Kuhelika Ghosh
Email: kghosh4@wisc.edu
Year Admitted: 2019
Bio
Kuhelika Ghosh is a PhD candidate in Literary Studies. Her dissertation, “Cultivating Caribbean Voices: Multispecies Gardens, Care, and Food Justice in Anglophone Caribbean Literature,” explores multispecies gardens and food justice in Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture from the 1960s to the present. Through investigations of kitchen gardens, market gardens, flower gardens, and therapeutic gardens, her project demonstrates how human gardening practices and multispecies rhythms relate to postcolonial food politics and responses to empire. She is a 2024-2025 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellow and has published in ariel: A Review of International English Literature, Edge Effects, Environmental History Now, Brittle Paper, and elsewhere.
Interests
20th and 21st-century Global Anglophone literatures; Environmental humanities; Postcolonial ecocriticism; Black feminisms and ecologies
Degree and Institution
BA (English and Communication Studies), University of California, Los Angeles
MA (Literary Studies), University of Wisconsin–Madison
Selected Publicatins
Ghosh, Kuhelika. “Can the Sundarbans Speak?: Multispecies Collectivity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 54, no. 1, 1, Jan. 2023.
Ghosh, Kuhelika. “Review: Culinary Colonialism, Caribbean Cookbooks, and Recipes for National Independence, by Keja L. Valens.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, vol. 25, no. 2, 2025, pp. 71–72.