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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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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!

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November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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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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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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...
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October 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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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
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September 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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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!
Poster for a UCF CHDR talk by Dr. Arnab Dutta Roy on Oct 2, 2025, 3:30pm, Trevor Colbourn Hall 325. Talk title: “The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Youthful (Re)Formations and Narratives of Development from the Global South.” Includes photo of the speaker.
September 18, 2025 at 12:51 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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The JWL Special Issue, Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature, co-edited by @somishmash.bsky.social & myself, is out! A heartfelt thanks to my co-editor, the JWL staff, & our wonderful contributors.

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September 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The stunning final cover of our book is ready for printing! Can’t believe that The Postcolonial a Bildungsroman is out in a month! Thank you @ualbertapress.bsky.social

Please preorder/check out the book here: ualbertapress.ca/978177212770...
August 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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So happy that the Special Issue "Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy & the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature that @somishmash.bsky.social & I co-edited for the Journal of World Literature is now in production, to be out in September.

Please check out the TOC & issue abstract 👇🏼
Table of Contents for Constructing the Other: Narrative Empathy and the Ethics of Border-Crossing in World Literature, listing eight chapters by various scholars on empathy and world literature. Abstract of the introduction to the special issue, outlining its argument that narrative empathy can support anticolonial resistance and ethical border-crossing in world literature.
July 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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New endorsement of our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman (with @ualbertapress.bsky.social) just dropped, and it’s from none other than the wonderful & brilliant Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee.

The book is out in September. Please consider pre-ordering & spreading the word!

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July 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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New endorsement of our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman, from the brilliant Sarah Townsend, co-editor of The Irish Bildungsroman. The book is out with @ualbertapress.bsky.social in Sept.

If you want to review the book, contact us for a free reviewers copy.

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June 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Feeling so lucky to be among the first few to hold a really slick & beautiful copy of this brilliant book! Can’t wait to read it and chat with @rosecasey.bsky.social about it later this summer!
May 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨

Check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode, where I had the good fortune of speaking with Tithi Bhattacharya about her fantastic book Ghoshly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal.

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April 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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It was such a fun couple of days in Miami at the Narratives2025 conference meeting old friends/ making new ones, learning about new cutting edge work in narrative theory, chatting with the great @amitav.bsky.social & listening to his amazing keynote address (what a brilliant yet humble & sweet guy)!
April 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Thrilled to share this latest episode @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social, where I speak with @undonealready.bsky.social about her brilliant book.

Tune in for a thought-provoking conversation that brings new light to the intersections of literature, empire & hope.

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April 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Shoutout to the incredible success of FGCU’s Humanities Symposium which featured thought-provoking student presentations on a wide range of topics in literature& philosophy.The event was beautifully attended by faculty& students showing just how vibrant & engaged our campus-community is at FGCU.
March 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Coming Soon!!
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March 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Vol B of our anthologies on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman has a cool new cover! The Postcolonial Bildungsroman & the Character of Place will be out w University of Nebraska Press in Jan2026. Very thankful to my co-editors Paul Ugor & Simone Puleo, and to the contributors for their incredible work!
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February 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Books that I am reading currently! All fulfilling and thought-provoking in their own unique ways!
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February 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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🚨New Episode Alert 🚨

Please check out this latest @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak with @smaran.bsky.social & Ben Baer about their groundbreaking new book, Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.

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January 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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The keynote presentations by Gurminder K Bhambra, Mirza Waheed, & Tahmima Anam were brilliant, exemplary in situating decolonization/decoloniality in the context of South Asia, drawing important connections with histories of colonialism, occupation & genocide in Kashmir, Palestine, and elsewhere.
January 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Glimpses from the Annual Sala conference “Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis” that took place this weekend. It was such an honor organizing this conference alongside Amrita Ghosh & Rajorshi Das (and the SALA team).
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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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January 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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A early Christmas morning homage to the Ustad! Still can’t believe that he is gone!
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December 25, 2024 at 2:58 PM