University at Buffalo (UB)
Abhipsa Chakraborty is a visual artist and PhD candidate in the English Department at SUNY Buffalo. She holds a BA, MA and MPhil from the Department of English, University of Delhi, and taught as an Assistant Professor (Ad-hoc) at Delhi University for five years before moving to Buffalo. Her research interests include Global Anglophone Literature; Postcolonial Literature and Theory; 20th and 21st century South Asian Literature and Cinema; Global Modernism; Sound Studies; and Digital Humanities. She is a trained vocalist in Hindustani Classical Music and integrates her musical knowledge with her academic interests in sound and narrative styles. Her writings are published in Sounding Out!, Textual Cultures and The Journal of Modern Literature (forthcoming). She currently serves as the Assistant Technical Project Manager for the Marianne Moore Digital Archive (https://moorearchive.org/), a collaborative project that is publishing manuscript and transcribed (annotated) text all 122 of Marianne Moore’s working notebooks, including notebooks she kept for reading, conversation, poetry drafts, lectures, concerts, and other purposes, along with miscellaneous manuscripts, tools, pedagogical guides, and publications supporting use of and contextualizing the notebooks.