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.