Amrita Dhar

Amrita Dhar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, affiliated with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Center for the Study of Religion. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on seventeenth-century English devotional verse, John Milton's Paradise Lost, and intersections of religion with race, gender, nationality, sexuality, and disability in early modern contexts.

Her work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary approaches, examining how religious themes interact with socio-political identities in early modern texts. She has published widely on topics ranging from blindness in John Milton's writings to the cultural significance of Himalayan mountaineering archives. Her scholarship emphasizes close textual analysis alongside broader historical and cultural frameworks.