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Rajarshi Sengupta
PhD (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada )
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Email: rsengupta[AT]iitk.ac.in
Office Phone: 0512-259-2036
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Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Printmaking, Art history, Artisanal Histories, Textiles, Theory-practice interface
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Education
- 2019 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D., Art History Thesis title: Making Kalamkari Textiles: Artisans and Agency in Coromandel, India
- 2009-11 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
M.F.A. (Fine Arts)
- 2005-09 Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India
B.F.A. (Fine Arts, Printmaking)
Website(s)
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2021 "From Reference to Knowledge Repositories: On Mimetic Aspects of Kalamkari Making," South Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2021.1969807
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2020 “Ruptures, Continuations, and Innovations: On Contemporary Kalamkari Making in the Coromandel and Deccan,” in Cloth that Changed the World, ed. Sarah Fee (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), 228-39.
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“Performing Histories: Enduring Dyes and Waterways in Artisanal Lives,” Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 8, no. 3 (2020): 335-57.
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2019 “An Artisanal History of Kalam?,” Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice 7, no. 1 (2019): 25-37.
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2017 “Many Gatherings: Cosmopolitan World of a Golconda Coverlet,” Journal18, vol. East-Southeast (October 2017)
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2016 ‘WE’, a शब्द/ شبد , co-authored by Dr. Baishali Ghosh, ‘WE’, a शब्द/ شبد - Interstecies, Incheon Art Platform G1 Gallery, Incheon, South Korea
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2017-18 IARTS Textiles of India Grant, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
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2016 Curatorial Grant, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi
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2015 Kau Shao Ching Graduate Travel Award in Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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2013-17 University of British Columbia Four Year Fellowship
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2011 Gold medal (Printmaking), University of Hyderabad
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2010-11 Performance award (Printmaking), University of Hyderabad
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2009 Gold medal, Student’s Annual Exhibition, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
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2008 Certificate of Merit in Student’s Annual Exhibition, Rabindra Bharati University
Office
Office address: #602, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - 208016
Office Phone: 0512-259-2036 (O)
Email: rsengupta[AT]iitk.ac.in
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