Saikat Majumdar, Assistant Professor Primary Office: 460-415 At Stanford Since: 2007 Email: majumdar@stanford.edu Current Year's Courses: Globalization and Contemporary Fiction Introduction to Critical Theory Degrees: Ph.D. , Rutgers University, 2005 |
Saikat Majumdar's areas of interest include late 19th and 20th century British, Irish and World Anglophone literature, studies of postcolonialism and globalization, critical theory and creative writing. His work has been published in Modern Fiction Studies, James Joyce Quarterly, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Genre, Studies in the Novel, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, College English, and in other venues. He is completing a book, tentatively titled The banality of empire: modernism, colonialism and literature in the twentieth century and beyond, which reads the political and aesthetic significance of an interrelated group of motifs – banality, boredom, the everyday and the mundane, in writing from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and India, ranging from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. He has been awarded grants from the the Modernist Studies Association, the International James Joyce Foundation, and an Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship. His novel, Silverfish, was published in 2007 by HarperCollins India. He is also a member of the Committee in Charge for Stanford's Program in Modern Thought and Literature and works actively with graduate students from that program. |
