B.A.in English (Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi);
M.A. in English (St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi);
PhD in English (George Washington University)
Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Dean of Outreach and Communications
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| ORCID ID | 0000-0001-5055-2530 |
| Key Expertise | Postcolonial Literature and Film, Nineteenth Century British Literature, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Comparative Literature, Global Anglophone, Literatures, Rhetoric and Composition, Transnational Feminism, International Film and Media. |
B.A.in English (Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi);
M.A. in English (St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi);
PhD in English (George Washington University)
Turni Chakrabarti received her PhD in English from George Washington University in May 2022. Her doctoral dissertation, titled “Disruptive Widowhood: Rights, Resistance, and Agency in the Indian and British Novel” examines how the figure of the widow in Bengali and British novels written during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is portrayed as a disruptive one, and how these novels attempt to minimize that sense of disruption by depriving widows of their rights. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals like Verge: Studies in Global Asias, South Asian Review, and Portals: A Journal of Comparative Literature, among others. She has presented her work at conferences organized by the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN), the International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH), Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA), the Global Conference on Women and Gender (GCWG), and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (BSECS).
Foundations of Aesthetics, Criticism, and Literary Theory, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.
Art and Identity in the Graphic Narrative, Fall 2023.
Victorian Literature and Culture, Spring 2023.
Rise of the Novel, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
Effective Written Communication, Fall 2022.
Reading the Short Story/Short Stories from around the World, Fall 2022, Spring 2024.
Gender and Sexuality in Bollywood Cinema, Fall 2024.
2022: English Department PhD Teaching Award, GWU
2021: Philip J. Amsterdam Graduate Teaching Award, GWU
2016-2017: The Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), University Grants Commission, India
“The Desiring Widow in Anthony Trollope’s The Eustace Diamonds and Rabindranath Tagore’s Chokher Bali.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature. In Press. Dec 2024.
“Gender, Embodiment, and the Aspirational Middle-Class Imaginary of Indian Advertising.” Co-authored with Kavita Daiya and Sukshma Vedere. Female Body Image and Self-identity in Contemporary Indian Literature and Popular Culture. Edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg. Temple University Press, 2024. pp. 183-199. ISBN: 978-1439922521
“First Hand: Graphic Narratives from India, Volume 2: Exclusion,” South Asian Review, vol. 39, no. 1-2, (2018) pp. 252-254, DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2018.1515805
“Visuality and Identity in Post-Millennial Indian Graphic Narratives,” South Asian Review, vol. 39, no. 1-2, (2018) pp. 254-257, DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2018.1515807
| turni.chakrabarti@jgu.edu.in | |
| ORCID ID | 0000-0001-5055-2530 |
| Key Expertise | Postcolonial Literature and Film, Nineteenth Century British Literature, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Comparative Literature, Global Anglophone, Literatures, Rhetoric and Composition, Transnational Feminism, International Film and Media. |