Rituparna Mitra

Rituparna Mitra is a postcolonial scholar whose teaching and research interests cover comparative literatures of the Global South, trauma studies, environmental humanities, and literary urbanisms. Her book project titled Entangled Traumascapes: Landscape, Ecology, and Politics in Post-Partition South Asian Literature is currently under review.

Her second project takes her interests in affect studies, ecology, and displacement forward to examine refuge, repair, and resilience in the context of cities in the Global South. She has published articles on repair and futurity in Postcolonial Studies (2021) and Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (2023). Her work is forthcoming in journals such as ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature and has been published in edited collections such as Narratives of Loss and Longing: Literary Developments in Postcolonial South Asia. Rituparna is currently co-editing a Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies on "Global South Ecologies," expected to be published in Winter 2026.

Rituparna was Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global South Forum (Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies) of the Modern Language Association (2024-25), participates in the Working Group of the South-South Forum at Dartmouth College, and is a member of the Association of Literary Urban Studies. At Emerson, she teaches courses on Postcolonial and Indigenous Environments, Global Literatures of Climate Change, Postcolonial Cultures, Honors First Year Seminars, among others.