Rimi B. Chatterjee
Rimi B. Chatterjee | |
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Occupation | Professor, author, translator |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | Oxford University (Ph.D) |
Period | Modern, historical |
Genre | Fiction, science fiction, nonfiction, comics |
Rimi Barnali Chatterjee is an Indian author and professor of English at Jadavpur University.
Career
[edit]Chatterjee is an author, translator, and professor of English at Jadavpur University. She completed her Ph.D 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
[edit]Novels
[edit]- Black Light (2010)[4]
- The City of Love (2007)[5]
- Signal Red (2005)[6][7]
Stories
[edit]- "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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- 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 Mahasweta Devi (Bhattacharya) (translation from Bengali to English) (Calcutta: Seagull, 2000) ISBN 81-7046-174-X
Honors and awards
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Dr. Rimi Barnali Chatterjee". www.jaduniv.edu.in. Jadavpur University. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ "Prof Rimi Barnali Chatterjee". Jadavpur University Faculty Profiles. Indian Research Information Network System. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ a b De, Pinaki (2021). "Post-millennial comics anthologies in India: the long haul to Longform". Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 12 (6): 1410–1422. doi:10.1080/21504857.2021.2010981. S2CID 245571722. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
- ^ Black Light, New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2010, ISBN 978-81-7223-839-1. Reviews:
- Kapoor, Kritika (6 November 2010). "Black Light is historical fantasy". Daily Bhaskar. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- Gupta, Namita (15 September 2010). "In quest of light". Mid-Day.
- Majumdar, Debashree (31 August 2010). "Black Light: Through a glass, darkly". IBN Live. Archived from the original on 3 September 2010.
- "When truth is stranger than fiction". The Afternoon Despatch & Courier. 23 August 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ The City of Love, New Delhi: Penguin, 2007, ISBN 0-14-310381-4. Reviews:
- Roy, Sumana (6 January 2008). "Ambiguous journey". Literary Review. The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 January 2008.
- "Paperback Pickings: Inside the temple of the mind". Opinion. The Telegraph (India). 30 November 2007. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- Ratna, Kalpish (3 December 2007). "The fantastic voyage". Hindustan Times.
- Chatterjee, Madhusree (13 July 2008). "Spice and spirituality". The Sunday Tribune.
- Kumar, S. Nanda (10 February 2008). "Setting sail into history". Deccan Herald. Archived from the original on 13 February 2008.
- Lal, Ranjit (15 February 2008). "Tales of the yore". Sahara Time. Archived from the original on 24 April 2008.
- ^ Signal Red: A Novel, New Delhi: Penguin, 2005, ISBN 0-14-303262-3
- ^ Banerjee, Suparno (2009). "Alternative Dystopia: Science, Power, and Fundamentalism in Rimi B. Chatterjee's Signal Red". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 20 (1): 24–41, 155. JSTOR 24352312. ProQuest 231092990.
- ^ Rimi B. Chatterjee (2019). "A Night with the Joking Clown". In Saint, Tarun K. (ed.). The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction. Hachette India. ISBN 978-93-88322-05-8. Reviews:
- Wolfe, Gary K. (3 August 2019). "Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Edited by Tarun K. Saint". Locus. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- Thakare, Sanyukta (29 May 2019). "The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction by Tarun Saint – Review". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Burnham, Karen (23 February 2022). "The Year in Review 2021 by Karen Burnham". Locus. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-567474-X. Reviews:
- Shirali, Aresh (8 March 2006). "Other books". Business Standard.
- Helff, Sissy (November 2007). "Reviews". Wasafiri. 22 (3): 74–75. doi:10.1080/02690050701566073. S2CID 219611189.
- ^ "DeLong Book History Prize Winners | SHARP". Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
- ^ "Book awards: Vodafone Crossword Book Award Shortlist". LibraryThing. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 28 June 2021.