Publications

Books/Monographs

• Chatterjee, Srirupa. Body Image in Contemporary American Young Adult Literature. Routledge, New York (Contracted, forthcoming)

Edited Books

• Chatterjee, Srirupa and Sharada Chirugupati. (Eds.) Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India. Routledge, USA. April 2025. (https://www.routledge.com/Global-Literatures-and-Cultures-of-Modernity-Critical-Perspectives-from-India/Chatterjee-Chigurupati/p/book/9781032635484?srsltid=AfmBOoo1vtg3W-clddg1RLn8cZbGS7ZpZBNbKFAaEaYy30gSt9711J_B)

• Chatterjee, Srirupa and Shweta Rao Garg. (Eds.) Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture. Temple University Press, Pennsylvania, USA. 2024. (https://temple.manifoldapp.org/projects/female-body-image-and-beauty-politics-in-contemporary-indian-literature-and-culture)

• S. Krishna, Swathi and Srirupa Chatterjee. (Eds.) Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India. Lexington Books, Maryland, USA. August, 2023. (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666902327/Gendered-Violence-in-Public-Spaces-Women%E2%80%99s-Narratives-of-Travel-in-Neoliberal-India)

• Chatterjee, Srirupa. (Ed.) The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. 1850. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd, 2016. (https://orientblackswan.com/details?id=9788125062875)

Journal Essays

• • “Hyper(in)visibility and the Crisis of Missing Black Girls in Monday’s Not Coming and When You Look Like Us”. Journal of Black Studies. (Aug 2025) https://doi.org/10.1177/00219347251369044 (with Vinita Vincent)

  • Invited book review. Cosmopolitan Sexuality: Gender, Embodiments, Biopolitics in India, by Ahonaa Roy, Cambridge UP 2023. Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism. 3.1: 2025. (Journal of Georgetown University, Washinton DC)

  • “Colorism and Female Identity: Discourses from Twentieth Century Indian Literature and Culture.” Papers on Language and Literature. 58.3 (Summer 2024): 245-302. (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA). (with Shreya Rastogi) https://www.siue.edu/pll/forthcoming_essays.shtml

  • “Roads, Misogyny, and the Rape Culture in Joyce Carol Oates’ Rape: A Love Story and Cara Hoffman’s So Much Pretty.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. (2023) (with Swathi Krishna S.)

  • “Overcoming Daddy: The Daughter’s Rite of Passage in Joyce Carol Oates’ Late Novels.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 63.3 (2021): 296-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2021.2018988 (with Aswathi V. Anand)

  • "Television culture and the beauty bias problem: an analysis of India’s postmillennial television serials." Media Asia. 49.3 (Dec. 2021): 213-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2021.2010939 (with Shreya Rastogi)

  • “The Female Prophet and Religious Re-visioning in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. (Sept. 2021). (pp. 1-10) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2021.1982668 (with Aswathi V. Anand).

  • “‘The Trouble Goes Back to Your Grandfather’s Time’: Masculinity and Domestic Spaces in Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread.” English Studies. 102.8 (2021): 1105-1126. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1975991. (with Shreya Rastogi). 

  • “Between Maternity and Autonomy: Radical Mothering in Mona Simpson’s Anywhere but Here.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 63.2 (August 2021): 232-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2021.1959291 (with Swathi Krishna S.)

  • “Relocating the Sacred: Evolving Perceptions of Faith in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews. (June 2021) (pp. 1-8). https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2021.1935205 (with Nilanjana Ghosal).

  • “Of Pandemics and Pilgrims: Reconciling Grief and Death in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” South Central Review. 38.2-3 (Summer/Fall 2021): 126-132. (with Shreya Rastogi)

  • “Obesity, Contemporary Gothic, and the Rhetoric of Excess in Sapphire's Push.” Journal of Language, Literature and Culture. 68.1 (February 2021): 10-26. (with Nilanjana Ghosal).

  • “Fictive Kinship in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. (December 2020). (pp. 1-4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2020.1864616 (with Nilanjana Ghosal)

  • “Heterotopic Homes: Restructured Domestic Spaces in Joyce Carol Oates’s We Were the Mulvaneys.” Women: A Cultural Review. 31.1 (2020): 68-87. (with Shreya Rastogi)

  • “The changing politics of beauty labour in Indian cinema.” South Asian Popular Culture. 18.3 (2020): 271-282. (with Shreya Rastogi)

  • “Apocalyptic Imagery in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping.” The Explicator. 75.4 (2017): 234-38. (with Swathi Krishna S.)

  • “From Naturalistic Savagery to Humanistic Redemption: Artistic Transformations in Joyce Carol Oates's Short Stories.” The IUP Journal of English Studies. 12.2 (June 2017): 81-89. (with Aswathi V Anand)

  • “Mina Loy’s ‘PARTURITION’ and L’Écriture Féminine.” The Explicator. 73.4 (2015): 257-61. (with Swathi Krishna S.)

  • “Paul Auster’s Travels in the Scriptorium as a Critique of the Hyperreal”. The Explicator. 72.1 (2014): 53-56. (with Neethi V Alexander)

  • “Tyranny of the Beauty Myth in Oates’s My Sister, My Love.” The Explicator. 71.1 (2013): 22-25. 

  • “The Hysteric as a Chronicler in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.” The IUP Journal of English Studies. 7.4 (December 2013): 32-40. (with Nilanjana Ghosal)

  • “Rage, Revenge and Regeneration in Joyce Carol Oates’s The Rise of Life on Earth.” Notes on Contemporary Literature. 42.2 (March 2012): 8-10. (with G. Neelakantan)

  • “Oates’s BEASTS.” The Explicator. 67.3 (Spring 2009): 227-231. (with G. Neelakantan)

  • “Oates’s FIRST LOVE.” The Explicator. 67.2 (Winter 2009): 92-96. 

  • “Woman as Survivor in Oates’s Rape: A Love Story.” Notes on Contemporary Literature. 39.4 (Sept. 2009): 4-6. (with G. Neelakantan)

  • “‘Forever Fearful of a Crash’: Family vis-à-vis Materialism in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections.” Notes on Contemporary Literature. 37.4 (Sept. 2007): 6-9. (with G. Neelakantan)

  • “Deconstructing Authority in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist.” ICFAI Journal of English Studies. 3.2 (June 2008): 76-81.

  • “Joyce Carol Oates’s The Gravedigger’s Daughter and Martha Nussbaum’s Development Ethics.” ICFAI Journal of English Studies. 4.3 (Sept. 2009): 70-77.

Book Chapters

• • “Reclaiming Legacies: Censorship and Racial History in Piecing Me Together and Who Put This Song On?” in Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children's Literature in An Era of Heightened Censorship. (with Vinita Vincent) (Forthcoming)

  • "Introduction". Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India. 2025. (Routledge, NY).

  • "Redeeming Cloistered Womanhood: Spiritual Modernity in Mary Gordon’s Pearl and There Your Heart Lies.” in Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India. 2025. (Routledge, NY). (with Aswathi V. Anand)

  • “From Controversy to Credibility: Counterculture Modernities in John Updike’s Couples.” Global Literatures and Cultures of Modernity: Critical Perspectives from India. 2025. (Routledge, NY). (With Swathi Krishna S.)

  • “Introduction: Female Body Image and the Politics of Appearance in Contemporary India”. Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture. Temple University Press, USA. (2024).

  • “Introduction: Gendered Violence and Women in Public Spaces.” Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India. Lexington Books, USA. Pg. 1-16, 2023. (with Swathi Krishna S.)

  • “Conclusion: Women and the Road: Possibilities and Promises.” Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India. Lexington Books, USA. pg. 245-248. 2023. (with Swathi Krishna S.)

  • "Monstrous Discourses: Female Body Image and Gothic Subjectivity in Short Stories by Alice Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and Joyce Carol Oates.” American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives. Sharada Chigurupati and Nageswar Rao Konda (Eds.). Maryland, USA: Lexington Books. Pg. 179-194. 2023. (with Nilanjana Ghosal).

  • “The Hegemony of Ideal Body Image.” Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Health Humanities. Paul Crawford and Paul I. Kadetz (Eds.) Switzerland: Springer Nature. (Forthcoming, 2023).

  • “Why Fear Endures? Teaching Dracula in a Post-Millennial Indian Classroom.” Ed. William Thomas McBride. MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Bram Stoker’s Dracula. New York: Modern Language Association of America. (Forthcoming)

  • “Negotiating Violence and Traversing the City in Delhi Crime (2019) and She (2020).” Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India. Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee. (Eds). Maryland, USA: Lexington Books. Pg. 165-182. 2023. (with Shreya Rastogi)

  • “No Longer Innocent: Male Gaze, Violence, and Female Kinship in Kishwar Desai’s The Sea of Innocence.” Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India. Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee. (Eds). Maryland, USA: Lexington Books. Pg.19-31. 2023. (with Swathi Krishna S.)

  • “Cultural Assimilation and the Politics of Beauty in Postwar American Fiction by Ethnic Women Writers.” Eds. Shweta Rao Garg & Deepti Gupta. English Paradigm in India: Essays in Language, Literature and Culture. NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Pg 139-152. 2017. (with Nilanjana Ghosal)

  • “Introduction.” The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings. Orient Blackswan. 2016. Pg 1-20.

  • “Erotic Desire and Walt Whitman’s Aesthetic and Political Ideology.” Ed. Kanwar Dinesh Singh. The Poetry of Walt Whitman. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2009. Pg 159-166.

  • “Liberated/Tortured Bodies: Violence and the Beauty Myth in the Late Novels of Joyce Carol Oates.”  Eds. Gulshan Rai Kataria and Somdatta Mandal. Literature in the Times of Violence. New Delhi: Prestige Books, 2009. Pg 209-218.

Encyclopedic Entries

• “Violence.” Encyclopedia on Themes in Literature. Ed. Jennifer McClinton-Temple. New York: Facts on File, Inc., December 2011. Pg. 117-119.

• “Autobiography.” Encyclopedia of London’s East End. Ed. Kevin A. Morrison. North Carolina, USA: McFarland. (2023)

• “Psychogeography.” Encyclopedia of London’s East End. Ed. Kevin A. Morrison. North Carolina, USA: McFarland. (2023)

• “London Psychogeographical Association.” Encyclopedia of London’s East End. Ed. Kevin A. Morrison. North Carolina, USA: McFarland. (2023)

• “Mother’s Day.” The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film. Eds. Erica J. Dymond and Salvador Jimenez Murguia. Maryland, USA: Rowman & Littlefield. (2022)

• “No Strings Attached.” The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film. Eds. Erica J. Dymond and Salvador Jimenez Murguia. Maryland, USA: Rowman & Littlefield. (2022)

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS

• In “Figurative Expressions” by Kaveree Bamzai in Open Magazine https://openthemagazine.com/special/figurative-expressions/

• Outlook India: https://www.outlookindia.com/national/beautys-dark-underbelly-the-trap-of-ever-elusive-beauty-ideal-for-women

• North Philly Notes. “The Cost of Beauty Bias In India.” https://templepress.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/the-cost-of-beauty-bias-in-india/ (with Shweta Rao Garg)

• Interview. “Examining beauty standards: New book highlights impact on Indian women.” The New Indian Express. https://www.newindianexpress.com/amp/story/cities/hyderabad/2024/Aug/29/interview-hyderabads-interior-design-scene-where-modern-trends-meet-traditional-flair

• Interview “AAS Member Chat: Srirupa Chatterjee”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5u2kj793f4