Dr. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay

Biography

Priyasha Mukhopadhyay is an Assistant Professor in English at Yale University. She obtained her DPhil from Oxford in 2016, focusing on the literary history of the colonial world, particularly in South Asia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research explores the practices of reading within this historical context and the ways in which readers engage with texts. Her current book project argues that colonial subjectivities were formed through intense engagement with authors like Milton and Hume, as well as through superficial interactions with mundane textual forms such as petitions and instruction manuals. Additionally, she has begun working on a multimedia history of lectures relating to early anti-colonial movements. Mukhopadhyay's research has been published in several prestigious journals including the Journal Commonwealth Literature and Journal Victorian Culture, and she has co-edited the volume 'Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices'. Before joining Yale, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

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