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Gautam Basu Thakur
Gautam Basu Thakur holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2010). He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of World Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches world literature, literary and critical theory, and postcolonial studies. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and South Asian literature, world literature, postcolonial theory, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and culture studies. His articles have been published in Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, and in a collection of essays titled Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora. He is currently working on a book-length comparative study on the effective impact of the 1857 Mutiny on British and Indian cultural consciousness.