Graduate Students
Eduardo Acosta
Research Interests:
Medievalism, Environmental and Spatial History, premodern Bangla and Sanskrit literature, Periodization and temporalities
Cohort Year:
2015
Talia Ariav
Research Interests:
South Asian Literary and Intellectual History, Comparative Literature, Philology.
Cohort Year:
2015
Simon Balderas Creek
Research Interests:
Sanskrit poetics, philosophy of language, comparative literature, Sanskrit poetry, rasa and dhvani theories
Cohort Year:
2017
Sthira Bhattacharya
Research Interests:
Late 19th-early 20th century Bihar (India); Hindi-Urdu cultural spheres; social history; cultural studies; book history
Cohort Year:
2019
Abhishek Bhattacharyya
Research Interests:
Cultural translation; Marxist, Dalit, Adivasi and Feminist movements; Radical Literatures and Performances; Borderlands
Cohort Year:
2013
Jo Brill
Research Interests:
Vyākaraṇa, grammar, paribhāṣā and metarule literature, morphology, historical linguistics, grammar.
Cohort Year:
2014
Ishan Chakrabarti
Research Interests:
Asceticism/mysticism/monasticism, pre-colonial Southern Asia, Bengal, Sanskrit, Bangla, Hindi
Cohort Year:
2010
Abhimanyu Chandra
Research Interests:
20th century communalism, political conflict and violence in modern India, Hindi, Urdu
Cohort Year:
2017
Supurna Dasgupta
Research Interests:
Modern South Asia, Postcolonialism, Comparative Literature, Global Modernism and Marxism, Literary theory and Print History, Translation, World Feminisms.
Cohort Year:
2016
Titas De Sarkar
Research Interests:
Youth Culture, Postcolonialism, Cultural Studies, Politics of representation.
Cohort Year:
2017
Ronit Ghosh
Research Interests:
Study: Bengali studies, Indian film and media cultures, sound studies, media/critical theory, popular music studies
Cohort Year:
2018
Eric Gurevitch
Graduate Student
Research Interests:
History of science, historical epistemology, information management, medieval South Asia
Cohort Year:
2015
Andrew Halladay
Research Interests:
Literary landscapes, print culture of late-colonial India, and sociopolitical issues.
Julie Hanlon
Research Interests:
socio-economic interactions between the Jain monastic communities and early polities of Tamil Nadu and Kerala during the Early Historic Period (c. 500 BCE - 500 CE)
Nell Shapiro Hawley
Research Interests:
Sanskrit poetry, theater, literary theory and performance studies.
Cohort Year:
2013
Zoë Woodbury High
Research Interests:
Early modern South Asia; history of emotions; Persian, Urdu, and Kannada language and literature
Cohort Year:
2017
Malarvizhi Jayanth
Research Interests:
Colonial History, Social Hierarchies, Abolition of Slavery, Tamil, and Malayalam
Cohort Year:
2011
Joya John
Research Interests:
Literary and cultural texts in postcolonial India as responses to modernity, modernization and development, specifically in relation to environmental and ecological discourses.
Emma Kalb
Research Interests:
Mughal History, Islamicate World, Slavery, Gender, and History of Emotions.
Cohort Year:
2012
Ayelet Kotler
Research Interests:
Indo-Persian Literature, History of Translation, South Asian Literary History
Cohort Year:
2016
Daniel Jacobius Morgan
Research Interests:
Interconnections between Shariah-minded legalism and Sufi mysticism in 19th-century North India.
Thomas Newbold
Research Interests:
History of early modern Eastern India and in that of the early Company state.
Sanjukta Poddar
Research Interests:
History of North India, Urban History, Colonial Modernity in South Asia, Hindi-Urdu Literary Modernity, History of Colonization
Cohort Year:
2015
Itamar Ramot
Research Interests:
10th-14th century Sanskrit and Kannada literature, community and identity, translation and circulation, genre, satire
Cohort Year:
2016
Akshara Ravishankar
Research Interests:
Bhagavad Gita, commentarial literature, reception histories, and Sanskrit and Hindi languages.
Cohort Year:
2016
Sharvari Sastry
Research Interests:
Theatre studies, Performance Theory, Modern South Asia, Critical Archival Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Caste, and Urban Studies
Cohort Year:
2014
Margherita Trento
Research Interests:
Early modern South Asia, Tamil literature, history of religions, Indian Ocean history, history of emotions
Cohort Year:
2012