Chandni Ananth, M.A.

Chandni Ananth is a doctoral candidate and research associate at the Chair of Book Studies and American Studies, where she is researching the role of institutions of literature as intermediaries in the circulation of Indian-language literature in the anglophone literary sphere. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Madras and a master’s degree in National and Transnational Studies from the University of Münster.

Chandni’s current doctoral research looks at the role of institutions of literature as intermediaries in the circulation of books in the anglophone literary sphere. Focusing on institutions such as the Sahitya Akademi, India’s national academy of letters, this project aims to explore how institutional intermediaries promote and shape the transmission and reception of translated Indian literature in the global anglophone book market.