Dr. Sarvani Gooptu is former Professor of Asian Literary and Cultural Studies and present Fellow at Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata. Her main areas of research are Nationalism and Culture in the colonial period. Among her publications are three monographs and an edited and translated volume-1)The Actress in the Public Theatres of Calcutta ( 2015), The Music of Nationhood: 2) Dwijendralal Roy of Bengal ( 2018) (which received the Hiralal Gupta Memorial Award for Best Historical work by a woman historian at the Indian History Congress, Kanoor Session, 2018), and 3)Knowing Asia: being Asian: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Bengali periodicals 1870-1940 ( 2021). In 2023, her edited and translated volume Wandering Women: Travel Writings in Bengali Periodicals 1900-1940 has been published. She has three co-edited books On Modern Indian Sensibilities: Culture, Politics, History with Ishita Banerjee-Dube, (Routledge, 2018), The Regional Great Game in the Indian Ocean and India’s evolving Maritime Strategy with Vivek Mishra (KW Pub, 2021), and Performance and the Culture of Nationalism: Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South, Central and Southeast Asia with Mimasha Pandit (Routledge, 2023). She was the guest editor of Gendered Asia, Special Issue of Asian Studies in 2018 and has edited Asian Studies from 2017-2024.   

She has presented papers in national and international conferences as well as contributed articles in edited volumes and journals of repute. Sarvani Gooptu is actively engaged with the Netaji Research Bureau as its Council Member and served as Secretary of the Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies. She served as Hony Secretary and Director at the Rotary Club of Calcutta and EC member of Indian History Congress. At present she is the Sectional President of Countries other than India, IHC.