Cohort Year:
2013
Advisor(s):
Rochona Majumdar
Research Interests:
Cultural translation; Marxist, Dalit, Adivasi and Feminist movements; Radical Literatures and Performances; Borderlands
Education:
MPhil., Cambridge, 2012. M.A., University of Chicago, 2015.
Biography
Abhishek is a Joint PhD candidate in Anthropology and SALC. Working with Telugu, Bangla, Hindi and English, his project combines ethnographic and archival research with literary analyses. He is studying the cultural and political consequences of ‘Naxalite’ translations of Marxisms from the late 1960s through the 1990s, as also their exchanges with, and overlaps and divergences from different socio-political movements in South Asia during this period.
Research Interests
Cultural translation; Marxist, Dalit, Adivasi and Feminist movements; Radical Literatures and Performances; Borderlands
Teaching Experience
- Prize Lectureship: “Literary Radicalism and the Global South: Perspectives from South Asia” (SALC, English) Spring 2020
- Teaching Assistant for “Ethnographic Methods” (M.A. Program in the Social Sciences, Morris Fred) Autumn 2019
- Teaching Assistant for “Signs and the State” (Anthropology, John D. Kelly) Spring 2017
- Language Assistant for “Hindi” Spring 2017
- Teaching Assistant for “Introduction to South Asian Civilizations – 2” (SALC, Rochona Majumdar) Spring 2016
Education
MPhil., Cambridge, 2012.
BA, Oxford, 2011.