Sayantani Chowdhury

Sayantani Chowdhury is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, University of Delhi and Joint Secretary at the India International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (IISECS). In both her roles, she studies periodical print cultures with particular emphasis on their literary, discursive and cultural politics. Currently, she is engaged in developing her doctoral thesis on little magazines and modernity in post-independence India. She has also taught English literature and language to undergraduate classrooms in constituent colleges of Delhi University.

List of publications

● (Book Chapter, forthcoming) ‘Shaping a Modern (Re-)Public: The Dialectics of Niti and Modernity in Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s Bangadarshan’ in Sutapa Dutta and Shivangini Tandon edited ‘Social Corsets’ in Springer Nature book series ‘Postcolonialism and Religions’.

● (Book Chapter) ‘From Litmags to Webzines: Traversing a ‘Minor’ Archive through Major Questions of Medium-Materiality, Hospitality and Language-Community’ in Vaibhav Puri, et. al. edited Language and Literature in Digital Era, Kitab Mahal Publishers, Delhi, 2026.

● (Journal article) ‘‘Wives’ Lament and Discourse-making in Bharatchandra’s Annadamangal: A Formalist and Historicist Re-reading’ in International Journal of English and Studies (IJOES), Vol. 5, No. 12, November 2023. ISSN: 2581-8333.

● (Journal article) ‘“What is right?” and “What is true?”: Theorizing Satire as Ethico Intellectual Discourse in Aristophanes’s Old Comedy’ in The Criterion: An International Journal in English, Vol. 14, No. 5, October 2023. ISSN 0976-8165.

● (Journal article) ‘Producing Consensus: Reconfiguration of the Imperial City of Rome in the Satires of Horace, Petronius, and Juvenal’ in Lapis Lazuli: An International Literary Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1, Spring 2023. ISSN 2249-4529.