Sharanya Dutta
Student Fellow
Sharanya Dutta is a PhD candidate in English at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Her research focuses on contemporary Anglophone South Asian novels—specifically nostalgia and dissent, states of emergency and exception, and the relationship between theory, language, and the novel form. Her work exists at the intersection of postcolonial studies, critical caste studies, transnational and world literatures, theories of the global south, and affect theory. She teaches first-year writing at Baruch College.
Participating Years
2025–2026
Mobility: Transit and Transformation
Crises of mobility have become a key integer of social struggle in the world system. Whether one considers the explosion of different forms of movement or the production of immobility, in carcerality, wagelessness, enclosure, or via the securitization of borders, mobility and its discontents are central to radical activism across local and transnational communities.