Graduate Students
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
Titas De Sarkar
Research Interests:
Youth Culture, Postcolonialism, Cultural Studies, Politics of representation.
Cohort Year:
2017
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
Ronit Ghosh
Research Interests:
Study: Bengali studies, Indian film and media cultures, sound studies, media/critical theory, popular music studies
Cohort Year:
2018
Aditya Harchand
Research Interests:
Tamil language and literature, South India and Sri Lanka, poetics and aesthetics, philology, translation, history of religions, Tamil Islam, literary anthropology, sociolinguistics.
Cohort Year:
2022
Zoë Woodbury High
Research Interests:
Early modern South Asia; Indian Ocean history; history of emotions; Persian, Urdu, Sanskrit, and Kannada language and literature.
Cohort Year:
2017
Shariq Khan
Research Interests:
Indo-Persian literary and religious traditions; Islam in South Asia; the relationship between aesthetics and religion; South Asian modernities; postcolonial studies
Cohort Year:
2018
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
Dipanwita Mazumder
Research Interests:
Modern South Asia, Early 20th century Art History, Print History, War advertisements and posters, Social and Cultural History, Second World War, Colonial art history, Politics of representation.
Cohort Year:
2022
Ravi Prakash
Research Interests:
History and Historiography of Hindi Literature, Sanskrit and Vernacular Poetics, Materiality and Circulation of texts, Literary Theory.
Cohort Year:
2022
Itamar Ramot
Research Interests:
10th-14th century Sanskrit and Kannada literature, community and identity, translation and circulation, genre, satire
Cohort Year:
2016
Akshara Ravishankar
Research Interests:
Bhagavad Gita, commentarial literature, reception histories, and Sanskrit and Hindi languages.
Cohort Year:
2016
Phillip Sergio
Research Interests:
Sanskrit, North Indian vernaculars, Indo-Persian, philology, intellectual and literary history
Cohort Year:
2020
Kanika Singh Sisodia
Research Interests:
Post-colonial Indian history; Rajput history; Mughal-Rajput relations; Religious nationalism; Linguistic history of Hindi and 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