Chinmay Pandharipande

Chinmay Pandharipande received his M.A. in Comparative Literature from the English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India) and has previously taught undergraduate courses in communication and cultural studies at Mount Carmel College in Bangalore. His research explores the intersection of literature and philosophy, with particular attention to anti-Brahmanical critique, the relationship between religion and literary form, and philosophical questions concerning the self, language, and experience. Bringing together phenomenology, philosophy of language, and postcolonial thought, his work examines how literary texts register, contest, and reconfigure structures of religious authority, caste hierarchy, and subject formation. Chinmay works primarily with English, Marathi and Kannada literatures in conversation with broader South Asian and global theoretical traditions.

He is also a founding member of Comparatists in Conversation, an online collective that brings together scholars across languages, disciplines, and regions to foster dialogue, collaborative research, and public conversations in comparative literary studies. The platform serves as a space for ongoing intellectual exchange among a global network of comparatists and researchers.