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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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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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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
Now there really are no more excuses for not deleting my Academia dot edu profile. 🤔
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
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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"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
November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
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
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##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
I was recently interviewed by the brilliant Gargi Binju for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Listen in to hear me talk about The Postcolonial Bildungsroman @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/the-postcolo...
October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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"THE POSTCOLONIAL BILDUNGSROMAN presents the voices of postcolonial and diasporic writers on contemporary critical discussions of identity through the lens of Bildungsroman." Neil ten Kortenaar, U of Toronto Scarborough
##bildungsroman #postcolonial #literature #CompLit @arnabdr.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“Roy and Ugor convincingly show that the Bildungsroman is a timely, urgent vehicle for reimagining postcolonial futures." Sarah L. Townsend, co-editor of The Irish Bildungsroman
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##literature #CompLit #HigherEd @arnabdr.bsky.social @drreznicek.bsky.social @arnabdr.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Good morning! My comrade @annakornbluh.bsky.social and I published today in Hyperallrgic ean op-ed about the gutting of our right to culture and the ways to defend and fight back. Link below!
October 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Postcolonial Bildungsroman is out in the world now! Please check it out, consider getting it for your local/university library, reviewing it, and/or spreading the word!

Thank you @ualbertapress.bsky.social for the post!
"THE POSTCOLONIAL BILDUNGSROMAN brings together multi-valent and diverse contexts to consolidate a new conceptualization of the Bildungsroman, reading its postcoloniality in innovative ways." Christopher Ouma, Duke U
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##literature #CompLit #HigherEd @arnabdr.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It’s here! Hot off the Press! Almost half a decade of hard work on this project, culminating to this point! The book releases worldwide tomorrow! @ualbertapress.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This looks gorgeous! Thanks for sharing Michelle @mlobkowicz.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get my copy ❤️
Hot of the press and releasing shortly. @arnabdr.bsky.social it is beautiful! Featuring stunning artwork by Rakajoo, Face à toi, 2021.
September 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Thrilled to give a talk at UCF on Oct 2 as part of the CHDR Presents talk series! This will also mark the launch of our new book (w Paul Ugor), The Postcolonial Bildungsroman (out with @ualbertapress.bsky.social on Sept 23). Grateful to Amrita Ghosh & UCF for the invitation & hospitality!
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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And yay! Got the first invite in France (well done babes) to speak on the Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory. In French. Invite accepted, date noted. Please order for your libraries if you have institutional affiliation.
I knew the contents of the packet in the post. Publication day yay! I can finally hold The Sage Handbook of Decolonial Theory.
So many feels!
September 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Back with another fantastic @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode! I chat with the brilliant @rosecasey.bsky.social about her book Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law and Postcolonial Style (Fordham UP, 2025). Please listen in & check out this fantastic book

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September 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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In "Acoustic Colonialism," Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production and struggles over colonialism and Indigenous agency. Read the intro for free on our website! #SoundStudies #NativeStudies buff.ly/JXrrr9r
September 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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I have a new essay in Journal of World Literature on empathy and the perpetrator of traumatic violence.
September 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM