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Yale honors Indian Asst. Prof. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay
Mukhopadhyay was awarded the Heyman prize in recognition of her book, ’Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire.’
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Staff Reporter - Sat, 14, Jun 2025
- 01:58 EDT
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Mukhopadhyay was an Ertegun Scholar during her PhD at Oxford / Yale University
The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) honored Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, an assistant professor of English at Yale, with the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize, which recognizes outstanding scholarship in the humanities.
Mukhopadhyay completed her PhD in English from the University of Oxford and her Bachelor’s, Master’s and MPhil from the University of Delhi.
Mukhopadhyay was awarded the Heyman prize in recognition of her book, ’Required Reading: The Life of Everyday Texts in the British Empire.’
Mukhopadhyay is a scholar of the literary history of South Asia. In her book, she combs through the archives of colonial South Asia to examine commonplace writing such as manuals, magazines, and almanacs to challenge our ideas of what ‘reading’ is.
Assistant professors Samuel McDougle and Junliang Shen were also honored at the event for their contributions to their respective fields.
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Steven Wilkinson, expressed his joy and said, “I’m delighted to celebrate Priyasha, Sam, and Junliang for their outstanding scholarly work,”
Wilkinson added, “Their groundbreaking research on the literary history of South Asia, human cognition, and algebraic geometry represents the excellent work being done by our colleagues across the FAS.
Wilkinson also expressed his gratitude and said, “I am grateful to work with such an outstanding community of scholars and teachers.”
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