Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury studied at St Xaviers’ College (BA), Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA), and Jadavpur University (MPhil, PhD). He has taught for over a decade at Ambedkar University Delhi and has been a UKNA Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden (2015), and a Charles Wallace UK Fellow (2016). His essays have been published or are soon to be in Film International, Journal of South Asian History and Culture (2015, 2017), South Asia Review, European Journal of English Studies, Economic and Political Weekly (2016, 2019) and thematic collections published by Palgrave Macmillan (2016, 2018), Routledge (2016, 2017, 2019, 2023), and university presses of Brussels (2017), Amsterdam (2019) and Manchester (2024). His monograph Uttam Kumar: A Life in Cinema was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. His other project is a public history archive of caricature (https://humourinbengal.info/). He also contributes to the cultural press including Huffington Post and The Monthly Review, Art India, Outlook, Indian Express, TheWire, Scroll, Business Standard, The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Biblio, Caravan, and in Bengali for Anandabazaar Patrika and the literary periodical Desh. More about his work can be found at https://sayandeb.in/.

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury’s research interests are in the history of visuality in colonial South Asia; metropolar modernisms in Europe and South Asia; the history of humour, and adaptation studies.

Dr Sayandeb Chowdhury’s teaching interests are in the history of visuality in colonial South Asia; metropolar modernisms in Europe and South Asia; the history of humour, and adaptation studies.