Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA
Born	India
Citizenship	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 three 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]

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

• Fellow of the British Academy (2023) – Elected for her distinguished work in the humanities. ^[3]
• Humboldt Research Award (2018) – For academic excellence and international collaboration. ^[2]
• Infosys Prize for Humanities (2017) – For her contributions to literary and cultural studies. ^[1]

Personal life

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

Publications

• 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 . ^[4]
• "Africa Fashion Futures: Creative Economies, Global Networks and Local Development". Geography Compass, Vol. 15(9) (2021). Co-authored with Lauren England, Roberta Comunian, and Eka Ikpe. DOI
• Kabir, Ananya Jahanara (2013). Partition's Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 and Modern South Asia. Women Unlimited. ISBN   9788188965779.
• Kabir, Ananya Jahanara (2009). Territory of desire: representing the Valley of Kashmir. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN   9780816653560.
• Kabir, Ananya Jahanara; Williams, Deanne, eds. (2005). Postcolonial approaches to the European Middle Ages: translating cultures. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0521827310.
• Kabir, Ananya Jahanara (2001). Paradise, death, and doomsday in Anglo-Saxon literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0521806003.

References

1. "Ananya Jahanara Kabir – Infosys Prize 2017 Laureate". Infosys Prize. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
2. "Explore the Humboldt Network" . Retrieved 27 October 2021.
3. "Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 27 October 2025.
4. 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 .

External links

• Profile at King's College London
• British Academy Fellow profile
• Humboldt Foundation profile