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Akash Belsare

Akash Belsare

English Graduate Assistant

Room 201 Cubicle D, Burrowes Building

Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Office Hours:

  • Spring 2020:

Education

  1. BA English and History, University of South Florida (2014)
  2. MA English, Pennsylvania State University (2016)

Professional Bio

Akash Belsare is a dual-title Ph.D. candidate in English and African American and Diaspora Studies. His areas of interest include African American literature, Asian American literature, Latina/o literature, animal studies, feminist theory, and genre studies. He is specifically interested in how genre and folklore are utilized and marketed in American multiethnic contemporary literature. Akash previously served as the Managing Editor for Verge: Studies in Global Asias (UMN Press), a journal in Asian and Asian American Studies, headed by PSU Professor Tina Chen.

Areas of Specialization

African American Literature and Language
Contemporary Literature
Race and Ethnicity Studies