Press, UK. I am also a creative writing resource person trained and certified by British Council, India. I have been awarded the Wolfson Grant by Durham University to facilitate my research.