Career
Her recent book Cosmos and Character in Paradise Lost was published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2012. An alumna of Presidency College (then under the University of Calcutta), where she was a student of English Literature, she went on to complete her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts from New Hall, Cambridge University. Later a graduate student at Clare Hall, she returned to Clare Hall, Cambridge University, as Visiting Fellow in 2002-2003 and in 2003 was elected to a Life Membership.
She is a Fellow of the English Association (Federal Energy Administration), United Kingdom Professor Sarkar has presented her work at several conferences in the United Kingdom and North America.
She combines her interest in Milton and the Renaissance with another area of interest, Romantic Studies.
Her publications in this area include Moneta’s Veil: Essays on 19th Century Literature (Pearson-Longman, 2010). She is on the international advisory board of the journal European Romantic Review published by Routledge. Her many publications include her article on “The Magic of Shakespeare's Sonnets”, first published in Renaissance Studies (United Kingdom, 1998), which was reprinted in Shakespeare Criticism Yearbook 1998 (Gale Group, United States of America).
She is also President of the Women"s Coordinating Council (WCC), West Bengal, the apex women"s organization in the state with representatives from more than 74 social welfare organizations.
