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

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

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

Prof. (Dr.) Rituparna Sengupta

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

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

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

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.

鈥楶admaavat and Manikarnika: Patriotic Femininities in Mythohistorical Hindi Cinema鈥 in The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation ed Sheera Talpaz and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham, pp. 103-114, April 2025.

鈥業nterrogating Masculinities in Khaki: The New Male Cop in Indian Web Series鈥 in Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, ed Julia Lesage, Media and the Police State鈥 special issue (no. 63), Summer, July 2025.

鈥楢 City鈥, translated from Amrita Pritam鈥檚 Punjabi poem 鈥楽heher鈥, Washington Square Review, October 2025.

鈥楬ave Compassion for The Writer of Bad Poems: A Translation of Baabusha Kohli's Poetry from Hindi鈥, Pashyantee, January 2025.

鈥楾he Body Selects Her Own Society鈥 in Usawa Literary Review, January 2024.

鈥楾owards and Away from Home: Registers of Contemporary Cinema from Darbhanga鈥 in Critical Collective, February 2024.

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

鈥楢amarous Pleasures鈥 in On Eating: A Multilingual Journal of Food and Eating, April 2023.

鈥楾wo poems by Sumana Roy鈥, co-translated with Kanak Agrawal from English to Hindi, in Sadaaneera, April 2023.

鈥楾he Reflection of Sadness鈥, translated from Baabusha Kohli鈥檚 Hindi poem 鈥楧ukh ka Pratibimb鈥, in Modern Poetry in Translation, April 2023.

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

鈥楢ll That Breathes and 鈥淐ommunities of Air鈥濃 in Seminar Magazine, July 2023.

鈥楪oddess or Woman, Pativrata or Feminist?: Sita in Two Contemporary Graphic Narratives鈥 in Muse India: The Literary E-Journal, edited by Sapna Dogra, 鈥業ndian Graphic Novels鈥 special issue (110), July-August 2023.

鈥楰athal and Dahaad: The Disappearance and Reclamation of Invisible Women鈥 in Critical Collective, August 2023.

鈥楲ights, Camera, Transition: Gamak Ghar and Barah by Barah鈥 in The Critical Collective, August 2022.

鈥楾he Haunted Women of New Hindi Horror Cinema鈥, Cover story, in Mint Lounge, December 2022.

鈥業 Wish鈥, translated from Gauhar Raza鈥檚 Hindustani poem 鈥楳ain Chahta Hoon鈥, in The Dhaka Tribune, July 2022.

鈥楻esolve鈥, translated from Rashid Jahan鈥檚 Urdu short story 鈥楩aisla鈥, in Out of Print Magazine, December 2021.

鈥楾he Mysteries of Silence鈥, translated from Mirza Azim Beg Chughtai鈥檚 Urdu short story 鈥楻umooz-e-Khamoshi鈥, in Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation, December 2021.

鈥楤honsle: of Home and Belonging, Fathers and Sons, God and Man鈥 in The Punch Magazine, July 2020.

鈥楾his Side, That Side: Restoring Memory, Restorying Partition鈥, 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.

鈥楽hoojit Sircar鈥檚 Gulabo Sitabo: A Satirical Tale of Heritage and History鈥 in Outlook Magazine, May 2020.
Email rituparna.sengupta@jgu.edu.in