Pratiti Ketoki

[Image Description: A South Asian fem person (Pratiti)  wearing a red and black saree standing in front of a green vine above a door. I am wearing two necklaces, a short red choker and a long white and red pearl necklace, red and white wearing and a red bindi. I also have a yellow stash with blue boarders across my neck.]

Introduction

I am Pratiti, a doctoral student in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, with doctoral minors in Early Modern Studies and Race, Indigeneity, Disability, Gender, and Sexuality  In my doctoral work, I work on Global South Asian Sound Studies, with a particular focus on global exchanges, travel and the global bengali diaspora cultural. My recently published work look at travel and globality as the major themes. I am also a translator with two published translation, a novella titled, Exiled from Ayodhya by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay and a short story titled God's Garden by Gautam Mondol (this is published in the blaft book for Anti-Caste SF and is co-translated with Ipsa S). 

I have graduated with an MA in Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley with an emphasis on South Asia. My work lie in new media, modern and contemporary Bengali literature, and English and Hindi literature related to modern and contemporary Bengal. I also study comics in Bengal and particularly the impact of the French comic series, Tintin, in Calcutta. My other interests lie in science and technology studies and urban humanities. I also have Graduate Certificates in New Media and Urban Humanities from the University of California, Berkeley.

I have completed Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Studies and Research (DipASR) with an Advanced Major in History and minor in Performing Arts at Ashoka University, India. I completed my undergraduate studies at Ashoka University in 2020 with a major in History and a minor in Creative Writing. 

This photograph is taken by Cynthia Rahman