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B.A Hons. English: University of Delhi (2010)

M.A. English: University of Delhi (2012)

PhD, Literature: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2022)

Dr. Rituparna Sengupta

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B.A Hons. English: University of Delhi (2010)

M.A. English: University of Delhi (2012)

PhD, Literature: Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2022)

Biography

Dr Rituparna Sengupta is a scholar of Literary and Culture Studies. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and transmedia, and include popular fiction and popular cinema, comics and graphic novels, feminism and masculinity studies, and mythology and cultural nationalism. Her research probes the emergence of new genres, the trans/formation of the public sphere, and changing patterns of popular cultural consumption and participation. Currently, she is expanding on her doctoral research on the negotiation, consolidation, and contestation of hegemonic identities through contemporary, mythology-based Indian popular culture texts, especially English fiction, graphic fiction, and Hindi cinema.

She has presented her research at various national and international conferences and her academic articles and chapters have appeared/are forthcoming in peer-reviewed volumes of international repute.

She also writes personal and film essays, and translates poetry and short fiction. Her creative work regularly features in various journals, literary magazines, anthologies, and newspapers.

Previously, she has taught English/Literature at University of Delhi and Ashoka University. She is deeply invested in guiding students to read, think, and write more rigorously, perceptively, and creatively.

‘The Body Selects Her Own Society’ in Usawa Literary Review, January 2024.

‘Towards and Away from Home: Registers of Contemporary Cinema from Darbhanga’ in Critical Collective, February 2024.

‘The Constitution of/and Caste: Portrayal of Caste and Legal Justice in Three Contemporary Indian Films by Savarna Filmmakers’ in The Routledge Companion to Caste and Cinema in India, edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Joshil K. Abraham, Oxon and New York, 2023.

‘Aamarous Pleasures’ in On Eating: A Multilingual Journal of Food and Eating, April 2023.

‘Two poems by Sumana Roy’, co-translated with Kanak Agrawal from English to Hindi, in Sadaaneera, April 2023.

‘The Reflection of Sadness’, translated from Baabusha Kohli’s Hindi poem ‘Dukh ka Pratibimb’, in Modern Poetry in Translation, April 2023.

‘Padmaavat and Manikarnika: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema’ in The Routledge Companion to Cultural Texts and the Nation, edited by Anuradha Needham and Sheera Talpaz (forthcoming).

‘All That Breathes and “Communities of Air”’ in Seminar Magazine, July 2023.

‘Goddess or Woman, Pativrata or Feminist?: Sita in Two Contemporary Graphic Narratives’ in Muse India: The Literary E-Journal, edited by Sapna Dogra, ‘Indian Graphic Novels’ special issue (110), July-August 2023.

‘Kathal and Dahaad: The Disappearance and Reclamation of Invisible Women’ in Critical Collective, August 2023.

‘Lights, Camera, Transition: Gamak Ghar and Barah by Barah’ in The Critical Collective, August 2022.

‘The Haunted Women of New Hindi Horror Cinema’, Cover story, in Mint Lounge, December 2022.

‘I Wish’, translated from Gauhar Raza’s Hindustani poem ‘Main Chahta Hoon’, in The Dhaka Tribune, July 2022.

‘Resolve’, translated from Rashid Jahan’s Urdu short story ‘Faisla’, in Out of Print Magazine, December 2021.

‘The Mysteries of Silence’, translated from Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai’s Urdu short story ‘Rumooz-e-Khamoshi’, in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, December 2021.

‘Bhonsle: of Home and Belonging, Fathers and Sons, God and Man’ in The Punch Magazine, July 2020.

‘This Side, That Side: Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition’, co-authored with A P Payal, in Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories and Graphic Reportage, edited by Dominic Davies and Candida Rifkind, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2020.

‘Shoojit Sircar’s Gulabo Sitabo: A Satirical Tale of Heritage and History’ in Outlook Magazine, May 2020.
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