Rimli Bhattacharya has trained in Comparative Literature and works on a range of genres and forms in a number of languages, Indian and others. She writes on art and artists, performance history and actresses, and film. She was Script Consultant and the Production Coordinator for the film based on Tagore’s last and most philosophical novel, Char Adhyay, directed by Kumar Shahani in 1997. She has worked in primary education in various states of India for over a decade, focusing on the conceptualisation and production of teaching-learning material. From 2004-2006 she was involved in an international collaborative project on ‘The construction of the subject English in secondary schools in London, Johannesburg and Delhi’. Her corpus of translations into English include autobiographies, novels, short stories and essays.
She has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, MS University of Baroda and has been the Rama Watumull Distinguished Indian Scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa and ICCR Visiting Chair at the Dept of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Since 2001, she has been teaching at the Department of English, University of Delhi. Her ongoing involvement with the classroom experience informs her M.Phil. seminar on ‘Children’s Literature: Childhood, pedagogy and literary forms’.
She is currently Professor, Gender Studies, at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta where she is working on the Centre’s extensive digitized archive of children’s journals and book illustrations.
​Rimli Bhattacharya has trained in Comparative Literature and works on a range of genres and forms in a number of languages, Indian and others. She writes on art and artists, performance history and actresses, and film. She was Script Consultant and the Production Coordinator for the film based on Tagore’s last and most philosophical novel, Char Adhyay, directed by Kumar Shahani in 1997. She has worked in primary education in various states of India for over a decade, focusing on the conceptualisation and production of teaching-learning material. From 2004-2006 she was involved in an international collaborative project on ‘The construction of the subject English in secondary schools in London, Johannesburg and Delhi’. Her corpus of translations into English include autobiographies, novels, short stories and essays.
She has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, MS University of Baroda and has been the Rama Watumull Distinguished Indian Scholar at the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa and ICCR Visiting Chair at the Dept of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Since 2001, she has been teaching at the Department of English, University of Delhi. Her ongoing involvement with the classroom experience informs her M.Phil. seminar on ‘Children’s Literature: Childhood, pedagogy and literary forms’.
She is currently Professor, Gender Studies, at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta where she is working on the Centre’s extensive digitized archive of children’s journals and book illustrations.