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Rajarshi Sengupta
PhD (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada )
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Printmaking, Art history, Artisanal Histories, Textiles, Theory-practice interface
Office
Office address: #602,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - 208016
Education
2019 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Ph.D., Art History
Thesis title: Making Kalamkari Textiles: Artisans and Agency in Coromandel, India
2009-11 University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
M.F.A. (Fine Arts)
2005-09 Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India
B.F.A. (Fine Arts, Printmaking)
Selected Publications
2021 "From Reference to Knowledge Repositories: On Mimetic Aspects of Kalamkari Making," South Asian Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2021.1969807
2020 “Ruptures, Continuations, and Innovations: On Contemporary Kalamkari Making in the Coromandel and Deccan,” in Cloth that Changed the World, ed. Sarah Fee (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020), 228-39.
“Performing Histories: Enduring Dyes and Waterways in Artisanal Lives,” Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 8, no. 3 (2020): 335-57.
2019 “An Artisanal History of Kalam?,” Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice 7, no. 1 (2019): 25-37.
2017 “Many Gatherings: Cosmopolitan World of a Golconda Coverlet,” Journal18, vol. East-Southeast (October 2017)
2016 ‘WE’, a शब्द/ شبد , co-authored by Dr. Baishali Ghosh, ‘WE’, a शब्द/ شبد - Interstecies, Incheon Art Platform G1 Gallery, Incheon, South Korea
Achievements
2017-18 IARTS Textiles of India Grant, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
2016 Curatorial Grant, Korean Cultural Centre, New Delhi
2015 Kau Shao Ching Graduate Travel Award in Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2013-17 University of British Columbia Four Year Fellowship
2011 Gold medal (Printmaking), University of Hyderabad
2010-11 Performance award (Printmaking), University of Hyderabad
2009 Gold medal, Student’s Annual Exhibition, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
2008 Certificate of Merit in Student’s Annual Exhibition, Rabindra Bharati University