Rajarshi Sengupta

PhD (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada )

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences


Research Interest

 

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)

CV

  • 2021 "From Reference to Knowledge Repositories: On Mimetic Aspects of Kalamkari Making," South Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2021.1969807

  • 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.

  • “Performing Histories: Enduring Dyes and Waterways in Artisanal Lives,” Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 8, no. 3 (2020): 335-57.

  • 2019 “An Artisanal History of Kalam?,” Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice 7, no. 1 (2019): 25-37.

  • 2017 “Many Gatherings: Cosmopolitan World of a Golconda Coverlet,” Journal18, vol. East-Southeast (October 2017)

  • 2016 ‘WE’, a शब्द/ شبد , co-authored by Dr. Baishali Ghosh, ‘WE’, a शब्द/ شبد - Interstecies, Incheon Art Platform G1 Gallery, Incheon, South Korea

 

  • 2017-18 IARTS Textiles of India Grant, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

  • 2016 Curatorial Grant, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi

  • 2015 Kau Shao Ching Graduate Travel Award in Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  • 2013-17 University of British Columbia Four Year Fellowship

  • 2011 Gold medal (Printmaking), University of Hyderabad

  • 2010-11 Performance award (Printmaking), University of Hyderabad

  • 2009 Gold medal, Student’s Annual Exhibition, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

  • 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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