Santanu Das | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Calcutta University, Cambridge University |
| Thesis | The sense of touch in First World War literature |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Literature |
| Institutions | All Souls College |
Santanu Das is an Indian-born academic and author,best known for his work on the literature of the First World War. Since 2019,he has been Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Oxford University and a Senior Fellow at All Souls College,Oxford. [1]
Das was educated at Calcutta University and the St John's College,Cambridge. [2] In 2003 he completed a PhD entitled 'The sense of touch in First World War literature'. [3]
Das was a member of the academic staff of Queen Mary University of London (2008–11) and St John's College,Cambridge. [4] and a lecturer at King's College London (2012–18).
His 2005 monograph Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature received the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 2007. [5] His 2018 book India,Empire and First World War Culture:Writings,Images,and Songs won the Hindu Non-Fiction Prize, [6] and the Anand Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize,awarded by the Association of Asian Studies. [7]
In 2013 Das received a British Academy mid-career fellowship. [8] Das is a member of the International Network for the Study of the Great War in Africa, [9] and the leader of a million-Euro project on the "Cultural exchange in a time of global conflict:Colonials,Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War (CEGC)",financed by the Humanities in European Research Area (HERA). [10]
Das has written for The Independent [11] and The Guardian. [12]