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Associate Professor of English and Writing, Ashoka University
Ph.D. The Ohio State University
Subhasree Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing at Ashoka University. She has previously taught in the Program in Writing & Rhetoric at Stanford University and has been a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Subhasree works on the various discursive traditions of South Asia, with a particular interest in the relationship between religion and politics; literature and politics; rhetorical feminism and history and theory of global rhetorics. She has published articles on the argumentative structure of The Bhagavad-Gita; writings of women mystic poets in medieval India; campaign speeches by Indian women politicians; the fundamentalist rhetorics of diasporic Hindu nationalism; and on the Digital India public policy – in journals such as Rhetorica, Economic and Political Weekly, South Asian Review, Feminist Encounters and the Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change. She is currently finishing her monograph (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic Publishing) on the speeches of women politicians and deliberative democracy in contemporary India.
Subhasree teaches courses on Feminist Rhetorics, Literature and making of Democracies, Critical Race Studies, Cultures of Immigration, Debates over Religion and Secularism in South Asia, and the Global South-Asian Diaspora. She welcomes research inquiries from prospective students on these and related subjects.
Unruly Women: Gender and Rhetoric in Indian Political Speeches (under contract Lexington Books/Bloomsbury)
“The Irrefutable Rhetor.” Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric 40.2 (2022): 154-182.
““A Majority with a Minority Complex”: Reorientation of Myths and the Making of Hindu Cadres.” South Asian Review (2023): 1-26.
‘Please Don’t Go Yet’: The Voice and Texture of Indian Women’s Campaign Rhetoric. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 7(1), 04.
“Tongue Untied: Women and Forbidden Speech in Medieval India.” Gender and Medieval Mysticism from India to Europe. Routledge 75-93.
“Learning Authenticity.” Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric (2008): 106.
“The Missing Essay: Colonial Modernity and the Bangla Literary Tradition” Review Article, Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 58, Issue No. 25-26, 24 Jun, 2023
“Dubious Digitalization in India today” Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change (Resubmitted with suggested revision)
