Dr. Pritesh Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor of English at Maharaja Srischandra College, Shyambazar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is a former Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (Hindi) at New York University from 2018 to 2019. He has earned his PhD from West Bengal State University, West Bengal, India. He graduated with his M.Phil. degree from Calcutta University. He is researching superhero comic books of Batman and Indian comics. He has published several articles in national and international journals including Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Taylor and Francis), chapters in books and has attended a number of seminars and conferences both in India and abroad. He is interested in creative writing and has published a long story in Kindle Direct Publishing. He has also penned a couple of scripts for comic books (awaiting publication).
Institutional affiliation – Maharaja Srischandra College, Shyambazar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Email id – priteshchakraborty
EDUCATION
Phd, M.Phil, MA, and BA
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Literature and Literary Theory, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Language and Linguistics, Arts and Humanities
2
Scholar Citations
1
Scholar h-index
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Bangalla to Bengal, Phantom to Aranyadeb: Colonial Transitions and Translations ADP Chakraborty Translation Today 19 (1), 1-23 , 2025 2025
The Future of the Humanities: Perspectives from South Asian Cultural Studies S Roy, V Singh, NM Raj, A Jagulia, A Panda, D Dey, M Chattopadhyay, ... Bloomsbury Publishing PLC , 2024 2024
Alternate Reality or Primary Nightmares P Chakraborty The Future of the Humanities: Perspectives from South Asian Cultural Studies … , 2024 2024
YOUTH IN PERIL: REPRESENTATION OF VULNERABILITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN DOGA COMIC BOOKS P Chakraborty JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS , 2023 2023
Bike Boy S Nandy, P Chakraborty Indian Literature 67 (1 (333), 81-87 , 2023 2023
Comic Monthly 1922: Exploring Form and Themes P Chakraborty, A Dosad Journal of the Department of English 15, 112-125 , 2022 2022
A Fascist Hero: Rhetoric of Civil Redemption in the Comics of Judge Dredd P Chakraborty Judging Dredd: Examining the World of Judge Dredd, 09-23 , 2021 2021
Implication of darkness in Heart of Darkness P Chakraborty The Contour e-Journal 7 (4), 34-44 , 2021 2021
We are not amused! Caricatures of and Satire on Victorian Women P Chakraborty JLCA-JOURNAL OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS 1 (1) , 2021 2021
Neither Ever, Nor Never: ‘Web’ of Narratives in the Episodes of Dark P Chakraborty FILMBUFF 8 , 2020 2020
Re-invention of Indian Myths in the Superhero Comic Books of Nagraj P Chakraborty International Journal of Comic Art 22 (2), 213-228 , 2020 2020 Citations: 2
There is no Method but to be very Intelligent”: An Analysis of the Essay French Intelligence in Terms of Anti-Intellectuality P Chakraborty Where the Rivers Cross: A Study of T.S. Eliot’s Criticism, 175-180 , 2019 2019
(Discussions) on Mahabharata, Mrichhakatika, Iliad, Avijanashakuntalam and Metamorphoses RDAS Pritesh Chakraborty Selected Classics: A Pan University U.G. Students’ Guide , 2018 2018
Necromance in Browning’s Porphyria’s Lover P Chakraborty Poetic Plethora: An Annotated Anthology of Select Victorian and Modern Poems , 2018 2018
Shooting an Elephant as an Anti Colonial Narrative P Chakraborty Through the Literary Glass , 2017 2017
Saul Bellow: Herzog and Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath P Chakraborty https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=13 , 2016 2016
White Skins, Coloured Masks: A Study of Postcolonial Perspectives and its Relevance in Study of Literature with a Focus on American Superhero Comic Books P Chakraborty Text and Theory: Reading and Re-reading, 83-96 , 2015 2015
White Violence, Black Psyche: Representation of Violence in Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth and Batman Comics P Chakraborty Modern Research Studies: An International Journal of Humanities and Social … , 2014 2014
Sare Jahan se Acha(?) Representation of the Youth in Bollywood P Chakraborty Literophile 7 (1) , 2014 2014
“Are You People For Real?” Post-Modern Angst in Bravely Fought the Queen P Chakraborty Essays on Modern Indian Drama , 2014 2014
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
Re-invention of Indian Myths in the Superhero Comic Books of Nagraj P Chakraborty International Journal of Comic Art 22 (2), 213-228 , 2020 2020 Citations: 2
Bangalla to Bengal, Phantom to Aranyadeb: Colonial Transitions and Translations ADP Chakraborty Translation Today 19 (1), 1-23 , 2025 2025
The Future of the Humanities: Perspectives from South Asian Cultural Studies S Roy, V Singh, NM Raj, A Jagulia, A Panda, D Dey, M Chattopadhyay, ... Bloomsbury Publishing PLC , 2024 2024
Alternate Reality or Primary Nightmares P Chakraborty The Future of the Humanities: Perspectives from South Asian Cultural Studies … , 2024 2024
YOUTH IN PERIL: REPRESENTATION OF VULNERABILITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN DOGA COMIC BOOKS P Chakraborty JOURNAL OF GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS , 2023 2023
Bike Boy S Nandy, P Chakraborty Indian Literature 67 (1 (333), 81-87 , 2023 2023
Comic Monthly 1922: Exploring Form and Themes P Chakraborty, A Dosad Journal of the Department of English 15, 112-125 , 2022 2022
A Fascist Hero: Rhetoric of Civil Redemption in the Comics of Judge Dredd P Chakraborty Judging Dredd: Examining the World of Judge Dredd, 09-23 , 2021 2021
Implication of darkness in Heart of Darkness P Chakraborty The Contour e-Journal 7 (4), 34-44 , 2021 2021
We are not amused! Caricatures of and Satire on Victorian Women P Chakraborty JLCA-JOURNAL OF LITERARY AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS 1 (1) , 2021 2021
Neither Ever, Nor Never: ‘Web’ of Narratives in the Episodes of Dark P Chakraborty FILMBUFF 8 , 2020 2020
There is no Method but to be very Intelligent”: An Analysis of the Essay French Intelligence in Terms of Anti-Intellectuality P Chakraborty Where the Rivers Cross: A Study of T.S. Eliot’s Criticism, 175-180 , 2019 2019
(Discussions) on Mahabharata, Mrichhakatika, Iliad, Avijanashakuntalam and Metamorphoses RDAS Pritesh Chakraborty Selected Classics: A Pan University U.G. Students’ Guide , 2018 2018
Necromance in Browning’s Porphyria’s Lover P Chakraborty Poetic Plethora: An Annotated Anthology of Select Victorian and Modern Poems , 2018 2018
Shooting an Elephant as an Anti Colonial Narrative P Chakraborty Through the Literary Glass , 2017 2017
Saul Bellow: Herzog and Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath P Chakraborty https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/Home/ViewSubject?catid=13 , 2016 2016
White Skins, Coloured Masks: A Study of Postcolonial Perspectives and its Relevance in Study of Literature with a Focus on American Superhero Comic Books P Chakraborty Text and Theory: Reading and Re-reading, 83-96 , 2015 2015
White Violence, Black Psyche: Representation of Violence in Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth and Batman Comics P Chakraborty Modern Research Studies: An International Journal of Humanities and Social … , 2014 2014
Sare Jahan se Acha(?) Representation of the Youth in Bollywood P Chakraborty Literophile 7 (1) , 2014 2014
“Are You People For Real?” Post-Modern Angst in Bravely Fought the Queen P Chakraborty Essays on Modern Indian Drama , 2014 2014