Contact Information
Foreign Languages Building,
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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