Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Jyotirmaya Tripathy

Professor

  Broad Research Areas

  • Cultural development studies
  • Contemporary India

  Office Location

  • Room no – HSB 332D
  • E-mail: jyotirmaya[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in
  • Phone : +91 (44) 2257 4518
  • ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6387-0001

  Papers in peer-reviewed journals

  • Bonding with the Lord: Jagannath, Popular Culture and Community Formation. Eds. Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Uwe Skoda. New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2020.
  • International Quarterly for Asian Studies 48, Spring 2017. Guest edited by Uwe Skoda & Jyotirmaya Tripathy for the special number on Cultural Elites and Elite Cultures in South Asia. Published by University of Freiburg.
  • Becoming Minority: How Discourses and Policies Produce Minorities in Europe and India. Eds. Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan. New Delhi: Sage, 2014.
  • The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India. Eds. Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan. New Delhi: Routledge, 2013.
  • After Globalization: Essays in Religion, Culture and Identity. Ed. Jyotirmaya Tripathy. New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2007.
  • The Resisting Indian: Native American Experience through Postcolonial Lenses. Jyotirmaya Tripathy. Sarup and Sons: New Delhi, 2008.
  • Abraham Lincoln without Borders: Lincoln’s Legacy outside the United States. Eds. Tripathy, J, S.P. Rath and W.D. Pederson. Pencraft International: New Delhi, 2010.
  • Tripathy, J. & Mohapatra A. “The Making of the Modern Odia Body: Health and Hygiene Discourses in Early 20th century”. The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities. Ed. Scott Slovic et al. Bloomsbury: London, 2022. Pp. 277-292.
  • Tripathy, J. “Guru’s Words: Baba Ramdev and his Communication Strategies”. Dynamics of Speaking and Doing Religion. Eds. Baktygul Tulebaeva & Deepak Kumar Ojha. Tubingen University Press: Tubingen, 2022. Pp. 61-73.
  • Tripathy J. & Skoda, U. “Introduction: Everyday Bonding with Lord Jagannath in and Beyond Odisha”. Bonding with the Lord: Jagannath, Popular Culture and Community Formation. Eds. Jyotirmaya Tripathy & Uwe Skoda. Bloomsbury: New Delhi, 2019. Pp. xv-xxxvii.
  • Tripathy, J. “Becoming Jagannath in Dravidanadu: Kanchi Kaveri Legend and Other Possibilities”. Bonding with the Lord: Jagannath, Popular Culture and Community Formation. Eds. Jyotirmaya Tripathy & Uwe Skoda. Bloomsbury: New Delhi, 2019. Pp. 159-179.
  • Raghavan, A & Tripathy, J. “Corporealizing Cosmopolitanism: The Right of Desire”. Cosmopolitanism and Beyond. Ed. Ananta K. Giri. Springer: New Delhi, 2017. Pp. 233-256.
  • Tripathy, J. “Indian Environmentalism and its Fragments”. Ecoambiguity, Community and Development. Eds. Scot Slovic et al. Lexington Books: Lanham, 2014. Pp. 71-84.
  • Tripathy, J. and Sudarsan P. “Becoming a Minority Category”. Becoming Minority: How Discourses and Policies Produce Minorities in Europe and India. Sage: New Delhi, 2014. Pp. 3-23.
  • Tripathy, J. “Territory and Indian Identity: Postcolonial and Postmodern Perspectives”. India in the Contemporary World. Eds. Jakub Zajaczkowski et al. Routledge: New Delhi. Pp. 64-81.
  • Tripathy, J. and Sudarsan P. “Introduction: Democracy and the Production of Cultural Diversity”. The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India. Eds. Jyotirmaya T. and Sudarsan P. Routledge: New Delhi, Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. Pp. 1-34.
  • Tripathy, J. “Introduction: Theorizing/ Operationalizing Globalization” in Tripathy, J. Ed. After Globalization: Essays in Religion, Culture and Identity. Allied Publishers: New Delhi, 2007. pp. 1-25.
  • Tripathy, J. and Anjali Roy. “Academic Invasion and the Civilizational Frontier: Re-reading Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters”. Stars behind the Clouds. Ed. Syed Mashkoor Alli. Jaipur: Surabhi Publications, 2004. pp. 107-126.
  • Tripathy, J. “In the Dark Night of the Cell: A Psychoanalytic Study of Dharanidhar Sahu’s House of Serpents”. Stars behind the Clouds. Ed. Syed Mashkoor Alli. Jaipur: Surabhi Publications, 2004. pp. 28-43.
  • Tripathy, J. “Cultural Contestation in Australian Aborigine Women Autobiographies”. Studies in Commonwealth Literature. Ed. Mohit K. Ray. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 2003.pp. 168-180.
  • Tripathy, J. and Anjali Roy. “Return of the Referent: Nature as Subject in Ruby Slipperjack’s Honour the Sun and Silent Words”. Beyond Resistance: Critical Essays on Canadian First Nations Writing. Ed. M. Dasan. Calicut: University of Calicut Press, 2003. pp. 261-280.
  • Completed Inter-disciplinary Bridges in Indo-European Studies (IBIES), a research initiative (2013-2016) by Erasmus Mundus Programme of the European Union (with Sudarsan Padmanabhan).
  • Completed January 2010-2011 Prestigious European Commission project for Establishing Contemporary EU Study Centres in India in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras (with Sudarsan Padmanabhan).
  • Completed a research project The other Side of Gender sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi in 2012.
  • Completed a research project The Colony before Raj: Problematizing the Myth of Indian Colonial History sponsored by IC & SR, IIT Madras in 2009.
  • Organized a three-day seminar After Globalization sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi in 2007.
  • Completed a minor research project Heterosexuality and Power play sponsored by UGC, Kolkata in 2004.