Benjamin Conisbee Baer

Ben Conisbee Baer is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and current Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2019) and the translator of Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn (Columbia University Press, 2011). Baer’s most recent book, in collaboration with Smaran Dayal, is Spider-Mother: The Fiction and Politics of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Warbler Press, 2024). His work in the fields of postcolonial theory, Marxism, deconstruction, and South Asian literature has appeared in journals such as PMLA, boundary 2, Cultural Critique, Modernism/Modernity, Sikh Formations, and many edited volumes.