Sayandeb Chowdhury

Sayandeb Chowdhury is Associate Professor, School of Interwoven Arts & Sciences, Krea University, India. His teaching and research interests are in the history of visuality in colonial and postcolonial South Asia; metropolar modernisms in Europe and South Asia; the history of humour, and adaptation studies. His work has appeared or is due in academic journals and anthologies published by Intellect, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Vernon Press, and university presses of Brussels, Amsterdam, Manchester, and Edinburgh. He has been a UKNA Fellow at IIAS, Leiden (2015), and a Charles Wallace UK Fellow (2016). He regularly writes for the cultural press in India and elsewhere, in both Bangla and English. His forthcoming books include a co-edited volume of essays on playwright and actor Utpal Dutt, a monograph on the cultural history of colonial urban photography in Calcutta, and a work of translation. More about his work and interests can be found at https://sayandeb.in/.