Biography
Ahona is interested in the many intellectual genealogies of philology, histories of political movements, intersections of poetry, aesthetics and politics, censorship in South Asia, and non-Western feminisms. Her dissertation traces an intellectual history of philology in Bengal from the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries, and examines the political relationship between Hindus and Muslims through the language question. Her languages of study include Bengali, Sanskrit, Hindi, and Urdu.