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Debaditya Bhattacharya
Debaditya Bhattacharya is faculty at the Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University, India.
Biography
Debaditya Bhattacharya teaches literature at Kazi Nazrul University, India. He completed his doctoral work from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India - wherein he engaged with the relationship between literature and death, with specific reference to the testimonial speech-act. Bhattacharya researches on continental philosophy, and writes on contemporary modes of political articulation as well as practices of mobilization in the Indian context. His current interests cohere around a social-economic history of higher education, with specific attention to Indian policy-contexts. He is co-editor of Sentiment, Politics, Censorship: The State of Hurt (SAGE: 2016).Education
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Ph.D, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2014
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Historical Sociology of the University, Political Economy of Higher Education, History of Ideas, Histories of Intellectual Traditions, Contemporary Cultural Theory