Titas De Sarkar

Titas
Cohort Year: 2017
Advisor(s): Dipesh Chakrabarty
Research Interests: Youth Culture, Postcolonialism, Cultural Studies, Politics of representation.
Education: M.A., Jadavpur University, 2012. M.Phil., Jadavpur University, 2014. Affiliated with the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University as a Ph.D. student – 2015-2017.

Biography

Titas De Sarkar is a Doctoral candidate working under the supervision of Professor Rochona Majumdar and Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty. He focuses on postcolonial representations of youth culture in Calcutta vis-à-vis contemporary global youth cultures. He looks across artforms and tries to understand how the ‘youth’ is constructed through prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Research Interests

Youth Culture, Postcolonialism, Cultural Studies, Politics of representation.

Workshops

Co-organizer of the Sixteenth South Asian Graduate Student Conference, held on March 8-9. 2019.

Teaching Experience

Writing Instructor, Language and the Human – I, Fall 2019

Writing Instructor, Media Aesthetics, Winter 2020

Education

M.A., Jadavpur University, 2012.

M.Phil., Jadavpur University, 2014.

Affiliated with the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University as a Ph.D. student – 2015-2017.