Rochelle Pinto is currently an independent researcher, with interests in nineteenth century land disputes, and the relation between ethnography and the colonial novel. She specialised in the print and literary history of Goa for her PhD research conducted at SOAS, London. Her MA in English was from JNU, New Delhi. She was research fellow at the Institut d’Études Avancées, Nantes, 2019-20, the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 2015-2017, and CSDS, Delhi, 2014-2015. She taught English at Delhi University, and at CSCS, Bangalore, where she co-directed a project, ‘Archive and Access’, between 2009-2011.
She is the author of Between Empires – print and politics in Goa, 2007, Oxford University Press, a book theorizing the nature of linguistic politics, print production and colonial rule through the experience of Portuguese colonialism in nineteenth century Goa, and Translation, Script and Orality, 2021, Orient BlackSwan, on how the Konkani language in Goa was impacted by comparative philology and nationalism.
The Liberalism and the Colonial Periodical Press 