Arnab Chakraborty is an Independent Scholar and Researcher. He has completed two years of PhD coursework in English at Ashoka University and is researching on the history of Spiritualism (and its techno-religious allegories), nineteenth century science and on Western Esotericism and Occultism. His work attempts to decode the semiotics of vision, opacity and enchantment in the representation and spectacle of new technologies in the Universal and Colonial Exhibitions and the epistemologies with which they contributed to the techno-religious allegories of Spiritualism. He is applying to select Universities in Western Academia especially in the USA, UK and Canada for Fall 2022.
He has done his Master’s and BA(Hons) in English from Jadavpur University in Kolkata. Subsequently, he has worked in the private sector and has written numerous educational blogs and articles which has been published online. He is writing an article to be published by Palgrave and is also a graduate member of numerous scholarly associations related to his research interests. Presently, he is also writing for a few international conferences and has written about twenty-five semester papers for his MA and PhD coursework all of which is publishing ready..
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Areas of Interest:
His research interests are in the Long Nineteenth Century, science, pseudo and weird sciences and occultism at the fin de siècle, the histories of Mesmerism, Hypnosis, Spiritualism, Theosophy and Western Esotericism, European Decadence and Symbolism, Speculative Fiction at the fin de siècle, the history of Exhibitions and Museum Practices, German Idealism and its legacy in contemporary Continental Philosophy, Deleuze and New Materialisms, the Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory, Imperial, Colonial and Postcolonial Gothic, Horror, Weird and the Supernatural, Tantric Traditions and Folklore in the Indian sub-Continent and South Asian and Nordic science fiction, Posthumanism and the Anthropocene.
Statement of Interest:
My intention, at this stage of my academic career, to undertake a doctoral degree in Comparative Literary, Cultural and Media Studies is both academic and personal in nature. As far the academic aspects are concerned it is obvious that the academia ensures an objective and unbiased perusal of knowledge. I hope to expand and subsequently apply the skills I already possess, in a wider international context of scholarly expertise and to the contribution of original research.
Posthumanism forms one of the important strands within my research interests. To explore the dynamic relationship between the human subject through various histories and machinic assemblages is central to my research. I am also deeply interested in both the histories of the human and the non-human in a panpsychic and new materialist context and the stakes such a Phenomenology has across disciplines and worlds (both experiential and textual).
Presently, I am working in the private sector and building my CV through International conferences and publications to apply to US, UK, Canadian, European and Australian Universities for 2022.