Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Against Imitation: Anticolonial Caricatures in Basantak or the Bengali Punch,” Victorian Periodicals Review 56.1, pp.1-44. *Winner of 2022 “Expanding the Field Prize,” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.

“The Itineraries of a Medium: Bengali Comics, and New Ways of Reading.” Interdisziplinäre Zeitschrift für Südasienforschung, vol. Nr. 5, 2019, pp. 33-70, doi:10.11588/izsa.2019.5.10443.

“Masculinity in the Bengali Comic Strips of the 1960s.” Trajectories of Popular Expression: Forms, Histories, Contexts, edited by Navneet Sethi and Ananya Saha, Aakar Books, 2018, pp. 190-208,

 “‘YES SIR!’ 50 years of Nationalism and the Indo-Pak War in Narayan Debnath’s Bñātul the Great.” The International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 18, no. 1, 2016, pp. 434-452,

 “Batul: the Great Disciplinarian.” The International Journal of Comic Art, vol. 17, no. 2, 2015, pp. 492-508,

 

Book Reviews

Review of Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of Comics by Paul Williams. ImageText, vol. 12, no. 3, 2021,
https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-dreaming-the-graphic-novel-the-novelization-of-comics/.

Review of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India by Mytheli Srinivas. South Asian Review, vol. 43, no. 3-4, 2021, pp. 375-378, https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2021.1984581.

Review of Graphic Narratives and the Mythological Imagination in India by Roma Chatterji. ImageText, vol. 13. no. 1, 2021, https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-graphic-narratives-and-the-mythological-imagination-in-india/.

Review of Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590-1603: “A Kingdom for a Man” by Per Sivefors. Masculinities: A Journal of Culture and Society, Issue 16, 2021, pp. 101-105,
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/mjic/issue/70175/1126123#article_cite.

Digital Public Humanities Projects 

The Antilibrarian Project @antilibrarian.

Michael Madhusudan Dutta’s Tilottoma Sambhaba Kabya. Digitized and encoded in XML-TEI. Diploma project for Digital Humanities and Cultural Informatics. School Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.