Department of English
Ashmita Chatterjee
B.A.(H) English, Lady Shri Ram College, 2016, M.A. English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2018 , MPhil English, Cambridge, 2019
Research Interests
Affect Theory, Decolonization and Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary Hispanophone and Anglophone Fiction
Biography
My work focuses on the depiction of state violence through theories of affect in post 1970s fiction across specific countries in Latin America and South Asia. I study the emergence of neocolonial states and carceral systems, and state-enforced disappearances in these areas.