Dr. Namrata Pathak is an academic, critic and writer. She has been a recipient of FCT Library Fellowship and UGC-Associateship by IIAS, Shimla. She has six books to her credit, and her latest books are- Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond (Routledge, 2022), A Reader on Arun Sarma (Sahitya Akademi, 2024), and Queer Intersectionality: Voices, Struggles, and Identities in South Asia (Routledge, 2026). She was a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at SOAS-University of London, 2022-2023. She is featured in prestigious anthologies like Riverside Stories: Writings from Assam (2024), the anthology from Assam published by Zubaan; The Greatest Stories from the Northeast Ever Told (2025) published by Aleph; and international platforms like Mukoli Magazine (2023) of Kennesaw State University, USA. She is also featured in Muse India (2024) special issue on Literature from the Northeast; the Sangam House Monsoon Issue: A Special on Poetry from North East, July, 2019 curated by Nitoo Das; Year Book of Indian Poetry published by Pippa Rann Books, UK. She is invited to deliver talks and participate in panels at SOAS, University of London; Spelman College, USA; University of Stirling, Scotland; University of Kent, UK; University of Melbourne, Australia; Imperial College, London to name a few.

Publications

Books: 

1. Trends in Contemporary Assamese Theatre. Bloomington: Partridge, 2015.
2. Women’s Writing from North East India. MRB: Guwahati, 2017. 
3. Indira Goswami: Margins and Beyond. New York and London: Routledge, 2022.
4. A Reader on Arun Sarma. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, 2024.
5. Performing Arun Sarma: Theatricality, Transgression, Transformation. UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2024.
6. Queer Intersectionalities: Voices, Struggles, and Identities in South Asia. New York and London: Routledge, 2026. (The Introduction to the book is recently included in the syllabus of Spelman College, USA, in a Course titled Empire, Race and Sex).

Five Best Publications (Book Chapters):

1. Pathak, Namrata. “Pedagogy, Performance and Transgression: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.” English Teachers’ Accounts, edited by Nandana Dutta, Routledge, 2022.
2. Pathak, Namrata. “Dynamics of Popular Culture: Jatra in Assam.” Cultural Forms and Practices in Northeast India, edited by K.C. Baral, Springer, 2023.
3. Pathak, Namrata. “Cultural Practices and Indigenous Traditions of the Garo and Bodo: Reinterpreting ‘Man-Nature’ Convergences in Wangala and Bathou.” Environmental Humanities in India, edited by Debajyoti Biswas and John C, Ryan, Springer, 2024.
4. Pathak, Namrata. “Disability and “The Body Politic”: Rereading Embodiments of Depravity in Khasi and Garo Folklore.” Disability and Peripherality Perspectives and Narratives from India’s North East, edited by Pankaj J. Gogoi and Debajyoti Biswas, Springer, 2024.
5. Pathak, Namrata. “Colonial Modernity and the Politics of Translation in 19th Century Assam: Exploring European Embodiments in Assamese Literary Movements” in Travelling Texts: Translating Nineteenth Century European Classics in Vernacular languages of South Asia, edited by Shantanu Majee and K Subramanyam, Routledge, 2026.

Best Publications in Journal:

1. Pathak, Namrata. “Under the Canopy of Sal Trees: A New Vocabulary of Performance in Sukracharya Rabha’s Minimal Theatre.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, Vol 14, 2022. (Scopus Indexed)
2. Pathak, Namrata. “Of ‘in-between’ Spaces and Varied Transgressions: Reinterpreting Women-Nature Relationships in Temsula Ao’s Writings.” Srotaswini: A Peer Reviewed Biennial Bilingual Research Journal of J.B. College, Jorhat, Vol VI, 2023, pp. 164-171. (UGC Care listed)
3. Pathak, Namrata. “Female ‘Alterity’ and the Non-Human: The Transformative Significance of ‘Laughter’ and ‘Leisure’ in Nitoo Das’ “Jokhini”.” Drishti: The Sight, Vol X, 2022, pp. 79-83. (UGC Care Listed)
4. Pathak, Namrata. “The Politics of Rhetorics: Remembering and Renarrating “Bodily Resistances” in Rabijita Gogoi’s Plays.”  Indian Theater Journal The Journal of Indian Performance Knowledge, Vol 2, USA, Intellect, 2018. (Scopus Indexed)
5. Pathak, Namrata. “"Death" and "Violence" in Mitra Phukan's Writings: Unraveling an Aesthetics of Pain in Hope and The Collector's Wife.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies (DUJES), Vol 26, pp. 1-12, 2018. (UGC Care Listed)
6. Pathak, Namrata. “The Body in the Margins: A Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable.” Dibrugarh University Journal of English Studies, DUJES (ISSN 0975-5659). (UGC-Care Listed)
7. Pathak, Namrata. “Plays of Ratan Thiyam and H. Kanhailal: Some Critical Thoughts.” Drishti: The Sight, pp. 12-19. (UGC-Care Listed)
8. Pathak, Namrata. “Paranoia by Hemant Divate, Muntasir Dalve, Review). Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi. Vol 69, No. 3, pp.196-98, 2024. (UGC Care Listed)
9. Pathak, Namrata. “Interrogating "Walling": Liminality and Spaces of Transition in Easterine Kire's Spirit Nights.”
10. N Pathak. Drishti: The Sight 14 (II), pp.  94-98, 2025. (UGC Care Listed)
11. Pathak, Namrata. “Necropolitics and Women’s Experience: Reading Select Assamese Narratives in Aruni Kashyap’s How to Tell the Stories of An Insurgency.” Anvesan, Peer-Reviewed Journal of the Deptt. of Assamese, Gauhati University, Vol XVII, pp. 186-197, 2025-26. (UGC Care Listed)
12. Pathak, Namrata. Empire’s backyard: colonial modernity and Northeast India-Review. Global South Literary Studies, 1 (3), London and New York, Routledge, 2026. (Scopus indexed)

Awards and Honours:

1. Selected for the award for Associateship of the UGC Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences (IUC) for the year, 2018, at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
2. Selected for Charles Wallace Fellowship at SOAS_University of London for the year 2022-23. As a CWIT Fellow, spent three months at SOAS_University of London.
3. Selected for an internship programme offered by the software giant Google Asia Ltd. (2006-07) and undergone a rigorous training on English language, HR skills and Training at Hyderabad for two months.
4. Awarded the library fellowship offered by the Forum of Contemporary Theory (FCT), Baroda for the year 2007.
5. Secured First Class 2^nd position in MA, English, from Gauhati University; M.Phil and PhD with Distinction from EFLU, Hyderabad.

Projects:

The Emergence of Bhaona in the Popular Culture of Assam: Understanding its Transition from the ‘Sacred’ to the ‘Profane’ (ICSSR, New Delhi, Minor, Completed in 2024); Project on Cultures of Peace: Festival of the Northeast (Zubaan, New Delhi); Two Translation Projects etc.