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
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
‘I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.’
– Oscar Wilde
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.