Dr. Anish Bhattacharyya earned his PhD in English from Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, in 2022. He holds an MA from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (2014) and a BA from Scottish Church College, Kolkata (2012). Dr. Bhattacharyya’s scholarly work investigates the cultural unconscious and the critical blind spots between canonical and popular representations of socio-political phenomena. His research explores the intersection of popular culture with notions of modernity and postmodernity, specifically through the lenses of speculative fiction, graphic narratives, and vernacular modernity.
His research has appeared in several peer-reviewed and SCOPUS-indexed journals, including the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Taylor & Francis), with contributions spanning comparative literary analysis and film studies. His recent scholarship focuses on dystopian fiction, marginalization narratives in Indian speculative literature, and the philosophical dimensions of popular media. In addition to his research, Dr. Bhattacharyya has translated select letters of Rabindranath Tagore for Visva-Bharati and has presented his work at numerous national and international conferences. His teaching repertoire includes modernist literature, postmodern philosophy, 19th century poetry, and contemporary popular culture including Indian detective fiction.
