Comparative Literature
Lucas Joshi
Research Interests
indo-portuguese studies, african-american literature, race and the early modern, botany, translation
Biography
Lucas Joshi is a doctoral student in the Department of Comparative Literature. His writing attends to the literary and archival conjuncture that undergirds and overlaps the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds. He studies slavery in the garden and blackness in translation. His work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts. At Brown, he is the Graduate Student Coordinator for the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship.
Education:
B.A. in Hispanic Studies and Lusophone Studies, Dartmouth College, 2022
Languages:
English, Spanish, Portuguese, Gujarati