Professor Dr. Sourit Bhattacharya

Biography

Sourit Bhattacharya is a Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures at the University of Edinburgh, where he specializes in colonial and postcolonial studies, South Asian literatures and cultures, as well as environmental disaster studies. He obtained his PhD in English Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Warwick, having previously taught at prestigious institutions including Calcutta University, Warwick, Glasgow, and IIT Roorkee in India. His research interests encompass a variety of fields, including postcolonial ecocriticism, world literature, and the literary responses to environmental crises, particularly those related to food scarcity. Bhattacharya's work examines the structural inequalities revealed through literary representations of disaster and famine, with significant projects on the Bengal famine of 1943 and its literary and cultural impacts. He is involved in various academic and administrative roles, including Programme Director for the MSc in Comparative Literature, and he is an active member of several research networks dedicated to food sovereignty and colonial history. He has published widely on topics related to his research, contributing to a greater understanding of postcolonial literatures and their relevance in contemporary discussions on ecology and social justice.

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