Overview
Ayesha Matthan is a PhD candidate from India. She has degrees in Literature in English, Journalism, and Visual Studies from St Stephen’s College, Delhi; Asian College of Journalism in Chennai; and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, respectively. She has worked with The Hindu as an arts journalist, The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts as a research scholar, and India Foundation for the Arts as a communications editor. Her PhD dissertation is tentatively titled “Looking for Bombay/Mumbai/Bambai: Photography, Identity, and the City, 1970s-1990s.” She teaches a First Year Writing Seminar titled "Rear Window/Side Mirror: Looking and Writing the City". She also works now and then at the Johnson Museum as a Curatorial Assistant to preserve her sanity.