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Brinda Bose

Brinda Bose
Brinda Bose
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for English Studies,
School of Language Literature and Culture Studies
Room No
148, SLLCS-I
Email
brinda@mail.jnu.ac.in , brindabose@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in/Faculty/brinda/cv.pdf
Qualifications

MA (Oxon)

PhD (Boston U)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Literature – Modernisms and the Avant-Garde, Indian Writing in English, Indian Modernisms/Avant-Garde
Feminist/Queer Theory and Writing
Gender/Sexuality Studies
Film Studies
Humanities Studies/Politics and Aesthetics
Politics and Pedagogies of the University

Experience

25 years 

Awards & Honours

Visiting Researcher, University of London in Paris (ULIP) and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH), Paris, May, 2023.
Fellow in Residence, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France. February-May, 2023.
Visiting Scholar, Department of English, and Center for the Humanities, Boston University. September-December, 2022
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, SA, 2017
Visiting Fellow, TORCH Institute for the Humanities, University of Oxford, UK, 2016
Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2006-2009
Resident Fellow, Rockefeller Center for Study and Research, Bellagio, Italy, 2004

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Global Humanities Initiative – MargHumanities with University of Virginia (Institute for the Humanities and Global Cultures) and University of Oxford (Radcliffe Institute for the Humanities) 

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  1. “Gender, Sexualities and Decolonial Methodologies”. Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Eds. Ato Quayson and Ankhi Mukherjee). Cambridge University Press, 2023.
  2. “Slouching Toward an Aesthetics of Failure”. Special Issue: Failure (Ed. Ananya Vajpeyi). Aroop Journal, Vol. 4, 2020.
  3. “The Erotics of Risk: Feminisms and the Humanities in Flagranto Delicto”. Economic and Political Weekly, Volume LI No 18, April 30, 2016, 64-71.
  4. "Queering South Asia and its Diasporas". The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature, edited by Mikko Tuhkanen and E. L. McCallum. CUP, 2014.
  5. "Modernity, Globality, Sexuality and the City: A Reading of Indian Cinema" Global South 2:1, (special issue), Spring 2008.
  6. "In Desire and In Death: Eroticism as Politics in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things". Ariel (Calgary, Canada: University Press), Spring, 1998. 
Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  1. ‘Together in the pages of the book’: Notes on a Bengali Modernist Poetics of Desire”. The Oxford Handbook of Indian Literatures (Eds. Anjali Nerlekar and Ulka Anjaria). Oxford University Press, 2023. (article)
  2. “Poetry of the Indian Avant-Garde, An Intransigent Aesthetics”. The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South (Eds. Alfred J. López and Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo). Routledge, 2023. (article)
  3. “Beckett and Avikunthak: Lineages of the Avant-Garde”. Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond. (Eds. Parichay Patra and Amitendu Bhattacharya). Routledge, 2023. (article)
  4. “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’: Modernist Poetry, Anti-Aesthetics and Political Affect”. JSL: The Journal of the School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Series 23, 2021. (article)
  5. The Audacity of Pleasure: Sexualities, Literature and Cinema in India. Three Essays Collective. January, 2018. (monograph)