Vassar College Department of English

Faculty

Amitava Kumar is the author of several works of literary non-fiction, “Passport Photos,” “Bombay-London-New York,” and “Husband of a Fanatic.” His novel “Home Products” was recently short-listed for India’s premier literary award. Kumar’s forthcoming book, “A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb,” is a writer's report on the global war on terror. Kumar serves on the editorial board of several publications and co-edits the web-journal Politics and Culture. He is the script-writer and narrator of the prize-winning documentary film “Pure Chutney” (1997) and also the more recent Dirty Laundry (2005). Professor Kumar teaches classes that mainly deal with: reportage; the essay-form, both in prose and film; literatures describing the global movement of goods and people; memory-work.