Dasgupta, Sayantani
Associate Professor
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Dasgupta, Sayantani
Associate Professor
Positions
- Associate Professor, Creative Writing , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts
Publications
Selected Publications
Academic Article
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| 2019-11-01 | This or That: What a Silly Game with My Grandfather Taught Me about Life.
Salt Magazine.
2019-11-01
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| 2019-09-01 | A Café of One’s Own.
Idaho Magazine.
2019-09-01
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| 2016-01-01 | My Grandfather’s Red Chair.
WINNER Dukool magazine’s 2016 Creative Nonfiction Contest.
2016-01-01
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| 2015-03-01 | Geographies.
Contrary Magazine.
2015-03-01
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Article
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| 2020-06-01 | Radha -- Ekphrastic Writing: A Guide to Visual-Art-Influenced Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction.
McFarland.
2020-06-01
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Book
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| 2021-03-01 | Women Who Misbehave.
Penguin Random House.
2021-03-01
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| 2016-07-01 | The House of Nails: Memories of a New Delhi Childhood.
Red Bird Press.
2016-07-01
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| 2016-06-01 | Fire Girl: Essays on India, America, and the In-Between.
Two Sylvias Press.
2016-06-01
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Document
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| 2021-04-01 | I Write To Invent, To Create, But I Also Write So I Can Understand Myself.
SheThePeople.
2021-04-01
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| 2021-03-01 | Shaaji and Satnam (Reprint).
Scroll.
2021-03-01
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| 2021-01-01 | On Kehinde Wiley’s Judith and Holofernes -- You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art.
North Carolina Museum of Art.
2021-01-01
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| 2021-01-01 | Rinse, Repeat.
Chautauqua.
2021-01-01
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| 2021-01-01 | Tenants.
Hindu Business Line.
2021-01-01
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| 2021-01-01 | The Boys of New Delhi: An Essay in Four Hurts -- A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays.
University of Nebraska Press.
2021-01-01
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| 2020-10-01 | The Church of Santa Maria Nuova (reprint).
The Arkansas International.
2020-10-01
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| 2020-09-01 | On a Sunday Afternoon in Italy.
Sweet.
2020-09-01
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| 2020-09-01 | Three Gazes of Attention.
Pangyrus.
2020-09-01
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| 2020-01-01 | On a Sunday Afternoon in Italy (Reprint).
Creative Nonfiction.
2020-01-01
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| 2020-01-01 | The Party.
Southern Humanities Review.
2020-01-01
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| 2019-07-01 | 40 Till I Die.
Arre.
2019-07-01
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| 2019-07-01 | Fowl/Foul.
Tiny Essays.
2019-07-01
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| 2018-12-01 | Notes on a Day Job, or, How to be an Adjunct Professor.
Blood Orange Review.
2018-12-01
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| 2018-11-01 | Why Writers Should Eavesdrop.
Scroll.
2018-11-01
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| 2018-10-01 | Goopy Bagha’s Betrayal: The Unmaking of a Childhood.
Economic and Political Weekly.
2018-10-01
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| 2018-07-01 | How to be a Writer.
Scroll.
2018-07-01
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| 2018-06-01 | Valentine’s Day: A 14-Point Meditation on Love and Other Fiery Monsters.
Hunger Mountain.
2018-06-01
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| 2017-10-01 | American Classroom.
Bellingham Review.
2017-10-01
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| 2017-10-01 | Chernobyl.
Bellingham Review.
2017-10-01
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| 2017-07-01 | The Church of Santa Maria Nuova.
Viterbo Sketchbook.
2017-07-01
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| 2016-12-01 | The Butcher Shop of New Delhi.
Chicago Quarterly Review.
2016-12-01
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| 2016-10-01 | Goddesses (Reprint).
India International Quarterly.
2016-10-01
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| 2016-10-01 | Knots -- First-Love Contest.
Juggernaut Books, India.
2016-10-01
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| 2016-08-01 | A Love Letter to Banned Books.
The Hindu.
2016-08-01
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| 2016-08-01 | Numbers.
Red Bird Weekly Read.
2016-08-01
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| 2016-05-01 | Goddesses.
The Rumpus.
2016-05-01
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| 2015-10-01 | Shaaji and Satnam.
Dukool.
2015-10-01
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| 2015-06-01 | On Loving Captain Nemo.
Drunken Odyssey.
2015-06-01
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| 2015-06-01 | This Eden.
The Vignette Review.
2015-06-01
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| 2015-04-01 | Tigers, Snakes and Monkey Brains: How to Write about India if You’re a Tourist.
DailyO.
2015-04-01
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| 2015-03-01 | Gabriella.
Black Denim Lit.
2015-03-01
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| 2014-09-01 | Armor.
Yellow Medicine Review.
2014-09-01
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| 2014-09-01 | On Collecting Stories.
Yellow Medicine Review.
2014-09-01
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| 2014-05-01 | Oscillation.
Phoebe.
2014-05-01
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| 2013-05-01 | Another Life.
Sugar Mule South Asia Special Edition.
2013-05-01
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Newspaper
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| 2020-06-01 | Chain Reactions -- Write India Season 3.
The Times of India.
2020-06-01
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Presentations
- Reading with poets, Auntie’s Bookstore 2021-06-01
- Speech on the occasion of the BFA and MFA graduation ceremony 2021-05-07
- Guest lecture in ENGL 318, the University of Idaho 2021-04-22
- Interview with Subh Dasgupta for Read it Right, Interview with Subh Dasgupta for Read it Right 2021-04-17
- Guest lecture in Prof. David Gessner’s class CRW 583: The Writing Life 2021-04-13
- How Diary Writing & Journaling Shape You as a Writer, SheThePeople TV’s Women Writers’ Fest 2021-03-20
- Panel Discussion to celebrate the launch of my book Women Who Misbehave, Twitter Live Event 2021-03-08
- Guest lecture in Prof. Wendy Brenner’s class CRW 201: Intro to Creative Writing 2021-03-02
- Guest lecture in Prof. Michael Ramos’ class CRW 321 2020-03-31
- Reading at the AWP Offsite Event, The Bellingham Review, Sweet, and Speculative Nonfiction 2020-03-07
- Teaching Global Literature in the Contemporary Creative Writing Classroom, AWP Conference 2020-03-07
- Reading & Q&A with Melody Moezzi, International Writers’ Panel, organized by the International Faculty and Staff Association (IFSA) 2020-02-12
- Reading and guest lecture in Prof. Mark Cox’s class FNA 102 “Explorations in the Creative Process,” 2020-01-23
- Guest lecture in Dr. Melissa Crowe’s class CRW 503 “Creative Writing Pedagogy” 2019-10-16
- Reading and guest lecture in Kate Barber’s course CRW 201 “Introduction to Creative Writing,” 2019-09-26
- Reading at the AWP off-site event, Blood Orange Review, Willow Springs Magazine, and Crab Creek Review 2019-03-30
- The Most Versatile Essay: Flash Nonfiction, AWP 2019-03-30
- Stories of Your Life: How & Why to Write a Memoir, OSHER Institute’s Women on Wednesdays series at the Cameron Art Museum 2019-03-06
- Reading at Lumina Theater, Writers’ Week 2018-10-31
- Writing Micro Stories & Essays: A Generative Workshop, Writing Micro Stories & Essays: A Generative Workshop 2018-06-01
- Reading at Bloom, Moscow, Idaho, for the “Flight of Writers” fundraising for Fugue event, Fugue 2018-04-28
- More than Just Location: A Generative Workshop on Sacred & Profane Spaces, More than Just Location: A Generative Workshop on Sacred & Profane Spaces 2018-03-01
- Reading Monarch Motel, 8th iteration of Pop-Up Prose 2018-02-07
- Reading and guest lecture in Mark Cox’s course “Explorations in the Creative Process” 2018-01-24
- Progress Review Writing Workshop at Shikshantar School, Progress Review Writing Workshop at Shikshantar School 2017-12-26
- Young Writers Workshop, Gurgaon, India, Young Writers Workshop 2017-12-03
- Wandering Curiosity—A Travel Writing Workshop, Wandering Curiosity—A Travel Writing Workshop 2017-11-25
- Flash Nonfiction: Writing Memoir in 750 Words or Less., Las Dos Brujas Conference 2017-08-07
- Reading at Adobe Books, Adobe Books 2017-08-06
- A Love Letter to Discipline, Centrum Port Townsend Writers Conference 2017-07-18
- Essays, Everyday Ordinariness & the Evil Eye, Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series 2017-05-09
- To Italy & Beyond: A Course on Travel Writing, University of Tuscia 2017-05-01
- Reading at Shakespeare & Co., Shakespeare & Co. 2017-04-29
- In the Land of Water, Myths, Fairy Tales & You: Using Ancient Stories to Write Contemporary Nonfiction 2017-04-10
- Reading at Well-Read Moose, Well-Read Moose 2017-03-31
- Reading at Elliot Bay Book Company, Elliot Bay Book Company 2017-03-26
- Reading at the Sneak Peek Event, Sneak Peek Event, Hemingway Festival 2017-03-03
- Craft Talk, Q&A, and Reading for the Living Writers Series, Laurie Okuma Memorial Reading 2016-11-09
- Reading at BookPeople of Moscow, BookPeople of Moscow 2016-09-27
- Green Chilies & Lime: A Homage to Essays, Everyday Ordinariness and the Evil Eye, Centrum-Port Townsend Writers Conference 2016-07-17
- Fairy Tales, Folklore & You, BookPeople of Moscow 2016-03-26
- Ancient Fairy Tales for Contemporary Memoir, The Writers’ Workshoppe 2016-03-12
- Generative Workshop for the Seattle Writers Initiative, the Seattle Writers Initiative 2015-11-07
- Generative Workshop for the Kahini New Delhi Young Writers Conference, Kahini New Delhi Young Writers Conference 2015-08-04
- Stories & Storytellers, Kahini New Delhi Writers Conference 2015-06-25
- Reading for the launch of Yellow Medicine Review at BookPeople of Moscow, BookPeople of Moscow 2014-11-07
- Reading at the Centrum Port Townsend Writers Conference, Centrum Port Townsend Writers Conference 2014-07-19
- Fairy Tales, Folklore & You, Cabin Fever Writing Workshop for McCall Arts & Humanities Council 2014-04-05
- Sacred Journeys: Five New Ideas for Spiritual Essays, The Writers’ Workshoppe 2014-03-22
- Reading for the Visiting Writers Series, Northwind Arts Center 2014-03-20