Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Anirban Ghosh
Assistant Professor, Academic Writing
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Contact Information
- Email: [email protected]
- Academic writing and Critical Thinking, Cultural history of 19th Century South Asia, and History of Archives and Archiving
- Ph.D., Ludwigs Maximilian Universitaet, Munich, Germany
- M.A., Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Archivist, Ashoka University
- Contemporary History Archive, Ashoka University
- UGC Fellow, School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- UGC Fellow- 2009-10 at School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Recipient of the prestigious Reinhart Koselleck Project of Global Theatre Histories funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) for doctoral research and completion
- Recepient of Graduate School Award (LMU, Munich) for Doctoral research
- Tiger, Tamer, Strongman and Spy: History of circus in India, Monograph forthcoming, Picador, Pan Macmillan, 2023.
- https://qz.com/india/882807/the-bengali-woman-who-challenged-lions-tigers-and-hindu-revivalists, Quartz, 2017.
- https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/a-fine-specimen-4542126/, 2017, The Indian Express.
- https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/sunday-read/day-of-the-joker/articleshow/71239049.cms, Mumbai Mirror, 2019.
- Writing workshop for Benares Hindu University, Jadavpur University, India, 2020-2021.
- Lecture on Circus and memory, Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University-2022.
- Theatre Migrants, European Research Council Conference, Germany, 2022.
- Editorial consultation for Dr. Lisa Skwirblies, 2010, ERC funded project.