Professional competence areas:
- Indian Political Culture
- Visual Studies
Moumita Sen is a Professor of Culture Studies and project lead for ERC Starting grant 2023-28 Political Deification: Theorising from Asia and for RCN researcher project 2020-24 Mythopolitics in South Asia. Her forthcoming monograph Mythopolitics in India: Caste, Religion, and Politics is based on her postdoctoral research which focuses on the intersection of aesthetic discourse, popular religiosity, and organised politics in caste activism India. Her larger research interest is in the field of Indian visual culture. Her doctoral dissertation (2016), received the Norwegian king’s gold medal for outstanding research in 2017. She is the co-editor of Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia (SUNY, 2018). Sen is a founder member of the popular research platform and collective Theory from the Margins.
Selected publications
- Sen, M. (2018). Politics, Religion, and Art in the Durga Puja of West Bengal, Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia,, s. 105 - 120. ISBN: 9781438470696
- Sen, M. & Simmons, C. (2018). Movements of Navaratri, Nine Nights of the Goddess: The Navaratri Festival in South Asia,, s. 1 - 22. ISBN: 9781438470696
- Sen, M. (2018). From the Great Goddess to Everywoman: Western Naturalism and the Durga Murti in West Bengal, Religion and Technology in India: Spaces, Practices and Authorities,, ISBN: 9780815384168
- Sen, M. (2016). Craft, identity, hierarchy: the Kumbhakars of Bengal, The Politics of Caste in West Bengal,, s. 216 - 239. ISBN: 9781138921481
- Sen, M. (2016). Clay-modelling in West Bengal
Research projects
Education and practice
2016 - 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
2012 - 2016
Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
2009 - 2011
M Phil at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
2007 - 2009
MA at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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