Sayantani DasGupta

Sayantani DasGupta
Sayantani DasGupta
Born	1970 (age 53–54); Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Brown University ; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Official website
Parents	Sujan Dasgupta (father); Shamita Das Dasgupta (mother);
	Scientific career
Fields	Narrative medicine and Public health
Institutions	Sarah Lawrence College; Columbia University

Sayantani DasGupta (Bengali: সায়ন্তনী দাশগুপ্ত, born 1970)^[1] is an American physician and author of Indian (Bengali) heritage.

Early life and education

DasGupta grew up in Ohio and New Jersey and completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University. She obtained her M.D and MPH degrees from Johns Hopkins University.^[2]

Academia

Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, Sayantani now teaches in the Master's Program in Narrative medicine at Columbia University and the Graduate Program in Health Advocacy at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a nationally recognized speaker on issues of gender, race, storytelling, and medical education,^[3] and has been featured on the cover of Ms.,^[4] in O, The Oprah Magazine,^[5] in documentary films^[6] and other media outlets. She is an associate editor of the journal Literature and Medicine.^[7]

Publications

DasGupta has been published widely in academic and literary outlets, and journals including JAMA, The Lancet, Ms., Literary Mama Magazine, and Hunger Mountain. She has written extensively with her activist mother, Shamita Das DasGupta, on mother-daughter experiences.^[8]^[9]^[10]

She is the co-author of a book on Bengali folktales, author of a memoir about her education at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and co-editor of an award winning collection of women's illness narratives.^[11] Her debut middle-grade novel, The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1), came out in February 2018. Her second book, Game of Stars (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #2), published in February, 2019, entered the New York Times Bestseller list in its debut week.^[12]

Bibliography

Children's books

She Persisted: Virginia Apgar (with Chelsea Clinton, illustrated by Alexandra Boiger and Gillian Flint) (2021)

Middle grade books

Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond

The Serpent's Secret (2018)
The Game of Stars (2019)
The Chaos Curse (2020)

The Fire Queen

Force of Fire (2021)
Crown of Flames (2022)

Secrets of the Sky

The Chaos Monster (2023)
The Poison Waves (2023)

Young adult books

Debating Darcy (2022)
Rosewood: A Midsummer Meet Cute (2023)

As a contributor

"Blue" in Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes (2012)
"Daughter of the Sun" in Magic Has No Borders (2023)

Adult books

The Demon Slayers And Other Stories: Bengali Folk Tales (with Shamita Das Dasgupta) (1994)
Her Own Medicine: A Woman's Journey from Student to Doctor (1999)

As a contributor

Speculative Fiction 2013: The Year's Best Online Reviews, Essays and Commentary (2014)
Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India: Outsourcing Life (also editor) (2014)
The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (2016)
Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian American Daughters on Obedience and Rebellion (2017)

As an editor

Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies (2007)

References

^ From:The Family of Women Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, Jones, Carolyn; Lyon, Todd (1999). The Family of Women. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-0-7892-0338-0.
^ "Columbia University, Narrative Medicine Faculty", Sayantani DasGupta
^ "The Healing Power of Story" Archived 2011-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY's ONLINE ARCHIVE OF INNOVATION STORIES
^ Ms Magazine^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Narrative Medicine - Patients Telling Their Stories. Oprah.com.
^ "Latching On" by Katza Esson
^ Literature and Medicine
^ Das Dasgupta, Shamita, ed. (1998). "Sex, Lies, and Women's Lives - An intergenerational dialogue". A Patchwork Shawl:Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. Rutgers University Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0813525181.
^ Shah, Sonia, ed. (1998). "Bringing Up Baby - Raising a 'Third World' Daughter in the 'First World'". Dragon Ladies. South End Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0896085756.
^ Song, Min; Shen Wu, Jean Yu-Wen, eds. (2000). "Women in Exile: Gender Relations in the Asian Indian Community in the United States". Asian American Studies - A Reader. Rutgers University Press. pp. 324. ISBN 0-8135-2726-0.
^ Announcing 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results,
^ New York Times Best Sellers- Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover, March 17, 2019.

[1] From:The Family of Women Archived 2012-02-17 at the Wayback Machine, Jones, Carolyn; Lyon, Todd (1999). The Family of Women. Abbeville Press. ISBN 978-0-7892-0338-0.

[2] "Columbia University, Narrative Medicine Faculty", Sayantani DasGupta

[3] "The Healing Power of Story" Archived 2011-12-02 at the Wayback Machine, BUSINESS INNOVATION FACTORY's ONLINE ARCHIVE OF INNOVATION STORIES

[4] Ms Magazine^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[5] Narrative Medicine - Patients Telling Their Stories. Oprah.com.

[6] "Latching On" by Katza Esson

[7] Literature and Medicine

[8] Das Dasgupta, Shamita, ed. (1998). "Sex, Lies, and Women's Lives - An intergenerational dialogue". A Patchwork Shawl:Chronicles of South Asian Women in America. Rutgers University Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0813525181.

[9] Shah, Sonia, ed. (1998). "Bringing Up Baby - Raising a 'Third World' Daughter in the 'First World'". Dragon Ladies. South End Press. p. 182. ISBN 978-0896085756.

[10] Song, Min; Shen Wu, Jean Yu-Wen, eds. (2000). "Women in Exile: Gender Relations in the Asian Indian Community in the United States". Asian American Studies - A Reader. Rutgers University Press. pp. 324. ISBN 0-8135-2726-0.

[11] Announcing 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results,

[12] New York Times Best Sellers- Children’s Middle Grade Hardcover, March 17, 2019.

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Sayantani DasGupta

Born	1970 (age 53–54) Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	Brown University Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Official website
Parents	Sujan Dasgupta (father) Shamita Das Dasgupta (mother)
Scientific career
Fields	Narrative medicine and Public health
Institutions	Sarah Lawrence College Columbia University