1. The phenomenon of Fantasy: generic, philosophical and psychological. Especially as it interacts with the Human and is represented in different forms.
2. Speculative Fiction: Science Fiction and Horror Fiction.
3. German phenomenological philosophy from Brentano to Heidegger.  
4. Studies in Pessimism and Nihilism
5. Disability Studies

M.Phil.: Department of English, Delhi University

Masters: Department of English, Delhi University

Graduation: Kirori Mal College, Delhi University

• Assistant Professor (Adhoc) , 07.08.2018 to 23.01.2023 , SGTB Khalsa College
• Assistant Professor , 24.01.2023 to present , SGTB Khalsa College

European Realism, Popular Fiction, 17th Century English Literature, Indian Writing in English, World Literature, Romanticism, India and Women Empowerment, AECC English-A, Creative Writing, Indian Classical Literature, 14th Century British Fiction, Popular Fiction, Translation Studies, 18th Century English Literature, Literary Criticism, 14th to 17th Century British Literature, Film Studies, Early 20th Century English Literature, Literature for Children and Young Adults, Literary Criticism and Theory, 20th Century European Fiction, Literature in Social Spaces, 20th Century British Literature, Modern European Drama, Ecology and Literature, Social and Emotional Learning, 16th-17th Century British Drama,

1. Convener, English Literary Society (August 2018-July 2020)
2. Convener, TEDxSGTBKC (September 2023-Present)
3. Convener, Department of English (April 2024-Present)
4. Co-Convener, Ankur, The Theatre Society of SGTB Khalsa College (March 2023- Present)
5. Co-Convener, Centre for Disability Research and Training, SGTB Khalsa College (March 2023- Present)
6. Co-Convener, Pinhole, The Photography Society of SGTB Khalsa College (September 2024-Present)
7. Co-Convener, Social Media Committee of SGTB Khalsa College (November 2024- Present)

1. Organised the Indian Disability Studies Collective International Conference in 2020, 2021, and 2024.
2. Presented a paper at the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language studies conference 2015 titled ‘There is no place like Home: The Fantasy of ‘Space’ and Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ at BITS Goa.
3. Presented a paper titled ‘Of Animals, Mutants and Humans The Politics of Transformed Identities in The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ at a webinar with the University of Glasgow at ILLL University of Delhi in 2015.
4. Presented a paper at the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language studies conference 2016 titled ‘Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ for a ‘Beat’ America The Controversy and the Hero in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl and Other Poems”’ at Kakatiya University Warrangal
5. Presented a paper titled ‘The Fantasy to Be Time, Free Will and Despair in the Being of the Human’ at a conference at the University of Glasgow in 2016.
6. Presented a paper titled ‘Realism in the Age of Hyper-Real Re-presentation of Reality in American Psycho and The Fight Club at a conference at the University of Glasgow in 2016.
7. Presented a paper titled ‘Being Unto One’ at the JNIAS-IATIS Workshop at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in association with Routledge from the 14th to 16th of September, 2016.
8. Presented a paper at the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language studies conference 2016 titled ‘Fantasizing History I. Allan Seally’s The Trotter-Nama as a Mythology’ at IIT Guwahati.
9. Presented a paper at the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language studies conference 2018 titled ‘“Un-Mute Yourself” Resisting through the Violence of Heavy Metal’ at Aligarh Muslim University.
10. Presented a paper at the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language studies conference 2019 titled ‘The (Post) Truth of Our (Hyper) Real World Re-presenting the Real in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club and Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho’ at Pondicherry University.
11. Conducted a session titled The Uncanny Matter at the Time, Doubt and Wonder workshop organized by the Department of English, University of Delhi.
12. Presented a talk titled ‘The Horror of Matter’ at the Time, Doubt and Wonder workshop organized by the Department of English, University of Delhi
13. Presented a paper titled Snakes for India: The Case of Nagraj and his Friends at the IACLALS Conference 2020 in association with Jadavpur University.

BOOKS:

1. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. Humanity's Strings: Being, Pessimism, and Fantasy. Bloomsbury, 2020. 
2. Battacharjee, Ritwick and Srinjoyee Dutta. What Makes it Pop?: Introduction to Studies in Popular Fiction. Worldview, 2020. 
3. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick and Saikat Ghosh. Horror Fiction in the Global South: Cultures, Narratives, and Representations. Bloomsbury, 2021. 
4. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick, Someshwar Sati, and GJV Prasad. Reclaiming the Disabiled Subject: Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Volume 1). Bloomsbury, 2022.
5. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick and Shweta Khilnani. Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms. Bloomsbury, 2022. 
6. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick and Srinjoyee Dutta. Retemporalising the Cultural in India. Bloomsbury, 2025

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

1. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. "The Politics of Translation: Disability, Language, and the In-Between". In Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience edited by GJV Prasad and Someshwar Sati. Routledge, 2019. 
2. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. "Returning Horror, Re-Visioning Real: Children and Trauma in Grave of the Fireflies". In Childhood Traumas: Narratives and Representations edited by Angelie Multani and Kamyani Kumar. Routledge, 2019.
3. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. "The Operations of Desire: Alice and Fantasy". In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland edited by Anurima Chanda. Worldview, 2020. 
4. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. "Dance Our Way Through Emptiness: An Interview With Vandana Singh". In Imagining Worlds, Mapping Possibilities: Select Science Fiction Stories edited by Sakshi Dogra and Shweta Khilnani. Worldview, 2020. 
5. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. "The In-Between Shakespeare: From A Midsummer Night's Dream to 10 ML Love". In Author to Auteur edited by Jigyasa H Sondhi and Himadri Roy. Worldview, 2020. 
6. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. "The In-Between Shakespeare: From A Midsummer Night's Dream to 10 ML Love". In Author to Auteur edited by Jigyasa H Sondhi and Himadri Roy. Worldview, 2021. 
7. Bhattacharjee, Ritwick. "Misery, Hate, and Death: Antigone and the Balancing Act in Suffering". In Antigone edited by Srinjoyee Dutta and Arnav Gogoi. Worldview, 2023. 

ARTICLES: 

FICTION 

1. Awarded the Prof. Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for the best paper published in the year 2019-2020 for the paper ‘The Politics of Translation: Disability, Language and the Inbetween’ in Disability in Translation: The Indian Experience Ed. GJV Prasad and Someshwar Sati.
2. The edited book Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms has been awarded the best academic book published in 2022 by the Federation of Indian Publishers.
3. Nominated for the CDN Prize for the best paper presented at the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Languages Conference in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2020

1. Life member of the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literatures and Language Studies

2. Treasurer of the Indian Disability Studies Collective.

1. Orientation: FIP organised by GADTLC, SGTB Khalsa College (2020)
2. STP on Research Methodology organised by Goa University (2024)
3. NEP Orientation Program organised by MMTTC, SGTB Khalsa College (2024)