Anushka Sen

Anushka Sen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on animal presence in twentieth-century literature as a lens to explore modernity’s challenges, particularly the tension between human settlement and rootlessness. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Indiana University (2023), an MA from Jadavpur University (2014), and a BA from the same institution (2012). Her work bridges animal studies, spatial theory, and phenomenology, emphasizing marginalized presences to interrogate issues of belonging, infrastructure, and exclusion.

Research interests include nonhuman studies, materialisms, translation, and environmental humanities. Her publications analyze modernist texts like Katherine Mansfield’s Prelude and explore themes such as stray animals in urban spaces. She has received the Parker Prize for distinguished dissertation work and fellowships at the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference and the American Literary Translators Association.

Sen teaches courses on poetry, film, critical race theory, and modernist fiction, emphasizing close reading and the transformative power of art. She is expanding her research into housing and houselessness, aiming to connect literary analysis with material realities.