Saikat Majumdar
professor
Faculty of clinical education
Ashoka University
India
Biography
Saikat Majumdar is a novelist and critic who teaches courses in modern and contemporary world literature in English, critical theory, the novel and narrative, colonial and postcolonial studies, and fiction and nonfiction writing. Saikat is the author of three books, most recently, the novel The Firebird (Hachette, 2015), published in the US as Play House (The Permenent Press, 2017), and now being made into a feature film. The book was a finalist for the Mumbai Film Festival Word-to-Screen Market and the Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize, and featured as one of The Telegraph’s Best Books for 2015. It was excerpted in The Kenyon Review, World Literature Today, Scroll, and Firstpost. He has also published a monograph, Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire (Columbia UP & Orient Blackswan, 2013), which received Honorable Mention at the Modernist Studies Association's Annual Book Prize in 2014, and a previous novel, Silverfish (HarperCollins, 2007).
Research Interest
clinical education
