Romita Ray

Romita Ray is associate professor of art history at Syracuse University where she teaches European and Indian art. Her area of research is the art and architecture of the British empire in India on which she has published widely. The author of Under the Banyan Tree: Relocating the Picturesque in British India (Yale University Press 2013), Ray is currently working on a book manuscript about the visual cultures of tea in India tentatively titled, Leafy Wonders: Art, Aesthetics, and the Science of Tea in India. Together with Dr. Jos Hackforth-Jones, she is also editing a multi-volume project for Routledge on art, architecture, material culture, and early cinema in the British empire forthcoming in 2022.