Dibyakusum Ray
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, National Institute of Technology Silchar, English and Foreign Languages University, University of Calcutta, Symbiosis Law School
0000-0002-9537-3277
About
I am a lecturer in English, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies. I also happen to be the author of Postcolonial Indian City-Literature: Policy, Politics and Evolution (2022) and Introduction to Horror Studies (2027). I serve as the guest editor of special issues to be published in journals like Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Cultural Studies, and my articles have been published in several journals on topics centering Urbanism, Folk studies and Speculative Fiction. I am also an ethnographer, conducting funded research on underrepresented communities/knowledge corpus. Interested in guiding PhD projects on Urbanism, Folk Studies, the overlap therein, with a distinct bend towards field-research and project-readiness.
Employment
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Indian Institute of Technology Ropar Associate Professor2018 - Present
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National Institute of Technology Silchar Assistant Professor2015 - 2018
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Symbiosis Law School Assistant Professor2015 - 2015
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Roots Degree College, Osmania University Assistant Professor2013 - 2015
Education
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English and Foreign Languages University PhD2010 - 2014
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English and Foreign Languages University MPhil2009 - 2011
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English and Foreign Languages University M.A. in English Literature2007 - 2009
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University of Calcutta B.A. (Hons.) in English2004 - 2007
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (19)
- “Calcutta weighs upon my chest, a cruel stone”: The individual and the public in Bengali urban poetry of the 1960s–1980s Save
- From domestic guardian to the national militia: the familial, the national and the middle class in 1980s popular Hindi films Save
- Dark epiphany: The Lovecraftian in twentieth-century existential literature Save
- From domestic guardian to the national militia: the familial, the national and the middle class in 1980s popular Hindi films Save
- ‘ … Miles of the rustling secret corn’: nature, cosmic and autonomy in American cosmic horror literature Save
- Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films Save
- “Do-re-mi-fa-so-la, it’s not precise”: tracking the ‘demurral’ in the Bengali Lebensmusik of the 90s Save
- The Liminal in a Diptych: A Study of Roots and the Ruminant in Bob Dylan and Kabir Suman Save
- The Mute, the Stoic and the Rebel Save
- The Vagabond’s War Cry Save