About Sharonee Dasgupta

Sharonee Dasgupta is currently a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology at UMass Amherst. She is also completing a certificate program at the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department. She has previously worked with the Centre Policy Research, New Delhi. And, holds an MPhil in Comparative Indian Literature from University of Delhi.

Sharonee Dasgupta is currently a graduate student in the department of anthropology at UMass Amherst.

NBN Episodes hosted by Sharonee:

Naomi A. Moland, "Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?: Children's Television and Globalized Multicultural Education" (Oxford UP, 2019)

November 14, 2022

Can Big Bird Fight Terrorism?

Naomi A. Moland

Sesame Street has taught generations of Americans their letters and numbers, and also how to better understand and get along with people of different …

Rochelle Potkar, "Bombay Hangovers" (Vishwakarma Publications, 2021)

July 12, 2022

Bombay Hangovers

Rochelle Potkar

The stories in Bombay Hangovers (Vishwakarma Publications, 2021) are laced with the grit, sleaze and dynamism of Bombay. They explore the nerve centre…

Emily Mendenhall, "Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji" (Vanderbilt UP, 2022)

June 24, 2022

Unmasked

Emily Mendenhall

Unmasked: Covid, Community, and the Case of Okoboji (Vanderbilt UP, 2022) is the story of what happened in Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a…

Ratan Kumar Roy, "Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences" (Routledge, 2020)

May 17, 2022

Television in Bangladesh

Ratan Kumar Roy

Ratan Kumar Roy's book Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences (Routledge, 2020) examines the role of 24/7 television news channels in Bangladesh…