Supurna Dasgupta

Supurna Dasgupta

Supurna Dasgupta teaches courses in postcolonial theory, South Asian culture, gender and sexuality, the literary avant-garde, and world literature. Before joining Santa Clara University, she was working as a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Chicago.

As a feminist literary critic and cultural historian of modern South Asia, she focuses on the interplay between gender, world literature, aesthetic experimentalism, and transnationalism. Her book project, Intimate Revolutions: Gender and Counterculture in the Postcolony, combs through South Asian literature of the global 60s to trace transformations in discourses about gender and sexuality on the one hand, and to foreground new dynamics between postcolonial multilingualism and the global anglophone on the other. Dr Dasgupta is also a translator working with Bengali, Hindi, and English, and she taught English literature at Delhi University before moving to the United States for graduate school. She loves teaching, cooking, and planning holidays—yes, in that order!