Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Namrata B. Kanchan is International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. She obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin in 2023. Her dissertation, “From Gilded Pens to Mortal Ears,” examines the genesis of early modern Dakani literature in western India’s Deccan sultanate courts through the study of the region’s manuscript and material culture. Her research interests include early modern literary, social, and manuscript histories; transoceanic networks; translation culture; and paleographical and codicological studies.