Nadia Cattoni is a literary historian, Assistant Professor at the South Asian Studies Department, University of Lausanne. Her research focuses on early modern North Indian literature, particularly court poetry, erotics and aesthetics. She is also interested in understanding how literature relates to Indian miniature painting.
She is the author of Dev, l’artisan-poète du 18ème siècle et la nāyikā dans le Rasavilāsa. Circulation et échanges, intertextualité et transformations (2020) and the co-editor (with Philippe Bornet) of Significant Others, Significant Encounters. Essays on South Asian History and Literature (2023), and (with Maya Burger) of Early Modern India: Literatures and Images, Texts and Languages (2019).