Rimi Barnali Chatterjee is an Indian author and professor of English at
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1905 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into Jadavpur University in 1955. In 2022, it was ranked fourth am ...
.
Career
Chatterjee is an author, translator, and professor of English at
Jadavpur University
Jadavpur University is a public state university located in Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was established in 1905 as ''Bengal Technical Institute'' and was converted into Jadavpur University in 1955. In 2022, it was ranked fourth am ...
. She completed her Ph.D at
Oxford University
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in 1997. She began teaching at Jadavpur University in 2004. 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. Chatterjee also contributed to the comics magazine '' Drighangchoo'' produced by the English department and has created other comics.
Selected publications
Novels
* ''Black Light'' (2010)
* ''
The City of Love
''The City of Love'' (2007) is a novel by Rimi B. Chatterjee set in 16th-century Asia against the background of the spice trade, piracy and the rise of various mystical religious cults. It traces the lives of four characters all of whom are in ...
'' (2007)
* ''Signal Red'' (2005)''Signal Red: A Novel'', New Delhi: Penguin, 2005,
Stories
* "The Garden of Bombahia", about sixteenth-century scientist and heretic Garcia da Orta, appeared in ''
Wasafiri
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'' 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
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: Textualities, 2009).
* "Jessica", about an
Anglo-Indian
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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.
*"A Night with the Joking Clown". (2019). In Saint, Tarun K. (ed.). ''The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction''.
* "Arisudan" (''Mithila Review'' #15, 2021)
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)
*''Apon Katha: My Story'' by
Abanindranath Tagore
Abanindranath Tagore ( Bengali: অবনীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 August 1871 – 5 December 1951) was the principal artist and creator of the "Indian Society of Oriental Art". He was also the first major exponent of Sw ...
(translation from
Bengali
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* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
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to English) (Chennai: Tara, 2004)
*''Titu Mir'' by
Mahasweta Devi
Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 – 28 July 2016) ''
(Bhattacharya) (translation from Bengali to English) (Calcutta: Seagull, 2000)
Honors and awards
* 2007
SHARP
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* Self Help Addiction Recovery Program, a charitable organisation founded in 19 ...
DeLong Prize for History of the Book (''Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj'')
* 2007 English Fiction shortlist,
Vodafone Crossword Book Award
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