Amrita De
About me
I am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at Pennsylvania State University in the Center of Humanities and Information. My primary research interests include Masculinity Studies, Feminist Theory, South Asian Literature, Global South Studies, Information Studies, Cold War Entanglements and World Literature
I am also a fiction writer currently working on my first novel. Occasionally, I write personal essays and film reviews too.
Recent Highlights
From the Confessional to the Ground: Understanding Indian #MeToo Feminism. Check it out here
Essay on Neel Ahuja's Bioinsecurities. Check it out here
The Computer and the Subject: Computing Extractivism in Global South Literatures. Check it out here
Masculinities in Digital India : Trolls and Mediated Affect. Check it out here
Marking men, affect and care work: a study of middle-class Bengali masculinity in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland. Check it out here.
On Raewyn Connell's The Men and The Boys and Right-wing Masculinities in the Neoliberal turn. Check it out here .