Sohomjit Ray is an Associate Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He teaches courses on South Asian, African, and World literatures, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality studies. He has published on translation, feminist and queer theory, and South Asia in Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Narrative Theory, Gender, Place & Culture, Translation and Interpreting Studies, The Translator, South Asian Review, and edited volumes. He is a current serving member of the Board of Directors for The Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS) at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Degrees
Ph.D. Kent State University
M.A. University of Calcutta
Articles:
- “Bagh, Barsati, Bad Character: women and mobility narratives of neoliberal Delhi.” Gender, Place and Culture, vol. 31, no. 2, 2024, pp. 154-175. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2022.2123455
- “Estrangement as Method in Trauma Narratives.” Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 53, no. 2, Summer 2023, pp. 264-293. DOI: 10.1353/jnt.2023.a901899
- “The translator as rereader: A. K. Ramanujan’s poetics of translation.” Translation and Interpreting Studies, vol. 18, issue 1, 2023, pp. 27-50. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.22024.ray
- “Translation, Poetics of Instability, and the Postmonolingual Condition in Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 68, issue 3, Fall 2022, pp. 544-565. DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2022.0029
- “Gendering the untranslatable in the world literary market: reading Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Shasti’ (1893) in translation.” The Translator, vol. 25, issue 2, 2019, pp. 130-141. DOI: 10.1080/13556509.2019.1650584
- “Multilingual Reader, Translingual Reading: Unmaking the Anglonormativity of World Literature in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies.” In Hybrid Englishes and the Challenges of and for Translation: Identity, Mobility and Language Change eds. Karen Bennett and Rita Queiroz de Barros, Routledge, 2019, pp. 73-91. DOI: 10.4324/9781315142333
- “Legibility, Erasure, and Neoliberal Assimilation of Same-Sex Desire in Dostana.” South Asian Review, vol. 34, no. 3, 2013, pp. 159-174. Special Issue: Gender and Sexuality in South Asian Literature and Culture, edited by Kanika Batra. DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2013.11932947
- “The Value of Beauty.” Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, vol. 6, 2009, pp. 105-117
Translations:
- Bharatiya Galpaguchchha (Indian folktales). English to Bengali. Translation of three children's folktales collected from different parts of India. Kolkata: Kreya Comics, 2008. 24 pages.
Other publications:
- "Afterlives of Slavery, Epistemologies of Race: Black Women and Wake Work." Review of The Repeating Body, by Kimberly Juanita Brown; In the Wake by Christina Sharpe; Monument by Natasha Trethewey. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1 and 2, Spring/ Summer 2020, pp. 60-63. DOI: 10.1080/13556509.2019.1650584
- Review of Sleeping on Jupiter, by Anuradha Roy and Consumable Texts in Contemporary India: Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology, by Suman Gupta. Wasafiri vol. 3, no. 1, 2016, pp. 88-89
- Review of Transforming Faith: The Story of Al-Huda and Islamic Revivalism among Pakistani Women, by Sadaf Ahmad. Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2011, pp.80-87
- Review of In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin. Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, vol. 2, No. 1, 2010, pp. 90-94
Courses Taught
ENG 151: College Writing
ENG 170: Literature and Society
ENH 206: Classics of Modern World Literature
ENH 208: Contemporary Literature
ENH 211: Introduction to Poetry
INT/ WGS 203: Gender in the Contemporary World
ENL 290: Introduction to Literary Studies
ENL 307: African Literature
ENL 310: World Literature in Contexts
ENL 321: South Asian Literature
ENL/ DRA 358: World Drama Since 1800
ENL/ WGS 368: Queer Studies
ENL/ WGS 369: Gender and the Negotiation of Difference
ENL/ LNG 388: Major World Author (Rabindranath Tagore)
ENG 690: Methods of Graduate Study
