Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay

Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay is an immigrant settler who is grateful to live on the traditional territories of the
nêhiyawak, Anihšināpēk, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation.
She was born and raised in India and received her BA (hons) and MA, both in Comparative Literature,
from Jadavpur University in Kolkata. Subsequently, she was trained at the University of Alberta where
she completed her PhD with a focus on a comparative study of 20th century working-class novels. Her
work has been published in Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature, Routledge Advances in
Feminist Studies and Intersectionality, Bloomsbury’s Decades Series, Jadavpur Journal of Comparative
Literature, amongst others.

Areas of Interest

• Comparative Literature
• World Literature
• Women's Writing
• Postcolonial Studies
• Intersectionality
• Literature and Social Literacy
• Anglophone literature emerging from Australia, Africa (especially Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa), South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan)

List of Publications

“Dissident Friendship and Revolutionary Love”: Revisiting 1930s and 40s Leftist Politics and Gendered Subjectivities in Mid-century Bengali Women’s Writing.” Domestic Politics: Women's Private Lives and Public Writing in the Mid-Century, edited by Ravenel Richardson, Melissa Dinsman and Meghan Faragher. Manchester UP, 2024, pp. 128-145.

“Intersections of Nationhood, Multiculturalism and Globalization in Indo-Canadian Fiction: A study of Anita Rao Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?” National Literature in Multinational States, edited by Albert Braz and Paul Morris, University of Alberta Press, 2022, pp. 65-88.

“British Culture and Identity in 1930s Anglophone Literature from Australia, Canada and India.” The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction, edited by Nick Hubble, Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, pp. 123-154.

“Diversity, Inclusion and Critical Othering: Methodologies for Comparative Literature.” Comparatism Now! Special Issue of Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, vol. 48, no. 2, 2021, pp. 180-192.

“Subaltern’s Resistance Against Rape and Sexual Assault: An Aporia?” Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies: Subaltern Women's Narratives, Special Issue for Dissident Feminisms, edited by Samraghni Bonnerjee, Routledge Publishing, 2020, pp. 225-238.

"Contextualizing the Idea of the British Working-Class: A Reading of Mulk Raj Anand’s Coolie.” Working Class Writing: Theory and Practice, edited by Ben Clarke and Nick Hubble, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 187-206.

“Politics of Engagement and Empowerment in the Genre of the Testimonio.” Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature, vol. 54, 2018, pp. 91-108. Print. Published. ISSN: 0970-0692.