Babli Sinha

Babli Sinha is a Professor of English and Director of Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Chicago (2006), an MA in French from Indiana University (1999), and a BA in French and English from Washington and Lee University (1995). Her expertise spans post-colonial literatures, film theory, and transnational cultural studies.

Research interests include colonial trauma, transnational cinema, and South Asian cultural exchange. She has published extensively, including monographs such as The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma (2023) and Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj (2013). Courses taught cover topics like African literature, magical realism, and advanced film theory.

Her work critically examines imperial narratives, focusing on how cultural production resists colonial oppression and engages with trauma, identity, and transnational solidarity. She has been affiliated with institutions like UCLA’s Cultures in Transnational Perspective program and emphasizes student-driven, interdisciplinary scholarship.