Abhimanyu Das

Abhimanyu Das was born and raised in Kolkata, India. His interests in new kinds of media texts such as computer games, graphic novels, and serialized fiction began to push against the outer limits of proscribed curriculum in his undergraduate English department. His struggles with core questions about transmedia storytelling, the audiovisual elements of texts and social context of genre narratives led him to develop a secondary concentration in film studies, during which he did archival research at the British Film Institute and also read a lot of comics. His relevant professional experience includes writing about film and literature as well as a brief stint in publishing. He hopes to pursue a thesis project that studies “the confluence of postcolonial influences and the effect of globalization on two rapidly expanding media movements, the Indian independent film and the Indian comic book.” He has a B.A. in English from Franklin and Marshall College, and is a M.S. candidate in comparative media studies at MIT.