Ritu Sen Chaudhuri is a professor and the Director of Centre for Comparative Social Theory, Department of Sociology, West Bengal State University. Her interest and expertise traverse the fields of feminist theories, sociological theories, post-modern thought, women in India, and the interfaces of sociology literature and film. She has delivered many lectures at a number of universities and research institutes in national and international conferences. Her publication includes articles on issues concerning women’s writing, women’s movement, feminist theory, Tagorian novels and film texts in academic journals and edited books. Currently, she is working on two book projects. She has recently co-edited a book on Feminist Theory in Bangla.
Publications:
- Naribabder Nana Paath (ed) Kolkata: Ananda 2021
- Kiki and the ‘girl’: A Moment of Reading between Deleuze and Feminism in the Journal of Deleuze and Guattari Studies (Edinburgh University Press) No: 12.4 2018
- Beyond the critique of Indology: a Moment of Reading Ambedkar in The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections, edited by Anand Teltumbde and Suraj Yengde, New Delhi: Penguin Random House 2018
- The Death of a Woman: An Amenable Allegory in The Visva-Bharati Quarterly Volume 27 Number 2&3 2017
- “(Sang)sthaner Rajniti: Naribad O Derrida” in Banglay Binirman/Abinirman, ed., Anirban Das, a collection of articles on deconstruction published by Ababhas Publications, 2007
Areas of Interest:
Social and feminist theories; gender and sexuality; Ambedkar, caste and feminism; women’s writing and movement; interfaces of sociology, literature and film.
Statement of Interest:
My academic interests stay close to – the bearings of undecidability and im/possibility in feminist politics; epistemological import of feminist inscriptions; bearings of the literary in social sciences; annihilation of caste; affectual continuities between human, animal, plants, objects, and machines; pedagogic practices in sociology in non-metropolitan settings; Bangla as a language of academic relevance.