Sandeep Banerjee

Section 09 · Department, University, Profession

09Service

Service to the Department of English and McGill University, and to the profession through editorial work, committees, and conference organizing.

Department

  1. 2023–26
    Director, Undergraduate Honors Program.
  2. 2023–26
    Member, Undergraduate Administration Committee.
  3. 2022–23
    Member, Hiring Committee, Assistant Professor of African American/Canadian Literature.
  4. 2024–25
    Member, Nominating Committee.Also 2020–21 and 2017–19.
  5. 2022–23
    Pro tem member (for admissions), Graduate Administration Committee.Also 2015–16.
  6. 2021–22
    Member, Graduate Administration Committee.
  7. 2021–22
    Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee.
  8. 2020–21
    Member, Professional Concerns Committee.Also 2015–17.
  9. 2018–19
    Member, Planning Committee, Montreal International Poetry Prize.
  10. 2017–19
    Visiting Speakers Co-ordinator.
  11. 2014–15
    Member, Awards Committee.
  12. 2013–15
    Member, Clark Lewis Memorial Prize and Lang Family Text in Performance Award Committee.
  13. 2013–14
    Member, Undergraduate Honors Committee.

University

  1. 2022–24
    Member, Nominating Committee, Faculty of Arts.
  2. 2020–23
    Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grants Committee.Also 2018–19.
  3. 2018–19
    Member, Provost’s Standing Committee on Equity for the Department of English.
  4. 2017–23
    Member, Critical Social Theory at McGill Research Group.
  5. 2017
    Faculty Sponsor, South Asian Studies Minor, Faculty of Arts, with Profs. Prashant Keshavmurthy, Andrea Farran, and Subho Basu.
  6. 2017
    Co-organizer, Talk and Book-reading by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, with Prof. Monica Popescu.

Profession

Series Editor

  1. 2019–
    Routledge Studies in the Cultures of the Global Cold War, with Profs. Monica Popescu and Katherine Zien.

Editorial Boards

  1. 2026–
    International Journal of Geographical and Spatial Studies.
  2. 2019–
    Mediations.
  3. 2017–
    positions: asia critique.

Reviewer: Promotion and Tenure

  • University of Alberta, Canada; College of William and Mary, USA; and Kennesaw State University, USA.

Reviewer: Journals and Presses

  1. 2013–present
    Reviewer for 24 journals, including PMLA, Comparative Literature, Modern Asian Studies, Victorian Studies, American Historical Review, Interventions, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and Journal of Asian Studies.
  2. 2013–present
    Reviewer for Columbia University Press, University of Chicago Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Open Book Publishers, and Vernon Press.

Evaluator: Grants and Prizes

  1. 2026
    Humanities proposals, The Fund for Scientific Research‑FNRS (FRS‑FNRS), Belgium.Also 2023.
  2. 2026
    Insight Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada.
  3. 2026
    Bengali to English translations, John Dryden Translation Competition 2025–2026, School of Languages, Cultures, and Societies, University of Leeds, UK.

Organizer

  1. 2017
    Literary Pre-conference, “Decolonization: Texts and Con-Texts of Freedom,” Annual South Asia Conference, Madison.
  2. 2016
    Co-organizer, Third-World Aesthetics International Conference, Montréal, with Profs. Monica Popescu and Katherine Zien.

Professional Committees

  1. 2023–25
    Member (elected), Elections Committee, Modern Language Association.
  2. 2019–21
    Representative for English Literature (Non-Canadian), Publications Committee, Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.