Assistant Professor
English
The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
5 years
Modern and Contemporary British and American Poetry; Global englishes and world literature; Translation studies
Modern and Contemporary British and American Poetry; Global englishes and world literature; Translation studies; Race studies
Ph.D. in English Literature from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
M.A. in English Literature from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
B.A. in English Literature from University of Calcutta
Assistant Professor at St Xavier's University, Kolkata, from 2022-01-03 to 2024-05-22.
Assistant Professor at Christ's University, Delhi NCR, from 2021-07-19 to 2021-12-21.
Assistant Professor at CDOE, Rabindra Bharati University, from 2018-09-05 to 2021-07-16.
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Publications: Book Chapters Scopus Indexed “The Interconnectedness of Place and Literary Form.” Rethinking Place through Literary Form. Corresponding author. Palgrave-Macmillan, June 2022. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-96494-8_1 Scopus Indexed “Locating the World in the Prose Poems of Peter Riley.” Rethinking Place through Literary Form. Palgrave-Macmillan, June 2022. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-96494-8_12 “Reading the Influence of David Jones in the Anti-Empiricist Poetics of Philip Gross” in David Jones After Modernism: Empire, Environment and Religion in The Grail Mass and Beyond. (Accepted, Forthcoming, 2027). Clemson University Press. “I am now a mouth with no tongue:” Negotiating Racial Difference in Black Irish Poetry in Ethnic Minority Writing in Ireland (Accepted, Forthcoming 2026). Syracuse University Press. Journal Articles Scopus Indexed “Vernacular Modernity and Dalit Identity: A Study of the Boosa Movement in Karnataka”. South Asian Review. July 2022. ISSN: 2573-9476. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2022.2100664. Impact Factor: 0.3 (2023). Web of Science indexed: “Luiza Franco Moreira, Premises and Problems: Essays on World Literature and Cinema (2021)”. Comparative Literature Studies (60.1, March 2023). “Few observations on translating the early and late poetry of J. H. Prynne” in Kaurab, July 31, 2022. ISSN: 2249-4979. http://www.kaurab.com/kau60/pr060rupsab02.pdf “Exploring the Question of Ethics in World Literatures: A Review of Bill Ashcroft’s Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures and Robert T. Tally Jr.’s Topophrenia”. Academia Letters. Article 5817. June 2022. pp 1-5. ISSN: 2771-9359. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL5817 “Hungry Generation Poetry and Bengali Modernism Through Postcolonial Lens”. Co-authored with Baidurya Chakraborty. Luminaire. Bangalore: Garden City College Publications, 2015. ISSN: 2249-2542. UGC Care-listed: “Late Capitalism and the Problem of Individual Agency: A Reading of the Poems of J.H. Prynne”. Sanglap: A Journal of Critical Enquiry. Vol 1, No. 2 (January 2015), pp. 180-202. ISSN: 2349-8064. http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/41/62 “Navigation of the Tribal Self Across Democratic and Insurgent Subject Positions: A Reading of Mahasweta Devi’s ‘Draupadi’ and C. K. Janu’s Mother Forest”. The Apollonian. Vol. 1, Issue 2 (December 2014), pp 166-177. ISSN: 2393-9001. Book Reviews “Writing Black Scotland: Race, Nation and the Devolution of Black Britain” by Joseph H. Jackson in C21: Journal of 21st Century Writings. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.10723 “Bill Ashcroft, Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures (2017)”. C21: Journal of 21st Century Writings, June 2022. ISSN: 2045-5216. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.8897. Date of Acceptance: June 14, 2022. “John Wilkinson, Wood Circle (2021)”. The Fortnightly Review, June 2022. https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2022/06/wilkinson-wood-circle/ Translations In process: At present I am translating the collection plain sight by Steven Seidenberg which is funded by the Kleberg fund at the University of Nevada Reno. Bengali translation of “The Numbers” from J. H. Prynne’s Kitchen Poems in Kaurab, July 31 2022. ISSN: 2249-4979. http://www.kaurab.com/kau60/pr060rupsab01.pdf “‘Fecundity of Rebirth for Me and Subhash’ […] ‘Pakhi’”. Hungry Generation Rachana Samagra. Kolkata: Dey’s Publishing, 2015. ISBN: 978-81-295-2177-4 Conference Proceedings “The Poetry of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams: The Convergence of the Political and the Individual in the Poetics of Place.” Critical Interventions in Contemporary English Studies. Gitam: Gitam University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-81-933148-0-7. Poetry/ Creative Writing “Allies” long-listed for The River Heron Review Poetry Prize, 2019. Poetry Pamphlet. London: Earthbound Press, 2020. “Distances” and”Listening-in-Between” short-listed for The Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize, Ruminate Magazine. 2021. Bracing Warmth. London: Veer Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-911567-32-5 “Report” and “An Absorption”. Interim: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Issue “Rewilding”. June 2022. https://www.interimpoetics.org/392/rupsa-banerjee/ “A View of Watching the Breakers” and “Circular Listenings”. Blackbox Manifold. Issue 28, July 2022. http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk/issue28/RupsaBanerjeeBM28.html “A Resurfacing of Myth”. FRAGILE. Cambridge: Face Press, 2024. “M Television” and “Eurythmics” Ludd Gang. London , 2024. “Epiphyte”. Shortlisted for the Perpendicular Poetry Prize. Published in a FOLD publication, 2025.
The English and Foreign Languages University travel grant for presenting a paper at the Space and Place Conference September 1-3, 2016) held at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
Pemanda Monappa-Cambridge Trust Scholarship for studying MPhil in English (Modern and Contemporary) at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
Haskell-Block travel grant (500 USD) awarded by the ACLA for presenting a paper at the seminar “The Short Form” for ACLA (March 6-10, 2019) in Georgetown University, Washington.
Kleberg fund at the University of Nevada Reno (3000 USD) received from the poet Steven Seidenberg to translate his poetry collection Plain Sight into Bengali (2023)
