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Benjamin Conisbee Baer is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and Director of the Program in South Asian Studies. His research focuses on representation, translation, subalternity, and Marxist theory across modern and contemporary contexts. He works on South Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa, engaging with literary works, philosophical texts, and anticolonial cultural movements.
His major publication Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism (2019) examines public education's role in postcolonial state-building through case studies in Harlem Renaissance, French West Africa, and Gandhian India. Current research explores intellectual labor and cognitive development in technoscientific contexts.
He collaborates on interdisciplinary projects like Radiating Globality (Senegambia/South China/French India) and Rethinking South Asian Studies/Himalayan Regionalism. His teaching emphasizes comparative methodologies bridging literary analysis with critical theory.
Affiliations include Princeton's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies and Department of English. Languages include Bengali, German, and French.
