Rituparna teaches English and Communication Studies at Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata. She is a research scholar at IIIT Bhubaneswar. Her academic interests include gender, urban and mobility studies, precarity studies, food and memory studies. She has academic publications in Brill Rodopi and Routledge. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a multilingual translator, her debut translation from Sakyajit Bhattacharya’s Ekanore, The One-Legged was shortlisted for the JCB Prize in Literature 2024 and won the Kala Literature Awards 2025. An avid gardener, she loves reading and travelling as often as she can.