Santanu Das

Santanu Das is a Professor of Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College since 2019. He holds a PhD and BA from the University of Cambridge (St. John’s College), with prior roles including Professor at King’s College London (2012–2018) and Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London (2008–2011). His research focuses on early 20th-century literature and culture, particularly war experience, colonial dimensions of conflict memory, and sensory studies.

Key research areas include World War I’s impact on literature and culture, colonial archives (artefacts, folk songs, sound recordings), and global travel narratives. Current projects include *The Oxford Book of Colonial Writings of the First World War* and a monograph on global sea-voyage experiences from Victorian times to the present.

Publications span edited volumes like *Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict* (2022) and *India, Empire and First World War Culture* (2018), alongside influential works like *Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature* (2005). He leads the HERA-funded *Cultural Exchange in Global Conflict* project (2013–2016) and edits the South Asia section for the *1914-1918 Online Encyclopedia*.

His awards include the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2010), British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2013), and multiple grants recognizing his innovative archival work. His interdisciplinary approach bridges literary analysis, history, and cultural studies, emphasizing marginalized voices and transnational perspectives in war narratives.