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Arnab Dutta Roy
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Assistant Professor @FGCU | PhD @UConn | Areas: World & South Asian Lit + Studies in Colonialism & Human Rights | host @NewBooksNetwork | Books on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman | Parent of 🐈‍⬛🐈 🐈‍⬛

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Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · Jan 16
Our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, is now featured in University of Alberta Press’s 2025 fall catalog, & has a breathtaking cover designed by the Paris-based artist Rakajoo. Very grateful to my co-editor Paul Ugor for his invaluable partnership.

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Cover design of a book
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Three recent journal issues:
[email protected] 129, feat.
@breu.bsky.social @hennefem.bsky.social
-Buildings & Landscapes 32.2
-Environment, Space, Place 16.2 via @iasesp.bsky.social feat. @trepping.bsky.social @seandlawrence.bsky.social

All on @projectmuse.bsky.social
(1/3)
Cultural Critique 129 cover featuring the journal title running off the edges of the cover. The C's are written in red. The special issue title "Mourning Without End" and issue information appear below on a red background. Cover for Buildings & Landscapes 32.2 with the journal's title arranged vertically and horizontally in a plus shape. Qilou shophouses in Chikan, Guangdong Province, China are shown underneath. Cover for Environment, Space, Place 16.2. The journal's title is written on a blue background. A diagonal line cuts between the words "Environment" and "Space."
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
arnabdr.bsky.social
Aww, you’re the best! Thank you so much, cuz! I hope it gets to you. Either way, I’ll save a signed copy for you when we meet! ❤️
freyaa.bsky.social Free_yaah @freyaa.bsky.social · 4d
Y'all should go buy my cousins book! It looks very good! I'm going to try to order it to Portugal but I've had terrible luck getting anything delivered here so far so let's see 🫠
arnabdr.bsky.social Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 4d
30% off with code iH25!!
November 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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30% off with code iH25!!
ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social · 5d
"THE POSTCOLONIAL BILDUNGSROMAN is essential reading for anyone interested in coming-of-age narratives and the afterlives of genres." Sarah L. Townsend, co-editor of The Irish Bildungsroman
https://bit.ly/3IzHq1c

@arnabdr.bsky.social #literature #CompLit #HigherEd

(30% off with code iH25!)
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
The newest issue of the Journal of Asian Studies features "Emerging Crossroads: The Intersections and Fissures of Black Studies, Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies," a special forum section. Read it online: buff.ly/X5puSiG

Buy this issue: buff.ly/FW8xoFz
Cover of The Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 84, Number 3, August 2025. The design features large blue and yellow text on a dark green textured background with the subtitle Published for the Association for Asian Studies at the bottom.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Join us in congratulating Ideas on Fire author Beth Robinson on the publication of Sweatshop Capital: Profit, Violence, and Solidarity Movements in the Long Twentieth Century, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social!

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#IoFAuthors
Cover of Sweatshop Capital with labor activists marching in the streets
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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20th Nov 2025 at 2.00 pm (Paris time), I'll be giving a talk on queer & decolonial thinking & how it is evolving in our times. It's co-badged by Université Paris Cité & CLAGS, CUNY. Everyone is welcome.
Image courtesy: Mario Patiño
Hybrid event. Registration required: u-paris.fr/universite-o...
Flyer of Decolonial Queer Thinking. Image by Mario Patiño, artist. Image of a person of colour with a white veil and naked torso with a flower in their mouth.
October 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
hartmann-villalta.bsky.social Dr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social · 16d
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍

Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!

contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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ualbertapress.bsky.social
SOUTH ASIAN FEMINISMS IN DISAPORA and its compelling and original material will be of interest to scholars and leaders in the fields of Asian studies, critical race theory, gender studies, and Canadian history.
https://bit.ly/4hnuhVH ##Decolonization #AntiRacism #DiasporaStudies #IdentityPolitics
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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These banger essays (and mine, banger or not you be the judge—the others definitely are) were made possible by a University Press @uminnpress.bsky.social

Happy University Press week!
dissentum.bsky.social Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · Jun 24
Table of contents for Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination!
Title page for book titled Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, edited by Juan Meneses, published by the University of Minnesota Press Table of contents (essays 1-5) of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination: Acknowledgments / Introduction: Sensing the Postpolitical, Juan Meneses / 1. The Infrastructural Aesthetic: Materialist Politics in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel, Christopher Breu / 2. Irrational Exuberance: The Politics of Start-up Futurism, Sherryl Vint / 3. Un violador en tu camino: Reimagining the Political through Mediated Feminist Street Performance, Jacquelyn Arcy and Allison Page / 4. Thinking Jacques Rancière with Ursula K. Le Guin: Aesthetics and Politics in a Postpolitical Age, Robert P. Marzec / 5. Wayward Possibilities: Errant Black Women and the Intimacies of Freedom, Matthew Scully Table of contents (essays 6-8 + Afterword) of Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination: 6. False Specters of the Political: Revisitation, Digital Documentary Vernacular, and the Postpolitical after January 6, Stephen Charbonneau / 7. Dissensus, Refusal, Participatory Music: Negation and Rupture in Crowd in C, Eric Lemmon / 8. A Haunted Present: Postpolitics, Nuclear Waste, and the Colonization of the Future, Juan Meneses / Afterword: Between Two Endings, or Prolegomena for Another End, Erik Swyngedouw / Contributors / Index
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and Character of Place ( with @univnebpress.bsky.social) drop Jan 1! Get 40% off with code 6AF25 on the UNP site.

If you’d like to review the book, let me know & I will arrange a reviewer’s copy. Thanks for the support!

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
A University of Nebraska Press flyer showing the l book cover of The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place, a brief description and praise quote, editor bios, publication details, and a 40% discount with the code 6AF25
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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‘I think young writers starting out in India now might not feel what I felt, which is that I couldn’t actually start out there.’ 

Salman Rushdie on the evolution of Indian literature.

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Reclaiming the Territory | Salman Rushdie | Granta
‘It was awful to get sued by the prime minister of India.’ Granta interviews Salman Rushdie about his dealings with the magazine, the course of Indian fiction, and his brushes with Indian politics.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
arnabdr.bsky.social
Cool email to wake up to! 🙌🏼
Acceptance letter confirming Dr. Arnab Dutta Roy’s essay for New Literary History special issue “Troubling Universalisms,” set for 2026 publication.
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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One of the great antiwar poems, by Wilfred Owen, British veteran of World War I, ending with

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

(Latin for “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”)
Dulce et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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new special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly

FILMING CAPITAL

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Volume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
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November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Now there really are no more excuses for not deleting my Academia dot edu profile. 🤔
arnabdr.bsky.social Arnab Dutta Roy @arnabdr.bsky.social · 16d
I had some time today, so I revamped my website to make it a bit more accessible and user-friendly. Please check it out if you have some time.

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Arnab Dutta Roy
Writer, Researcher, and Educator of Literature
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November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I had some time today, so I revamped my website to make it a bit more accessible and user-friendly. Please check it out if you have some time.

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Arnab Dutta Roy
Writer, Researcher, and Educator of Literature
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November 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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As COP30 is around the corner, a reminder that dialogue is only a spectacle as long as it's framed to stifle dissent. That's the main idea in my book Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent. I discuss the issue more directly in "The Failure of Climate Dialogue" (see below)
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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... and read some more!
November 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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"Aestheticism Now!," a special issue of Genre, is now available: buff.ly/ADPYVfQ

Read the introduction, "On the Politics of Aesthetic Detachment" by Aleksandar Stević, freely available: buff.ly/Ih5tHjD
Cover of Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, Volume 58, Number 2, July 2025. Features the theme “Aestheticism Now!” with a black-and-gray abstract illustration of a face and a winding road leading to buildings.
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Honored to have co-presented with my co-editor & friend Simone Puleo at the UHart Philosophy Club on our Postcolonial Bildungsroman volumes

Out now: The Postcolonial Bildungsroman @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Out Jan 2026: Postcolonial Bildungsroman & the Character of Place with UNebraska Press
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November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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"At last we have a book that gently subverts the idea of the bildungsroman as a European form." Sumana Roy, writer and poet
https://bit.ly/3IzHq1c
##bildungsroman #postcolonial #literature #CompLit #HigherEd @arnabdr.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Re-upping this for anybody interested in comparative and world literature! go.bsky.app/DHK7Cwk
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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New book, coming soon!

Duncan Bell & Douglas Mao, Utopia (Oxford UP, 2026)

It's a short interdisciplinary volume in the recently launched OUP Literature and Politics series.

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October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Gargi Binju interviews Arnab Dutta Roy, co-editor of THE POSTCOLONIAL BILDUNGSROMAN, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Listen here: https://bit.ly/4nBBCTn

@arnabdr.bsky.social#bildungsroman #postcolonial #literature #CompLit #HigherEd
Arnab Roy and Paul Ugor eds., "The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions" (...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM