Fall 2022 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, comparative literature
Amrita Chakraborty is a third-year Ph.D. student in comparative literature. She earned her B.A. in English literature from Hunter College in New York City. In her research, she seeks to entwine transnational and decolonial feminist theories, utopian studies, and queer of color critique to consider alternative futurities within South Asian and Asian diasporic literatures and media. She is a poet and prose writer as well, and her scholarly and creative writing has been published by the Latin American Literary Review, Kajal Magazine, Shade Literary Arts, and others. You can find her work online at amritachakraborty.com.