Arpit Kumar
Teaching Scholar, English
- Office
- 356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5639 - akumar5@nd.edu
Areas of study
- British - 18th and 19th
Research and teaching interests
Arpit completed his M.Phil. at the Department of English, University of Delhi where his dissertation engaged with the English coffee-house culture of the long-eighteenth century via an evaluative critique of Habermas' historical and theoretical enquiries into the concept of a rational-critical public sphere. His dissertation engages with literary texts that emerge from the extended world of eighteenth century sociability - a plethora of pamphlets, periodicals, poetry - as social, political documents that bring together a diversity of discourses.
Representative publications
Traveling Sociabilities and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Literature. 2023. University of Notre Dame, Ph.D. dissertation.