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Moinak Banerjee

Moinak Banerjee
Contact Information
Email address: 
moinak.banerjee [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Stream: 
Literature
Cultural Studies
Specialization by geographical area: 
South Asia
Specialization by time period: 
20th-Century
Modernism
21st-Century
Area(s): 
Aesthetics
Critical Theory
Post/Anti/Decolonial Studies
Sociology of Literature
Areas of interest: 

global Anglophone and world literature; postcolonial literature and theory; South Asian literature and culture; South Asian diaspora; Bengali literature and films; Hindi literature and films; global sixties; cold war culture; visual studies; critical theory

Biography: 

Moinak Banerjee is a PhD candidate in the Department of English. He is broadly interested in studying literature(s) and culture from the Global South. His PhD project investigates literary and cultural forms to demonstrate their relationship with politics and history specifically in the context of the Global Sixties and the Cultural Cold War. His articles and book reviews have been published in South Asian Review and South Asian History and Culture and are under review in Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. McGill University (expected 2024)
M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2019) 
M.A., University of Calcutta, India (2015)
B.A. Honours, University of Calcutta, India (2013)

Selected publications: 

Articles

Exception as Rule: Recasting A Fine Balance and Anil’s Ghost as Allegories of State in Moments of National Crises. Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Under Review).

Connected Stories, Fragmented Lives: Narrating Narmada as Literary Form of Water Politics. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (Under Review).

Carceral Spaces, Gendered Collectives: Reading Women’s Prison Memoirs as Forms of Transnational Literary-Historical Interventions. Co-authored with Madhulagna Halder. Journal of Gender Studies (Under Review).

Book Contributions

“Materiality of the Avant-Garde – Historicizing the Bengali Little Magazine Library.” Book chapter. Aesthetics in the Fray: The Avant-Garde in India ed. Brinda Bose, Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation | SSAF–Tulika Books. Forthcoming, Summer 2025.

Essays

“Rapping Resistance.” Montreal Serai. Issue “Culture Shifting.” Vol. 7, No. 3, ‘Culture shifting – challenging and changing the dominant narratives.’, ed. Scott Weinstein, October 2024.

“Politics beyond Death: Rohith Vemula’s Martyrdom and Possibilities of Resistance”. Café Dissensus Issue 59, ‘Reflections on Rohith Vemula’s Suicide.,’ ed. Drishadwati Bargi, September 2021.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Hugh MacLennan Fellowship for the Study of English, Winter 2025
  • McGill Graduate Excellence Award, Fall 2020 to Fall 2024
  • McGill Abner Kingman Fellowship in Arts, Winter 2021
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