Rimi B. Chatterjee Explained

Rimi B. Chatterjee
Education:	Oxford University (Ph.D)
Occupation:	Professor, author, translator
Nationality:	Indian
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.
• "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)

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr. Rimi Barnali Chatterjee . www.jaduniv.edu.in . . 5 October 2022.
2. Web site: Prof Rimi Barnali Chatterjee . Jadavpur University Faculty Profiles . Indian Research Information Network System . 5 October 2022.
3. De . Pinaki . Post-millennial comics anthologies in India: the long haul to Longform . Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics . 2021 . 12 . 6 . 1410–1422 . 10.1080/21504857.2021.2010981 . 245571722 . 5 October 2022.
4. Black Light, New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2010, . Reviews:
   • News: Black Light is historical fantasy. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044742/http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/black-light-is-historical-fantasy-1524211.html. dead. 2016-03-04. Daily Bhaskar. Kritika. Kapoor. 6 November 2010.
   • News: In quest of light. Mid-Day. 15 September 2010. Namita. Gupta.
   • News: https://web.archive.org/web/20100903232749/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/black-light-through-a-glass-darkly/129998-40-101.html. Black Light: Through a glass, darkly. 2010-09-03. dead. IBN Live. Debashree. Majumdar. 31 August 2010.
   • News: When truth is stranger than fiction. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003116/http://www.afternoondc.in/book-review/when-truth-is-stranger-than-fiction/article_7583. dead. 2016-03-04. The Afternoon Despatch & Courier. 23 August 2010.
5. The City of Love, New Delhi: Penguin, 2007, . Reviews:
   • News: https://web.archive.org/web/20080107014911/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/01/06/stories/2008010650270500.htm. Ambiguous journey. dead. 2008-01-07. The Hindu. Literary Review. Sumana. Roy. 6 January 2008.
   • News: Paperback Pickings: Inside the temple of the mind. The Telegraph (India). https://web.archive.org/web/20160304034125/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071130/asp/opinion/story_8603536.asp. dead. 2016-03-04. Opinion. 30 November 2007.
   • News: The fantastic voyage. Hindustan Times. 3 December 2007. Kalpish. Ratna.
   • News: Spice and spirituality. The Sunday Tribune. Madhusree. Chatterjee. 13 July 2008.
   • News: https://web.archive.org/web/20080213164119/http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Feb102008/books2008020951356.asp. Setting sail into history. dead. 2008-02-13. Deccan Herald. S. Nanda. Kumar. 10 February 2008.
   • News: Sahara Time. https://web.archive.org/web/20080424132252/http://www.saharatime.com/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=4056. Tales of the yore. dead. 2008-04-24. Ranjit. Lal. 15 February 2008.
6. Signal Red: A Novel, New Delhi: Penguin, 2005,
7. Banerjee . Suparno . Alternative Dystopia: Science, Power, and Fundamentalism in Rimi B. Chatterjee's Signal Red. . 2009 . 20 . 1 . 24–41, 155 . . 24352312.
8. 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. . Reviews:
   • News: Wolfe . Gary K. . Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Edited by Tarun K. Saint . 6 October 2022 . . August 3, 2019.
   • News: Thakare . Sanyukta . The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction by Tarun Saint – Review . 6 October 2022 . . May 29, 2019.
9. News: Burnham . Karen . The Year in Review 2021 by Karen Burnham . 6 October 2022 . . February 23, 2022.
10. Empires of the Mind: A History of the Oxford University Press in India During the Raj, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006, . Reviews:
    • News: . Other books . Aresh . Shirali . 8 March 2006 .
    • Helff . Sissy . November 2007 . 10.1080/02690050701566073 . 3 . . 74–75 . Reviews . 22. 219611189 .
11. Web site: DeLong Book History Prize Winners SHARP . Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing . 15 June 2021.
12. Web site: Book awards: Vodafone Crossword Book Award Shortlist . https://web.archive.org/web/20101229033848/http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Vodafone+Crossword+Book+Award+Shortlist . dead . 29 December 2010 . LibraryThing . 28 June 2021.