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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