Brinda Bose

Brinda Bose teaches at the Centre for English Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University. On sabbatical this past academic year, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of English, Boston University, USA, in the Fall of 2022 ; Scholar in Residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, for Spring 2023. She is a Visiting Researcher at the University of London in Paris in May, 2023. She is currently completing a two-volume edited collection on avant-garde aesthetics in India, and starting work on her project in global avant-garde modernisms.

The project

Title: Global Avant-Garde Traffics: Aesthetics, Politics, Erotics

Hosting institutions

• Fondation Camargo, Cassis
• University of London, Paris (ULIP)

Selective Bibliography

• Editor, Humanities, Provocateur: Towards a Contemporary Political Aesthetics. (Bloomsbury, 2021)
• Calcutta, Crow and Other Fragments. (Poetry Chapbook, Hawakal Prokashona, 2020)
• The Audacity of Pleasure : Sexualities, Literature and Cinema in India. (Monograph, Three Essays Collective, 2017)
• “‘A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose’: Modernist Poetry, Anti-Aesthetics and Political Affect”. (Article, JSL: The Journal of the School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Series 23, 2021)
• ‘Cyprien Gaillard’s video Pruitt Igoe Falls (2009)’. (Essay on the video film for a Collection Study at the Roberts Institute of Art, London, for exhibition catalogues and website, 2021.