Kanupriya Dhingra

Dr. Kanupriya Dhingra teaches literature and cultural studies at School of Liberal Studies, BML Munjal University. She researches the history of the book and print cultures with an ethnographic focus on Delhi. Her first monograph, Old Delhi’s Parallel Book Bazaar (Cambridge University Press, 2024), draws on her doctoral research at SOAS (University of London) supported by the Felix Scholarship Fund. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) and is a member of The Bookselling Research Network. She is also on the Editorial Board of Ethnography (SAGE Journals) and Anthem Press’s Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture series.

Before joining BMU, Kanupriya was the founding faculty and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs and Internationalisation at the Jindal School of Languages and Literature, OP Jindal Global University. She was also the Executive Director and Founding Member of the Centre for Translation, Print, and Publishing Studies at OPJGU. Her postdoctoral fellowships include positions at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London (2023); the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main (2025), and a forthcoming fellowship at the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies (2026). She has written extensively about her research for journals, magazines, and digital news publications such as Comparative Critical Studies, The Caravan, Seminar, Scroll, and Himāl SouthAsian.

Kanupriya is deeply interested in Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu poetry, especially that of Amrita Pritam, and continues to research and translate it. Her published translations include short stories by Munshi Premchand (Niyogi Books, 2022) and Nasira Sharma (Oxford University Press, 2022). In 2023, she was awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Grant for Bristol Translates, an international Summer School for translation, in recognition of her contributions to the field. Her website: https://linktr.ee/kanupriyadhingra