The Department of Modern South Asian Studies warmly welcomes Dr. Sayan Chattopadhyay, who will be with the South Asia Institute until September 2022. Dr. Sayan Chattopadhyay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2014. In 2010-2013, he was awarded the Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship and was a visiting scholar at SAI briefly back in 2017. His research focuses primarily on the English-language literature of India, postcolonial studies, and literature of Bengal in the colonial period. He is the author of the monograph "Being English: Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicization" (Routledge, 2022). While in Heidelberg, Chattopadhyay will teach courses on Indian English fiction, poetry, and autobiography. He will also conduct research on the colonial Indian middle class's engagement with boredom.
Invitation to Lecture: Beyond the Trope of National Homecoming: Indian English Life Writings and the Secret History of Anglicized Self-fashioning.
on April 22, 2022 in room 130.00.03, 2 p.m.