College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty
Education
- PhD, English (Literature, Media, and Culture), Florida State University
- M.A., English Literature, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (India)
- B.A. English (Hons.), St. Xavier's College, Kolkata (India)
Areas of Expertise
- Post-1900 British and American Literature
- Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
- Respiratory Humanities
Biography
Dr. Sriya Chakraborty works on modern and contemporary transatlantic poetry, with special attention to race, environmental justice, and respiratory humanities. Her research interests also include theories of the avant-garde, literatures of war and trauma; aesthetics of violence in post-war literature; history of the lyric; decadence, modernity, and globalization; post-colonial Indian writing in English, etc.