Chris Moffat
Title: Senior Lecturer in South Asian History
School or Department: History
E-mail: c.moffat (@) qmul.ac.uk
Sites of Interest: Pakistan, North India
Period of Interest: Modern and Contemporary
Research Keywords: Public History; Anthropology of History; Philosophy of History; Political Thought; Aesthetics; Violence; Architecture.
Relevant Publications:
- India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
- ‘History in Pakistan and the Will to Architecture’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 39:1 (2019).
- ‘Politics and the Work of the Dead in Modern India’, Comparative Studies in Society and History 60:1 (2018), 178-211.
- (With J Daniel Elam), ’On the Form, Politics and Effects of Writing Revolution’,South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39:3 (2016), 513-24.
- ‘Bhagat Singh’s Corpse’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39:3 (2016), 644-661.
- ‘Experiments in Political Truth’, Postcolonial Studies 16:2 (2013), 185-201.