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Meet the Assistant Professor - III

Kanupriya Dhingra

Assistant Professor - III,
School of Liberal Studies

Kanupriya Dhingra

Email : kanupriya.dhingra@bmu.edu.in

  • Graduation In: BA (Hons) English and Cultural Studies
  • Graduation From: University of Delhi
  • Graduation Year: 2014
  • Post Graduation In: MA English and Cultural Studies
  • Post Graduation From: University of Delhi
  • Post Graduation Year: 2016
  • Post Graduation In: Mphil English and Cultural Studies
  • Post Graduation From: University of Delhi
  • Post Graduation Year: 2018
  • Doctorate In: Ph. D Cultural, Literary, and Postcolonial Studies
  • Doctorate From: SOAS, University of London
  • Doctorate Year: 2021
From - To (Year) Designation & Organization Core Competency Additional Exp. Details
2025 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main
2021-2025 Assistant Professor, Assistant Dean (Academics, Internationalisation) –– School of Languages and Literature; OP Jindal Global University; Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Translation, Print, and Publishing Studies.
2023 Postdoctoral Resident in Manuscript and Print Studies; Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
2019 Assistant Professor (Ad Hoc), Maitreyi College, University of Delhi
  • Monograph: Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar, Cambridge University Press, November 2024.
  • Book Chapter: “Boundary Work in the Bazaar: The Women Booksellers at Daryaganj Sunday Book Market”, Gender and Book Trades, Brill Library for the Written Word. November 2024.
  • “Journal Article: “D Books of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market”, Comparative Critical Studies, Edinburgh University Press, Vol. 18, Issue 2-3, October 2021.”
  • ““The death of a book bazaar” in Himal SouthAsian, 5 February 2020.
    https://www.himalmag.com/comment/the-death-of-a-book-bazaar-daryaganj”
  • “Streets of Desire: Old Delhi’s subversive Love Letter Manuals” in The Caravan, November 2017.https://caravanmagazine.in/reviews-essays/old-delhi-love-letter-manuals
  • Journal Article: “Library Lives: Everyday Reading and Cultural Change in Delhi”, February 2026.
  • Book Review: Dhingra, K. Toral Jatin Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, and Jack Webb (eds.). 2023. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 528 pp. £130 / ₹1699 (India Edition). Hardback. ISBN: 978–1-350–26175-4. Also available as an e-book (e-ISBN: 978–1-350–26176-1). Pub Res Q 42, 1 (2026).
Essays in the Media/Press
  • Member, Board of Directors, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
  • Member, Editorial Board, Anthem Press, Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture
  • Member, Editorial Board, Ethnography (SAGE Journal)
  • Member, Bookselling Research Network
  • Felix Scholar, SOAS, University of London (2018-21)
  • Fellow, ICAS:MP (2025-26).
    Project title: Rethinking the ‘Library’: Alternative Histories and Knowledge Production in Delhi (1947-Present)
  • Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, (January to April 2025)
    Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main