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Ragini Chakraborty

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707 S Mathews Ave,
Foreign Languages Building,
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

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Biography

Ragini Chakraborty is currently a graduate student at the Department of Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are Borders, Migrations, Trauma, Gender. She is also interested in Indigenous Literatures of North America. 

She has received her M.A and MPhil degrees from the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. She has been a recipient of the Shastri Research Scholar Fellowship, funded by MHRD, Government of India, in 2018 for her MPhil research work. 

 

Research Interests

Partition and Border Studies, Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Trauma & Gender Studies, Indigenous Literatures of North America

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Fall 2018 - present

 

Master of Philosophy in Comparative Literature

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

2016 - 2018

 

Master of Arts in Comparative Literature

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

2014 - 2016

 

Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Comparative Literature

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

2011 - 2014

 

 

Awards and Honors

Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) –  Student  award  for  the  year 2017-18 supported by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India

Renate Eigenbrod Memorial Prize 2017 for the  Best Paper  in Indigenous Studies at the International Conference on ‘Of Conflicts and Landscapes: The Rhetoric of Performance and Visual Art in Canada’, organized by the Centre for Canadian Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, for the paper entitled “Engaging with Christi Belcourt: Rhetoric of Resistance and Resilience through Art”; sponsored by Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

Received appointment as Research Fellow under UGC-UPE Project entitled “South- East Asia: Colony and Beyond (Reading Critical Geo-Politics and Bengal Polysys- tem)”, at the University of Calcutta, 2017