Santanu Das

Santanu Das
Academic background
Alma mater	Calcutta University, Cambridge University
Thesis	The sense of touch in First World War literature
Academic work
Discipline	Literature
Institutions	All Souls College

Santanu Das is an Indian born academic and author, best known for his work on the literature of the First World War. Since 2019, he has been Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at Oxford University and a Senior Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.^[1]

Education

Das was educated at Calcutta University and the St John's College, Cambridge.^[2] In 2003 he completed a PhD entitled 'The sense of touch in First World War literature'.^[3]

Career

Das was a member of the academic staff of Queen Mary University of London (2008–11) and St John's College, Cambridge.^[4] and a lecturer at King's College London (2012–18).

His 2005 monograph Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature received the Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award in 2007.^[5] His 2018 book India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs won the Hindu Non-Fiction Prize,^[6] and the Anand Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, awarded by the Association of Asian Studies.^[7]

In 2013 Das received a British Academy mid-career fellowship.^[8] Das is a member of the International Network for the Study of the Great War in Africa,^[9] and the leader of a million-Euro project on the "Cultural exchange in a time of global conflict: Colonials, Neutrals and Belligerents during the First World War (CEGC)", financed by the Humanities in European Research Area (HERA).^[10]

Das has written for The Independent^[11] and The Guardian.^[12]

Works

• Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature (Cambridge, 2006; winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize)^[13]
• India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Awards

• 2019 The Hindu Literary Prize for India, Empire and First World War Culture: Writings, Images and Songs ^[14]

References

1. "Professor Santanu Das". All Souls College, Oxford. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
2. World War I Centenary: Santanu Das. Accessed 10 December 2013
3. "The sense of touch in First World War literature". idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
4. "An ode to human ingenuity", The Guardian, 10 November 2008. Accessed 10 December 2013
5. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
6. Krithika, R. (28 March 2020). "Freedom, we choose". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
7. "Coomaraswamy Prize". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
8. "Mid-Career Fellowships - Past Awards: 2013". The British Academy. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
9. Centenary News Accessed 10 December 2013
10. King's College London – News: Cultural exchange in World War I. Accessed 10 December 2013
11. "Santanu Das". The Independent. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
12. "Santanu Das | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
13. Review – "Review of English Studies", vol. 57, issue 232, p849.
14. Krithika, R. (28 March 2020). "Freedom, we choose". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 9 December 2020.