Deyasini Dasgupta
Syracuse University, English, Graduate Student
- Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Department of English, Graduate Studentadd
- Deyasini (pronounced They-a-see-knee) is a graduate student at Syracuse University. She is currently working on a dis... moreDeyasini (pronounced They-a-see-knee) is a graduate student at Syracuse University. She is currently working on a dissertation on race, affect, and disability. Looking at presentations of non-normative bodyminds in Shakespeare, Spenser, and others, Dasgupta locates an ecology of emotions between audience/reader and performer/character. In doing so, she suggests that the racializing and disabling capacities of premodern texts depend on the audience’s complicity. Her work therefore recognizes “deviation” as an ongoing, carefully constructed process rather than an essentialist condition and prompts us to think of what it means to inhabit the “habitual” body.edit