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About Saronik Bosu
I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of English, New York University, writing my dissertation on South Asian economic writing. I also coordinate research collaboratives in medical and environmental humanities. My research interests in general triangulate money, medicine, and climate in understanding literary and rhetorical formations. I co-host a podcast called 'High Theory', where we do very short episodes on diverse topics in critical theory and cultural criticism.Saronik Bosu (@SaronikB on Twitter) is a doctoral candidate in English at New York University. He is writing his dissertation on literary rhetoric and economic thought. He co-hosts the podcast High Theory and is a co-founder of the Postcolonial Anthropocene Research Network.
NBN Episodes hosted by Saronik:
April 8, 2024
Animals
In this episode of High Theory, Mackenzie Cooley talks about animals. The animal lies at the center of science and the human, from imperial conquest a…
October 6, 2023
Visibility
In this episode of High Theory, Margaret Galvan talks about the queer politics of Visibility. In her work the activist practices of representation tak…
May 12, 2023
Global Asia
Cheryl Narumi Naruse talks about the transformation of Singapore over the past decades into a site of postcolonial promise, with economic prosperity a…
December 30, 2022
Ethical AI
In this episode of High Theory, Alex Hanna talks with Nathan Kim about Ethical AI. Their conversation is part of our High Theory in STEM series, which…
July 4, 2022
Properties of Rent
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? P…
May 23, 2022
Vernacular English
Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton UP, 2022) argues tha…
April 12, 2022
Late Colonial Sublime
Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism (No…
December 27, 2021
Making Women Pay
In Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Duke UP, 2022), Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two d…
September 20, 2021
Love and Reparation
Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India. On September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intimac…
June 29, 2021
Geographies of Anticolonialism
A fresh approach to scholarship on the diverse nature of Indian anticolonial processes, Geographies of Anticolonialism: Political Networks Across and …
April 26, 2021
Elementary Aspects of the Political
Prathama Banerjee's book Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Duke UP, 2020) studies the rise of modern politics in I…
April 5, 2021
Outcaste Bombay
What is the history of caste in a city? Indian modernizers assumed that the various processes of modernity, including industrial capitalism, would att…
February 26, 2021
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Modern markets and exchange, compared with other social and political spheres, are seen through technical abstractions. This intellectual compartmenta…