About Me
Debakanya Haldar (she/her) is a PhD student 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 is currently procuring data to map them using ArcGIS.
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, American Culture, Modernism, City Films, and Ghosts.
She received her M.Phil. in English from Jadavpur University, India, and her M.A. in English from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.