Rajdeep Pathak

I’m an independent researcher. In my interdisciplinary work I seek a philosophically oriented and historically grounded critical engagement with literature, culture, technology, and science. My work engages literary and media studies; science and technology studies; the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine; and the philosophies of mind and cognitive science writ large to interrogate questions of identity, emergence, mediation, technics, individuation, epiphylogenesis, and bioethics.

More broadly, I work across twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone literature and media, modern Assamese literature and thought, and the rhetoric of the British Empire in connection with the Indian subcontinent with particular focus on British Assam.

I have so far produced work on translational norms in trafficking Jules Verne into Assamese, public scholarship and the American Baptist missionaries in Assam, mid-century ecodisaster fiction, and Ray Bradbury.