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About Arnab Dutta Roy
Arnab Dutta Roy received a PhD in Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Connecticut with a specialization in Human Rights and modern South Asian literature. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University. His research lies at the intersection of postcolonialism, human rights theory, and modern South Asian literature, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Review, Comparatist, Genre, New Literary History, and others. He is the co-editor of two books on the postcolonial Bildungsroman: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions (University of Alberta Press, 2025) and The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place (forthcoming with University of Nebraska Press, January 2026). In addition, he has co-edited a special issue of the Journal of World Literature titled Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature. He is currently working on a monograph titled Universalisms in South Asian Literature that draws on interdisciplinary work in postcolonial theory and human rights to analyze literary responses to colonialism from South Asia. At FGCU, he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on world literature and postcolonial theory.
Arnab Dutta Roy is Assistant Professor of World Literature and Postcolonial Theory at Florida Gulf Coast University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Arnab:
February 13, 2026
Postcolonialism Now
Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising (Orient BlackSwan, 2024) by Sourit Bhattacharya introduces a new method of decolonial reading a…
February 4, 2026
Requiem in Raga Janki
In the early years of the twentieth century, in what was then British India, culture thrived in the city of Allahabad. In this vibrant hub of musician…
September 12, 2025
Aesthetic Impropriety
Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025) analyzes vanguard legal actions and literary innovations to reveal conte…
April 29, 2025
Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence
In Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (Duke UP, 2024), Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghost…
April 4, 2025
African Literature and US Empire
African Literature and US Empire Postcolonial Optimism in Nigerian and South African Writing (Edinburgh UP, 2024) demonstrates how African literature …
January 30, 2025
Spider-Mother
Today I talked to Ben Baer and Smaran Dayal about Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Pioneering Indian Muslim femin…
December 24, 2024
The Way You Want to Be Loved
At a New Delhi conference, an Assamese writer is interrogated on why he writes about magical folktales instead of the insurgencies. A mother splashes …
October 21, 2024
Swallowing a World
Swallowing a World: Globalization and the Maximalist Novel (U Nebraska Press, 2024) offers a new theorization of the maximalist novel. Though it’s typ…
September 24, 2024
Nocturne Pondicherry
A postman struggles to deliver the last letter on his last day of work. A prostitute elopes with the auto rickshaw driver who arranged clients for her…
August 24, 2024
Provincials
Who is a provincial? In Provincials: Postcards from the Peripheries (Yale UP, 2024), Sumana Roy assembles a striking cast of writers, artists, filmmak…
July 3, 2024
A People Without Shame
Somota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to e…
June 4, 2024
Kashmir's Necropolis
Amrita Ghosh's book Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts (Lexington Books, 2023) is an interdisciplinary book that studies liter…
March 27, 2024
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, Jeffrey R. Di Leo's book Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview (…
February 20, 2024
Out of Mind
What is the relationship between aesthetic presentation of thought and scientific conceptions of cognition? Torsa Ghosal’s Out of Mind: Mode, Mediatio…
January 28, 2024
Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
George Floyd's death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations …
November 18, 2023
Affective Ecologies
Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative (Ohio State UP, 2017) explores our emotional engagement with environmental narrati…
October 17, 2023
Freedom Inc.
While globalization is often credited with the eradication of 'traditional' constraints tied to gender and caste, in reality the opening up of the Ind…