PRIVACY welcomes new postdoctoral researcher
The Centre for Privacy Studies is pleased to welcome Angana Moitra, Assistant Professor of English at O.P. Jindal Global University in India, who will join the centre as a postdoctoral researcher from 1 September.
Angana will be part of the collaborative research project Secrets to Patents: Trans-Imperial Strategies for Keeping Medicines as Private Assets from 1500 to 1900 — a collaboration between PRIVACY and the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK), supported by a prestigious Research Environment Grant from the Swedish Research Council. Under the leadership of PI Natacha Klein Käfer, Angana and the team will investigate how colonialist strategies of appropriating indigenous medicinal and pharmacological knowledge and reframing them as scientific discourse unfolded under British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent.
She completed her PhD in 2020 through the Erasmus Mundus TEEME (Text and Event in Early Modern Europe) Joint Doctoral Programme, with affiliations at the University of Kent and Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests span the length and breadth of the literary, religious, and political cultures of the European medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on the continuities and correspondences between the two.
In June 2024, Angana was awarded a research grant by O.P. Jindal Global University to conduct archival research at the British Library in London for her first monograph, The Evolution of the Fairy King: From Medieval Romance to Early Modern Prose, Poetry, and Drama, which is currently under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. Her articles have been published by De Gruyter, Peter Lang, and Vernon Press, and she has worked for many years as a freelance editor for Oxford University Press, Penguin Random House, and De Gruyter Brill.
We are delighted to welcome Angana to the centre and look forward to the perspectives she will bring to our research community.