Torsa Ghosal

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About

Torsa Ghosal is assistant professor of post-45 English at California State University,

Sacramento. Her research focuses on the formal strategies used to represent thought and consciousness in contemporary literature. Her critical essays have appeared in Studies in the Novel, Poetics Today, Storyworlds, and Media-N. She has published on films and comics in Comics Studies Here and Now (Routledge) and The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies (OUP). She is also the author of an experimental novella, Open Couplets (New Delhi: Yoda Press).

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Blog Posts

Publications

Publications in Peer-Reviewed Journals

“Shapes of Cognition in Typographical Fictions” in Studies in the Novel 51.2 (Summer 2019)

“At Hand—Handwriting as a Device for Spatial Orientation in J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S.” in Poetics Today 40.2 (Summer 2019), Special issue on Multimodal Media.

“Books with Bodies: Narrative Progression in Books with Bodies Illustrated with Chris Ware’s Building Stories” in Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies (Spring 2015)

“Strikethrough Calcutta: Poetics and Politics of Interruption in Satyajit Ray’s and Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta Trilogies” in South Asian Review (Spring 2015)

“Unprojections: Worlds under Erasure in Contemporary Hollywood Films” in Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus (Spring 2015).

“A World of Sin,” co-authored with Christopher Gonzalez and Frederick Luis Aldama, in Post Script 33.3 (Summer 2014)

Book Chapters

“Forgetting at the Intersection of Comics and the Multimodal Novel: James Sie’s Still Life Las Vegas” in The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies (Oxford University Press, 2019)

“The Page is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South Asia” in Comics Studies Here and Now (Routledge, 2018).

“Baar Baar Sakhi: Queer Temporalities of Sakhya in Performance,” co-authored with Kaustavi Sarkar, in Friendship as Social Justice Activism (U of Chicago P and Seagull, 2018).

“Empathic Cross-Fires: Latinos in Bollywood…Bollywood in Latinolandia” in Latinos and Narrative Media (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)

Discussion and Dictionary Entries

“How do the visual-tactile elements of page design contribute to the way image-texts sound?” in The Middle Space’s Seeing Sounds/Hearing Pictures–A Round Table on Sound and Comics.

“Interactive Fiction, Unnatural” in the Dictionary of Unnatural Narratology, published by the Narrative Research Lab at Aarhus University, Denmark

Book Reviews

Review of Malik Sajad’s Munnu: a boy from Kashmir (comics), in South Asian Popular Culture (Autumn 2016)

Assistant Professor

California State University, Sacramento