SHEFALI MOITRA, Ph.D.
 

Professor Moitra received the degree of Ph.D. in Philosophy from Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. She joined Jadavpur University as Lecturer in Philosophy in 1979.

Professor Moitra was recipient of the Fulbright Senior Lecturer Grant, USA, in 1978. She was also the fourth Charles Wallace Fellow (Teaching and Research) at the University of Liverpool, England in 1994. Professor Moitra participated in the ICPR INDO-FRENCH Cultural Exchange Programme in 1996.

Professor Moitra's research interests lie in the areas of Feminist Philosophy, Ethics and the Philosophy of Language. She is currently the Director of the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. In that position, she is associated with several outreach and co-curricular activities like the Child Line Project, the Women, Media and Globalisation Project and Swastha, a health watch programme. Professor Moitra is also a Governing Body Member of a registered primary school. Apart from that, she is the Co-ordinator of the Centre for Psychological Counselling and Studies in Self-Development at Jadavpur University.

Here is a list of Professor Moitra's important publications in the last few years:

1.
'Tagore and the philosophical tradition of Bengal', JICPR, Special Issue, 2002
2.
'Kathopokathaner nana matra' (in Bengali), in Baromas, 2003..
3.
'Perspectives on altruism', in Truth and Value: Essays in Honour of Dr. Pabitra Kumar Roy, ed. by Raghunath Ghosh, New Bharatiya Book Cprporation, India, 2003.
4.
'What weighs upon the inheritance of philosophy in Indian academy', Journal of the Moving Image, No. 3, 2004.

Some of her significant books are:

1.
Communication, Identity and Self-Expression, Co-Editor, Oxford University Press, 1984.
2.
Women, Heritage and Violence, Editor, Papyrus, 1996.
3.
Feminist Thought: Androcentrism, Communication and Objectivity, Munshiram Manoharlal Pvt. Ltd., 2002.
4.
Naitikata O Naribad, in Bengali, New Age Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2003.
5.
 Kalyaniyashu (Letters written to Shefali Moitra between 1973 and 1984 by Kalidas Bhattacharya), Editor, Nandimukh Samsad, 2005.

Professor Moitra has lectured in innumerable Refresher Courses and Orientation Programmes at various Universities during her long teaching career and is very involved in her work as a teacher, scholar as well as a women's rights activist.