Sreyashi Ray
9 Pleasant St SE
Minneapolis,
MN
55455
Sreyashi Ray is a PhD Candidate in South Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media with a minor in Comparative Literature in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is also an Environmental Humanities Graduate Fellow at the UMN Environmental Humanities Initiative. Her dissertation, a comparative study of human-animal relations in literature, film, and mixed-media artwork focused on the postcolonial Indian subcontinent, reconfigures the discourses of species, caste, class, religion, sexuality, and hospitality in modern India. Her research has been published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Humanimalia, and Edge Effects.
Educational Background
- B.A.: Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
- M.A.: Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
- M.A. : South Asian Literature, Culture, and Media, University of Minnesota
Specialties
- Postcolonial Studies
- Environmental Humanities
- Comparative Literature