City Circuits: Literary and Visual Migrations of New York City and Calcutta (1950-1979) My dissertation examines parallel socio-political transformations in New York City and Calcutta between 1950 and 1979 through the lens of gender. In the first half, I analyze literary and cinematic cultural productions to explore how women’s complex relationships with domestic and public spaces influenced their mobility within the cities and how working-class masculine anxieties impacted urban counterculture movements in the neo-capitalist era. In the second half, I study two bookselling streets that represent infrastructures distributing cultural productions. Utilizing ArcGIS story maps, I investigate how gender and sexual politics affected the functions of these streets as communal spaces within the city.