Ishan Mukhopadhyay
PhD - First Year
MA - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USBA - The English and Foreign Languages University, India
imukhopadhyay@brandeis.edu
Primary Advisor
Ulka Anjaria
Research Interests
Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Studies, Toxic Ecofiction, Migration and Diaspora LIterature, History of Science, Translation Studies, South Asian Literature, Posthumanism
Awards
Russell G. Hamilton Fellow, Department of English, Vanderbilt University, August 2022
Presentations
"Delivering Justice: the role of Fiction and the question of the Vernacular in Ambikasuthan Mangad's Swarga". Postcolonialism and World Literature Colloquium, The Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, Boston, U.S.A., July 2023.
"A Postcolonial and Ecocritical Reading of Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness". African Literature, Orature and Culture, Department of English, Rishi Bankim Chandra College, Naihati, India, Aug 22-23 2020. Conference presentation.
"A Critical Review of Rituparno Ghosh's Chitrangada - the Body and the Text as Sites of Resistance and Rewriting". Politics and Letters: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time, Department of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India, Jan 23-25 2018. Conference presentation.
Favorite Work
Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing