Amrita Ghosh
Assistant Professor, Department of English
The South Asia Archive, in collaboration with CHDR at UCF, is an interdisciplinary digital and intellectual initiative designed to map, preserve, and critically engage with the diverse cultural, literary, and theoretical productions emerging from varied regions of South Asia and its global diaspora. Bringing together research materials, curated interviews and dialogues with renowned thinkers, writers and artists from South Asia, the archive seeks to create an accessible yet rigorously structured space where scholarship, creative practice, and critical thought intersect.
Its primary aim is to foreground voices that are often understudied, marginalized and erased across geographic, linguistic, and socio-political boundaries, thereby fostering a more integrated understanding of South Asian intellectual and artistic production. By documenting conversations with theorists, writers, academics and filmmakers, the project not only preserves contemporary thought but also situates it within broader transnational and historical frameworks, allowing for comparative and interdisciplinary inquiry. The archive is envisioned as both a repository and an active research platform, encouraging engagement from scholars, students, and practitioners who are invested in postcolonial studies, media and film studies, literary studies, and critical theory.
The South Asia Archive is curated by Dr. Amrita Ghosh, assistant professor at the English Department in UCF. In its various episodes, Ghosh also brings together academic partners including Dr. Tehmina Pirzada of Bradley University in Illinois and Dr. Zohra Saed of Macaulay Honors College, CUNY, whose contributions further strengthen to think through the orientation of the archive from alternative perspectives. Through these partnerships, the South Asia Archive emphasizes the importance of collective knowledge production and cross-institutional dialogue.
A key goal of the project is to challenge siloed approaches to South Asian studies by creating an evolving digital commons that highlights interconnections between region, diaspora, and global cultural circuits. Ultimately, the archive aspires to function as a living intellectual space that not only preserves critical and creative work but also actively shapes future scholarship by enabling new forms of access, collaboration, and interpretive possibility across disciplines and geographies.
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