Devarati Chakrabarti

Devarati has an undergraduate degree in literature and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Delhi. She has previously worked as a Teaching Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University. She has also been a Project Coordinator for a foundation project implemented by India Foundation for the Arts, under their Archives and Museums programme, in collaboration with the Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP). As part of this, she co-curated an exhibition, and conceptualised and conducted a series of creative writing workshops drawing from the archival photographs situated at the IFP Photo Archive. Her research interests constellate around themes of decay and repair; the poetic and the archival as modes and sites that can creatively rearrange the terms by which we make meaning; and forms and practices of reading and writing in the classroom and elsewhere.