Curriculum Vitae
Profile
Appointments
- 2019–Associate Professor (tenured), Department of English, McGill University, Canada.
- 2013–19Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of English, McGill University, Canada.
Education
- 2013PhD in English Literature, Syracuse University, USA.
- 2002MPhil in English Romantic Studies, University of Oxford, UK.Radhakrishnan Scholar, University College.
- 2000MA in English, Jadavpur University, India.
- 1998BA (Honors) in English, Jadavpur University, India.
Research and Teaching Areas
Awards and Fellowships
- 2017Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English Student Association, McGill University.
- 2016–18Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, McGill University.
- 2012–13Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Center, Syracuse University.
- 2007–12University Fellowship, Syracuse University (2007–08; 2011–12).
- 2000–02British Chevening / Radhakrishnan Oxford Scholarship, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and University of Oxford.
Research Grants
- 2026–28Principal Investigator, Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. “Postcolonial Intimacies: The Cultural Cold War in South Asia.”CAD 62,620
- 2019–24Principal Investigator, Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. “Mountains of the Mind: The Himalaya and the Colonial Ecocritical Imagination, 1750–1950.”CAD 147,652
- 2019–21Co-Principal Investigator, Research Grant, Gerda Henkel Stiftung. “My Golden Bengal: Making of a Muslim Nation in Bangladesh.”EUR 29,744
- 2015–18Principal Investigator, Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs, Fonds de recherche du Québec. “Les montagnes magiques : la production coloniale de l’Himalaya et l’imagination littéraire, de 1800 à 1950.”CAD 50,264
Languages
English, Bengali, and Hindi (native fluency); French (beginner); Sanskrit (beginner, reading).
Memberships
American Comparative Literature Association; Modern Language Association.
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