Amrita Ghosh

Department of English

Assistant Professor

Amrita.Ghosh@ucf.edu

Campus Location

Trevor Colbourn Hall 252H

Office Hours

Tuesday, 12-1 pm, Thursday- 3-4 p.m on zoom and by appointment

Website

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Biography

Amrita Ghosh is Assistant Professor of South Asian Literature in the Department of English at UCF. Previously, she was a researcher at South Asian Center SASNET, Lund University in Sweden. She has also worked on a postdoc at Linnaeus University, Center of Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Sweden (2017-2019). Ghosh is the author of the monograph Kashmir’s Necropolis: Literary, Cultural and Visual Texts, Lexington Books, 2023. Ghosh is also the coauthor of India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives, FDU Press, 2024.
Ghosh is the co-editor of ReFiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality and Migration. Brill, 2023. Apart from that, Ghosh is the co-editor of the anthology: Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Reenvisioning (2022), published by Brill publications.

Dr. Ghosh has a PhD in Postcolonial literature and theory, specializing in Partition Literature, from Drew University, New Jersey, USA. She has had a fellowship at Cornell University, Critical Theory School during summer 2008. Dr. Ghosh has been published in the field of postcolonial studies, Kashmir studies, colonialism and representation, and border studies, especially the Indo-Bangladeshi borderlands and enclaves. She also is the co-editor of Cerebration, a peer-reviewed, biannual literary journal that strives to bring in academic and non academic circles in an exchange through significant topics in a transcultural space.

Publications

Books

Forthcoming Ghosh, Amrita, Shringarpure, Bhakti, Dasgupta, Rohit. India's Imperial Formations: Cultural Perspectives. United States, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2024.
Ghosh, Amrita. Kashmir's Necropolis: Literary, Cultural, and Visual Texts. United States, Lexington Books, 2024.
Ghosh, Amrita. ReFiguring Global Challenges: Literary and Cinematic Explorations of War, Inequality, and Migration. Germany, Brill, 2023.

Book Sections/Chapters

Rethinking Planetarity in the Specter of (Neo)colonial Violence: Strangler Vine and Thugs in America

Course #	Course	Title	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
89353	ENG6950	Capstone Course	In Person (P)	Th 6:00 PM - 8:50 PM	Unavailable
90485	LIT3931	Topics in World Literature	Asynchronous Online (W)	12:00 AM - 12:00 AM	Unavailable
POST-1865 and DIVERSITY. This course introduces women’s writing in South Asia (from the different nations of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh) as well as films by South Asian women directors, focusing on colonial, anticolonial and postcolonial periods. Students will study a broad range of women’s writing and films investigating how these writers/directors negotiate questions of postcolonial feminism, agency, national belonging and resistance. We will study short fiction, novels, poetry, art and films by South Asian women to understand significant concepts within postcolonial and gender studies . Some of the questions we will think through are: How do South Asian women’s writing, and films represent women’s struggles and resistance in the postcolonial national cultures? How do these texts reconfigure gendered and subaltern agency from colonial and patriarchal structures? How does women’s art enable spaces of rethinking identity and normative power structures of class, caste, national and religious violence? How has women’s writing in south Asia impacted anticolonial movements? And finally, how does women’s voices reconfigure claims towards identity and feminist movements through intersectional frameworks?

Course #	Course	Title	Session	Mode	Days/Times	Syllabus
59920	LIT4244	World Authors	B	Asynchronous Online (W)	12:00 AM - 12:00 AM	Unavailable
POST-1865 and DIVERSITY. SUMMER 2026 AUTHOR: Rabindranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was the world’s first non-European writer to win the Novel Prize in Literature in 1913. He is widely celebrated Asia, indeed noted worldwide. Tagore was a prolific a poet, novelist, essayist, song writer, playwright, and artist. In this course, we will learn of the crisis in representing and reading Tagore, his visionary thinking in terms of gender, nation, religion, and also study some of his art, short stories and nonfiction. We will watch some adapted films that continue to be made from his short stories and novels and hear some songs by Tagore that have shaped South Asian nation-states. Tagore’s significance as a world author cannot be stressed enough. His writings create an enormous oeuvre of exploring some of the most important themes of colonial and postcolonial India.

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