Sanjukta Sunderason
South Asia
Curriculum vitae
| 1980 | born in Calcutta |
| 1999-2002 | BA in History, Presidency College, University of Calcutta |
| 2002-2004 | MA in modern Indian history, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| 2004-2006 | MPhil in modern Indian history, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| 2006-2007 | associate editor and national coordinator (National Survey of manuscripts) at the National Mission for Manuscripts, Ministry of Culture, Government of India |
| 2010 | teaching assistant, Department of History of Art, University College London |
| 2012 | PhD in history of art, University College London |
| 2012-present | assistant professor, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies |
Sources
- personal page website Leiden University
Publications
2007 “Catalogue: exhibition of Indian manuscripts at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006.” In: B.N. Goswamy (ed.), Word is sacred, sacred is the word, New Delhi: Niyogi Books.
2011 “As agitator and organiser: Chittaprosad and the art for the Communist Party of India.” Object 13.
– “Making art ‘Modern’: revisiting artistic modernism in India.” In: S. Dube (ed.), Modern makeovers: a handbook of modernity in South Asia, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 245-261.
2012 The nation and the everyday: the aesthetics and politics of modern art in India, c. 1920 – c. 1960. – PhD thesis University College London.
2013 “In search of a new visual culture” (Interview in exhibition catalogue of the Bauhaus-Dessau Foundation, Germany). In: Regina Bitner and Kathrin Rhomberg (eds), The Bauhaus in Calcutta: an encounter of the cosmopolitan Avant-Garde, Bauhaus-Dessau Foundation; Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
2014 & Carolien Stolte, “International conference report ‘South Asia and the Long 1930s: appropriations and afterlives,’ 6-7 December 2013, Leiden, the Netherlands.” IIAS Newsletter 67: 40.
– “Structures in place: modernity and sculptural imagination in twentieth-century India.” In: Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balram (eds), Twentieth Century Indian Art, Random House Inc.,
– & C.M. Stolte, “International conference report ‘South Asia and the Long 1930s: appropriations and afterlives,’ 6-7 December 2013, Leiden, the Netherlands.” IIAS Newsletter 67: 40.
2016“Arts of contradiction: Gaganendranath Tagore and the caricatural aesthetic of Colonial India.” South Asian Studies 32,2: 129-143.
2017 “Shadow-Lines: Zainul Abedin and the afterlives of the Bengal Famine of 1943.” Third Text 31(2-3): 239-259.
2018 “Framing margins: Mao and visuality in twentieth-century India.” In: J. Galimberti, N. de Haro-García and V.H.F. Scott (eds), Art, global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press.book, pp.
– Review of: Ritu Gairola Khanduri, Caricaturing culture in India: cartoons and history in the modern world, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. The Journal of Asian Studies 77,1: 10-12.
–Et al. “Structures in place: modernity and sculptural imagination in twentieth-century India.” In: Partha Mitter, Parul Dave Mukherji, Rakhee Balram (eds), Twentieth Century Indian Art. New York: Random House Inc., pp.