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Sayandeb Chowdhury teaches in the School of Letters at Ambedkar University Delhi and is a doctoral fellow in the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His research and teaching interests are in colonial and postcolonial visual modernisms, cinema and photography studies, adaptation studies and city studies. His essays have been published in Film International, Journal of South Asian History and Culture, South Asia Review, European Journal of English Studies, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), and scholarly collections Rituparno Ghosh: Cinema, Gender and Art (2016), Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea 1600-Present (2016), L'entrée en ville: Aménager, Expérimenter, Représenter (2017), Mistrust: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms (2017), On the Politics of Ugliness (2018) and Ideas of the City in Asian Settings (2019). He was a UKNA Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, in 2015 and a Charles Wallace Fellow in 2016. He has written on art, books, politics and cinema for Huffington Post, The Monthly Review, Art India, Caravan Magazine, Café Dissensus, Outlook, Biblio, Indian Express, Critical Collective, TheWire, Scroll, Business Standard, The Hindu, Anandabazaar Patrika and others.
