Senior Research Scholar
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor of English
University of Maryland University College
Ranjit Chatterjee
Ph.D. The University of Chicago
"The language thread in the modernist project of
linguistics, literary studies, Wittgenstein, and Judaism."



EDUCATION Ph.D. 1980 The University of Chicago
  M.A. 1973 The University of Chicago
  M.A. 1973 The University of the West Indies, Jamaica
  Certificate in Linguistics 1970 Charles University, Prague
  B.A. Hons. 1966 The University of Delhi, India
       
THESES Doctoral Dissertation: "Aspect and Aktionsart in Slavic and Indo-Aryan: A Semantic Approach."
  Master's Thesis (U. West Indies): "Milton Criticism: 18th-Century Currents and Samuel Johnson."
       
PRESENT POSITION 2006 Senior Research Scholar
The Jospeph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD
    Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of English
The University of Maryland—University College
Adelphi, MD
  2005 Member, Editorial Committee, Hermès
Journal of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS) Paris
PAST POSITIONS 1999-06 English Instrutor
Lado International College
Silver Spring, Maryland
  1996-98 Adjunct Teaching, Research in Israel
  1991-95 Asst. Professor, Dept. of Englishr
DePaul University, Chicago
  1987-90 Research Associate, Committee on Human Development, U. Chicago
  1987-88 Lecturer, Adult Education, City Colleges of Chicago
  1986 Visiting Fellow, Center for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago
  1981-84 Lecturer (= Asst. Professor)
Dept. of English Language and Literature
National University of Singapore
  1973-80 Lecturer in Czech
Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures
The University of Chicago
COMMITTEE WORK Served on Multiculturalism Implementation Committee and its Definition Subcommittee, DePaul University, Summer 1994
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 1996 National Endowment for the Humanities
Summer Seminar on Jewish Cultural Studies
  1989 International Society for General Semantics,
Sanford I. Berman Award
  1988 Spencer Foundation Grant
  1982 Research Grant #RP4/82 for travel and research at U. Hawaii
National University of Singapore
TEACHING EXPERIENCE Developed and taught courses in Modern Rhetoric, Semantics, Varieties of English, English as a Second Language
  Introductory Literature
College Writing and Research I & II
ENG 300 Advanced Composition
  Tutored in Phonetics, Grammar of Modern English
Taught at all levels—high school, undergraduate, graduate, adult education
PUBLICATIONS  
BOOKS 2005    Wittgenstein and Judaism: A Triumph of Concealment. (Series: Studies in Judaism, v. 1). New York: Peter Lang. Nominated for Jewish Book Award of the Koret Foundation, San Francisco, in the category "Modern Jewish Thought." Basis of panel at Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies, Washington, DC, December 2005. Quoted in Encyclopedia Judaica (new 2nd edition, 2006)
  1988    Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic. With a Foreword by Paul Friedrich. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins
  1984    Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and Literature. Co-edited with Colin E. Nicholson. Singapore University Press
ARTICLES 2006    Four articles on prominent linguists, commissioned by Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics 2 (Elsevier Scientific). Section Editor: Prof. Kurt Jankowsky, Georgetown University
  1995    "Derrida e gli etnografi." Translated into Italian by Il Mondo 3, Rivista di teoria delle scienze umane e sociali. II:1, April 1995, 234-41.
  1994    "After Privacy: Linguistic Reflections on the Personal and the Political." Translated into Italian. In Parolechiave. Nuova serie di Problemi del socialismo. Rome
  1992    "Judaic Motifs in Wittgenstein." In Robert S. Wistrich, ed. Austrians and Jews in the Twentieth Century. London: St. MartinŐs Press
  1991    "Rossi-Landi's Wittgenstein: 'A Philosopher's Meaning is his Use in the Culture.'" Semiotica 84-4/4: 275-283.
  1986    "Wittgenstein." Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics. The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter
  1985    "Reading Whorf through Wittgenstein: A Solution to the Linguistic Relativity Problem." Lingua 67: 37-63
  1985    "Linguistics and Rule-Skepticism." Journal of Literary Semantics XIV/3: 174-85
  1984    "Before and Beyond Linguistics: The Case of Professor Nietzsche, Philologist." In Colin E. Nicholson and Ranjit Chatterjee, eds. Tropic Crucible: Self and Theory in Language and Literature. Singapore: Singapore University Press