Biography
Titas Bose is a PhD student at the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Combining methods of book history, literary analysis, and culture studies, she is interested in the formal, pedagogic and aesthetic ways in which the modern category of the child reader is crafted by children’s periodicals in late colonial India. Her work outside the academy is informed by her role as co-founder of the Association of Children’s Literature in South Asia, a website that curates resources, publishes book reviews and author interviews, and works towards creating a community of children’s literature scholars from South Asia.
She is a winner of the SHARP BIPOC grant for the year 2025.
She has been recognized as an inaugural Nicholson Fellow from the academic year 2025-26.
Her recent article "Reading the Nation and the World: The Political Child in Bengali Children’s Periodicals, 1883 -1947" drawn from her doctoral project is forthcoming in the Children's Literature Association Quarterly.
Teaching Experience
2026 Independent Course Instructor: “The Child in South Asia,” Winter 2026
2024 Teaching Assistant in Civilizations Core: “South Asian Civilizations,” Spring 2024
2023 Writing Intern in Humanities Core: “Readings in World Literature,” Winter 2023
2022 Teaching Assistant in Bangla First and Second Year, Autumn 2022
2019-2020 Critical Writing Preceptor (Young India Fellowship), Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana.
Workshops and Presentations
- Presented a Paper titled “Naughty Pranks, Transgressive Gazes: Reading the Mischievous Child in Post-Independent Bengali Children’s Literature” at an International Workshop titled “Literature in a Globalised World”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, February 24-25, 2020.
- Presented a Paper titled “The Silent Unruly Child and the Silencing Adult: Reading Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Bolai’” at the 24th Biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, held at Stockholm City Conference Centre, Stockholm, 14th-18th August, 2019.
- Presented a Paper titled “A Hunt for the Implied Child Reader: a Question of Method in Bengali folktales for Children” at Sociocultural Dimensions of Childhood, International Conference at The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia(Bulgaria), 26th-28th October, 2018.
- Presented a paper titled “Utterly-Butterly-How-Much-Indianly: Reading the Amul Girl of India” at Visual South Asia Conference, University of Dhaka, 10-11th May, 2017.
- Presented a Paper titled “Bengali Folktales: Narratives of an Exclusive Nation” at Researchers’ at Work Conference, University of Hyderabad, 28th - 30th September, 2016.
Teaching Experience
- Middle School English Teacher at Cambridge School, Sriniwaspuri, New Delhi (2017-2018)
- Critical Writing Preceptor at Ashoka University, Sonipat, India(2019-2020)
Research Interests
Children's Literature, Periodical Studies, Book History, Childhood Studies, Empire Studies
Education
MPhil., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2018
M.A., University of Delhi, 2016
B.A.,Presidency University, Kolkata, 2014