Sayandeb Chowdhury is cultural historian teaching in the School of Interwoven Arts & Sciences, Krea University, Sri City. Educated at St Xavier's College, Calcutta and JNU, he holds a doctorate from the department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University. His research and teaching interests are in colonial and postcolonial visual modernisms, cinema and photography studies, adaptation studies and the history of humour. His has published in Film International, Journal of South Asian History and Culture (2015, 2017), South Asia Review, European Journal of English Studies, Economic and Political Weekly (2016, 2019) and thematic anthologies from Routledge (2016, 2017, 2019, 2024), Palgrave Macmillan (2016, 2018), and university presses of Brussels (2017), Amsterdam (2019) and Manchester (2024). He was a UKNA Fellow at IIAS, Leiden (2015), a Charles Wallace Fellow (2016). He has written on art, books, politics and cinema for Huffington Post, The Monthly Review, Art India, Caravan Magazine, Outlook, Deccan Herald, Biblio, Indian Express, TheWire, Scroll, Business Standard, The Hindu, Critical Collective, Café Dissensus, and in Bengali for Anandabazaar Patrika and literary magazine Desh.
