Ananya Jahanara Kabir, FBA
I am Professor of English Literature at King's College London and Fellow of the British Academy. From 2013-2018 I was Director of the ERC Advance Grant Funded project, "Modern Moves" (www.modernmoves.org.uk).
In 2022-23, I was British Academy Senior Research Fellow, on sabbatical from KCL to write up my book, 'Alegropolitics: Creolising Connection on the AfroModern Dance Floor”.
In 2024, I was Faculty Fellow at the Global Cultures Institute, King’s College London, where I am developing a new project called ‘Fort Creole’. This aims to link the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds through the history and theory of creolisation particularly in trans colonial littoral enclaves.
My work involves memory, post-trauma, embodiment, theorising joy ('alegropolitics') as resistance, and creolisation, especially as a connector of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific worlds.
My publications cover: Anglo-Saxon studies and medievalism; memory work around the Partition of India; the Kashmir conflict; African-heritage partner dances and embodied Africanity in the world; transoceanic creolisation as cultural process; and assorted publications on South Asian postcolonial literature.
I can be contacted on [email protected]
In 2022-23, I was British Academy Senior Research Fellow, on sabbatical from KCL to write up my book, 'Alegropolitics: Creolising Connection on the AfroModern Dance Floor”.
In 2024, I was Faculty Fellow at the Global Cultures Institute, King’s College London, where I am developing a new project called ‘Fort Creole’. This aims to link the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds through the history and theory of creolisation particularly in trans colonial littoral enclaves.
My work involves memory, post-trauma, embodiment, theorising joy ('alegropolitics') as resistance, and creolisation, especially as a connector of the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific worlds.
My publications cover: Anglo-Saxon studies and medievalism; memory work around the Partition of India; the Kashmir conflict; African-heritage partner dances and embodied Africanity in the world; transoceanic creolisation as cultural process; and assorted publications on South Asian postcolonial literature.
I can be contacted on [email protected]
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From the introduction: 'For us, the editors of this special issue of Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim, and for its contributors, it is precisely the work of “archipelagic memory,” the theme of our special issue, that restores to critical and popular discourse alike these broken, hidden, but still palpable links drawing sites and peoples across the Indian Ocean into networks and further reticulating them within the connected oceans. Borrowing from the topology of the archipelago, the archipelagic is an epistemic modality that transacts simultaneously with the fragmented and the isolated to enable relations of contiguity that do not aspire to unbrokenness to make sense. How, where, and why is the archipelagic remembered, and what leads to its being forgotten?'
From the introduction: 'For us, the editors of this special issue of Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim, and for its contributors, it is precisely the work of “archipelagic memory,” the theme of our special issue, that restores to critical and popular discourse alike these broken, hidden, but still palpable links drawing sites and peoples across the Indian Ocean into networks and further reticulating them within the connected oceans. Borrowing from the topology of the archipelago, the archipelagic is an epistemic modality that transacts simultaneously with the fragmented and the isolated to enable relations of contiguity that do not aspire to unbrokenness to make sense. How, where, and why is the archipelagic remembered, and what leads to its being forgotten?'