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Sayan Chattopadhyay
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Indian Writing in English, Postcolonial Studies, Life Writings, Literature of Colonial Bengal
Office
Faculty Building (Room 673)
Humanities and Social Sciences Department
I.I.T. Kanpur
Kanpur 208016
India
Education
PhD, University of Cambridge, 2014
M.Phil, University of Calcutta, 2008
M.A., University of Calcutta, 2006
B.A., Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, 2004
Selected Publications
BookBeing English: Indian Middle Class and the Desire for Anglicization. London and New York: Routledge, 2022
Journal articles"Dalit Middle Class and the Crisis of Colonial Modernity: A Study of Ajay Navaria's Yes Sir". [co-authored with Diksha Beniwal]. Contemporary Voice of Dalit (Sage). 2022, doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/2455328X211042490
Journal articles"Passage through India: Self-fashioning in Santha Rama Rau's Indian Travel Narratives". [co-authored with Durba Mukherjee]. Studies in Travel Writing (Routledge). 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2021.1946735
Journal articles"'Walking the Indian Streets': Analysing Ved Mehta's Memoirs of Return. [co-authored with Durba Mukherjee]. Life Writing (Routledge). 2020.
Journal articles"From Indianness to Englishness: The Foreign Selves of Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, and Salahuddin Chamchawala" The Journal of Commonwealth Literature(Sage). 53 (2): 412-429, 2018.
Journal articles"Disowning "Indianness": Images of Indian Womanhood and the "English" Self of Cornelia Sorabji". Prose Studies: History, Theory Criticism (Routledge). 37 (1): 2-20, 2015.
Journal articles"Return as a Stranger: Dom Moraes and the Ambiguity of Homecoming". Ex(tra)territorial: Reassesing Territory in Literature, Culture and Languages/Les Territoires littéraire, culturels et linguistiques en question. Eds. Didier Lassalle and Dirk Weissmann. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopoi. 313-320, 2014.
Journal articles"Homeward Journey Abroad: Nirad C. Chaudhuri and the Tradition of Twentieth Century Indian National Autobiographies". The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (Sage). 49 (2): 157-172, 2014.
Journal articles""Things of Stylized Beauty": The Novels of Sudhin N. Ghose and the Fragments of an Indian Tradition". Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (University of Calgary, Canada). 43 (3): 7-33, 2013.
Journal articles"Of Ex-White Men: Whiteness and Nationalist Self-Fashioning in Rabindranath Tagore's Gora and Nirad Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian". Images of Whiteness. Eds. Clarissa Behar and Anastasia Chung. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2013.
Journal articles"Reconstructing the History of Exile and Return: A Reading of Dom Moraes's The Long Strider". Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge). 48 (1): 79-91, 2012.
Journal articles"Dom Moraes". The Literary Encyclopedia, 2012.
Awards & Fellowships
2022 (April-September) DAAD Guest Professor at Heidelberg University, Germany.
2017 Baden-Wuerttemberg Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Recipient of the 2010-2013 Smuts Cambridge International Scholarship offered by Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, which fully funded my PhD degree in the University of Cambridge.
Recipient of the 2010 Overseas Endowment Travel Fellowship offered by the University of Calcutta.
Recipient of the 2004 Nripesh Chandra Guha Memorial Prize for securing highest marks in B.A. exam (with English honours) in Asutosh College.