Shubhashree Basnyat

Shubhashree Basnyat is a first-year PhD student in the English Department. Born in Kathmandu, Nepal, Shubi received her BA from Williams College, where she majored in English and earned Highest Honors for her thesis, “Kathmandu,” a celebration of the expansive and creative relationships indigenous communities have with urban space in Nepal. Shubi has an MA in Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London, where she also served as a reviewer for the graduate student journal Decolonial Subversions. Her MA dissertation examines women’s narratives of illness in Nepali fiction. At Yale, Shubi hopes to work at the emergent intersection of disability, illness, and environmental studies, while remaining rooted in postcolonial studies and feminist and queer theory. In her free time, Shubi is learning to rest, meditate, and cook.