Sahid Mondal
PhD - Second 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).
Publications
“Hosay: A Performance in Defiance”, Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL), Vol.8. Issue No 1. (January-March) 2020. ISSN: 2395-2636 (P); 2321-3108(O).
“The Crisis of Shah Bano: Between Shariʻah and the Secular”, International Journal of English Language, Literature and Translation Studies (IJELR), Vol. 7. Issue.3. 2020 (July-Sept) 2020. ISSN: 2395-2628 (P); 2349-9451(O).
“Transhumanism and Disability: The Islamic Experience”, ‘Humanism and After: Literature’s Journey from Humanism to Cyberculture and Other Forms of Posthumanism’, Edited by Saikat Sarkar and Tanmoy Kundu, ISBN 97881949068-2-7.
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)