Amitava Chakraborty
Associate Professor
Modern Indian Languages and Literary Studies
University of Delhi
India
Biography
Ph.D. Assam University 2003 Thesis topic: Postmodernism and Uttaradhunikata in Bengali Literature and Thought: A Critical Study M.phil Assam University 1999 Subjects: Cultural Studies Thesis topic: High Culture and the Popular Space in Bengali Marxists’ Thought: Reconsideration from the Perspective of Contemporary theories of Popular Culture M.A. Assam University 1997 Subject: Bengali
Research Interest
My research interests include literary and cultural theory, historiography of Indian literatures, North Eastern Literatures, Globalization, and, history of Rhetoric. I am especially interested in understanding comparatively the circulation of western theoretical ideas in dependent knowledge-cultures. At present I am doing a comparative analysis of the circulation of Postmodernism in such cultures. I am also interested in the study of Swarajist trends in dependent societies.
