Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities^[1] is an online open access academic e-journal. It features double-blind peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on interdisciplinary areas in humanities. The journal has been in publication since 2009 and its periodicity is quarterly. It has two special issues in January and June. Its ISSN is 0975-2935. The journal has no print version.

The journal's thrust areas are: English Literature, Literature Written in Other Languages, New Literature in English, Indian Writings in English, Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, Cultural Studies, Critical Theories, Aesthetic Studies, Literature and Environment, Visual Arts, Digital Art, Photography, History of Art.

The Journal derives its name from 'rup' (form) and 'katha' (words), which, when combined, mean 'myth' in Bengali. The journal gets its inspiration from the etymology and goes by the principle that anything which has a form, visual or mental, can come under focus.^[2]

Interdisciplinarity

According to Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, the Editor-in-Chief of Rupkatha, "the fundamental idea for interdisciplinarity derives from an evolutionary necessity; namely the need to confront and interpret complex systems. To put it simply this means that [a] the entities that we investigate within the environment of contemporary science are perceived to be more like organic or inter-related complexes. The entity that is studied [say like one from logistics, or psychiatry, or dietary cuisine, for examples] can no longer be analyzed in terms of an object of 'biology' or 'chemistry', but as a contending hierarchy of components which could be studied under the rubric of multiple or variable branches of knowledge." ^[3]

Team

• Editor-in-Chief: Tirtha Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Reader in English, Department of English Language & Literature, University of Calcutta, West Bengal, India.
• Editor and Site Administrator: Tarun Tapas Mukherjee, Assistant Professor & Head, Department of English, Bhatter College, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India.
• Publisher: Sreecheta Mukherjee, 36/5, Baghajatin Road, Kolkata 700036, India. Email: sreecheta1980[AT]gmail.com
• Art Editor: Reynaldo Thompson, Professor, School of Digital Arts, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico.
• Assistant Art Editor: Israel Lopez Ramirez, School of Digital Arts, Universidad de Guanajuato.
• Advisory Board
  • Anne M. Mabry, Associate Professor & Coordinator, ESL Program, New Jersey City University, United States.
  • Basudeb Chakraborti, Professor of English, Department of English, Formerly Dean, the Faculty of Arts and Commerce, University of Kalyani, India.
  • K. Satchidanandan, Former Professor of English at Christ College, Calicut University and former Secretary, Sahitya Akademi (Delhi), poet, critic, editor and translator.
  • Sanjukta Dasgupta, Professor, Department of English Language & Literature, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University, India.
  • Sudeshna Mukherjee, Assistant Professor,Department of Women Studies, University of Bangalore, Jnana Bharathi Campus, Bangalore-560056, India.

Reviewers

• Amrit Sen, Reader in English, Department of English & Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India.
• Anita Singh, Professor in English, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India.
• Asha Choubey, Head & Reader in English, Dept. of Humanities IET, MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India.
• Ashes Gupta, Reader, Department of English, Tripura University, (A Central University), Suryamaninagar, Tripura, India.
• Carolyn Horton Harford, Professor, Department of African Languages and Literature, University of Swaziland, Swaziland.
• Fatima Fernandez Morales, Independent writer, Guanajuato, México.
• Himadri Lahiri, Reader, Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India.
• Indrani Datta (Chaudhuri), Lecturer, Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India.
• Indranil Acharya, Lecturer Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India.
• James B. Kelley, Associate Professor of English, Division of Arts & Sciences, Mississippi State University – Meridian, USA.
• Linda Belau, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Texas-Pan American, USA.
• Punyashree Panda, Assistant Professor in English, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
• Sajal Kr Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, West Bengal, India.
• Vibha Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, India.
• Vicky Sue Gilpin, Adjunct Faculty, Millikin University,USA.

Archives

Rupkatha Journal is archived at the journal's website, and its copies are also archived by Archive-It^[4] and Bibliotheca Alexandrina^[5] in the USA and Egypt for averting server mishap while providing researchers, scholars, academicians, historians, etc. free and permanent access to the digital contents of the journal. The journal can also be subscribed from the Internet Archive.

The contents of the journal are regularly indexed by Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com>.

The journal has been included in internet directories such as:

• DOAJ^[6] – Directory of Open Access Journal <http://www.doaj.org>
• J-Gate <http://jgate.in>
• ourGlocal ^[7] <http://www.ourglocal.com/journal/>
• JournalSeek^[8] <http://www.journalseek.net>
• ResearchGate <http://www.researchgate.net>
• Ulrichs Web Global Serials Directory <http://www.ulrichsweb.com>
• Universia Biblioteca.Net <http://biblioteca.universia.net>

The journal has been included in the digital libraries of the following universities:

• University of Rochester
• University of Nevada, Reno
• José State University
• Utrecht University
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel
• University of Queensland
• University of Tsukuba
• Instituto Cervantes and the Ministry of Culture
• York University, Toronto
• George Town University
• Wittenberg University, Ohio
• National Ilan University, Taiwan

References