Biography

Avishek Ganguly is Assistant Professor of English at RISD. He was educated in India and the United States.

Academic Research/Areas of Interest

Avishek Ganguly's research and teaching interests are in modern and contemporary drama, post-Colonial and Anglophone literatures, the cultures of cities, and literary and cultural theory including globalization and translation studies. In his dissertation, he studied the role of translation as dramatic technique and political instrument across several texts of contemporary drama and theater from India, England, Ireland and Nigeria. He is interested in exploring the ways in which collectivity gets imagined in contemporary literary-dramatic texts. He is also engaged in working out a South Asia based comparative approach in his work. His most recent publication in this area is an essay titled “Politics and Periodicals in 1960s India,” forthcoming in an edited volume 1968 and the Third World (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Press).

Avishek Ganguly

Assistant Professor
aganguly@risd.edu
401-427-6949

• BA, Calcutta University
• MA, Jawaharlal Nehru University
• PHD, Columbia University

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