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[[File:Sumanyu Satpathy.jpg|thumb|Sumanyu Satpathy at a Sahitya Akademi event, 2024.]]

'''Sumanyu Satpathy''' ({{Langx|or|ସୁମନ୍ୟୁ ଶତପଥୀ}}) is an Indian academic, who has taught at the [[Delhi University|Delhi University, New Delhi]] and [[North-Eastern Hill University|North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong]]. Before taking up his current affiliation at KR Mangalam University as Professor of Eminence, Satpathy was Professor and chair at the Department of English, University of Delhi; Fellow at the [[Indian Institute of Advanced Study|Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Rashtrapati Nivas]], Shimla; and Distinguished Fellow at the Michael J Osborne Institute of Advanced Studies, [[La Trobe University]]. As a visiting professor, he has taught at the University of Granada, Spain; [[Jamia Millia Islamia]], [[Goethe University Frankfurt|Frankfurt University]], Germany; [[University of Exeter|Exeter University]], England and La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia among several others. His notable works include ''Modernity, Print and Sahitya: The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919, Reading Literary Culture: Perspectives from Orissa'' and ''Will to Argue: Studies in Late Colonial and Post-colonial Controversies.''

== Articles ==
Satpathy has contributed many articles to several Indian and International journals and edited volumes. He is a contributor to the highly acclaimed ''Same-sex Love in India''<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-137-05480-7 |title=Same-Sex Love in India |date=2000 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-137-05480-7 |isbn=978-0-312-29324-6 |editor-last1=Vanita |editor-last2=Kidwai |editor-first1=Ruth |editor-first2=Saleem }}</ref> (eds [[Ruth Vanita]] and [[Saleem Kidwai]], [[Palgrave Macmillan|Palgrave]] 2002);<ref>{{Citation |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |title=Kishori Charan Das: "Sarama's Romance" (Oriya) |date=2000 |work=Same-Sex Love in India |pages=298–300 |editor-last=Vanita |editor-first=Ruth |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-349-62183-5_44 |access-date=2024-04-23 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-62183-5_44 |isbn=978-1-349-62185-9 |editor2-last=Kidwai |editor2-first=Saleem|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |title=Jagannath Das (Oriya) |date=2000 |work=Same-Sex Love in India |pages=103–105 |editor-last=Vanita |editor-first=Ruth |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-1-349-62183-5_13 |access-date=2024-04-23 |place=New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-62183-5_13 |isbn=978-1-349-62185-9 |editor2-last=Kidwai |editor2-first=Saleem|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and ''Children’s Literature and the Fin-de-siecle'',<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Congress |first1=International Research Society for Children's Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=399oU9SJupsC |title=Children's Literature and the Fin de Siècle |last2=Literature |first2=International Research Society for Children's |last3=Association (U.S.) |first3=Children's Literature |date=2003-11-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-313-32120-7 |language=en}}</ref> Ed Roderick McGillis. He is the lead writer of the Indian chapter of the multi-volume<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lindseth |first=Jon A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE2DvwEACAAJ |title=Alice in a World of Wonderlands: The Translations of Lewis Carroll's Masterpiece. Essays |date=2015 |publisher=Oak Knoll Press |language=en}}</ref> [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland|Alice in Wonderland]] publication as part of the 150-year celebration of Alice translations curated and edited by [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/L/J/au183751303.html Jon Lindseth] of the [https://www.lewiscarroll.org/ Lewis Carroll Society of North America].

== Books and Anthologies ==
Satpathy has co-edited ''Natabar Samantaray: A Reader'' ([[Sahitya Akademi]], 2017);<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sāmantarāẏa |first=Naṭabara |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S1DPtAEACAAJ |title=Natabara Samantaray: A Reader |date=2017 |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |isbn=978-81-260-5340-7 |language=en}}</ref> ''The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Heyman |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lcur6s36gnEC |title=The Tenth Rasa: An Anthology of Indian Nonsense |date=2007 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-14-310086-7 |language=en}}</ref> ([[Penguin Books|Penguin]], 2007), and ''Signifying the Self: Women and Literature'' (Macmillan, 2 nd Edn. 2019).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lal |first1=Malashri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PFjAAAAMAAJ |title=Signifying the Self: Women and Literature |last2=Panja |first2=Shormishtha |last3=Satpathy |first3=Sumanyu |date=2004 |publisher=Macmillan India |isbn=978-1-4039-2405-6 |language=en}}</ref> In 2007, he edited ''Voyage Out: An Anthology of Oriya Women’s Short Stories'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vmg8PwAACAAJ |title=The Voyage Out: Contemporary Oriya Short Stories by Women |date=2007 |publisher=Rupantar |isbn=978-81-904197-0-3 |language=en}}</ref> (Rupantar, 2007). He co-edited ''Signifying the Self: Women and Literature''<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lal |first1=Malashri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PFjAAAAMAAJ |title=Signifying the Self: Women and Literature |last2=Panja |first2=Shormishtha |last3=Satpathy |first3=Sumanyu |date=2004 |publisher=Macmillan India |isbn=978-1-4039-2405-6 |language=en}}</ref> (Macmillan, 2004), a collection of essays "that explores the multifarious expressions of feminism in India",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Signifying the Self: Women and Literature, Malashri Lal, Sumanyu Satpathy, Shormishtha Panja, Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., 1403924058 |url=https://www.bagchee.com/books/BB50204/signifying-the-self-women-and-literature |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=www.bagchee.com}}</ref> along with Malashri Lal and Shormishtha Panja.

He is also the author of ''Re-viewing Reviewing: The Reception of Modernist Poetry in the Times Literary Supplement'' ''(1912-1932)''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Re-viewing Reviewing: Reception of Modernist Poetry in the "Times Literary Supplement (1912-32) - An Anthology |date=1995-06-01 |publisher=TR Publications |isbn=978-81-85427-61-4 |editor-last=Satpathy |editor-first=Sumanyu |location=Madras |language=English}}</ref> A prolific translator, Satpathy translates from Indian languages, especially from [[Odia language|Odia]], into English.

=== Modernity, Print and ''Sahitya'': The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919 ===
Source:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003431220 |title=Modernity, Print and Sahitya: The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919 |date=2023-09-08 |publisher=Routledge India |isbn=978-1-003-43122-0 |edition=1 |location=London |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781003431220}}</ref>

Satpathy's recent publication ''Modernity, Print and Sahitya: The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919'' ([[Routledge]], 2024) examines how Odia print culture evolved over time, exploring themes such as colonial modernity, linguistic identity, the history of books, canon formation, and emerging aesthetic forms. The book also explores the evolution of Odia literature within the diverse linguistic and territorial landscapes of Eastern India.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Modernity, Print and Sahitya: The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919 |url=https://www.routledge.com/Modernity-Print-and-Sahitya-The-Making-of-a-New-Literary-Culture-1866-1919/Satpathy/p/book/9781032346564 |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Routledge & CRC Press |language=en}}</ref> [[Regenia Gagnier]] commented "Satpathy meticulously traces how ''adhunik'' Odia ''sahitya'' arises from famines and linguistic domination, modern machines and institutions, traditional aesthetic theory and practice, urban and especially rural contexts. Transcultural, decolonizing work at its finest."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003431220 |title=Modernity, Print and Sahitya: The Making of a New Literary Culture, 1866-1919 |date=2023-09-08 |publisher=Routledge India |isbn=978-1-003-43122-0 |edition=1 |location=London |language=en |doi=10.4324/9781003431220}}</ref>

=== Reading Literary Culture: Perspectives from Orissa ===
Source:<ref>{{Cite book |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTmAVrVcJU0C |title=Reading Literary Culture: Perspectives from Orissa |date=2009 |publisher=Rawat Publications |isbn=978-81-316-0222-5 |language=en}}</ref>

Published in 2009, ''Reading Literary Culture: Perspectives from Orissa''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oTmAVrVcJU0C |title=Reading Literary Culture: Perspectives from Orissa |date=2009 |publisher=Rawat Publications |isbn=978-81-316-0222-5 |language=en}}</ref> offers a diverse collection of surveys, introductions, essays, reviews, and interviews, providing insight into key cultural figures, historical moments, and issues in the intriguing Indian region of [[Odisha]]. The book showcases how both traditional and contemporary [[Odia literature]] have been enriched by remarkable voices. It sheds light on the works of influential figures such as [[Sarala Dasa|Sarala Das]], [[Jagannatha Dasa (Odia poet)|Jagannath Das]], [[Fakir Mohan Senapati]], and others, demonstrating their significant cultural impact beyond just Odia or [[Indian literature]], but on a global scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rawat Books |url=https://www.rawatbooks.com/cultural-studies/reading-literary-culture-perspectives-from-orissa |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=www.rawatbooks.com}}</ref>

=== Southern Postcolonialisms ===
Satpathy edited ''Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the 'New' Literary Representations'' ([[Routledge]], 2018), a collection of critical essays on "new literary representations from the Global South that seeks to re-invent/reorient the ideological, disciplinary, aesthetic, and pedagogical thrust of Postcolonial Studies in accordance with the new and shifting politico-economic realities/transactions between the North and the South, as well as within the Global South, in an era of globalization."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the 'New' Literary Representations |url=https://www.routledge.com/Southern-Postcolonialisms-The-Global-South-and-the-New-Literary-Representations/Satpathy/p/book/9781138380301 |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Routledge & CRC Press |language=en}}</ref>

=== Will to Argue: Studies in Late Colonial and Post-colonial Controversies ===
''Will to Argue''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Satpathy |first=Sumanyu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5H6DswEACAAJ |title=Will to Argue: Studies in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Controversies |date=2017 |publisher=Primus Books |isbn=978-93-86552-28-0 |language=en}}</ref> (Primus, 2017) explores the role of controversies in shaping culture, asking whether controversies can be considered a genre and if they offer valuable tools for understanding nationalism and identity formation. The author examines various controversies, ranging from language and khadi to sexuality and authorship, and discusses their impact on both local and national levels during colonial and post-colonial times.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Will to Argue |url=https://primusbooks.com/will-to-argue/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=PrimusBooks |language=en-US}}</ref> By analyzing figures like [[Sarala Dasa|Sarala Das]], [[Radhanath Ray]], [[Rabindranath Tagore|Tagore]], [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]], and [[Premchand]], the book provides insights into how controversies influence cultural imagination and identity construction.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Will to Argue |url=https://primusbooks.com/will-to-argue/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=PrimusBooks |language=en-US}}</ref>

His studies in Odia include, ''Tini Manjika: Eka Odia Nonsense Sankalana'' (Siksha Sandhan,2012); ''Priya JP: Jagannath Prasad Dasanku Chithi'' (Siksha Sandhan, 2012i; ''Bahudha: JP Dasanka Sankhipta Jiban.'' He has translated [[Jagannath Prasad Das|J P Das]]'s collection of nonsense verse into English, ''Nanasense'' (National Book Trust, India, 2014).

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