School of Arts
Priyal Chitale
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Key information
- Roles
- School of Arts PhD researcher
- Department
- School of Arts
- Qualifications
- BA (Vassar), MA (SOAS)
- Email address
- 666532@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- The Pleasures and Poetics of Hindustani Film Song Lyrics, ca. 1940-80
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Richard Williams & Dr Saeid Kordmafi
Biography
Priyal is a CHASE AHRC Scholar and second-year PhD student in the Department of Music at SOAS.
She holds a BA in Film Studies from Vassar College, and two MAs from SOAS, the first in South Asian Area Studies and the second in Social Anthropology with Intensive Persian. Her native languages are English, Hindi, and Marathi, and her research languages are Urdu, Persian, and French.
Her doctoral project employs textual criticism, archival research, and oral history to investigate the affective and aesthetic pleasures and poetics of Hindustani film song lyrics ca. 1940–80.
Research interests
Modern India, Persianate South Asia, history of emotions, cultural history, literary anthropology, film studies, public culture, poetics and aesthetics.
