Sreyashi Ray

Sreyashi Ray is  a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University. She received her PhD in Asian Literature, Culture, and Media and Comparative Literature from the University of Minnesota in 2024. She specializes in postcolonial studies, affect studies, environmental humanities, and gender and sexuality studies. Her current research focuses on the representational dynamics of human-animal relations in 20th and 21st century literature, cinema, and mixed-media artwork focused on the Indian subcontinent and studies how cultural productions reconfigure both locally situated and globally oriented interconnections of species, class, sexuality, hospitality, and labor. 

Sreyashi's research has been published in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies,  ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, South Asian Review, Humanimalia, and Edge Effects. 

Her dissertation research has received grants from the University of Minnesota’s Environmental Humanities Initiative Graduate Fellowship, Rose Travel Fellowship for Creative Research in Asia, Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship, and AMES Departmental Graduate Fellowship. The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) recently awarded a Best Graduate Student Essay Prize ( Honorable Mention) to her paper titled "Insurgent Plants: Reclaiming Postcolonial Indian Forests as Multispecies Commons." The University of Minnesota's Center for Educational Innovation has awarded her teaching excellence certificates for dedication to student learning. Sreyashi is a certified multilingual translator and her work has been recognized by the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia and the Writing & Social Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney, among others. 

Contact: sray@fas.harvard.edu