Sayan Bhattacharyya

Sayan Bhattacharyya is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities, and an Associate Research Scholar in Humanities. Before Yale, he taught at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he joined in 2018 after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania. His teaching and research interests are transdisciplinary across humanities and the sciences, especially the computational disciplines. He likes to make his students aware of the tropes and patterns that unite the humanities and the sciences and those (often the same ones) that also distinguish and divide them. His most recent work has appeared as chapters in two edited volumes, Global Debates in the Digital Humanities and The Digital Black Atlantic, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. His PhD was in comparative literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and he holds an MS in computer science and engineering, also from the University of Michigan; and a bachelor’s degree in engineering, from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India.