About Me
Debakanya Haldar (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Florida. She is currently working on her dissertation, a comparative study between the literary and visual texts of New York City and Kolkata in the mid-20th century.
Her digital project, “A Tale of Two Book Streets,” was selected for the MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program, 2023. She received the Rothman Doctoral Fellowship in Spring 2025, from the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at University of Florida for her interdisciplinary humanities research.
Debakanya has previously worked and published on Dalit feminism, and her research interests include Modernism, urban studies, visual culture, and gender and sexuality.
As a graduate instructor, she has taught courses on American Literature, English Literature, Modernism, City Films, and Ghosts. She was awarded the Graduate Student Teaching Excellence Award for her course on American Modernism by the Department of English, University of Florida, and was nominated for a university-wide teaching award in Spring 2025.
She received her M.Phil. in English from Jadavpur University, India, and her M.A. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.