Rituparna Sengupta

I am an independent researcher, writer, and translator. I have a PhD in Literature from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. I hold MA and BA Hons. degrees in English from University of Delhi (Lady Sri Ram College and Sri Venkateswara College). Formerly, I have taught at Department of English, Ashoka University and Hindu College, Sri Venkateswara College, and Department of Germanic and Romance Studies at University of Delhi. I have also worked as an editor at Macmillan Publishers.

I specialise in Culture Studies and Literary Studies. Broadly, my research interests lie in Popular Culture, Indian Writing in English, Comics and Graphic Narratives, Indian Cinema, Cultural Nationalism, Feminisms, and Masculinity Studies. For my doctoral research project, ‘Mythology as History: Sacred Nation, Patriotic Masculinities, And Devoted Femininities in Contemporary Popular Mythohistorical Fiction’, I studied the adaptation of Hindu mythology in contemporary Indian popular culture texts (novels, graphic novels, films). Overall, my research is centred around reading the popular as a contested terrain over which interlinked hegemonies are being constantly consolidated and contested; the political is always at the centre of my quest to understand different processes of identity formation and expression through popular texts. My academic publications are listed on the next page.

I am also a writer of creative non-fiction and a translator of poetry and short fiction. My reviews and essays on films and books, personal essays, poems, and translated short stories and poems, have appeared in various websites, journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers. They are catalogued on subsequent sections on this website. 

Links to my Academia.edu, Research Gate, Twitter, and Medium pages and accounts can be found below. You can drop me a message at the email id in the bottom banner of this page. 

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