School of Arts
Priyal Chitale
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Key information
- Roles
- School of Arts PhD researcher
- Department
- School of Arts
- Qualifications
- BA (Vassar), MA (SOAS)
- Email address
- 666532@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- The Pleasures and Poetics of Hindustani Film Song Lyrics, ca. 1940-80
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Richard Williams & Dr Saeid Kordmafi
Biography
Priyal is a CHASE AHRC Doctoral Researcher and third-year PhD student in the Department of Music at SOAS. Her interdisciplinary doctoral project employs textual criticism, oral knowledge, and archival research to investigate the pleasures, politics, and poetics of Hindustani film song lyrics c. 1940–80.
Broadly speaking, her research interests span the public culture of contemporary India; the modern subcontinental histories of emotion; and the sociocultural and political continuities and conjunctions between Persianate, colonial, and post-colonial South Asia.
She holds a BA in Film Studies from Vassar College, and two MAs from SOAS, the first in South Asian Area Studies and the second in Social Anthropology with Intensive Persian. Her native languages are English, Hindi, and Marathi, and her research languages include Urdu, Persian, and French.
Research interests
Modern India, Persianate South Asia, history of emotions, cultural history, literary anthropology, film studies, public culture, poetics and aesthetics.
