Rimi B. Chatterjee

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

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

Novels

Black Light (2010)^[4]
The City of Love (2007)^[5]
Signal Red (2005)^[6]^[7]

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 Mahasweta Devi (Bhattacharya) (translation from Bengali to English) (Calcutta: Seagull, 2000) 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

^ "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.
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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.
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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.

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