Arnab Chakladar

Education & Professional History

University of Southern California, MA; PhD

Assistant Professor in English and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2003-2007

I teach and research contemporary South Asian literature and culture. My particular interests are in issues of translation and multilinguality in the production, consumption, study and teaching of South Asian literature. I also teach classes on British colonial literature, Caribbean fiction, contemporary postcolonial and postmodern fiction, and Bombay cinema. I am also the founder of AnotherSubcontinent.com, an online journal and forum on South Asian society and culture.

I lead an off-campus program, Film, Literature & Culture in Mumbai & Seoul that runs every two years. The first iteration went in Winter ’24. Going forward, the program will run in the Spring, beginning in Spring ’26.

“Garbo and Kuchela at the Palace Talkies in Malgudi: Women and Modernity in R.K Narayan’s The Dark Room.” South Asian Review. 33.1. 2012.

“Language, Nation and the Question of Indian Literature.” Postcolonial Text. 6.4. 2011.