Sahid Mondal
PhD - Third Year
M.A. in English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2020
B.A. in English, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 2018
sahidmondal@brandeis.edu
Primary Advisor
Ulka Anjaria
Research Interests
Postcolonialism, Transnational and Postnational Studies, Religion and Secularity, Diasporic and Migrant Muslim Identities
Presentations
“Negotiating with Bhadralok: The Muslim Identity in the Partitioned Bengal”, Beyond Binaries, 118th PAMLA Conference, (November 2021).
“Nation, Memory, and Belonging in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column
and Qurratulain Hyder’s My Temples, Too”, The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place, International Conference, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, (June 19-20, 2021).
“Transhumanism and Disability: The Islamic Experience”, Humanism and After: Literature's Journey from Humanism to Cyber Culture & Other Forms of Posthuman, RUSA 2.0 Component- 8 Sponsored Two-Day National Seminar, Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India, (September 15, 2019).
Awards
2023 Mother Board Writing Prize from the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality.
Favorite Work
The Shadow Lines (Amitav Ghosh), Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)