BIO

Atreyee Majumder is an anthropologist, poet, and writer based in Bangalore, India. She is currently Associate Professor (Social Sciences), National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. She earned her doctoral degree from Yale University (2014). She has been an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto (2016-18). Her fundamental interests in the categories of time and space allow her to engage in ethnographically grounded theoretical inquiries - a kind of ear-to-the-ground philosophical practice. These practices lead her creative and critical writing agenda on themes of the self as an absorptive register for the world, time and its traces that help shape the physical, material world, and finally, the search for God leading in and out of various forms of Bhakti or devotion.

Her current research agenda is located at the intersection of anthropology, theology, and the philosophy of religion, specifically concerned with the devotional practice of Bhakti. This project marries in uncomfortable ways with her personal journey. Ethnographic research for this project is being conducted in the sacred city of Vrindavan and its surround in northern India. This research journey has received the support of the Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-PhD grant (2024-25). Atreyee has published widely in academic and popular venues including the Religions, South Asian Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Economic and Political Weekly, 3AM magazine, India Today, and LSE Review of Books. Her poems and short fiction have been featured in RIC Journal, Bombay Review, Bangalore Review, Gulmohur Quarterly, Nether Quarterly, Anthropology and Humanism, Sunflower Collective, Cafe Dissensus. Her first book of poems, The Book of Blue, was published by Red River in 2024.