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Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University | PhD @UConn | Areas: World & South Asian Lit + Studies in Colonialism & Human Rights | host @NewBooksNetwork | Books on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman | Parent of πββ¬π πββ¬ https://linktr.ee/adroy272
βI'm absolutely against purity. My language is completely impureβ
As The Roof Beneath Their Feet (tr. Rahul Soni) publishes for the first time in the UK, Europe and North America tomorrow, @ellencph.bsky.social speaks to its author Geetanjali Shree for @observeruk.bsky.social β¨
At long last our Special Issue on 'The Modernist Face in/as World Literature' is now out in Journal of World Literature, edited by Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis) and me!
Our Introduction is open access here: brill.com/view/journal...
Hear me chat with the wonderful Suvendu Ghatak & Ashmita Mukherjee about the Postcolonial Bildungsroman for the Anticlockwise podcast!
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Thank you so much!
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Check out my latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, where I chat with Sourit Bhattacharya about his terrific book Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising (Orient BlackSwan, 2024)
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Scholar receives an award during an indoor ceremony while attendees sit facing a screen displaying cover of the book The Postcolonial Bildungsroman along with details about the co-editors.
Close-up of an βAuthors & Artists Awardsβ certificate presented by FGCU to Dr. Arnab Dutta Roy for the book The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics and Aesthetic Reinventions (February 12, 2026)
Two scholars stand beside a university display table, each holding a recently published bookβone on the postcolonial Bildungsroman and the other on Virginia Woolf.
Was a real honor to be recognised for my research at the Authors & Artists Awards ceremony at FGCU. Also psyched to be sharing the spotlight with my brilliant colleagues & friend Laci Mattison who was honored for her excellent new book on Virginia Woolf!
In a moment when our ability to imagine a future is under attack, I had the privilege of co-editing w @santiaaurora.bsky.social this volume gathering so many incredible scholars and activists thinking about the future of Puerto Rican Studies. The book comes out on April 21 w @dukepress.bsky.social
The latest episode of the Granta podcast is available now.
Featuring Sujatha Gidla, author of Ants Among Elephants, we discuss the history of the caste system, writing a political memoir, and Gidlaβs experiences as a train conductor for the New York City Subway.
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Cover of Routledge Handbook of Punjab Studies
Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PRITAM SINGH AND MEENA DHANDA PART I Punjab, Partition and Beyond 2 Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Present and Future for Punjab PRITAM SINGH From a Border Region to the Power Engine: Punjab as the Centrefold of the Pakistani State IFTIKHAR MALIK 4 Partition and the Search for a Sikh State: From Azad Punjab to Punjabi Suba TAN TAI YONG 5 Microhistory and Memory: A Pioneer's Life Story of Migration and Home KARAMJIT SINGH 6 Memorialising Sikh and Punjab History in the Public Realm RANVEER (RAV) SINGH 7 Hindutva in Punjab: Appropriation and Resistance CHRISTINE MOLINER 8 The Anti-colonialism of Bhagat Singh SATVINDER S. JUSS
41 Decolonial Queer Politics of Punjabi Diasporas Sandeep Bakshi ΰΈ’ΰΈΰΉΰΈΰΉΰΈ«ΰΉ ΰΈΰΈ΄ΰΈ I live in Cali belong to Doaba When we come to Punjab We eat in a desi dhaba -Jasmine Sandlas, "Sip Sip' (Sandlas 2018) Queer and diasporic Punjabi artists enact their world-making - 'a doing for and toward the future' (MuΓ±oz 2009: 1) - through rendering interlinguistic epistemes visible in a manner that confounds rules governing language and, concurrently, subtending the adherence to grammatical categories in both languages. In her song titled Sip, Sip' (Sandlas 2018), the California-raised Punjabi singer Jasmine Sandlas inexorably mixes English and Punjabi to create meaning for the world she inhabits, underscoring "multiple forms of belonging-in-difference' (Munoz 2009: 20). Assimilating the English verb "belong' in a Punjabi song, the singer adapts it to the overall Punjabi cadence to offer a revised word, 'belongiyaan,' serving the grammatical grouping in Punjabi - a contraction of "belong kardi haan' ('I belong to'). In a single movement, English appears as a minor formation of Punjabi - a sublated presence - despite referencing the singer's life in California in the preceding verse (I live in Cali"). For Punjabi and South Asian diasporic artists, English operates both as the 'over-permeating linguistic, colonial signifier" (Bakshi 2016: 92) and as a hierarchically positioned language performing linguistic and epis-temic erasure of other South Asian languages. In this repard, the emphatic emplacement of the word "belong' evokes a simultaneous inclusion and subversion of normative language interrela-tions, signalling towards a practice of "epistemological reconstitution' (Quijano 2007: 177). In recursive interspersing of English-language words in the song, including in the titular phrase *Sip. Sip." illustrates the implication of fractal categories of migration. nation, diaspora and language into aesthetic formulations of diasporic artists. DOI: 10.4324/9780429277580-47
Back cover of the Handbook
Publication alert! The language that was denied to me is becoming mine, queerly mine. Iβm thrilled to have contributed a chapter to the first-ever comprehensive handbook on Punjab Studies and share space with so many wonderful scholars.
Thank you to Profs Meena Dhanda & Pritam Singh for the invite.
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NEW BOOK!
I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line
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There is a 40% discount on The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place. Please consider adding it to your library!
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Super excited to share with you my latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with Neelum Saran Gour about her Sahitya Academi Award winning novel, Requiem in Raga Janki.
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For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation
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After a brief hiatus, Iβm delighted to return to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with a fantastic lineup of episodes planned for Spring/Summer2026, starting with an episode on my brilliant undergrad prof Neelum Saran Gour's Sahitya Akademi Awardβwinning novel Requiem in Raga Janki. Stay tuned!
Drops today: this week's ARB @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social features Nichaol Gordon in conversation with Namit Arora, co-author (with Romila Thapar) of βSpeaking of History: Conversations about Indiaβs Past and Presentβ (Allen Lane India) asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with...
Duke University Press. Save 30% on #NewBook "Co-Motion," by Paola Bacchetta, which offers an innovative feminist and queer set of theories and approaches for analyzing power, subjects, and alliances among activists, artivists and social movements. #QueerStudies #Activism buff.ly/XjZoADe
The first review of The Postcolonial Bildungsroman & the Character of Place ( @univnebpress.bsky.social ) is out with the journal Global South Literary Studies. Mny thanks to Εevket Sarper DΓΆrter for engaging our book in such a perceptive and insightful manner.
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The book The Postcolonial Bildungsroman on display at MLA 2026
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman is well represented at #mla2026toronto, all thanks to the wonderful @mlobkowicz.bsky.social and @ualbertapress.bsky.social team! Many thanks for the picture Michelle!
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All set up at #MLA26 Booth 109. Please stop by and check out our beautiful books.
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Grateful to UNP Blog for publishing this excerpt of our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place. Check it out and please consider getting the book!
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NEW for #MLA26:
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Narratives of Youth, Representational Politics, and Aesthetic Reinventions, edited by Arnab Dutta Roy and Paul Ugor.
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You can access the introductions & parts of beginning chapters of both the book for free on Google Books/ Google Play.
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Hello friends, the postcolonial bildungsroman volumes are out now. Please consider checking them out, using them in your research, courses, reviewing them, ordering them for your personal or university libraries, and spreading the word. @ualbertapress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social
"The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/" - @mims.bsky.social
My takeway is that The US has gone ALL IN BET OF THE 21st Century on AI, while China has gone all in on green tech
NEW @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @polycrisis
Its a Plastic Planet.
You are poisoned by plastic, the world is plastic.
@katemac.bsky.social & I asked @vbivar.bsky.social to analyse the fossil fuel industry's latest trick. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...
Periodizing the historical heyday of the heist film at the turn of the twenty-first century and marking its supplanting by the grifter docudrama series in the 2020s
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