Debapriya Sarkar

Associate Professor

English

About

Debapriya Sarkar is Associate Professor of English and Maritime Studies at the University of Connecticut. She researches and teaches at the intersections of early modern literature, literature/science studies, ecocriticism, maritime studies, premodern critical race studies, women’s writing, and postcolonial theory. She is the author of Possible Knowledge: The Literary Forms of Early Modern Science (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). This project has been supported by fellowships from the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. She is currently working on a second book project on early modern poetics and racecraft and (with Hillary Eklund) on an interdisciplinary public humanities project, Waterways, that aims to foster community-driven, place-based, and historically informed initiatives on environmental studies, centered on bodies of water and the lives they connect and sustain.