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Tuhin Bhattacharjee

  • tbhatta1@depaul.edu
  • Assistant Professor
  • Philosophy
  • Faculty
  • 2352 N. Clifton, Suite 150, Office 150.4

Tuhin was educated in both India and the US, receiving his doctoral degree from New York University's Department of Comparative Literature in 2023. His research and teaching bring together ancient Greek philosophy, Indian philosophy, feminist philosophy (Irigaray, Kristeva, Butler, Cavarero, etc.), psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan), queer theory, and deconstruction.

Tuhin’s recent essays have appeared in  Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of transContinental Feminism​, the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, and the public-facing online journal Conceptions Review. His work has recently received awards from the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) as well as the John J. Winkler Memorial trust.

Tuhin's current academic book project comparatively engages cosmogonic myths and maternal figurations in ancient Greek and Sanskrit texts to untangle the metaphysics of gender and the politics of reproduction in antiquity. The book's broad arc focuses on cosmogony, female desire, matricide, and sacrificial rituals in texts ranging from Hesiod's Theogony, Plato's Republic, and Aeschylus’ Oresteia, to the Upaniṣads and the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata, to their modern receptions in psychoanalysis and feminist philosophy.

Tuhin is also translating Sisir Kumar Das's book Aloukik Sanglap (Unearthly Dialogues) from Bengali to English. This work presents a series of speculative conversations between ancient Greek and Sanskrit literary characters, creating a dynamic space for the unfolding of themes that resonate across antiquity and modernity, the East and the West.

Tuhin regularly leads reading groups for Save Ancient Studies Alliance (SASA) and, more recently, for the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation (FPO)

When not teaching, writing, translating, or traveling to conferences, he moonlights as ​an amateur photographer.