Episode 38: e-lit in India with Samya Brata Roy

This episode features an interview with Samya Brata Roy, now an Assistant Professor of English at Gitam (Deemed-to-be) University Hyderabad, recorded during the 2025 CDN Digital Narrative PhD Summer School. Samya discusses his academic journey and the founding of Electronic Literature India. 

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Electronic Literature Organization. (2006). Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 1.https://collection.eliterature.org/1/

Ensslin, Astrid; Roy, Samya Brata (2024). Electronic Literatures as Post-Comparative Media. https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/55582/

Gallix, Andrew. (2008). Is e-literature just one big anti-climax? https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/ebooks

Hayles, N. Katherine. (2008). Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary. https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268030841/electronic-literature/ 

Menon, Nirmala, and Shanmugapriya T. (2023). First Anthology of Indian Electronic Literature. https://iiti.ac.in/

Pressman, Jessica. (2020). Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/bookishness/9780231195133

Rettberg, Scott. (2004). Wherefore Genre? Grand Text Auto.https://grandtextauto.soe.ucsc.edu/2004/08/20/wherefore-genre/

Rettberg, Scott. (2018). Electronic Literature. 

Roy, Soumyabrata. (2024). Electronic Literatures and Its Impossibilities in India. 

Shafiq, Afrah. (2017). Enter Sultana's Reality. https://afrahshafiq.com/enter-sultanas-reality