Pramit Chaudhuri
Ph.D., Classics and Comparative Literature, Yale University
Associate Professor
Contact
- E-mail: pramit.chaudhuri@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-5742
- Office: WAG 107, WAG 123
- Campus Mail Code: C3400
Biography
Pramit Chaudhuri is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. (Hons.) in classical literature and philosophy (Literae Humaniores) from Balliol College, Oxford University; an M.A. in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute; and a Ph.D. in classics and comparative literature from Yale University. He specialises in the Latin poetry of the early Roman empire set within a broader study of classical and early modern epic and tragedy. His recent book, The War with God (Oxford 2014), explores literary depictions of ‘theomachy’ (conflicts between humans and gods) and their mediation of issues such as religious conflict, philosophical iconoclasm, political struggle, and poetic rivalry. Articles on subjects ranging from Vergilian wordplay to Shakespeare’s collaborative work have appeared in journals such as Classical Quarterly and ELH: English Literary History. His current book project is a study of the representation of debate and diplomacy in Roman epic and historiography.
Chaudhuri is also co-director of the Quantitative Criticism Lab, a collaborative project to apply computational and biological approaches to the study of literature. Research by QCL has appeared in various journals across Classics, the Digital Humanities, and sciences. His work has been supported by a New Directions Fellowship from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a Digital Humanities Start-up Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Digital Innovation Fellowship from the American Council for Learned Societies, besides various other grants. He is also the co-founder and co-president of the Society for Early Modern Classical Reception (SEMCR), an affiliate group of the Society for Classical Studies and Renaissance Society of America.