Ananya Jahanara Kabir

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Ananya Jahanara Kabir
FBA
Born
India
Nationality Indian
Education PhD
Alma mater University of Calcutta University of Oxford, University of Cambridge
Occupation Literary scholar
Employer(s) University of Leeds, King's College London
Awards Infosys Prize (2017), Humboldt Prize (2018) Fellow of the British Academy (2023)

Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA is an Indian literary scholar. She studied literature at the University of Calcutta, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge, and has taught at the University of Leeds and King's College London. She is the author of numerous research papers and several books. Her prizes include the Infosys Prize for humanities in 2017, [1] and the Humboldt Prize in 2018. [2] Kabir was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023. [3]

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Early life and education

Kabir completed her undergraduate studies in literature at the University of Calcutta. She pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford and earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge. [3]

Career

Kabir has held academic positions at the University of Leeds and is currently a professor at King's College London, where she specialises in postcolonial studies, cultural memory, and literary theory. [3]

Awards and honours

Personal life

She belongs to the Kabir lineage of Calcutta and is thereby related to Humayun Kabir and Justice Altamas Kabir among others.

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 "Infosys Prize profile". Infosys Science Foundation. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  2. ↑ "Explore the Humboldt Network" . Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "Explore the Humboldt Network" . Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Kabir, Ananya Jahanara (2023). "The Creolizing Turn and Its Archipelagic Directions". Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. 10 (1): 90–103. doi:10.1017/pli.2022.31.
  6. ↑ Ikpe, Eka; Kabir, Ananya Jahanara (2018). "The enduring relevance of the developmental state paradigm across space and time: Lessons for Africa on structural transformation and agriculture in oil-rich contexts". Journal of Asian and African Studies. doi:10.1177/0021909617722375.
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