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Sarbani Banerjee
Assistant Professor
sarbani[at]hs.iitr.ac.in
08961511540
Research Interests

Biosketch
Educational Details
Professional Background

Research
Projects
Publications
Patents
Books
Collaborations

Honours and Awards
Honors
Memberships

Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements

Students
Supervisions
Associate Scholars

Miscellaneous
Events
Visits
Administrative Positions
Miscellaneous
Research Interests
Indigenous and Alternate Spiritualities, Postcolonial Literatures and Theory, South Asian Literatures and Culture, Canadian Literature, Post-Partition Indian Literature and Cinema, Diasporic Literatures, Women’s Studies
BioSketch
Educational Details
University of Western Ontario
2015
PhD, Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University
2010
MA, Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University
2008
BA, Comparative Literature
Research
Publications
“Gender Submerging the Caste-Class Question? Revisiting Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning.” DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2020.1765190
2020
Sarbani Banerjee | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Journal of Postcolonial Writing Pages: 1-14 ,
“The Sensory God, The Reciprocating Religion – Reading Human Body As A Vehicle For Dialecticism”
2019
Sarbani Banerjee | Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
Journal: Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Pages: 6-10 , Volumes: LXX.11 (November 2019) ,
“Women in Doyamoyeer Katha – Alternative Agency in a Rural Scenario.”
2019
Sarbani Banerjee | Taylor and Francis
Journal: South Asian Review Pages: 118-129 , Volumes: 41.2 (9 Sep. 2019) ,
“Religion, Secularism and the Indian Scenario: A Study”
2019
Sarbani Banerjee | Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
Journal: Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture Pages: 24-30 , Volumes: LXX.2 (February 2019) ,
“Beyond Sentimentality: “Tale” of an Alternate Bhadramahila Refugee.”
2018
Sarbani Banerjee | Open Humanities
Journal: Postcolonial Text Pages: 1-16 , Volumes: 13.2 (2018) ,
“Education Intercepting the Dalit Way of Being”
2017
Sarbani Banerjee | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies Pages: 724-737 , Volumes: 19.35 (11 May 2017) ,
“Different Identity Formations in Bengal Partition Narratives by Dalit Refugees.”
2017
Sarbani Banerjee | Taylor and Francis
Journal: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Pages: 550-565 , Volumes: 19.4 (9 Feb. 2017) ,
“Santal – Child of the Nature.”
2019
Sarbani Banerjee | Novelty Journals
Journal: International Journal of Novel Research in Humanity and Social Sciences Pages: 1-5 , Volumes: 6.1 (Jan-Feb. 2019) ,
“Comeback of the Boomerang – Thomas King’s Short Stories in the Context of Anthropological Gaze and Linguistic Aporia.”
2015
Sarbani Banerjee | IJHCS
Journal: International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies. Pages: 103-114 , Volumes: 2.1 (June 2015) ,
“I Don't Think Therefore I Am Not”: Milan Kundera’s Expeditions through a Brain- dead Czechoslovakia Haunted by Kitsch.”
2015
Sarbani Banerjee | OJS/PKP
Journal: Word Hoard Pages: 83-95 , Volumes: 1.3 (8 Jan. 2015) ,
Books
“Global Desi: Indian Beauty Pageant Winners On the American Stage." Anthology on Postcolonial Popular Culture (accepted)
Year: 2021 ,
Sarbani Banerjee | (TBA)
“From Connoisseurs of Art to Victims of Flesh-trade: The ‘Other Woman’ in Shyam Benegal's Mandi.” Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective
Year: 2019 , ISBN: Indrani Mukherjee and Java Singh
Sarbani Banerjee | UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages: 254-264 ,
“An Aporetic Vision Belying the Utopic Binary of Black and White – Thomas King’s Writings as a Boomerang in the Post-Colonial Era.” Perspectives on New Literatures: Postcolonial Responses.
Year: 2015 , ISBN: R. Janatha Kumari and Chitra Thrivikraman Nair.
Sarbani Banerjee | New Delhi: Atlantic
Pages: 219-233 ,
Honors And Awards
Honors
Ontario Government, Canada
2011
Ontario Trillium Scholarship
Jadavpur University
2010
Gold Medal and Prof. Gopal Halder Memorial Gold centered Silver Medal for topping the M.A. program
Jadavpur University
2017
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Post-Doctoral (UGC) Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences
Asutosh College, Kolkata, West Bengal
2019
Topper, merit list of Communicative English, College Service Commission, West Bengal, India
University of Western Ontario
2014
Recipient of the Graduate Thesis Research Award
University of Western Ontario
2014
Recipient of the WGRS Comparative Literature Fund
University of Western Ontario
2013
Recipient of the WGRS Comparative Literature Fund
University of Western Ontario
2012
Recipient of the WGRS Comparative Literature Fund
University of Western Ontario
2011
FAH Dean’s Entrance Scholarship
University of Western Ontario
2014
Departmental Travel Grant for ACLA conference
University of Western Ontario
2013
Departmental Travel Grant for ACLA conference
University of Western Ontario
2011
Western Graduate Research Fund as Ph.D. candidate (qualified)
MemberShips
Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
01 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2019
Library member
American Comparative Literature Association
01 Mar 2013 - 15 Mar 2015
Member
Canadian Comparative Literature Association
01 Jan 2013 - 01 Mar 2016
Member
North-east Modern Language Association
01 Mar 2018 - 01 Mar 2019
Member
Teaching Engagements
Teaching Engagements
Communication and Soft Skills ( NA )
Spring
Sociolinguistics ( NA )
Spring
Mass Communication and Mass Media ( NA )
Spring
PR and Advertising ( NA )
Spring
Entrepreneurship Development ( NA )
Autumn
Travel Writing and Review Writing ( NA )
Autumn
Grammar and Usage ( NA )
Autumn
G.E. Epic ( NA )
Spring
Narrative Mode I ( NA )
Autumn
Literatures of the Middle Ages II ( NA )
Spring
Literatures of the Middle Ages I ( NA )
Autumn
Literatures of the Ancient World I ( NA )
Autumn
Post-Partition Literature and Cinema ( NA )
Spring
Communication and Skills Development ( NA )
Autumn
Literary and Cultural Theory ( NA )
Autumn
Hindi for Beginners ( 1030 )
Autumn
Sex and Culture ( CLC 1023 )
Autumn
Miscellaneous
Events
South Asian Canadian Stage: Understanding the Questions of Identity and Un-/belonging
31 Jul 2020 - Present
International Conference on Literature
NeMLA Convention
11 Mar 2021 - 14 Mar 2021
NeMLA
Significance of a Cyclic Life among the Santal of Eastern India and the Canadian Indigenous People
09 Mar 2020 - Present
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
‘Jibon’ and ‘I’: A Fragmented Life-Writing by a Dalit Refugee
07 Mar 2020 - Present
University of Delhi
Performance and Being: A Comparative Study of the Canadian First Nations and the Santal Community
06 Feb 2020 - Present
Centre for Canadian Studies
The 'OTHER' In The Public Space – Studying The Dalit Bengali Refugee In Post-Partition West Bengal
02 Nov 2019 - Present
Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
Generating Connections and Continuity: Mystics in India
13 Mar 2019 - Present
Comparative Literature Association of India(CLAI)
Documentary – A Biased Optique of Nationhood: Readings of ‘Nanook of the North,’ ‘Nass River Indians
07 Feb 2019 - Present
Centre for Canadian Studies and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Tattoos of Everyday, Tattoos of Conflict: What those Bodies Meant After the Partition
15 Apr 2018 - Present
Northeast Modern Language Association
Partition of Bengal: Motives and Aftermaths, and Significance of Religion in Post-colonial India
09 Mar 2018 - Present
HSS, IIT Hyderabad
Canada As the New Noah’s Ark: Human, Animal and God In An Allegorical Multicultural Nation-State
11 Jan 2018 - Present
Centre for Canadian Studies
Partition or its Phantasm?: Sixty-Five Years After the Cracking of Bengal
05 Jan 2018 - Present
HSS, IIT Kharagpur
The Significance of Space in Dalit Bengali Refugee’s Experience
18 Aug 2017 - Present
Victoria Memorial Hall, Indian Museum, New Zealand Research Institute
English Language Training for Engineering Students
07 Aug 2017 - Present
School of Humanities, Social Sciences & Management, IIT, Bhubaneswar
“More or Less” Refugee?: Bengal Partition in Literature and Cinema
08 May 2017 - Present
HSS, IIT Kanpur
Refugee, a Heterogeneous Identity Marker as Represented in Post-Partition Bengali Lit and Cinema
04 Nov 2016 - Present
HSS, IIT Bombay
Partition,Its Motives and Aftermaths, and the Imports of Religion in Post-Partition India and Canada
27 Sep 2016 - Present
HSS, IIT Jodhpur
Connoisseurs of Art to Victims of Flesh-trade: The ‘Other Woman’ in Shyam Benegal’s Mandi
02 Aug 2016 - Present
School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Problematizing the “Politics of Sentiment” through a Study of Dalit Bengali Partition Literature
26 Nov 2014 - Present
Comparative Literature Research Forum, Modern Languages and Literatures
“I Don't Think Therefore I Am Not”: Milan Kundera's Expeditions through a Brain-dead Czechoslovakia
20 Mar 2014 - Present
American Comparative Literature Association
When to “Open It” Only Meant Untying the Pyjama Strings: Partition and Narrativity Gone Astray
06 Mar 2014 - Present
Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Western Ontario
Being a blank sign in the bhadralok-infested post-Partition Calcutta
08 Feb 2014 - Present
Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata
‘Who Has the Muscle to Want?’: A Critical Analysis of Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage
20 Nov 2013 - Present
Comparative Literature Research Forum, Modern Languages and Li
Comeback of the Boomerang – Thomas King’s Short Stories in the Context of Linguistic Aporia
04 Apr 2013 - 07 Apr 2013
American Comparative Literature Association
Good Laugh, Bad Laugh, Ugly Laugh, My Laugh
01 Mar 2013 - 03 Mar 2013
Comparative Literature and Hispanic studies, MLL
Expanding Territories: Comparative Literature in the 21st Century
29 Mar 2010 - 31 Mar 2010
Comparative Literature Association of India (CLAI)
Land of Promise: Stories of the Immigrant in Multicultural Canada
03 Feb 2010 - 05 Feb 2010
Centre for Canadian Studies
The Reality of Indigenous Woman: Canada and India
05 Feb 2009 - 06 Feb 2009
Centre for Canadian Studies and School of Women’s Studies
Administrative Positions
Assistant Professor
04 Aug 2020 - Present
IIT Roorkee
Assistant Professor
16 Sep 2019 - 31 Jul 2020
Asutosh College, Kolkata
Post Doctoral Fellow
01 Sep 2017 - 15 Sep 2019
Jadavpur University
Assistant Professor
03 Aug 2016 - 31 Aug 2017
Techno India University
Research Assistant
01 Dec 2015 - 31 Dec 2015
University of Western Ontario
Graduate Teaching Assistant
01 Sep 2011 - 30 Apr 2015
University of Western Ontario
Research Assistant
10 Jun 2010 - 31 Aug 2011
Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad