Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2683

Email

ar220@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 201

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

Biography

Anindya Raychaudhuri is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. He is the author of three monographs, Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Narrating South Asian Partition: Oral History, Literature, Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2019) and A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced (Bloomsbury, 2025). In 2016, he was named one of the BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers. His research interests include critical theory and cultural studies, postcolonial studies, memory studies and medical humanities. 

PhD supervision

• Adrija Ghosh
• Marina Haq
• Emma Whitefield

Selected publications

• A cultural history of vertigo: unbalanced

  Raychaudhuri, A., 11 Dec 2025, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 248 p. (Critical interventions in the medical and health humanities)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Narrating south Asian partition: oral history, literature, cinema

  Raychaudhuri, A., 11 Jul 2019, New York: Oxford University Press. 222 p. (Oxford Oral History Series)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Homemaking: radical nostalgia and the construction of a South Asian diaspora

  Raychaudhuri, A., Oct 2018, Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. 202 p. (Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Partitions and their Afterlives: Violence, Memories, Living

  Raychaudhuri, A. (Editor) & Mohanram, R. (Editor), 2019, Rowman and Littlefield International. 272 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Facebook poet: poetic dissent and social media in contemporary India

  Raychaudhuri, A., 3 Sept 2019, World literature and dissent. Burns, L. & Muth, K. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor and Francis, p. 120-140 21 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 'They Don’t Call Us Indian': Indian Muslim Voices and the 1947 India/Pakistan Partition

  Raychaudhuri, A., 2019, History, Historians and the Immigration Debate: Going Back to Where We Came From. Henrich, E. & Simpson, J. M. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 113-132

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  'Friends from an earlier life': radical possibilities of nostalgic melancholy in poems of the 1947 Indian Partition

  Raychaudhuri, A., 15 May 2018, In: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses. 76, p. 121-136 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  ‘A certain terror’: corporeality and religion in narratives of the 1947 India/Pakistan partition

  Raychaudhuri, A., 9 May 2017, In: Oral History Forum d'historie Oral. Special Issue, 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 'Do They Want to Turn Partition into a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera?’: Performing Partition as Uncanny Farce

  Raychaudhuri, A., 2017, South Asian Diasporic Cinema and Theatre: Re-visiting Screen and Stage in the New Millennium. Chaubey, A. K. & Devasundaram, A. I. (eds.). Rawat Publications, p. 312-334

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• "A courage steadfast, luminous": Christopher Caudwell and the communist hero

  Raychaudhuri, A., 8 Dec 2016, Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800: Case Studies. Korte, B. & Lethbridge, S. (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 101-116 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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