Pratiti Ketoki
216 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Pratiti is a doctoral student in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Their work lies in the interaction of Bengali migration, Global Asias and sound studies, and they examine how music creates community in Bengali diasporas. They are a minor in RIDGS and Early Modern Studies, with their interest lying also in disability studies and early modern music cultures. Their published work focuses on both area studies and diaspora studies. They are literary translator with publications in the Blaft Book for Anti-caste Science-Fiction.
Pratiti's work also expands on Global Asias as a field, exploring structural incoherence and relational alignment in the various ways of studying Asia and its diasporas. They are the founding and lead convenor of Approaching Global Asias, UMN's Global Asias Collaborative. The Collaborative is housed in the Asian American Studies Department, and supported by the Centre for Race, Indigeneity, Disability and Sexuality Studies and the Institute of Advanced Study. Pratiti is active in the larger Global Asias scholarly community, participating in the GAI Summer Institute at Penn State and also organising the GAI sponsored Panel at AAAS titled From Souvenir to Survival: Trinkets as Archives of Global Asias. They focus on how Global Asias key concept of divergence and convergence can be used to understand a diasporic linguistic ethnography, and how Global Asias develop as a field in regards to South Asian Studies.
Pratiti is interested in Disability Studies, with being an active member of the Critical Disability Studies Collective at UMN, as well as being the Secretary of the Disability Studies Caucus at the Association for Asian American Studies. They are an incoming fellow at the Immigration History Research Centre for the Italian American Studies Fellowship in Spring 2027.
They have won awards level UMN Research Centres and Departments including the Gender Policy Research Centre, the Immigration History Research Centre, the Centre for Premodern Studies and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
They graduated with an MA in Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley with an emphasis on South Asia. Their MA thesis looked at the bizarre in the Calcutta narrative through a comparative lens between Hindi, Bengali and English. They also study comics in Bengal and particularly the impact of the French comic series, Tintin, in Calcutta. Their other interests lie in science and technology studies and urban humanities. They also have Graduate Certificates in New Media and Urban Humanities from the University of California, Berkeley.
They have undergradute degree in Performing Arts, History and Creative Writing from Ashoka University, India.
Educational Background
- MA: Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors and Post Graduate Diploma: Performing Arts, Creative Writing and History, Ashoka University
Specialties
- Global Asias
- Sound Studies
- Asian American Studies
- Disability Studies
- Urban Studies
- South Asia
- Queer Studies
- New Media
- Film Studies