Devika Sharma

Devika Sharma

Devika Sharma

Devika Sharma is associate professor of Modern Culture at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Amerikanske fængselsbilleder: Kunst, kultur og indespærring i samtidens USA [American Prison Imagery: Arts, Culture, and Incarceration in the Contemporary U.S.] (Tiderne Skifter 2011) and the co-editor (with Frederik Tygstrup) of Structures of Feeling: Affectivity and the Study of Culture (De Gruyter 2015). Sharma is co-convenor of Interventions, a research network on humanitarian politics and culture and the co-editor of the Nordic journal K&K, having recently edited issues on affectivity, cultural critique, and the politics of guilt and shame in Scandinavia. She is working on a monograph on humanitarian culture and complicity with the working title The Predicament of Privilege.

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