RESUME I BOOKS l ARTICLES l POETRY l INTERVIEWS l VIDEOS I EXPERIENCE
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ACADEMIC AND POET
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6196-8862
Assistant Professor
Department of English and Foreign Languages
RBVRR Women's College
Hyderabad
Jhilam Chattaraj is an academic and poet based in Hyderabad, India. She has authored the books, Sudeep Sen: Reading, Writing Teaching, Noise Cancellation (2021), Corporate Fiction: Popular Culture and the New Writers (2018) and the poetry collection When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays (2018). She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English and Foreign Languages, RBVRR Women's College, Hyderabad. Her works have been published at Michigan Quarterly Review, Calyx, Room, Ariel, Porridge, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Colorado Review, World Literature Today, West Trestle Review, Voice and Verse, and Asian Cha among others. She received the CTI excellence award in “Literature and Soft Skills Development,” 2019 from the Council for Transforming India and the Department of Language and Culture, Government of Telangana, India. She won the Readomania Woman Swag Poetry Competition, 2022. Her poem, 'Sari' has been nominated for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award, 2023.
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BOOKS
BOOKS
When Lovers Leave and Poetry Stays, Authorspress, 2018.
PUBLICATIONS: Research Articles/ Chapters in Books/ Interview
PUBLICATIONS: Research Articles/ Chapters in Books/ Interview
RESEARCH ARTICLES
"Hope is a Choice: A Review of Ranjit Hoskote’s Trilogy—Jonahwhale (2018), Hunchprose (2021), Icelight (2023) Michigan Quarterly Review, MQR Online, January 17, 2025.
'Red is Visceral, Red is amniotic': Reading Sudeep Sen's Red, Dialog, Punjab University, April 2024.
“Are you a designer bride?: power relation between popular media and the Indian bride.” January, South Asian Review of English Journal, SARE.
Scopus Indexed. 2023.
“Body, Desire, and Possibilities: A Review of Malachi Edwin Vethamani’s Rambutan Kisses.” South Asian Review of English Journal, SARE, Scopus Indexed. Volume 60. No 1. June 2023.
“Poetry in a Petri Dish: Meeting Poet Sudeep Sen”, Tamarind Literary Magazine, Issue 5, UK, June 2023.
Book Review article, “Sudeep Sen: Selected Conversations and Reviews,” Ariel, Johns Hopkins University Press. March 2022. Scopus Indexed.
Book Review of Yogesh Patel’s Rapids, Book Review, February 2022. UGC CARE Listed.
Book Review, “No Borders for Me,” Asiatic, (Scopus Indexed) November 2021.
“Pop Goes a Woman: Damayanthi and Popular Culture in Nirupama Subramanian’s Keep the Change.” Gnosis Literary Journal. ISSN No: 2394-0131. June 2017. (UGC Approved List)
“A Housewife’s Desperation: Reading the Character of April Wheeler in Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road.” The Criterion. ISSN-0976-8165. 2017. (UGC Approved List)
“The “Unbollywood Route to Roots: Reading Anjan Dutta’s The Bong Connection.” Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal. ISSN: 2278-9529. July Issue 2015.
12. “To Kashmir and Back: Reading the Diasporic “Fundamental Ambivalence” in Agha Shahid Ali’s The Country without a Post Office.” LangLit: International Peer-reviewed Open Access Journal. Volume1. Issue IV. ISSN23495189. June2015.
13. “Remembering Kashmir: Analysing the Diasporic Imagination of Agha Shahid Ali and Subhash Kak.” International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies. Volume 2. Issue 1. 2015. ISSN No:2349-9451.
14. “Biriyanising English: Flavours of Cultural Memories in the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali.” Gnosis: International Journal of English Language and Literature. ISSN No: 2394-0131. April Issue 2015. (UGC Approved List).
15. “Chick Lit and the Lad Lit: The Gender-Genres of Popular English Fiction in India.” Indian Book Chronicle. March 2010. ISSN: 0970-468X.
16. “Two Indian Diasporic Writers: From Transnational to Intranational Identities.” Muse India, Issue 30. Mar- April 2010. ISSN: 0975-1815. (UGC Approved List.)
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. “Deconstructing Red,” Red, a collection of poems by Sudeep Sen, Nirox Foundation, South Africa, 2023. 978-0-6397-8398-7.
2. “Between appointments and resignation: the nation in post-millennial fiction.” Routledge Series on Post-Millennial Fiction, Edited by E Dawson Varughese, December, 2024. Work in Progress.
3. “Beyond Representation: Reading Sudeep Sen’s Interviews as Literary Criticism.” Sudeep Sen: A Critical Study by Dr Rama Nair, Gallerie Publications, 2022.I SBN: 978-81-927668-1-2 (paperback). July, 2022.
4. “Brands and the Bride: Reading the Emergence of the Bride in Indian Popular Culture.” Gender and Globalisation. Eds. Sita Vanka, Rekha Pande and Jeevanandam, Rawat Books, 2020.
INTERVIEWS
1. "I was rapt in the theatre of the skies." In Conversation with Sudeep Sen. Asian Cha, 11 June, 2025.
2. 'Writing to me is no mere vocation but an identity.' In Conversation with poet, Professor Ravi Shankar. Hindustan Times, 14 November, 2024.
3. 'Celebration of culture around rocks: An Interview with Uma Magal', Siasat Daily, 9th March 2024.
4. 'Poetry and Music', An Interview with Sudeep Sen, Mekong Review, February 2024.
5.“Linking Earth’s Meaningful Geographies and ‘Climate Imaginaries’ ” Sudeep Sen in conversation with Jhilam Chattaraj, New Contrast Literary Magazine, Issue 203. November, 2023.
6. Red | Memory is Starlight | My Intimate Skies Sudeep Sen in conversation with Jhilam Chattaraj. Fridaywall, August 2023.
7. “When Thunder was a Distance Away,’ A Conversation with Poet Academic Edwin Malachi Vethamani, South Florida Poetry Journal, May, 2023.
8. “My poems speak of a thing or scene,” A Conversation With the poet, academic Nishi Pulugurtha, FemAsia, May, 2023.
9. “Poetry is a lifelong quest!” Sudeep Sen in conversation with Jhilam Chattaraj. Fridaywall, 13.1.2023
10. “Meaning Won’t Save Us, Rhythms Will,” An Interview with Arundhathi Subramaniam, Calyx Press, December, 2022.
11. “Kites Erase from their Wings, Sun-Stain Smell of Flight” interview by Jhilam Chattaraj, Sudeep Sen: A Critical Study by Dr Rama Nair, Gallerie Publications, 2022. 978-81-927668-1-2.
12. “Meeting Damodar Mauzo,” Outlook, March, 2023. ‘I did not Choose Poetry, Poetry Chose me,” A Review of Sudeep Sen: Selected Interviews and
Conversations, The Hans India, 5 April, 2020.
13.A God at the Door In Conversation with Tishani Doshi, Apeejay Literature Festival, 2021, Kolkata, Online.
14. “When the Mountain Man Spoke,” A Review of Kelly Dorji’s “The Hidden Rainbow,” The
Hans India. 8 March, 2020.
15. In Converation with Ranjita Biswas, VoW Lit Fest, Hyderabad, 2021.
16. In Conversation with Sudeep Sen and Ranjot Hoskote, Auroville Literature Festival, 2023.
17. In Conversation with GuruParatap Singh and Amandeep Singh, Chitkara Lit Fest, 2023.
18. “All About Desire,” An Interview with Madhavi Menon. Womenia, The Hans India, 4.2.2020.
19. “Publishing is Small but it is Full of Pirhanas,” Interview with poet, publisher, Dustin Pickering, Ethos Literary Journal, August-September, 2019.
20. “From Masala Muri to Flavoured Muesli: A Conversation with poet Kiriti Sengupta,” August 2019, Colorado Review.
21. “Of the Bengali Air and English ink”: An Interview with Kiriti Sengupta, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. January, 2019.
22 “Writing Haiku as a Possessed Man.” Interview with Paresh Tiwari. Frontier Poetry Journal. 2018.
23. “Reviving Identity with Travel: A Conversation with Usha Akella.” World Literature Today. University of Oklahoma. Published.ISSN-0196-3570. July 2017.
24 “A Portrait of a Painter: An Interview with Sravanthi Juluri.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. ISSN 1999-5032. March2017.
25. “Meeting Meena: An Interview with Meena Alexander.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. ISSN 1999-5032. March 2016.
ESSAYS IN NEWSPAPER/ JOURNALS/ MAGAZINES
1.“Mother’s Day: A Homage to My Grandmother,” Outlook India, April, 2023.
2. “Between Red and Green,” Panorama Journal, July, 2023.
3. “Meeting Damodar Mauzo,” Outlook, March, 2023.
4. “Between Pleasure and Purpose,” A conversation with Damodar Mauzo, Siasat Daily,
February, 2023.
5. “Of Twin Tongues and Twin Cities: Hum Aiseich Bolte,” Siasat Daily, January 2023.
6. “Poetry, innovation, Ideation: Kavya Dhaara, Hyderabad Literary Festival,”Siasat Daily,
November, 2023.
7. “Lore of the Land: A Comprehensive Anthology Narrating the Nation,” Siasat Daily,
October, 2022.
8. “I did not Choose Poetry, Poetry Chose me,” A Review of Sudeep Sen: Selected
Interviews and Conversations, The Hans India, 5 April, 2020.
9. “When the Mountain Man Spoke,” A Review of Kelly Dorji’s “The Hidden Rainbow,” The
Hans India. 8 March, 2020.
10. “Matwaala: A Poetry Festival For South Asian Diaspora,” The Bangalore Review, October Issue,
2020.
11. “In the Bazaars of Hyderabad. “The Hans India, July 2019.
12. “Interviews as Literary Criticism.” The Hans India. February, 2019.
13. “A Conversation with Charles Taylor”: An Interview by Sachidananda Mohanty. Transcribed
by Jhilam Chattaraj. Journal of the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies. Spring 2012.
14. Notes on Major Indian Theatre Personalities. A Handbook of Indian Theatre, Ed. Sachidananda
Mohanty, Sunita Mishra. Cinnamon Teal Publishing. 2011.
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