Ayesha Ramachandran

writer | printmaker

Pocket globe and case

My published work focuses on the making of worlds through interdisciplinary relations between art and science, particularly, poetry, philosophy, cartography, visual and print culture. As a comparatist, I primarily study the English, French, and Italian literary traditions, but my research interests extend to Portuguese, Spanish and Neo-Latin materials as well as into Persian, Urdu, Hindi and their associated Arabic intertexts. This emphasis on worldmaking across Eurasia enables me to connect traditional methods of philology, book history, and material culture studies, with a commitment to decolonizing literary and aesthetic canons and frameworks by engaging debates in colonial and postcolonial theory, anthropology, and critical archival studies.

Ayesha Ramachandran

I am a scholar, writer, printmaker, and curious experimenter in ideas and objects--particularly those that carry in them stories and traces of global and cultural crossings that layer and blur over time. Growing up in India in the 1980s and 1990s, I then studied in the United States and Europe, discovering the intersections of many linguistic, aesthetic, and intellectual worlds. Both my writing and my artwork emerge from persistent fascination with movement, transcultural blendings, and transhistorical resonances.I am now a professor in the department of comparative literature at Yale University, where I co-founded and co-direct COSMOS: Collaborations to Study Materiality and Objects. You can find my faculty profile here.