Namrata Pathak

Dr. Namrata Pathak is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Tura, Meghalaya. She has an MPhil and PhD from English and Foreign Languages University (formerly, CIEFL), Hyderabad. She has six books to her credit, and her latest books are- Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond (Routledge, 2022) which is a part of the “Writer in Context" Series of Routledge with Sukrita Paul Kumar and Chandana Dutta as series editors and A Reader on Arun Sarma (Sahitya Akademi, 2024). The titles of her book are Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre (it is included in the MA syllabus of the Department of Assamese, Gauhati University), Women’s Writing from North East India (it is included in the BA syllabus of English in Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi), Reimagining Life in/through Literature, Essays and Reviews on Arun Sarma’s Works and Performing Arun Sarma: Theatricality, Transgression and Transformation. Her debut collection of poems, That’s How Mirai Eats a Pomegranate, was brought out in 2018 by Red River. Pathak has been a recipient of FCT Library Fellowship, Baroda and UGC-Associateship by IIAS, Shimla. She is the Charles Wallace Fellow (India) at SOAS-University of London for the year 2022-23. Her writings have been published in Scroll.in, Outlook, Raiot, Café Dissensus, Bengaluru Review, USAWA, Muse India, The Wagon Magazine, Vayavya, The North East Review etc. She is featured in Riverside Stories:Writings from Assam (2024), the anthology from Assam published by Zubaan; Mukoli magazine (2023) housed in the School of Conflict Management Peacebuilding and Development in Kennesaw State University;  Muse India (2024) special issue on Literature from the Northeast curated by Bibhash Choudhury; the Sangam House Monsoon Issue: A Special on Poetry from North East, July, 2019 curated by Nitoo Das etc. She is a part of anthologies forthcoming from Aleph, Harper Collins and other publishing houses. Her academic papers are published in prestigious journals and her book chapters are a part of important book series by Springer, Routledge etc.