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I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Eastern connections of the British Romantic poets. My monograph Oriental Wells: The Early Romantic Poets and Their Eastern Muse, published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2020, was chiselled out of my doctoral work. I am interested in exploring the cross-cultural encounters between Europe and South Asia, especially in the context of early nineteenth century. In addition to this, a key area of my research concerns the Posthuman and the Anthropocene. In several articles published in journals and books, I have explored different dimensions of posthumanist thought from a 'postcolonial location'. My article ‘Posthumanism: Through the Postcolonial Lens’ (2016) has been widely cited by scholars across the globe. Currently, I am co-editing a book, Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography. Other areas of my interest include travel and travel writing, film studies and ‘minor literatures’.

Ph.D.(University of Kalyani, 2016)

I have been teaching for almost fifteen years now.

Research Interests:

British Romanticsim and India

Posthumanism and India

Travel and Walkability studies

Minor literatures

Over the last fifteen years I have taught different modules and texts but my primary areas of interest include British Romantic Poetry, Modern European drama and Critical Theory. At Presidency University, I teach two courses on Romantic literature. Some of the Romantic period texts I have recently done, include Mary Shelley's The Last Man, Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Wordsworth's The Prelude and Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. I have done Brecht both at the UG and PG level. In the Advanced Theory module, I have taught Althusser, Said and Latour in the last few semesters. I also teach an introductory course on film studies.

1. Member: British Associtation of Romantic Studies (BARS)

2. Founder Member: Indian Posthuamnism Network (https://posthumanism.in/)

A. Books

1. Monograpgh

'Oriental Wells': The Early Romantic Poets and Their Eastern Muse. New Delhi, London, Oxford, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2020.

2. Edited Volume

Posthumanism and India: A Critical Cartography. Eds. Debashish Banerji, Md. Monirul Islam, and Samrat Sengupta. New Delhi, London, Oxford, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2024 (forthcoming).

B. Book Chapters

1. “Robert Southey’s ‘Orientaliana’ in Thalaba the Destroyer.” Romantic Weltliteratur of the Western Hemisphere. Ed. Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy. New York: Peter Lang, 2019.

2. “‘European Mind’ in ‘African Constitution’: Robert Southey’s Thoughts on Miscegenation.” Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture. Ed. G. Melvin Hill. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.

3. Das, Subhajit and Md. Monirul Islam. “ Hindu Pilgrimage in India and Walkability: Theory and Praxis” Routledge International Handbook of Walking. Eds. C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram, and Noam Shoval. London and New York: Rautledge, 2018.

4. “Posthumanism: Through the Postcolonial Lens.” Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures. Eds. Debashis Banerji and Makarand Paranjape. Springer: New Delhi, 2016.

5. “Patriarchy in A Midsummer Nights’ Dream.” Representing Shakespeare: Interpretations and Translations. Ed. Sharbani Chaudhury. New Delhi: Macmillan/Department of English University of Kalyani, 2002.

C. Journal Articles

1. Poetry as Resistance: The Bengal Famine of 1770, Bangla Verses, and John Scott’s “Serim; or the Artificial Famine: An East-Indian Eclogue”. Romanticism on the Net. 77-78 (2023). https://ronjournal.org/s/6634.

2. "Teaching Romanticism in the Indian Classroom: Culture of Conformity and Pedagogies of Dissent." A&E: ANGLISTIK & ENGLISCHUNTERRICHT. 95 (2023): 93-116.

3. ‘"Artificial intelligence in Indian films: Anukul and AI ethics." Short Film Studies, 12:2 V, Sep 2022, p. 183 -192. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/sfs_00082_1

4. "The Beasts and the Beastly: Colonial Discourse and the (Non-)human Animals of Pantisocracy." IAFOR Journal of Arts & Humanities. 9.1 (2022): 131-43. //doi.org/10.22492/ijah.9.1

4. “Dog Talks in ‘The Flood’.” Asian Quarterly: An International Journal of Contemporary. 15 .3(2017): 183–92

5. “Wounds Sustained, Wounds Nurtured: Rituals of Violence at Wagah.” Cultural Intertexts. 3.6. (2016): 79-88.

6. Islam, Md. Monirul, and Subhajit Das. “Travel Writing and Empire: A Reading of William Hodges’s Travels in India.” postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies. 2.2( 2017): 1–15.

C. Seminar Preceedings

1. "Modern Short Story and the Oriental Tales." Modern Short Story: Text and Narrative. Krishnanagar Women’s College, 2012. 28-35

2.“The East /West Binary in Tagore’s Red Oleander." Rabindranath Tagore: Nationalism and Internationalism. Shimurali Sachinandan College of Education, 2011. 114-117

D. Course Modules produced under UGC MHRD e-PG Pathshala

1. “Slave Narratives.” American Literature. UGC MHRD e-PG Pathshala, 2016.

2. “Orientalism and Thereafter: Edward Said.” Literary Criticism and Theory. MHRD e-PG Pathshala, 2016.

3. “Tragedy between 1590 and 1798. English Literature 1590-1798. UGC MHRD e-PG Pathshala, 2016.

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