Dr Vivek Gupta

Vivek Gupta is Senior Research Associate in Islamic Manuscripts at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He is the curator of A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire (8 September 2026 – 7 March 2027) at the Fitzwilliam Museum. He is the author of Wonders of Hindustan: Artists and books in the early modern world (UCL Press, 2027). For the 2026–27 academic year, he is also a Research Fellow at the Louvre Abu Dhabi where he pursues research on Cosmos, Wonder, and the Museum: Early Modern Art and the Global Mughal World.

In addition to writing a second book on scribes, illuminators, and architectural design between South and West Asia during the 15th century, Vivek is documenting and analysing the extensive holdings of Islamic and South Asian manuscripts at the Parker Library.

Previously, he held two successive three-year postdoctoral positions. He was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow (2023–26) in History of Art at UCL, and before a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Islamic Art (2020–23) at the University of Cambridge, Centre of Islamic Studies and Jesus College. In both these roles he taught a range of subjects within the history of Islamic and South Asian art and architecture.

His key publications have appeared in South Asian Studies, Muqarnas, the Journal of South Asian Intellectual History, Archives of Asian Art, The Art Newspaper, Getty Publications, and Marg. View a full list