Baidik Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Delhi
India
Biography
My current research encompasses two major areas – the future of postcolonial writing in the age of globalization, and a re-theorization of the role of modern empires in shaping the codes and conventions of modern literary cultures. I am currently developing a book-length project to investigate the first theme, and I am working on a set of articles to explore the second. I also work on key intellectual figures who influenced postcolonial thought in the second half of the twentieth century (I have co-edited a book called The Postcolonial Gramsci, published by Routledge in 2011); on the complex and contiguous histories of the empire in order to understand the genealogies of the modern; and on popular culture in both Britain and India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Research Interest
Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Literature and Empire (19th and 20th centuries), Literature and Social Sciences, Popular Culture in Britain and India (19th and 20th centuries), English Novel
Publications
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“On comparatism in the colony: Archives, methods, and the project of Weltliteratur,†Critical Inquiry, 42 (Spring, 2016)
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"Reading Rancière: Literature at the Limit of World Literature," New Literary History (forthcoming, 2017)
