{"id":42478,"date":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T17:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/?page_id=42478"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T08:32:10","slug":"dr-manasvin-rajagopalan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krea.edu.in\/sias\/dr-manasvin-rajagopalan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Manasvin Rajagopalan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"42478\" class=\"elementor elementor-42478\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cac80f7 elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"cac80f7\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a566a2 elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"4a566a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7791\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" aria-expanded=\"false\">About<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7792\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-7793\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications and Conferences <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" aria-expanded=\"false\">About<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7791\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7791\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p>Dr Manasvin Rajagopalan (he\/they) holds a PhD in Comparative Literature, with a Designated Emphasis in the Study of Religion, from the University of California, Davis, where he also completed his Masters. Focusing on the premodern and early modern expressive cultures of South Asia and Western Europe&#8211; specifically France, he is interested in theatrical and multimodal performance history, criticism, and literary aesthetics. His doctoral work interrogated methodologies of comparison across cultural and spatio-temporal discontinuities and disconnections, mobilising Tamil poetics to read French canonical texts. Manasvin&#8217;s research interests run the gamut of the interdisciplinary humanities, including art history, translation studies, food studies, performance studies, queer studies, religious studies, medical humanities, environmental humanities, and the social sciences. His work has previously been supported by generous funding from the College of Letters and Sciences at UC Davis, and the Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, among others.\u00a0<\/p><p>Manasvin&#8217;s research trajectory was established at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts in Pune, where he earned his BA in Liberal Arts, majoring in Psychology, with minors in Anthropology and Peace &amp; Conflict Studies. As such, he sees himself as a comparative generalist, and showcases this breadth of interdisciplinary interest in his teaching and research. Supportive of scholarship in the public humanities, he has been a regular contributor to the American Academy of Religion&#8217;s public book review site\u2014 Reading Religion.\u00a0<\/p><p>While at UC Davis, Manasvin participated in Intercampus Exchanges with the University of California, Berkeley, and was a student at both the South Asia Summer Language Institute at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, and the American Institute for Indian Studies&#8217; Language Programs. He is a former fellow at the National Humanities Center, specialising in online pedagogy.\u00a0<\/p><p>His teaching at UCD included thematic courses on ancient and classical literature, medieval and early modern literature, as well as South Asian literature. He also assisted in courses in Classics, as well as Religious Studies.\u00a0<\/p><p>Manasvin is a member of the American Comparative Literature Association, the American Academy of Religion, the American Council for Southern Asian Art, and the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Research<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7792\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7792\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p>South Asia, Early Modern France, Critical Comparative Theory, Translation, Social History, Poetics, Spatiality, Religion, Aesthetics, Politics, Materiality, Performance, Interdisciplinary Research.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" aria-expanded=\"false\">Publications and Conferences <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-7793\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-7793\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom Trikutam to the World:Local Description and the Geographic Imagination in the Kutrala Kuravanci\u201d, at the Annual Conference on South Asia, UW Madison, October 2024\u2014Panel Organizer of \u201cKnowing Local: Approaches and Perspectives to the Study of South Asia\u201d<\/span>\n<br><br>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEphemeral Citation: Landscape, Memory, and Sense-Making in Early Modern Tamil Performance\u201d, at the Annual Conference on South Asia, UW Madison, October 2023\u2014Panel Organizer of \u201cCiting Canons, Contesting Contexts\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFigurations of Labor in the Global Early Modern&#8221;, Presidential Theme Panel at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, January 2023\u2014 Organizer and Moderator\u00a0<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Walking Towards a Public&#8221;, at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, January 2023\u2014 Guaranteed Roundtable Presenter<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The Fortune-teller as Pilgrim: Performing Place and Producing Space in the Tamil Kuravanci&#8221;, at the Annual Conference on South Asia, UW Madison, October 2022<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMoliere via Madurai\u201d, at the American Comparative Literature Association, June 2022 \u2014 Seminar Chair of \u201cPossibilities in World Literary Criticism(s)\u201d<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Staging Gardens: Anti-Aristotelian Plots in Moli\u00e8re and the Gardens of Versailles&#8221;, at the Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, January 2022<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<strong>Book Reviews:<\/strong>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Review of Devotional Fanscapes: Bollywood Star Deities, Devotee-Fans, and Cultural Politics in India and Beyond.\u201d Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, 29 May, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/readingreligion.org\/9781793646279\/devotional-fanscapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/readingreligion.org\/9781793646279\/devotional-fanscapes&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1759996317438000&amp;usg=AOvVaw35McLNBcf8zUXjLJWUDLsG\">https:\/\/readingreligion.org9781793646279\/devotional-<wbr \/>fanscapes<\/a><\/span><br><br>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cReview of Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims and Untouchables in Eighteenth Century South Asia.\u201d Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, 26 Oct. 2023, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/readingreligion.org\/9780520390058\/merchants-of-virtue\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">readingreligion.org\/9780520390058\/merchants-of-virtue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Review of Gods in the Time of Democracy.&#8221; Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, 28 Dec. 2021, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/readingreligion.org\/9781478011392\/gods-in-the-time-of-democracy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">readingreligion.org\/9781478011392\/gods-in-the-time-of-democracy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Review of Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court.&#8221; Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, 31 Oct. 2020, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/readingreligion.org\/books\/culture-encounters\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">readingreligion.org\/books\/culture-encounters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Review of Freud&#8217;s Mahabharata.&#8221; Reading Religion: A Publication of the American Academy of Religion, 5 Sept. 2020, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/readingreligion.org\/books\/freuds-mahabharata\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">readingreligion.org\/books\/freuds-mahabharata<\/span><\/a>\n<\/span><br><br>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Other Media<\/b><\/span>\n<br><br>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bosu, S. and Rajagopalan, M., 2021. Love as Critique. [podcast] High Theory. 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