Abhipsa Chakraborty (अभिप्सा चक्रवर्ती/ অভিপ্সা চক্রবর্তী) is a writer, literary critic, and creative, based in Atlanta, GA. She teaches and writes about Modernist and Postcolonial cultures, Global Anglophone Literatures, modern Hindi Literature, Digital Humanities, and DEI & Tech Communication. She is currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
I am passionate about researching and teaching courses on literature, South Asian cinema, Environment studies, writing, and Technical Communication. I am also a beginner-level programmer and curious to explore the use of digital and computational tools in the study of the humanities.
I received a PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY), specializing in global modernist and postcolonial literatures. I hold a BA, MA, and MPhil from the University of Delhi and previously taught at the University of Delhi as an Assistant Professor. My ongoing monograph uses my training in Indian classical music to “listen” to aural techniques in a selection of 20th century Anglophone novels and archival findings. In considering questions of literary sound, oral storytelling, and technological influences in these texts, I show how literature offers radical critiques of colonialism, race, gender, and the caste system.
Finalist, Eighth Annual Three Minute Thesis Competition, State University of New York at Buffalo
An active commitment to inclusivity, interdisciplinary thinking, and multimodal learning informs both my research and my teaching, as I work to foster classroom communities in which intellectual exchange might fruitfully transpire across disciplines in a socially conscious framework.
Digital Humanities
Current Digital Humanities-Text encoding-Digital Archive Project Project role: Assistant Technical Project Manager
Markup/Programming Languages and Software Tools:
TEI XML, XSLT, HTML (Beginner), CSS (Beginner), JAVASCRIPT (Beginner), Python (Beginner), UX/UI design, GitHub, WordPress, Canva, Office, Word, Excel, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate, InPhO Topic Explorer
Invited Talks and Workshops Taught
“Visualizing Care Imaginaries & Infrastructures 2022”, Duke University, May 12-14 2022. https://www.revaluingcare.org/alternative-approaches-to-economics-and-labor/
Sound and Literature: Ways of Listening to Literary Texts", Invited speaker for an Undergraduate Workshop organized by Ashoka University, Delhi. 6 November 2020. https://www.ashoka.edu.in/static/doc_uploads/file_1632220828.pdf (pg. 24/60).
“Intersectionality, Identity and Activism: Dalit Politics at the cusps of Caste, Class and Gender Identity in Contemporary India", Speaker and presenter at social justice works-in-progress series organized by the Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY), December 2020. https://ubwp.buffalo.edu/southasiaatub/2020/11/25/abhipsa-chakraborty-activism-of-intersectionality-dalit-politics-at-the-cusp-of-caste-class-and-gender-in-contemporary-india-330-pm-dec-1/)
Selected Conference Presentations
Chair
“Pandemic, Protest, and Feminist Politics", 53rd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, Baltimore, MD, 10-13 March 2022.
Presentations
“Entangled Boundaries: Negotiating Space on the Digital Page of the Marianne Moore Digital Archive”. 2024 ADE (The Association for Documentary Editing) Annual Conference. Buffalo, New York. June 20-22, 2024. (Forthcoming)
“Inquilab Zindabad!” (Long Live the Revolution!): Orality, Nationalism and Modernist techniques in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938). Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Brooklyn, New York. October 26-29, 2023.
“Vernacular Acoustics: Speech, Embodiment and the Politics of Listening in Mulk Raj Anand’s Prose Writings”. REVERB: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space, SpokenWeb’s 2023 Symposium and Institute. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. May 1-3, 2023.
“Movement, Sound and the Laboring Body in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable (1935)”. Making Modernism 1922: 100 Years on, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference. Portland, Oregon. October 27-30, 2022.
“Be like the Shaheen Bagh women”: Street Protest in the year of the Pandemic”. Looking to the Future: Utopias and New Spaces, 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference for Romance Languages and Literatures, Romance Languages and Literatures Department, University at Buffalo, April 23-24, 2021.
“Desire, Sound and the Postcolonial Politics of Cinematic Adaptation in Vishal Bharadwaj’s Haider”. Yale Graduate Music Symposium, New Haven, February 28-29, 2020.
Visual Archive from Visualizing Care: Imaginaries & Infrastructures 2022, Transnational Conference organized by Duke University, May 12-14 2022.
