Ritam Sarkar

Assistant Professor, English and other languages, GSHS, VSP

rsarkar@gitam.edu

Ritam Sarkar has a Ph.D in English Studies from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. His research interests include Comics, Literary City, Spatial Theory, Visual and Popular Culture. He was a recipient of the University Grants Commission Senior Research Fellowship.

Research Publications
  • Ritam Sarkar & Somdatta Bhattacharya (2022), “Urban comics and social justice: restructuring neoliberal spaces of Delhi in Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri,” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 697-717, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2153892. (Scopus Indexed)
  • Ritam Sarkar & Somdatta Bhattacharya (2024) “Drawing the Invisible: A Study of Urban Space, Informal Migration of Construction Workers and Precarity in Simon Lamouret’sThe Alcazar,” Visual Communication Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/15551393.2023.2300488. (Scopus Indexed)
  • Ritam Sarkar & Somdatta Bhattacharya (2022), “‘I don't see any limitations when it comes to comics’: An Interview with Simon Lamouret,” Studies in Comics, vol. 13, no. 1-2. DOI.org/10.1386/stic_00080_1. (Scopus Indexed)
  • Ritam Sarkar & Somdatta Bhattacharya (2022), “Urbanity, Precarity, and Infrastructural Violence in Mumbai: Exploring the Politics of Repair and Urban Regeneration in Grafity’s Wall,” Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics(Scopus Indexed)
Ritam Sarkar