Sandeep Banerjee
Space, nature, and the environment; aesthetics and modernity; imperialism and decolonization; ideology of literary form; cultural politics of the Cold War; literary and social theory.
I am a scholar of Global Anglophone and World literature with a focus on the literary and cultural worlds of colonial and postcolonial South Asia. I also have scholarly expertise in British literature and culture of the long nineteenth century, and literary and social theory. I work with English, Bengali, and Hindi texts and my scholarship takes up questions related to the social production of space, nature, and the environment; imperialism and decolonization; the relationship between modernity and aesthetics in South Asia; the ideology of literary form, and the cultural politics of the Cold War.
I am the author of (Routledge, 2019; pbk. 2020). It conceives of decolonization as a utopian spatial desire to underscore the centrality of space and representation in prefigurations of a possible postcolony. I am a co-editor of the anthology of essays Partition, Belonging and the Birth of Bangladesh (Routledge, forthcoming). My articles have appeared (or are forthcoming) in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Modern Asian Studies, and Utopian Studies besides anthologies such as the Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire and Cambridge Critical Concepts: Space and Literary Studies. I am one of the series editors of the , a member of the Working Group, and serve on the editorial boards of the journals , and .
I am currently completing my second monograph, Enchanting Geographies: Placemaking in the Colonial Himalaya that examines changes in the cultural conceptions in the mountains between 1770 and 1950. Conceiving of this transformation as a contested process of placemaking in which both the British and Indians engaged in, the study illuminates a key moment in the colonial production of space and nature in the capitalocene. I am also translating a Bengali novel into English besides developing a project that will examine the impact of the cold war on literary and cultural texts as well as theory from South Asia.
Ph.D. (Syracuse University, USA)
M. Phil., (University of Oxford, UK)
M.A. (Jadavpur University, India)
B.A. Honours (Jadavpur University, India)
Books
. (Routledge, 2019; Pbk, 2021)
Edited Volumes
Partition, Belonging and the Birth of Bangladesh (co-edited with Subho Basu). Routledge. Forthcoming.
Editor, 鈥淒eath, Disease, and Empire: A Forum on Mike Davis鈥檚 Late-Victorian Holocausts.鈥� Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Forthcoming.聽
Articles and Book Chapters
Journal Articles聽
鈥淭he Translation of Culture and the Culture of Translation: From Gorky鈥檚 Mother to Mahasweta Devi鈥檚 Mother of 1084.鈥� Comparative Literature Studies. Forthcoming.聽
鈥淐olonial Necropolitics.鈥� In 鈥淒eath, Disease, and Empire: A Forum on Mike Davis鈥檚 Late-Victorian Holocausts.鈥� Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. Forthcoming.聽
Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism 20 (2022): 19-39. By invitation.聽
Modern Fiction Studies 68, no. 1 (2022): 43-63. By invitation.聽
Utopian Studies 30, no. 3聽(2022): 257-73.聽
Mediations 30, no 2. (2017): 1-14.聽
(co-authored聽with Subho Basu). Modern Asian Studies 49, no. 3 (2015): 609-49.聽
Critical Imprints 3 (2015): 1-21. By invitation.聽
Victorian Literature and Culture 42 (2014): 351-68.聽
Book Chapters聽
鈥淭he Imperial Romance: Colonialism in Ritual Form.鈥� In Cambridge Companion to British Literature and Empire, ed. Auritro Majumder. Cambridge UP. By invitation. Forthcoming.聽
鈥淓mpire, Nation, and the Question of Space鈥� (co-authored with Atreyee Majumder). In Cambridge Critical聽Concepts: Space and Literary Studies, ed. Elizabeth Evans. Cambridge UP. By invitation. Forthcoming.聽聽
鈥淯nder the 鈥榡ack-fruit-tree-shade鈥�: Making Sense of Place in the Bengali Lyric.鈥� In Partition, Belonging and the Birth of Bangladesh, eds. Sandeep Banerjee and Subho Basu. Routledge. Forthcoming.聽聽
鈥淚ntroduction: From an Affective to a Political Community鈥� (co-authored with Subho Basu). In Partition, Belonging and the Birth of Bangladesh, eds. Sandeep Banerjee and Subho Basu. Routledge. Forthcoming.聽聽
鈥� (co-authored with Subho Basu). In Cities in South Asia, eds. Crispin Bates and Minoru Mio (Routledge, 2015): 125-42.
(co-authored with Subho Basu et al). In South Asia in the World: An Introduction, ed. Susan S. Wadley, (ME Sharpe, 2015): 22-65.
In Modern Social Thinkers, ed. Pradip Basu (Setu Publishing, 2012):聽319-36.
Reference Essay聽
(co-authored with Atreyee Majumder). In Oxford Bibliographies in Hinduism, ed. Tracy Coleman. Oxford UP, 2023. Introduction, commentaries and 115 annotated entries. 11,149 words.聽
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Harf: A Journal of South Asian Studies 3 (2018): 41-45.聽
Reviews and Public Scholarship
Public Events
Invited Public Lecture: 鈥淪inging in Dark Times.鈥� Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Crow鈥檚 Theater, Toronto, Canada. 7 January 2024.
Invited Lecture: 鈥淐olonialism and its Discontents in South Asia.鈥� Canadian Tire Corporation, Canada. 1 May 2023. On Zoom.
Panelist, 鈥淐BC Ideas: Muhammad Iqbal 鈥� One of the Greatest South Asian Thinkers of the 20th Century,鈥� Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada. Aired: 25 January 2023.
Panelist, 鈥淐BC Ideas: The Year 1913 鈥� The World on the Brink,鈥� Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Stratford, Canada. 24 July 2022. Aired: 3 November 2022.
In Conversation with Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy, Professor of History, Duke University. Bangalore International Center, Bangalore, India. 16 October 2020. On Zoom.
Book Reviews & Roundtables聽
Review of States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century by Adhira Mangalagiri. Columbia UP, 2023. Comparative Literature Studies. Forthcoming.聽
鈥淩equiem for a Dream.鈥� Forum on Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery by Auritro聽Majumder. Cambridge UP, 2020. Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9, no. 3 (2022): 399-404.聽
Review of Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures by Aamir Mufti. Harvard UP, 2018. Ariel 51, no. 1 (2021): 170-73.聽
鈥淎 Saga of Conceptual Difficulties.鈥� Review of Similarity: A Paradigm for Culture Theory, eds. Anil Bhatti and聽Dorothee Kimmich. Tulika Books, 2018. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. LVI, nos. 45 & 46 (2021): 34-36.聽
鈥淎natomy of a Criticism: Considerations on a 鈥楳ore than Global鈥� Reading Strategy.鈥� In 鈥淢ore than Global?鈥�: A Roundtable Discussion on Thinking Literature Across Continents by Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller. Duke UP, 2016. New Global Studies 13, no.1 (2019): 131-36. By Invitation.聽
Review of Daniel E. White, From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print & Modernity in Early British India 1793-1835. Johns Hopkins UP, 2013. University of Toronto Quarterly 84, no. 3 (2015): 214-16.聽
Public Scholarship聽聽
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Montreal Serai. Vol. 35, no. 3 (2022).聽聽
Caf茅 Dissensus. Issue 61 (2022).聽
Marx, Asia, and the history of the present. episteme. Issue 3 (2020).聽
鈥淓piphany and Exasperation: The National Library.鈥� Kolkata, Book City: Readings, Fragments, Images, eds. Jennie Renton and Sria Chatterjee (Textualities, 2009): 163-72. 聽
Major Grants聽
- Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada (2019-24).聽聽聽
- Research Grant, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Germany (2018-20; Co-PI)聽
- 脡tablissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs Grant, Fonds de recherche du Qu茅bec (2015-18).聽聽
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- Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching. Department of English Student Association, 91社区, 2017.聽
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- Faculty Fellowship. Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, 91社区 (2016-18).聽聽
- Dissertation Fellowship. Humanities Centre, Syracuse University, USA (2012-13). 聽
- University Fellowship. Syracuse University, USA (2011-12; 2007-08).聽
- British Chevening/ Radhakrishnan Oxford Scholarship (2000-02).
I supervise projects related to my areas of interest.
Syracuse University