Sandeep Banerjee

Sandeep Banerjee

Curriculum Vitae

Associate Professor of English, McGill University. Appointments, education, research and teaching areas, awards, and grants.

Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Appointments

  1. 2019–
    Associate Professor (tenured), Department of English, McGill University, Canada.
  2. 2013–19
    Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of English, McGill University, Canada.

Education

  1. 2013
    PhD in English Literature, Syracuse University, USA.
  2. 2002
    MPhil in English Romantic Studies, University of Oxford, UK.Radhakrishnan Scholar, University College.
  3. 2000
    MA in English, Jadavpur University, India.
  4. 1998
    BA (Honors) in English, Jadavpur University, India.

Research and Teaching Areas

  • Postcolonial, Global Anglophone, and World Literature
  • Environmental Humanities
  • Literary Form and Aesthetics
  • Literary Utopianism
  • Cultural Cold War
  • British Empire and Decolonization
  • Literary and Cultural Theory
  • Translation
  • South Asia

Awards and Fellowships

  1. 2017
    Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English Student Association, McGill University.
  2. 2016–18
    Faculty Fellowship, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas, McGill University.
  3. 2012–13
    Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Center, Syracuse University.
  4. 2007–12
    University Fellowship, Syracuse University (2007–08; 2011–12).
  5. 2000–02
    British Chevening / Radhakrishnan Oxford Scholarship, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and University of Oxford.

Research Grants

  1. 2026–28
    Principal Investigator, Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. “Postcolonial Intimacies: The Cultural Cold War in South Asia.”CAD 62,620
  2. 2019–24
    Principal 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
  3. 2019–21
    Co-Principal Investigator, Research Grant, Gerda Henkel Stiftung. “My Golden Bengal: Making of a Muslim Nation in Bangladesh.”EUR 29,744
  4. 2015–18
    Principal 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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