Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay

Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay is a scholar and teacher of twentieth century Anglophone literature with a focus on transnational working-class writing and postcolonial literature. Her work engages with questions of social justice and ethics by foregrounding how literary expressions respond to social and political change. Her monograph in progress Servant’s Labor in the Making of American Identity and Culture demonstrates how the labor of foreign and imported domestic servants have contributed to the formation of US citizenship identity from the colonial to the globalized era.

Selected Publications

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

“British Culture and Identity in 1930s Anglophone Literature from Australia, Canada and India.” The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction. Eds. Nick Hubble, Luke Seaber and Elinor Taylor. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021, pp. 123-154. ISBN: 9781350079144

“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.

“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

“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. Print and E-Book. ISBN: 9783319963105

Review of At the Crossroads of Culture and Literature. Edited by Suchorita Chattopadhyay and Deboshree Dattaray. Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. 48, no. 3 (2016): 178-180. Print.

Review of Politics of English: Conflicts, Competitions and Co-existence. Edited by Ann Hewings and Caroline Tagg. Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature, vol. 2, no. 2, 2012. Web.

“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 Multination States, Edited by Albert Braz and Paul Morris. University of Alberta Press. Undergoing External Review.