Graduate Students
Sthira Bhattacharya
Research Interests:
Late 19th-early 20th century Bihar (India); Hindi-Urdu cultural spheres; social history; cultural studies; book history
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
Supurna Dasgupta
Research Interests:
Modern South Asia, Postcolonialism, Comparative Literature, Global Modernism and Marxism, Literary theory and Print History, Translation, World Feminisms.
Cohort Year:
2016
Titas De Sarkar
Research Interests:
Youth Culture, Postcolonialism, Cultural Studies, Politics of representation.
Cohort Year:
2017
Ronit Ghosh
Research Interests:
Study: Bengali studies, Indian film and media cultures, sound studies, media/critical theory, popular music studies
Cohort Year:
2018
Andrew Halladay
Research Interests:
Literary landscapes, print culture of late-colonial India, and sociopolitical issues.
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
Ayelet Kotler
Research Interests:
Indo-Persian Literature, History of Translation, South Asian Literary History
Cohort Year:
2016
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
Research Interests:
Sanskrit knowledge-systems (Vedānta), modern intellectual history and postcolonialism, continental philosophy
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
Taimur Reza
Research Interests:
Bangladesh studies; South Asian Islam; Modern Western Political Thought; South Asian Political Thought.
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