Ananya Jahanara Kabir is an Indian literary scholar. She studied literature at the University of Calcutta, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge, and has taught at the University of Leeds and King's College London. She is the author of numerous research papers and three books. Her prizes include the Infosys Prize for humanities in 2017, and the Humboldt Prize in 2018. Kabir was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.
Kabir completed her undergraduate studies in literature at the University of Calcutta. She pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford and earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Kabir has held academic positions at the University of Leeds and is currently a professor at King's College London, where she specialises in postcolonial studies, cultural memory, and literary theory.
She belongs to the Kabir lineage of Calcutta and is thereby related to Humayun Kabir and Justice Altamas Kabir among others.