Barnita Bagchi (1973)

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arnita Bagchi teaches and researches Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. With affiliations to the Netherlands, India, and Bengal, working between the languages English, Bengali, Dutch, and French, Barnita is a transnational academic whose work is informed by feminist activism. Educated at Jadavpur University, India, and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, she has published widely on utopia, histories of transnational education, and women’s writing in comparative perspective in western Europe and south Asia. She directs the Utrecht Utopia Network (utrechtutopianetwork.nl), which, for example, recently hosted an international workshop in Utrecht on ‘Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation.’