Prof. Dr. Gregory Goulding

This project examines the complex relations of indigeneity, dependency, and education in the literary and art history of Central India. The project will engage with questions of belonging and alienation in the forested regions of the modern states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh, with special attention to Adivasi communities—coded today as "tribal" and indigenous. As Adivasi painters and writers are recruited into the cultural spaces of upper-caste dominated institutions, how can ideas of dependent relationships inform our understanding of their recruitment into regimes of authenticity, nature, and the deep history of South Asia?

2015
PhD, University of California Berkeley

• Forthcoming. Cold War Genres: Local and International in Hindi Literary Culture. SUNY University Press.
• 2024. "Bāṇa, Vyomkesh Shastri, Stella Kramrisch: Authority and authorship in Hazariprasad Dvivedi’s Bāṇabhaṭṭa kī ‘ātmakathā’." In Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
• 2023. "Urban Space across Genre: the Cities of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh." In The Oxford Handbook of Indian Literature. 
• 2023. "The Tale of a Tyre: Travel, Infrastructure, and History in S.H. Vatsyayan’s Are Yayavar Rahega Yad?". In Modern Asian Studies. 
• 2021. "'My Unwritten Novel': The Long Poems of Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh between Genre and Form". In Comparative Literature.