Basudhara Roy
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Basudhara Roy | |
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| Born | 1986 (age 39–40) |
| Occupation | Poet and Assistant Professor of English |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Graduated from Banaras Hindu University |
| Genre | Poetry, Criticism |
| Notable works | A Blur of a Woman, Write To Me, Inhabiting, Stitching a Home, Migrations of Hope, Moon in My Teacup |
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Basudhara Roy (born 1986) is an Indian English-language poet, critic, and assistant professor at PG Department of English at Karim City College, Jamshedpur, which is affiliated with Kolhan University.[1][2]
Born in 1986, Roy completed her graduation and post-graduation in English at Banaras Hindu University, where she earned gold medals. She was later awarded the UGC Junior Research Fellowship and received her Ph.D. in Diaspora Women's writing from Kolhan University, Chaibasa.[3]
Career
Roy has been teaching in the Department of English at Karim City College for over a decade, with areas of interest that include diaspora literature, cultural studies, gender studies, postmodern criticism, and ecological studies.[3]
Published works
Roy's academic and creative output spans literary criticism and poetry:
Criticism
- Migrations of Hope: A Study of the Short Fiction of Three Indian American Writers (Atlantic Publishers, 2019) – a scholarly monograph based on her doctoral research.[1]
- Write to Me: Essays on Indian Poetry in English (Black Eagle Books, 2024)
Poetry collections
- Moon in My Teacup (Writer's Workshop, 2019)
- Stitching a Home (Red River, 2021)[1]
- Inhabiting (Authorspress, 2022)[4][5]
- A Blur of a Woman (Red River, 2024)[6]
Edited Books
- Soul Spaces: Poems on Cities, Towns and Villages (Authorspress, 2022)[3]
- Mapping the Mind, Minding the Map: Twenty Contemporary Indian English Poets (Sahitya Akademi, 2023)[3]
Her poems and essays have appeared in prominent platforms such as EPW, The Pine Cone Review, Live Wire, Lucy Writers’ Platform, The Woman Inc., Madras Courier, Berfrois, Yearbook of Indian English Poetry 2020–21, and The Aleph Review.[1]