Subhasree Chakravarty - Ashoka University

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Subhasree Chakravarty

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 RhetoricaEconomic and Political WeeklySouth 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.

  • “’Learning Authenticity: Pedagogies of Hindu Nationalism in North America” in the collection Asian-American Rhetoric, which won Honorable Mention, Mina P. Shaughnessy Award, from the Modern Language Association of America
  • Literature and the World
  • The Rhetoric of Social Protest
  • South Asia and Gender
  • Postcolonial Literatures
  • Seminar in World Literatures
  • Women Writers of South Asia
  • Literature and the Making of Democracies, Gods, Guns and Globalization
  • Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study, New Delhi, India, 2011-2012
  • Elected Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America Third Biennial Summer Institute, Penn State University, June 2009
  • The Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Sr. Fellowship, The Ohio State University, 2006
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