Srotaswini Bhowmick
Position title: TA: History 130 with Professor Mou Banerjee
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: sbhowmick2@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisor: Mou Banerjee
Mailbox: 4106 Mosse Humanities Building
Biography
My research explores histories of gender and subject formation in postcolonial India, specifically the representation of the ideal Indian Man in films, 1950s- 1970s. The young nation-state exercised its positional superiority by forming ideals distant from the margins, and homogenous cultural articulations, contributing to the idea of national cohesion. I’m looking into the deviations, where this project is critiqued for creating disorder. Besides how the language of representing Self was devised and whose voices were prioritized, I’m keen to trace the political tensions behind the process. I use archival resources in regional languages, epistemologies and cultural practices to break down the complexities of a unique modernity served on South Asian screen.
Education
M.Sc. University of Glasgow, UK
M.A. Jadavpur University, India
B.A. Jadavpur University, India
Field
- South Asian History
Selected Awards
- IRIS Summer Fieldwork Award and BLAC Foundation Award 2025
- SRGC Research Travel Award, 2023 Cycle 4
Courses Taught as TA
- History of Science 213: Global Environmental Health, an Interdisciplinary Introduction (with Prof Richard Keller)