Kunal Gupta

Kunal Gupta is committed to imagining and thinking the ethics and language of decolonial
queer worldmaking and posthuman intimacies. Driven by this commitment for their doctoral
research, they are now exploring the decoloniality of erotics as an embodied critical practice.
In March 2024, they presented a preparative paper titled “Memory and Erotics: Thinking
Ironic Epistemologies of Modern Queer Materialities in India,” at Queer Political
Assemblages 4.0 organised by Jadavpur University.
As a precursor to this commitment, Kunal’s Master’s dissertation, “Love as a Space for
Mythopoesis in Marina Tsvetaeva’s Poetry,” is an exploration of mythopoetic intertextuality
and the abject in Tsvetaeva’s non-phallocratic uses of language.
Kunal is currently engaged by queer love poetry, speculative poetics, memory and insidious
trauma, micropoetics, queer utopianism, queer interventions in rasa, posthumanism,
speculative realism, psychoanalysis and feminist linguistic philosophy, bisexual theories of
affect and space, and doing things with untranslatables. In general, they are also interested in
the short-story (short and long), the modern essay, gothic science-fiction and fantasy, prose
poetry, verse narrative, magic realism, speculative and postmodern literatures, postmodern
aesthetics and their translation across languages, Central European literatures, and fantasy
and mythopoeia.
Kunal is also working on an anthology of poetry on the contradictions of queer human
dreaming. They also practice ephemeral prose and zentangle.