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- Teaching Assistant - Doctoral, English
Education
- MA in Asian Studies | University of California, Berkeley, 2023
- Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research| Ashoka University, 2021
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History (2020)| Ashoka University, 2020
Office Hours
Monday 1:00-3:00 pm on Zoom; 10:00 am -12:00 pm in person or by appointment
Teaching Interests
- Gender Studies
- Travel Literature
- Detective Fiction
- Urban Humanities
- Calcutta
- Performing Studies
- South Asia
Research Interests
- New Media, Detectives
- Audio-Fiction
- Caste
- Disability
- Plant Humanities
Related Activities
- Graduate Student Project Award, Women and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Swarnjit Arora Award, Asian Faculty and Staff Council, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Chancellor Fellowship, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Berkeley Centre for New Media Conference Grant Spring 2023
- UC Berkeley Centre for Contemporary India Rapid Response Grant 2023
- UC Berkeley Centre for Contemporary India Rapid Response Grant 2022
- UC Berkeley Graduate Division Conference Grant Summer 2022
- UC Berkeley American Cultures Centre Course Development Grant Summer 2022
- UC Berkeley Graduate Student Instructor Resource Centre Course Development Grant Fall 2022
- Brian Gialketsis SERQueer Scholarship Finalist
- Dean’s List, Ashoka University (Monsoon 2017, Monsoon 2018; Summer 2019, Spring 2020, Monsoon 2020, Spring 2021)
- Gold 2016: Queen's Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition for an essay on The Inclusive Commonwealth
Translations
Exiled from Ayodhya: A Journey in Search of the Ramayana by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay. Publisher Bee Book, Translator: Pratiti Published Dec’ 2020
Biographical Sketch
I am Pratiti, a current first-year Doctoral Student in the Department of English, at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. My primary track is Literature and Cultural Theory. I am also enrolled in graduate certificates in Women and Gender Studies and Digital Arts and Culture.
I graduated with an MA in Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley with an emphasis on South Asia. My interests lie in new media, modern and contemporary Bengali literature, and English and Hindi literature related to modern and contemporary Bengal. I also study comics in Bengal and particularly the impact of the French comic series, Tintin, in Calcutta. My other interests lie in science and technology studies and urban humanities. I also have Graduate Certificates in New Media and Urban Humanities from the University of California, Berkeley.
I have completed Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research (DipASR) with an Advanced Major in History and minor in Performing Arts at Ashoka University, India. I completed my undergraduate studies at Ashoka University in 2020 with a major in History and a minor in Creative Writing.
I was part of the translation program in the Creative Writing Department at Ashoka University. I translate works from Bangla to English. I am also interested in studying how languages function in social, political, and historical contexts. My first translation, Exiled From Ayodhya (a translation of Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Ramayaner Sei Bonobasher Pothe has been published by Bee Books as Exiled From Ayodhya: A journey in search of Ramayana.
My languages are English, Bengali, and Hindi. I have studied elementary French and German.
Selected Publications
Partition and Fiction: My Tryst with Amitav Ghosh’s Shadow Lines | The Bengal Gazette in June 2023