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About Arnab Dutta Roy
Dr. Arnab Dutta Roy is an Assistant Professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). His research is located at the intersection of postcolonial theory, human rights, and modern South Asian literature, and has appeared (or is forthcoming) in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, South Asian Review, American Book Review, Comparatist, Literary Universals Project, Humanities, and APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies. His current book project, Universalisms in South Asian Literature, draws on interdisciplinary work in postcolonial theory and human rights to analyze literary responses to colonialism from South Asia. He is currently co-editing two projects including an anthology titled The Postcolonial Bildungsroman; Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics and Aesthetic Reinventions (Forthcoming with University of Alberta Press) and a special issue, Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature (Forthcoming with the Journal of World Literature). He is a faculty fellow at FGCU’s Center for Race and Ethnic Studies, serves as an advisory board member of the Society for Comparative Literature and Arts (SCLA), and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on world literature at FGCU.NBN Episodes hosted by Arnab:
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…