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Englisches Seminar / Book Studies
ES 121, Johannisstr. 12-20, 48143 Münster
Telephone: (0)251 83-25630
Email: cananth@uni-muenster.de
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Contemporary book culture and publishing
Post-digital print cultures
Translations in the anglophone book market
Indian book history
Chandni Ananth’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.
Chandni Ananth is a doctoral candidate and research associate at the Chair of Book 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 in National and Transnational Studies from the University of Münster.
Current semester: Theory and Literature (Group I) - Understanding Material Culture
Previous semesters:
Positioning Contemporary Bestsellers
Institutions of Literature: Anglophone Perspectives
Print Cultural Approaches to World Literature
"Reading the Bookstore: English-Language Young Adult Literature in the German Market." Anglistik 35.2 (2024) (co-authored with Nayantara Srinivasan).
"The Baby-Sitters Club. Notizen Zur Verlags- Und Rezeptionsgeschichte Der Erfolgreichen US-Amerikanischen Taschenbuchserie." kjl&m 22, no. 4 (2022) (co-authored with Corinna Norrick-Rühl).
"Online Learning, Library Access and Bookcase Insecurity: A German Case Study." In Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic, edited by Corinna Norrick-Rühl and Shafquat Towheed. New Directions in Book History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 (co-authored with Ellen Barth, Laura Ntoumanis, and Natalia Tolstopyat).