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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
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.

Current research: 

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

Degree(s): 

Ph.D. 海角精品黑料 (expected 2024)
M.Phil., Jawaharlal Nehru University, India (2019)聽
M.A., University of Calcutta, India (2015)
B.A. Honours, University of Calcutta, India (2013)

Selected publications: 

Essays

鈥淧olitics beyond Death: Rohith Vemula鈥檚 Martyrdom and Possibilities of Resistance鈥�. Caf茅 Dissensus Issue 59, 鈥楻eflections on Rohith Vemula鈥檚 Suicide.,鈥� ed. Drishadwati Bargi, September 2021.

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