Graduate Students
Tancredi Padova
Research Interests:
Pre-modern South Asia's cultures, comparative literatures and intellectual history; Sanskrit language, linguistics and paleography; Carnatic music and ethnomusicology; Arabic, Persian and Chinese translations to and from Sanskrit.
Sthira Bhattacharya
Research Interests:
South Asian print cultures; caste in colonial India; Hindi public sphere; genres, affect, and community formation
Cohort Year:
2019
Arjun Bhattacharya
Research Interests:
Rajput identity, status, ethnogenesis, early-modern northern India, literary cultures and practices, knowledge production, multilingualism, materiality of the archive, multiple communities of reception and interpretation/literary communities
Cohort Year:
2020
Titas Bose
Research Interests:
Children's Literature in a South Asian Context, Childhood Studies, Postcolonial Studies of History, Folklore and Oral Literatures, Storytelling, Multilingual Education, Parallel Childhoods in the Global South, Dalit, Adivasi and Muslim Childhoods
Cohort Year:
2020
Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam Chappangan
Research Interests:
Indian Ocean History, History of Sound, Sufism in South Asia, Arabi-Malayāḷam and Arabu-Tamil Literary History, Early Modern Malabar and Ma’bar.
Cohort Year:
2021
Ahona Das
Research Interests:
South Asian Girlhoods, Girlhood Studies, Childhood Studies, Graphic Novels & Visual Culture, Children's & YA Lit., Bildungsroman, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Post-colonial studies, Marginal & Global Childhoods, Fairy Tales/Folklore/Storytelling.
Cohort Year:
2022
Amreeta Das
Research Interests:
Empire, State-formation, Marxism, Development, Colonial India, 18th century Literature and Culture, Political Economy, Colonial Bengal, Global History, Labour History
Cohort Year:
2024
Mercy Dutta
Research Interests:
history of affect and emotions, social and cultural history of early south Asia, aesthetics, dramaturgy, medieval Assamese literature, medieval vaisnavism, sensorium and the senses
Cohort Year:
2023
Aishwarya Kothare
She/They
Research Interests:
Literary traditions in pre-modern India. Social and cultural histories. Female sexuality in the early Indian context. Kinship and household. Perceptions of love and courtship.
Daniel Lapinski
Research Interests:
Northeastern India, Meitei language and literature, modern South Asian history, language politics and policy, history of linguistics.
Cohort Year:
2021
Kartik Maini
they/them/theirs
Research Interests:
Asceticism & South Asian religions; social & intellectual history; philosophy in Sanskrit/Persian & the vernaculars; Indian Ocean history; queer studies; philology & book history
Cohort Year:
2020
Ravi Prakash
Research Interests:
History and Historiography of Hindi Literature, Sanskrit and Vernacular Poetics, Materiality and Circulation of texts, Literary Theory.
Cohort Year:
2022
Sohini Sengupta
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Literature and urbanity in South Asia, vernacular life writings and travel literature, 19th and 20th century Bengal, colonial mobilities, everyday history, sensory history and history of emotion
Cohort Year:
2024
Phillip Sergio
Research Interests:
Sanskrit, North Indian vernaculars, Indo-Persian, philology, intellectual and literary history
Cohort Year:
2020
Kanika Singh Sisodia
Research Interests:
Rajput history, the colonial and post-colonial history of South Asia, book history, history of Hindi literature, and Chāyāvād in Hindi literature.
Cohort Year:
2021
Yingxin Zhang
Research Interests:
premodern South Asia; Hindi, Sanskrit and Tamil language and literature; comparative literature; epigraphy; literary translation; philology
Cohort Year:
2023