Prithvi Shobhi
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Assistant Professor, Humanities Department
Contact Information Office: HUM 529 Phone: (415) 338-1220 Email: pdcs@sfsu.edu
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Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi is an Assistant Professor in the Humanities Department. He specializes in medieval South India, (especially Kannada literature and cinema) and the cultural politics of contemporary South Asia. His primary intellectual interest is in the history of dissent and dissenting cultures, particularly pre-modern critiques of Indian society and their continuing relevance in the cultural politics of modern South Asia. His doctoral work at the University of Chicago focused on a pre-modern utopian social-liteary movement and its appropriation by a modern community (Virasaiva-Lingayat). Recently, Prof. Shobhi has also begun writing on the films of Dr. Rajkumar, which he hopes will result in a monograph entitled 'Why Should I be Good? Moral Visions in the Films of Dr. Rajkumar'.
At San Francisco State University, Prof. Shobhi teaches courses on South Asian Civilization, the city of Delhi, Untouchability and Racism, Comparative Colonialism and Images of Everyday Life. His graduate seminar courses focus on themes such as vernacular Humanism and Ideas of Civilization.
