Roma Chatterji

Visiting ICCR Professor

Vari Hall

4700 Keele Street

North York, ON M3J 1P3

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Roma Chatterji is a professor at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
University. Apart from an abiding interest in folk culture she has also worked on collective violence and medical sociology. Her areas of interest are folklore and folk culture, narrative theory, and everyday life. She is currently working on the interface between new media and folk art. Her work is largely ethnographic and she has done field work in some of the villages of West Bengal, in the slums of Mumbai, and in a nursing home in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

She is the author of: Speaking with Pictures. Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India (2012). Writing Identities. Folklore and the Performance Traditions of Purulia (2009), and (with Deepak Mehta) Living with Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007), She has also edited (with Deepak Mehta) Riot Discourses (2007).