Sonali Barua
Areas of Interest & Expertise
- Indian Writing in English & in Translation
- English Literature
- Anglophone Writing in the Postcolony
- Gender Studies
- Music and Literature
- Indian Music and the Media
Biography
Sonali brings deep and varied experience to the classroom, having spent a decade and a half in the banking industry before returning to academics, the space she believes is her true home. Her research is largely focused on the intersection between literature and music.
Courses
Poetry and the Short Story from Across the World
In focusing on questions of form and context, this course will start by examining the ritual origins of poetry, the circumstances that led to the development of more quotidian and secular modes, the relationship between poetry and narrative, and the development of non-narrative poetic genres.
Contemporary Fiction
An Honours Elective Course to be taken by students who have opted for Literature Honours.
Poetry and the Short Story From around The World
Exploring the contexts of literary texts.
Contemporary India Through Literary and Cultural Texts
Texts ranging from the years before and after Independence to the India of the 21st century.
Romantics: Nature, Self and Society
Looking at the eighteenth century in English writing, known as Romanticism.
Drama as Text and Performance
Students learn about the origins and categories of drama through ancient and contemporary texts and the conditions of production and reception of dramatic texts and performance.
Publications and Writings
“ ‘Truth Is, At the Moment, Here’: Adrienne Rich and the Ghazal”. Reorienting Orientalism. Ed. Chandreyee Niyogi. Sage and Thousand Oaks: New Delhi and London, 2006, 102 – 115.