Comparative Literature

Sneha Chowdhury is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Brown University. She has a BA in English from the University of Calcutta and an MA and MPhil in English from JNU, New Delhi. Her research interests include modernist poetry in English, German and Hindi, global modernism, theories of translation, lyric theory and continental philosophy. Her dissertation undertakes a comparative study of twentieth century neo-romantic poetry in German and Hindi and interrogates how they are entangled with the question of the nation. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in German Life and Letters, Modern Language Notes (German Issue), The Modernist Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. She is a recipient of Brown University’s Presidential Fellowship as well as other grants, and was recently awarded a DAAD German Studies Research Grant to conduct dissertation research in Germany.

Education:

B.A. Honours in English, Lady Brabourne College, University of Calcutta, 2013
M.A. in English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2015  
M.Phil. in English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2018

Languages:

English, German, Hindi, Bengali and French