Ddebdatta Chowdhury

Biography

Debdatta Chowdhury did her Bachelor of Arts in History from Presidency College, Kolkata in 2005 and completed her Master of Arts in South and Southeast Asian Studies from University of Calcutta in 2007. Thereafter, she completed her PhD from the University of Westminster London in 2014. Her thesis was titled, ‘Marginal Lives, Peripheral Practices: A Study of Border Narratives Along the West Bengal-Bangladesh Border’. She has been associated as a Guest Faculty in Area Studies and History in University of Calcutta and Diamond Harbour Women’s University respectively. Her research interests include: socio-political and socio-legal study of cartographic borders between states and how diverse identities converge at borderland spaces to form unique narratives.

Research Interest

Study of border narratives from the perspective of subjectivity (including gender, ethnic, religious and caste identities), migration discourses, displacement and resettlement politics and policies, geopolitics, oral histories, narrative theories and feminist discourses