Biography
Ragini Chakraborty is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the Research Assistant for the South Asian Studies Initiative under Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES).
Research Interests
Research interests include Postcolonial Studies, Border Studies, Memory Studies, Indigenous Literatures of North America.
Languages: Bengali, Hindi, English, Urdu
Education
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.
Awards and Honors
She has been a recipient of the Gendell Family and Shiner Family fellowship in 2023 and the Karashik Scholarship.
Courses Taught
CWL 114, CWL 207, CWL 189
Additional Campus Affiliations
Recent Publications
1. Chakraborty, Ragini. 2025. “Teaching South Asian Anglophone Diasporic Literature: Edited by Nalini Iyer and Pallavi Rastogi, The Modern Language Association of America, New York, 2024, 320Pp, $38 (Paperback) ISBN: 9781603296380.” South Asian Review, February, 1–3. doi:10.1080/02759527.2025.2460363.
2. Chakraborty, Ragini. 2023. “Entangled by Borders: Bodies, Citizenship, and Gender in Assam.” South Asian Review 45 (1–2): 144–57. doi:10.1080/02759527.2023.2262151.
3. Chakraborty, Ragini. 2022. “Re-Imagining the Komagata Maru Incident: Canadian History through Fiction and Film.” South Asian Diaspora 14 (2): 161–75. doi:10.1080/19438192.2022.2090376.