Akrish Adhikari

Akrish Adhikari (PhD, Princeton) works on Francophone literature from Africa and the Caribbean, film and media studies, critical theory and digital humanities. His current book project, Teledrumming, theorizes the relationship between African drumming and women's labor as the primary media of Francophone revolutionary anticolonialism. Akrish's research has appeared or is forthcoming in New Literary History, differences, Configurations, and The Comparatist

Research interest(s)/area of expertise

  • Film and media studies
  • Critical theory
  • Francophone literature from Africa and the Caribbean
  • Digital humanities

Education

Ph.D. in French, Princeton University, 2024

Courses taught by Akrish Adhikari

Winter Term 2025 (current)

Fall Term 2024