Sandeep Banerjee
Ph.D. (Syracuse University, USA)
M. Phil., (University of Oxford, UK)
M.A. (Jadavpur University, India)
B.A. Honours (Jadavpur University, India)
Postcolonial, Global Anglophone, and World literature; Bengali Literature; The British Empire; Long c19 British Literature; Ecocriticism, Literary Geography, and the Environmental Humanities; The Cultural Cold War; The Novel; The Travelogue and Travel Writing; Non-western or “Peripheral” Aesthetics; Literary and Social Theory.
Syracuse University
- SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019-24. Project: “Mountains of the Mind: The Himalaya and the Colonial Ecocritical Imagination, 1750-1950.” PI.
- Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Germany: Research Grant in the Special Programme – Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements. Project: "My Golden Bengal: Making of a Muslim Nation in Bangladesh." 2018 - 20. Co-PI.
- Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English, McGill University, Montréal, Canada. 2016 – 17.
- Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI), McGill University, Montréal, Canada. 2016 – 18.
- Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC): Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs grant, 2015 – 2018. [Project: “Les montagnes magiques: la production coloniale de l’Himalaya et l’imagination littéraire, de 1800 à 1950”/ “The Magic Mountains: Colonial Production of the Himalaya and the Literary Imagination, 1800 – 1950”]
- Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Center, Syracuse University, 2012 – 13.
- Research Grant, South Asia Center, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2012.
- University Fellowship, Graduate School, Syracuse University, 2011 – 12.
- Goekjian Research Grant, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2012.
- University Fellowship, Graduate School, Syracuse University, 2007 – 08.
- British Chevening Radhakrishnan Oxford Scholarship, co-funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the UK Govt. and University of Oxford, 2000 – 02
Book
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony (Routledge, 2019).
Journal Articles
“Beyond the Intimations of Mortality: Chakrabarty, Anthropocene, and the Politics of the Im/Possible.” Mediations. 30.2(2017): 1 – 14.
“Secularising the Sacred, Imagining the Nation-Space: The Himalaya in Bengali Travelogues, 1856 – 1901.” (co-authored) Modern Asian Studies. 49.3(2015): 609 – 649.
“Why, This is (Not Quite) London!: The Spectre of Kipling in Contemporary Kolkata.” Critical Imprints. 3(2015): 1 – 21.
“‘Not altogether Unpicturesque’: Samuel Bourne and the Landscaping of the Victorian Himalaya.” Victorian Literature and Culture: Special Issue on Victorian India. 42(2014): 351 – 368.
Book Chapters
“The City as Nation: Delhi as the Indian Nation in Bengali Bhadralok Travelogues, 1866 - 1910” (co-authored) in Cities in South Asia. Eds. Crispin Bates and Minuro Mio. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2015. 125 – 142.
“A Brief History of South Asia” in South Asia in the World: An Introduction. (primary author) Ed. Susan S. Wadley. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2014. 22 – 65.
“Raymond Williams: Materialist Approach to Culture, Literature, Media and Politics – The Critical Terrain of Marxism” in Modern Social Thinkers. Ed. Pradip Basu. Calcutta: Setu Publishing, 2012. pp. 319 – 336.
Reviews
From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print & Modernity in Early British India 1793 – 1835 by Daniel E. White. University of Toronto Quarterly 84.3 (2015): 214 – 216.
Editorial Positions:
Series Co-Editor (with Monica Popescu and Katherine Zien): Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War.
Member, Editorial Collective: positions: asia critique
• Realism, Modernism, and Irrealism in nineteenth and twentieth century South Asian literature.
• The colonial Himalaya and the literary imagination.