Rimi B. Chatterjee

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Rimi B. Chatterjee
Oxford University
(Ph.D)
PeriodModern, historical
GenreFiction, science fiction, nonfiction, comics

Rimi Barnali Chatterjee is an Indian author and professor of English at Jadavpur University.

Career

Chatterjee is an author, translator, and professor of English at

Oxford University in 1997.[1] She began teaching at Jadavpur University in 2004.[2] During her time as a professor, Chatterjee and professor Abhijit Gupta helped develop one of the first programs to include the study of comics as part of the study of literature.[3] Chatterjee also contributed to the comics magazine Drighangchoo produced by the English department and has created other comics.[3]

Selected publications

Novels

Stories

  • "The Garden of Bombahia", about sixteenth-century scientist and heretic
    Garcia da Orta, appeared in Wasafiri
    24(3): pp. 98–106.
  • "The First Rasa", about a woman printer in Calcutta's nineteenth-century pleasure district, came out in Kolkata: Book City: Readings, Fragments, Images, ed. Sria Chatterjee and Jennie Renton (Edinburgh: Textualities, 2009).
  • "Jessica", about an
    Anglo-Indian
    woman hairdresser of Portuguese descent in a Bengali neighbourhood in Calcutta, came out in Vislumbres: Bridging India and Iberoamerica 1 (2008): pp. 58–9.
  • "The Key to All the Worlds", appeared in Superhero: The Fabulous Adventures of Rocket Kumar and Other Indian Superheroes, published by Scholastic India in 2007.
    ISBN 81-7655-821-4
  • "A Night with the Joking Clown". (2019). In Saint, Tarun K. (ed.). The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction.[8]
  • "Arisudan" (Mithila Review #15, 2021)[9]

Graphic stories

  • "How Zigsa Found Her Way" in the Longform Anthology published by HarperCollins India.
  • "Killer" in Comix India Vol. 2: Girl Power
  • "The Bookshop on the Hill" in Drighangchoo Issue 3, Kolkata 2010. Part 2 of the story forthcoming in Drighangchoo Issue 4.

Other books

  • Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj (2006)[10]
  • Apon Katha: My Story by Abanindranath Tagore (translation from Bengali to English) (Chennai: Tara, 2004)
  • Titu Mir by
    ISBN 81-7046-174-X

Honors and awards

  • 2007 SHARP DeLong Prize for History of the Book (Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj)[11]
  • 2007 English Fiction shortlist,
    Vodafone Crossword Book Award (City of Love)[12]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Rimi Barnali Chatterjee". www.jaduniv.edu.in. Jadavpur University. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Prof Rimi Barnali Chatterjee". Jadavpur University Faculty Profiles. Indian Research Information Network System. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  3. ^
    S2CID 245571722
    . Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  4. ISBN 978-81-7223-839-1
    . Reviews:
  5. ISBN 0-14-310381-4
    . Reviews:
  6. ISBN 0-14-303262-3
  7. ProQuest 231092990
    .
  8. ISBN 978-93-88322-05-8
    . Reviews:
  9. ^ Burnham, Karen (23 February 2022). "The Year in Review 2021 by Karen Burnham". Locus. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
  10. ISBN 0-19-567474-X
    . Reviews:
  11. ^ "DeLong Book History Prize Winners | SHARP". Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  12. ^ "Book awards: Vodafone Crossword Book Award Shortlist". LibraryThing. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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