Poulomi Saha

Poulomi Saha is Chair of the Program in Critical Theory and Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley. Their first book, An Empire of Touch: Women’s Political Labor & the Fabrication of East Bengal (Columbia UP, 2019), won the American Comparative Literature Association’s Harry Levin Prize and Helen Tartar Award. They are currently at work on a book that explores the lengths to which people will go in search of transcendence—and the anguish of those left behind.