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 is a Visiting Faculty at Azim Premji University, teaching in the Undergraduate Programme.
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 from South Asia
Encounter traditional forms such as the ashtapadi, the ghazal, the doha and the qasida, alongside several examples of more modern poetry from various regional languages.
Poetry and the Short Story From around The World
Exploring the contexts of literary texts.
The Classical, the Folk, the Popular
Learn about the history and various examples of these commonly used categories to explain literature and the arts
Romantics: Nature, Self and Society
Looking at the eighteenth century in English writing, known as Romanticism.
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.