Contact Information
Room 332, English Building
Office Hours
Fall 2025: WF 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, or by appointment
PhD student, Literary Studies
Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant
Research Interests
Critical caste studies, neurohumanities, South Asian nationalisms, masculinities
Research Description
Arka is interested in exploring how caste-specific experiences influence cognition, ideas of and on selfhood, and in-group identity formations. His research aims to engage with the philosophical underpinnings of neuroscience as a disciplinary system, and push this understanding toward a negotiation with intersectional scholarship on caste and its aesthetics.
Education
English, B.A., University of Calcutta
English, M.A., University of Hyderabad, with distinction