Dr. Paromita Patranobish (she/her)

“The Position of the Unthought” (2003)

The transition from Ismail to Quichotte becomes a marker of self-estrangement, the formation of a split subjectivity along the fault-lines of a repressed and disavowed past. @PPatranobish on Salman Rushdie’s QUICHOTTE thechakkar.com/home/quichotte

As the perverse pretentions of AI threaten to fragment & dissolve cognitive, artistic, & planetary integrity, Rushdie's darkly comic, intellectually lucid cautionary tale is a reminder of how entrenched in systemic violence technological fantasies are. My review of Quichotte

The Twilight Zone Between Page and Life . In QUICHOTTE (2019) Salman Rushdie deconstructs the motif of the quest while creating a darkly humorous, grotesque, and irreverent anti-heroic saga of a modern day mock medieval knight. By @PPatranobish thechakkar.com/home/quichotte

From medieval lullabies and Renaissance sonnets to modern moments of digital overload, 'Silence: A Literary History' reveals silence as one of literature’s most expressive tools: oxford.ly/4tHAHDF

For the first time, a series of Toni Morrison's Princeton lectures has been compiled into a book. Now, readers can engage with Morrison, not only through the lens of her fiction or essays, but through her role as a teacher. bit.ly/4bXSZeh

Saba Mahmood was arguably Pakistan’s finest scholar with a lasting global imprint in academia. So heartening to see her legacy preserved through a fellowship in her name by her family for MPhil students studying humanities & social sciences @LifeAtLUMS. A fitting tribute to a towering intellect.

Join Laleh Khalili's lecture, "The Politics of Life and Death in Extractive Capitalism". This lecture is the third event in the yearlong series, Racisms and Colonialisms in the Longue Durée: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #extractivecapitalism

My article on Ritwik Ghatak's Ajantrik published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 48 Issue 5, is now available to access. I have 50 downloadable eprints, and will be happy to share with anyone who would like to read the article. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

‘She wonders how her Blood moves at all how Any part of her converses With another having never Known the thaw of tenderness.’ Covenant of Compost: A Cycle of Ten Poems by @PPatranobish thechakkar.com/home/paromitap…

I have an article out in Anglia: Journal of English Philology. I examine what I term Sebald’s "memorial cosmopolitics" -- how memory in conjunction with debris contributes to the charting of an extinction imaginary. degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/1…

Butterflies in my stomach as I get ready to present my paper on Day 2 of Caméra-Stylo 6.

Fantastic keynote talk for day 1 of SLCN's Caméra-Stylo 6 by Kim Wilkins of the University of Oslo on media narratives of gentrification. Particularly loved her elaboration of the concept of "aestheticized bohemianism"!

This is a very impressive book! Check out our interview with Thea here: diagrammes.fr/en/program/cli…

Thrilled to share that my paper "The Politics of Swarming in Just Philippot’s Lau Nuee (The Swarm)" has been accepted for presentation at the upcoming Fall 2025 virtual symposium of the Society for the Study of the Eco-Weird, to be held on October 24 & 25, 2025! #EcoWeird

Free webinar from @advaya_co Encountering the Earth: How Ecological Creativity Changes Us and the World. Join Robert Macfarlane, Lucy Neal & Hannah Close for a conversation about our creative connection with the Earth. Apr 1, 2025, 12:00 PM CDT. advaya.life/webinars/encou…

Marvellous essay by @PPatranobish! Reminded me in parts of David Hardiman's iconic The Coming of the Devi, a must read from the Subaltern Studies corpus.

Beautiful essay by @PPatranobish on the diety Shitala, and how a premodern response to disease still drives contemporary social ethics in our culture.