Shubhasree Bhattacharyya did her graduation and post graduation in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University. She has also completed the Research Training Programme (RTP) from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata. She is currently a SYLFF Doctoral Fellow (2009-2012) at the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. Her research is on ‘Song in Work, Contemporary Labour/Work Songs in the Urban Space’ (tentative title).The research would study this practice of singing at work from a comparative perspective together with varied conceptions regarding work, labour, worker and  labourer. The perfomative aspects of such songs, the labouring body as well as the changing soundscape of the city would also come under discussion. Such an attempt would open up different engagements with particular sectors of a mobile and migrant population in negotiation with their ever changing workplaces.

Shubhasree has done some work in translation, editing and films. She has co-directed a documentary The Aura of Development (2008). She is keen on making an audio-visual documentation on the topic of her research.

This apart, she loves to travel.

Email: sbcomplit@gmail.com