Arnapurna Rath

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Arnapurna Rath

Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences

  • BA: Rama Devi Women’s College, Bhubaneswar, 2000
  • MA: Dept. of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2002
  • MPhil: Dept. of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 2004
  • PhD: IIT Bombay, 2010

Email: arnapurna -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://arnapurna.people.iitgn.ac.in

Office: 4/334 B
VOIP: 2418


  • Recent Publications


    • Books

    1. Rath, Arnapurna; Chatterjee, Chandrani and Ganapathy, Saroja, (Eds.), Critical Essays on Literature, Language, and Aesthetics: A Volume in Honour of Milind Malshe. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, [290 pages] ISBN: 9781527520257.

    2. Rath, Arnapurna and Das, Bhaskarjyoti, Devi: a journey through photo-poetry. New Delhi: Authorspress, July 2014, ISBN: 9788172738372.

    • Book Chapters

    1. Rath, Arnapurna. “Why Care for the Old? Integrating Literary Classics in the Preservation of Indian Cultural Heritage.” Contextualizing Indianness in English Studies: A Literary and Pedagogical Perspective , (Ed.) Mahendra Jagannath Dutte. New Delhi: Adhyayan Publishers & Distributors, 2025, pp. 33–61. ISBN: 978-93-6506-043-0. 

    2. Rana, Manoj Singh and Arnapurna Rath. “Data (Co)Creation: Ethics and Challenges of Computational Tools in Narrative Analysis.” Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2024, edited by Lorraine Zhou. The Digital Humanities Institute, Sheffield, 2025. https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2024/. [Open Source] 

    3. Rath, Arnapurna, “The Fiction of Ghosh and the Poetics of Literary Genres” in the section “Transgressing the Limits: Genres and Forms”. Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. (Editors. Gaurav Desai, John Hawley). Series Title. Approaches to Teaching World Literature. Modern Language Association [MLA Series, April 2019], pp. 107-113. ISBN: 9781603293976.

    4. Rath, Arnapurna, “Land, Language, and the Journey: Sea of Poppies as an Epic Novel”, in Critical essays on Literature, Language, and Aesthetics: A Volume in Honour of Milind Malshe. (Editors. Arnapurna Rath, Chandrani Chatterjee, Saroja Ganapathy) Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 112-130, Jan. 2019, ISBN: 9781527520257.

    5. Mukherjee, Payel C., Rath, Arnapurna and Tharakan, Koshy, “Between Aspiration and Imagination: Exploring Native-cosmopolitanism in Adib Khan’s Spiral Road and Mohammad Hanif’s Our Lady of Alice Bhatti", in Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature. (Editors. Madhurima Chakraborty, Umme Al-wazedi) New York: Routledge, 2017, pp. 131-149, ISBN: 9781138677234.

    • E-Print Archives

    1. Rana, Manoj Singh, Tej Bahadur Gurung, Royson Rajan, and Arnapurna Rath. “Critical Resource Curation: A Web-Hub Design for Indian Digital Cultures and New Media”. 2024. HAL Science-Web-Portal. Inria Publications ⟨hal-04749074⟩ https://inria.hal.science/hal-04749074

    • Journal Papers/Book Reviews

    1. Gayen, Sohini and Rath, Arnapurna, “Earthsongs and Music of the Minstrels in Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay’s ‘Rasakāli’ and ‘Harāna Sura’”, Asian Literature and Translation (ALT), (Ed.) Simon Brodbeck, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 99–121, 2025. DOI: 10.18573/alt.78.

    2. Gayen, Sohini, and Rath, Arnapurna. “Textures of the Earth: Notes from rural Birbhum in the short stories of Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay”, Short Fiction in Theory & Practice. (Eds.) Paul Anthony Knowles, Madeleine Sinclair, and  Ana García-Soriano., vol. 15, no. 1-2, Jun. 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/fict_00119_1

    3. Rath, Arnapurna. "Śakti Narratives from Odisha: Tales, Lores, and Traditions of Banki’s Devī Charcikā". Kalākalpa. Vol. VIII, No.2. Vasant Panchami Issue. (Eds). Dr. Sachidananda Joshi & Dr. Mayank Sekhar. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Ministry of Culture, Government of India, 2024, pp.15-38.

    4. Rath, Arnapurna. "Book Review: Bouquet of Stories and Essays". [Review of the book Life's Little Tales by Bibudhendra Narayan Patnaik.] Journal of Human Values, SAGE. Ed. Nisigandha Bhuyan. Volume 30, Issue 2, pp.240-243. https://doi.org/10.1177/09716858231196176

    5. Behera, Adyasha & Arnapurna Rath. "Lost Letters of Odisha's Bhakti Poetry: A Critical Study of Select Poetic Compositions of Bhima Bhoi", Lokaratna, Volume XV (I), June-July, 2022, pg. 84-105. shorturl.at/bJZ14

    6. Rana, Manoj Singh &  Arnapurna Rath. "Book Review: From Data to Stories: An end to end guide to Storytelling with Data Comics for the absolute beginner". Information Visualisation, June 22, 2022, pp.1-3.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14738716221102927 [Review]

    7. Sharma, Shivani & Rath, Arnapurna. "Ecopoetics and Aranya in the Graphic Novel Aranyaka: Book of the Forest ". Chitrolekha: Journal of Art and Design, Volume.5 No. 1, 2021, pp.1-9 . DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21659/cjad.51.v5n103.

    8. Rath, Arnapurna & Sura P.Rath. "Rumour, Gossip, and Loneliness: the Nautch-Girl and her Other in the Romance of a Nautch Girl and The Woman in the Bazaar". Sāhitya: The Journal of Comparative Literature Association of India. Ed. Jatindra Kumar Nayak. Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020, pp.4-27 [published July 2021]. http://clai.in/sahityavol9/1_A.%20Rath%20and%20S.%20Rath.pdf

    9. Sharma, Shivani & Arnapurna Rath.. “In the Semiosis of Characters and Colors: Locating Metaphors and Their Meanings in Amruta Patil’s Graphic Novels Adi Parva and Sauptik”. South Asian Review, Taylor and Francis Online, 2021, pp.1-pp.22. DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2021.1878798

    10. Rath, Arnapurna & Shivani Sharma. "Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan: The Narrative of Educational Philosophy and New Education in India". Studies in Humanities & Social Sciences Vol. XXVI, No.1, Summer 2019, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS Shimla). Ed. Sharad Deshpande. pp.151-171 [published January 2021]. URL: http://14.139.58.200/ojs/index.php/shss/article/view/1287/1297

    11. George, Annie Rachel & Arnapurna Rath. « Ângela Barreto Xavier and Ines G. Županov, Catholic Orientalism: Portuguese Empire, Indian Knowledge », South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal [SAMAJ], Book Reviews, 13 June 2017. URL : http://samaj.revues.org/4353.

    12. Mukherjee, Payel C. & Arnapurna Rath. Children of the Midnight in the Maximum City: Cosmopolitan Polyphony in the Bombay of Salman Rushdie and Suketu Mehta. South Asian Review 2014 Special Issue on Salman Rushdie, Volume 35, No. 1, 2014. (Ed. P.S.Chauhan) p.187-207. (Appeared in 2017).

    13. George, Annie Rachel and Arnapurna Rath. "Translation, transformation and genre in the Kristapurana". Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies. 3(3): 2016, pp. 280-293.

    14. George, Annie Rachel and Rath, Arnapurna, “"Musk among Perfumes": Creative Christianity in Thomas Stephens’s Kristapurana”, Church History and Religious Culture, DOI:10.1163/18712428-09603003, vol. 96, no. 3, pp. 304-324, 2016.

    15. Rath, Arnapurna, “The Aesthetic Cosmopolitans: Walter Pater, Rabindranath Tagore, and the Quest for Beauty”, JSL : Journal of the School of Language, Literature, and Culture Studies, vol. 19, pp. 101-118, 2016.

    16. Mukherjee, Payel C. and Arnapurna Rath. "“Practicing” Cosmopolitanism in Knowledge Spaces, Cityscapes, and Marketplaces ", Journal of Human Values (SAGE), October 2015, 21 (2) 87-98.

  • Work Experience

    • Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Nov 2024 to present)
    • Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (Dec 2010 - Nov 2024)
    • Visiting Scholar, Utkal University of Culture, Odisha (July 2018-Dec 2018, On Sabbatical from IIT Gandhinagar)
    • Visiting Researcher, University of North Texas Dallas, Feb 2014 to Sep 2014 (with Professor Sura Rath)
    • Visiting Faculty, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, (July 2010 to Dec 2010)
    • Teaching Associate, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, (Mar 2010 to Apr 2010)

Research Interests

  • ● South-Asian Literature
  • ● Comparative Literature
  • ● Creative writing
  • ● Digital Humanities
  • ● Cultural Texts and Classics of Bhārata

Complete List of Publications