Akash Belsare
English Graduate Assistant
Room 201 Cubicle D, Burrowes BuildingMailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
Email:
ayb121@psu.edu
Office Hours:
- Wednesday: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Thursday: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Education
- BA English and History, University of South Florida (2014)
- 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.