Saugata Bhaduri, visiting professor at IHRIM

Professor, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Visiting Professor 2022-23 - January 8 to February 9, 2023 - Inviting Researcher: Vanessa Guignery Saugata Bhaduri is Professor at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has served as Visiting Professor at many universities and colleges in Europe, UK, and the USA, and has been recipient of several international research grants and awards. His areas of research interest include the cultural history of colonial Bengal, literary and cultural theory, popular culture, and translation and comparative literature studies. His latest books are Polycoloniality: European Transactions with Bengal from the 13th to the 19th Century (Bloomsbury 2020) and the forthcoming A Critical History of Bengali Literature (Orient Blackswan). His earlier books include Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)Longing (Springer 2015), Literary Theory: An Introductory Reader (Anthem 2010), Perspectives on Comparative Literature and Culture in the Age of Globalization (Anthem 2010), Negotiating Glocalization (Anthem 2008), and Personal page The invitation of Professor Saugata Bhaduri, is part of the cooperation agreement signed in 2013 between the ENS de Lyon and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, where Mr. Bhaduri is stationed, and is triply important for IHRIM. First, because of the anteriority and the growing fruitfulness of the collaborative relations maintained with the ENS of Lyon and with our laboratory, through Professor Vanessa Guignery.