Chinmay Pandharipande

Chinmay received his M.A. in Comparative Literature from EFL University,
Hyderabad, India. He has taught undergraduate courses at the Department of Communication Studies, Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, India. His working languages are Kannada, Marathi, English, and Hindi. Chinmay’s work has mainly been at the intersection of literature and philosophy. Currently, he is exploring how the comparative method of practicing literary study allows for non-essentialist and resistive readings of experience and identity in plural societies. He is interested in phenomenology, philosophy of language, aesthetic theory, semiotics, and myth. Apart from this, Chinmay has also been pursuing research in Manga studies and developing an academic relation with the manga he grew up reading.