Name
Dr. Nadeem Ahmad Rather

Area of Research Interest
Narration, Partition Literature, Women's Studies, Postcolonialism, Title of Thesis: Articulate Silence: Studying Girl Child Narrators in Select Anglophone and Indian Fictions with a particular Focus on Partition Fiction.

Academic Achievements
UGC Net Qualified 2019, CTET Qualified 2019

Selected Publications

  1. ‘Stories have to be told or they die’: A Critique of the Essentialist Paradigms of Female Genital Mutilation and Religion in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1977). English Studies in Africa (2024)
  2. Challenging Eurocentric narratives: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of the Lives and Experiences of Third World Women. RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism (2023)
  3. Voices from the Frontlines: A Comparative Study of North- Eastern Insurgency in India and Bangladesh’s War of Independence (1971). Literature and Aesthetics (2023)
  4. Grandmother as a Narrator in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura–A Critique. Literary Voice (2023)

Co-authored Papers

  1. Narrating the vivisection of India: The Girl-child Narrator in two Partition Novels. Journal of Narrative Theory (2025)
  2. Unlocking the Voices of Children: The Evolution of Child Narrators in Anglophone Literature. Childhood in the Past (2024)
  3. Saleem Speaks, the Nation Listens: A Historical and Literary Exploration of Child Narrators in Indo-Anglian Fiction. New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship (2024)

Popular Culture, Game Studies, Literature, Gender Studies, Cinema and Visual Cultures

  1. PhD. in English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2018-2023)
  2. M.Phil in English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2016-2018)
  3. M.A. in English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2013-2015)
  4. B.A. in Comparative Literature, Jadavapur University, Kolkata (2010-2013)

Interactive Digital Narratives, Indian Epics and Folklore in Digital Media, Representations of Marginalisation, Disability in Cinema and Literature

  1. Ghosh, Dipannita “Understanding the Duplicitous Singularities of Margins through Musical Explorations: A Look at Coke Studio Explorer” in Supriya Agarwal, Neha Arora and Ved Prakash (eds.), Understanding Marginality: Cultural and Literary Perspectives, 2022
  2. Ghosh, Dipannita “Debunking Mythic Maxims: A Close Reading of Suniti Namjoshi’s Feminist Fables”, 2021.
  3. Ghosh, Dipannita “Big Worlds on Small Screens: A Look at Interactive Digital Narratives Playable on Mobile Applications”, in Canan Cakir, Dilan, Anna Kinder and Sebastian Moring (eds.), Games and Literature: On the Literaricity, Research, Collection, and Archiving of Computer Games (Upcoming) 2026.

ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship in Culture Studies (2021-2023)