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
- ‘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)
- 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)
- Voices from the Frontlines: A Comparative Study of North- Eastern Insurgency in India and Bangladesh’s War of Independence (1971). Literature and Aesthetics (2023)
- Grandmother as a Narrator in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura–A Critique. Literary Voice (2023)
Co-authored Papers
- Narrating the vivisection of India: The Girl-child Narrator in two Partition Novels. Journal of Narrative Theory (2025)
- Unlocking the Voices of Children: The Evolution of Child Narrators in Anglophone Literature. Childhood in the Past (2024)
- 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
- PhD. in English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2018-2023)
- M.Phil in English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2016-2018)
- M.A. in English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2013-2015)
- 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
- 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
- Ghosh, Dipannita “Debunking Mythic Maxims: A Close Reading of Suniti Namjoshi’s Feminist Fables”, 2021.
- 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)