a v i s h e k r a y

Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar (Assam, India), which is an institute of national importance. He has earned his PhD (2014) in Cultural Studies from Trent University, Canada, which is preceded by a Masters (M.A., 2009) and an undergraduate (B.A., 2007), both in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has also completed a PhD Coursework (2009-10) in Cultural Studies from the Centre for the Study of Culture & Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India.

In this doctoral dissertation, he has worked on what may loosely be called archaeology of vagabondage: the political and philosophical implications of the social construct 'vagabond' and cultural representations thereof in the context of South Asia. He has edited a Bangla anthology on Religion & Popular Culture, and published in reputed journals like Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (Routledge), Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature, Journal of Human Values (SAGE) among others. He has held research fellowships at IIM Calcutta, University of Edinburgh (UK), Purdue University Library (USA) and Pavia University (Italy).

He can be contacted at: <avishek.avishek@gmail.com> or <avishekray@hum.nits.ac.in> or his office address (by appointment): Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Cachar, Assam 788010, India.