Faculty of Arts - English

Academic contribution in last five years

Dr Rimi B. Chatterjee is a novelist as well as an academic. She has published two novels: The City of Love, (New Delhi: Penguin, 2007), which was shortlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award 2007, and Signal Red, (New Delhi: Penguin, 2005). She has also translated from Bengali to English Apon Katha: My Story by Abanindranath Tagore (Chennai: Tara, 2004) and Titu Mir by Mahasweta Devi (Calcutta: Seagull, 2000). In 2008 she was part of a panel of three Kolkata writers who presented their work at the Edinburgh Book Fair. Her academic book Empires of the Mind: Oxford University Press in India During the Raj (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006) won the international SHARP DeLong Prize 2007 for research in History of the Book. Her fields of interest are history of the book, creative writing, post colonial literature, translation and romantic literature. Her publications in journals and anthologies include ‘Book History in India: Outline of a Discipline’ in Script and Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 29 (1-4) 2005, and ‘“Every Line for India”: Oxford University Press and the Rise and Fall of the Rulers of India Series’ in Print Areas: Book History in India, ed. Abhijit Gupta and Swapan Chakravorty. New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004. She was a Fellow in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, and a professor at IIT Kharagpur. She has also worked in publishing and journalism, and co-coordinates the course in editing and publishing run by the School of Cultural Texts and Records. She is a member of the Jadavpur University Karate Club. She maintains a blog at http://rimibchatterjee .net/

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