Ananya Jahanara Kabir is an Indian literary scholar. She studied literature at the University of Calcutta and Cambridge University, and has taught at the University of Leeds and King's College London. She is the author of numerous research papers and she has published several books. Her prizes include the Infosys Prize (humanities, 2017) and the . She belongs to the Kabir dynasty of Calcutta and is thereby related to Humayun Kabir and Justice Altamas Kabir among others.