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Akshara Dafre

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Ph.D. Program
Areas of Speciality
  • Transnational Popular Culture
  • Global Hip Hop Studies
  • Popular Fiction
  • Queer Theory
  • Media Theory
Contact
  • akshara31@email.tamu.edu
  • LAAH 366

Education

MA, Literature and Culture, University of Birmingham, UK, 2020

BA, Literary and Cultural Studies, FLAME University, India, 2019

Accomplishments

1. Academic Service: 1. International Student Representative, English Graduate Student Association, Texas A&M University, 2023 – 2024

2. Graduate Mentor, Texas A&M University, 2023

3. Student Representative, University of Birmingham Guild of Students, 2019 – 2020 for MA Literature and Culture, Batch of 2020

Honors and Awards

Lechner Graduate Grant – Texas A&M University, Department of English, 2022

Publications

Cardozo, E., Dafre, A., & Singh, T. (forthcoming). ‘At the table I sit, making it legit’: Legitimate knowledge, and the legitimacy of knowledge in a Hip Hop classroom in India. Global Hip Hop Studies (Special Issue: ‘“Knowledge Reigns Supreme”: The Fifth Element in Hip Hop Culture’)

Other Publications

1. Selected Presentations: 1. “Identity and Politics in North East Indian Hip Hop.” Presented (in-person) at 2024 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, USA

2. “Rejection and Subversion in Mumbai’s Gully Rap.” Presented (in-person) at 2024 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, USA

3. “‘At the table I sit, making it legit’: Legitimate knowledge, and the legitimacy of knowledge in a Hip Hop classroom in India.” Presented (online) at “Hip-Hop’s Global Pathways to Cultural “Legitimacy””. Organized by European Hiphop Studies Network (EHHSN), France (presented alongside co-authors Elloit Cardozo and Tanmay Singh)

4. “The Business of the Underground: Commercialization of “Underground” Hip Hop Music in India.” Presented (online) at “Staging Popular Music: Sustainable Music Ecologies for Artists, Industries and Cities.” Organized by International Music Business Research Association, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

5. “Voices from the Gully.” Presented (online) at “Annual CAL Masters Dissertation Conference.” Organized by College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, UK