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Sumantra Baral

Sumantra Baral

PhD Graduate Student
IMG_3609

Education

M.Phil. in English Language and Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2022.
M.A. in English Language and Literature, Amity University Kolkata, India, 2020.
B.A. Hons. in English Language and Literature, University of Calcutta, India, 2018.

Professional Bio

Sumantra Baral is a Graduate PhD student in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies. His research focuses on South Asian Literature and Print cultures during the Indo-China War and the Cold War. His project studies the intersection of literature, journalism and visual culture in reportage in post-colonial India, the involvement of the Printing Press and Publication houses, and networks of dissemination and readership.

Before joining Penn State, he was involved in various archival projects at the School of Cultural Texts and Records (Jadavpur University), Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), P.C. Joshi Archive (Jawaharlal Nehru University), and Samaresh Basu Digital Archive Project.

 

Research Interests

19th and 20th Century Bengal

South Asian Visual and Print Culture

Book History

Periodical Studies

Marxism and the Frankfurt School

Post-colonial Literature

Media Studies