Prof. Kunal Ray

Books

• Shabd aur Sangeet – Unravelling Song-Text in India (Three Essays Collective, 2019)


• Satrangi Dastarkhwan (Hindi) – (Rajkamal Prakashan, 2023) – Winner of Best Printed Book of the Year (Indian Languages) in The Publishing Next Industry Award 2024


• Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)


• Goa Subodh Kerkar’s Canvas ( Aleph, 2025)

Children’s Book

• Museum of Goa – (Ektara Publications, 2025)

Book Chapters

• Archiving India Through Food: A Personal History of the Journal On Eating. In: Dodd, M. and Menon, N. (eds) Practices of Digital Humanities in India: Learning by Doing – Routledge, 2024


• About Critique: Indian Media & Documentary Cinema. In: Kishore, S. and Ray, K. (eds) Resistance in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthetics, Culture and Practice - Edinburgh University Press, 2024


• Essential as it were – Stones and Bones - Fossils from the Pandemic – Edited by Asijit Datta – Chhapakhana, 2022


• Ekphrasis: Poet as an Art Seeker – Sudeep Sen – A Critical Study – Edited by Rama Nair – Gallerie, 2022


• Begum Akhtar in Jalsaghar – Akhtari – The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar, edited by Yatindra Mishra - Harper Collins, 2021


• Digital Devices and New Narratives of Bengali Cinema – DigiNaka – Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-Capitalist India edited by Anjali Monteiro, K. P. Jayasankar, Amit S Rai – Orient Blackswan, 2020


• Jalsaghar mein Begum Akhtar - Akhtari - edited by Yatindra Mishra, Vani Prakashan, 2019 (Hindi)


• Local Voices, Global Discourses- Kunal Ray & Meena Aier – Kaleidoscope – Deccan Education Society, Fergusson College, 2014.


• Coming to Terms with the Self in Andre Agassi's Autobiography Open - Autobiographies, Biographies and Memoirs in English – Gnosis, 2013

Journal Articles

• Digital Media and Social Justice in India: The Revival of Local Journalism via Digital Platforms – Mochish K S & Kunal Ray – Social Scientist, Vol. 53, January-February 2025.


• New-generation Malayalam Cinema – A Decade of Promise – Kunal Ray & Mochish KS – Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 57, Issue 24, 11 June, 2022


• Media, Gender and the Neo-Liberal Indian State – Mochish K S & Kunal Ray - Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue No. 8, 22 Feb, 2020


• Sudeep Sen : The Poet as an Art Seeker – South Asian Review, Routledge, May 9, 2019


• Brining the culture of crafts to education – Art Varta, Issue 1, 2018


• In Conversation with an atypical academic: A Dialogue with Dr. Vrinda Nabar – Langlit, Vol 2. Issue 3, Feb, 2016


• Re-considering Borders in works of Fiction - Chandrani Chatterjee & Kunal Ray – Langlit, Vol 2 Issue 2 Nov, 2015


• In Conversation with Kiran Nagarkar – Kunal Ray & Chandrani Chatterjee – The Literary Herald, Vol 1, Issue 3, Dec 2015

Papers Presented at Conferences

• Reading subaltern histories through Amitav Ghosh’ fiction – 60th All India English Teachers’ Conference, Vijayanagara Sri Krishnadevarayara University, Bellari, Dec 18-20, 2015


• Digital Devices & New Narratives in Bengali Cinema – DIGINAKA : Where the local meets the digital – Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Jan 6-8, 2016


• Amitav Ghosh and the Rewriting of History – First International Conference on Archaeology, History & Culture Studies, Sherubtse College, Royal University of Bhutan, Oct 6-7, 2016


• Portrait of a city through its people – Unravelling 19th Century Calcutta in the fiction of Sunil Gangopadhyay - 17th MELOW International Conference, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala, Mar 9-11, 2018


• Portrait of a city through its people – Unravelling colonial & postcolonial Calcutta in the fiction of Sunil Gangopadhyay - International Convention of Asia Scholars Conference, Leiden University, Netherlands, July 16-19, 2019


• Invited as Resource Person to Sarangdev Samaroh – Seminar on Music & Dance Research held at Mahagami Gurukul, MGM University, Aurangabad, Jan 17-20, 2020


• Invited as Discussant on Writing Dance History Webinar organised by MGM University, Aurangabad, Nov 9, 2020


• Invited Speaker – as part of Two-day Workshop on The Ownership of Public History in India – at FLAME University, Dec 8 & 9, 2022


• Invited speaker – Aisa desh hai mera – Discovering India through/in translation - National Conference on Translation and Pedagogy organised by Dept. of English, Savitribai Phule Pune University in collaboration with the National Translation Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, Feb 1-2, 2023


• Curated and moderated a panel on Art Practices around Land & Development held on Nov 6 at 8th India Land and Development Conference 2024 at FLAME University

Popular Media

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