- Ph.D. in Linguistics with a minor in Information Science, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA
- M.Phil in Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
- M.A. in Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India
Academic Positions
- Associate Professor (Humanities & Liberal Arts in Management), Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, June 2019 - Present
- Assistant Professor (Humanities & Liberal Arts in Management), Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Kerala, India, November 2010 - June 2019
- Lecturer, Institute of Languages, Literature & Culture, Visva-Bharati University, India, August 2009 – 2012
Awards
- Householder doctoral research grant, Department of Linguistics, Indiana University, 2009
- Discipline-Based Scholarship in Education, Center for Education & Society, Spencer Foundation, 2006-2008
- Doctoral Fellowship, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India, 2002
- Doctoral Scholarship, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Government of India, 2002
- Junior Research Fellowship, Anthropological Survey of India, 2000
Conferences, Seminars & Talks
- “Interpersonal Relationship and Linguistic Greetings Online: A South Asian Perspective” . Linguistics colloquium at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois, USA, March 7, 2011
- “Impression Management on Facebook and Orkut: A Cross Cultural Study of Brazilians and Indians” Internet Research 13.0 Conference, University of Salford, UK, October 18-22, 2012.
- “Politeness and Social Proximity on the Social Network Site Orkut®: Some Methodological Issues.” Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2011, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 10 – 13, 2011.
- “Computer-mediated communication in convergent media”, with Susan Herring, Courtenay Honeycutt, and Asta Zelenkauskaite. Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, November 9, 2007.
Current Projects
- Photo blogging and Small Talk on Facebook: A Managerial Perspective (Work in Progress)
- Indian Business Museum, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK) (First phase is completed in 2012)
- Design and implementation of the Website for Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (Completed in 2013)
- Coffee Table Book for Indian Institute of Management (Work in Progress)
Other Professional Appointments
Chairperson, Editorial Board: IIMK Newsletter, IIMK, Kerala, India
Research Areas
- “The Power of image-enabled Conversations on Facebook: An Organizational Perspective.” Pragmatics of Social Media Communication. Theoretical, Cross-Cultural and Register Perspectives Panel at the 13th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), New Delhi, India, September 8-13, 2013.
- “Impression Management on Facebook and Orkut: A Cross Cultural Study of Brazilians and Indians” Internet Research 13.0 Conference, University of Salford, UK, October 18-22, 2012.
-
- “Politeness and Social Proximity on the Social Network Site Orkut®: Some Methodological Issues.” Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2011, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, March 10 – 13, 2011.
- “Bangla politeness practice on Orkut®: Bulge or no bulge is the question.” 5th International Symposium on Politeness, Basel, Switzerland, 30 June – 2 July 2010.
- (2010). Social interaction process analysis of Bengalis on Orkut®. In R. Tiwai (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction (pp. 66-84 ). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Significant Publications
- Howard, C. D., & Das, A. (2019). Designing Competitive Discussions for Equity and Inclusion. International Journal of Designs for Learning. 10(1), 1-13
- Mukherjee, S., & Das, A. (2018). Emotion without a Word: An Analysis of Bengali Emotions and Their English Translation. Studies in Linguistics and Literature. 2 (4). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v2n4p250
- Das, A., & Herring, S. C. (2016). Greetings and interpersonal closeness: The case of Bengalis on Orkut. Language & Communication. 47, 53-65. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2015.12.003
- Chatterjee, D., Das, A., & Ramnath, A. (2014). 2047: Globalizing Indian Thoughts. Hyderabad: Visual Quest.
- Das, A. (2010). Social interaction process analysis of Bengalis on Orkut®. In R. Tiwai (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction (pp. 66-84 ). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
- Das, A. (2009). The distribution of aspirated stops and /h/ in Bangla: An optimality theoretic approach. Linguistics Journal, 4(2), 49-73.
- Paolillo, J. C. , & Das, A. (2006). Evaluating Language Statistics: The Ethnologue and beyond. Contract report for UNESCO Institute for Statistics.