Sascha Ebeling

Sascha Ebeling is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Department of Comparative Literature. He has also held an invited position as directeur d'études invité at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where he delivered lectures on Tamil modernity and South Indian cultural history.

• Primary Affiliation: University of Chicago
• Departments: South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Comparative Literature
• Invited Role: EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences), Paris

His research focuses on the intersections of literature, film, and cultural history in South Asia, particularly Tamil Nadu. He explores themes such as urban modernity, avant-garde literary movements, and the revival of classical art forms in the early 20th century, as exemplified by his 2016 lecture series on Madras in the 1930s.

Notable contributions include analyzing the works of Tamil literary figure Puthumaippitthan (1906–1948), whose writings reflect early 20th-century urban Tamil modernity. His work reconstructs historical cultural landscapes through multidisciplinary approaches, blending textual analysis with sensory experiences of the past.