Dr. Md. Monirul Islam is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata. He is keenly invested in different trajectories of posthumanist thought, but his special interest lies in exploring the interface between potshumanism and postcolonialism. When it comes to India, he is particularly interested in the issue of colonial anthropocentrism in the policy decisions of the post-colonial Indian governments and its implications for the human and non-human forms of life in the tribal areas.Publications directly linked to posthumanism:
1. “Posthumanism: Through the Postcolonial Lens.” Critical Posthumanism and Planetary Futures. Eds. Debashis Banerji and Makarand Paranjape. Springer: New Delhi, 2016. 115-30. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9788132236351
2. “‘European Mind. . .engrafted upon the African constitution’: Robert Southey’s Theory of Miscegenation in the Tranhumanist Context.” Black Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture. Ed. G. Melvin Hill. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019. 21-37.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498583817/Black-Bodies-and-Transhuman-Realities-Scientifically-Modifying-the-Black-Body-in-Posthuman-Literature-and-Culture
3. “Dog Talks in ‘The Flood’.” Asian Quarterly: An International Journal of Contemporary Issues.15 .3(2017): 183–92.
Other areas of academic interest:
British Romanticism, travel writing, pilgrimage as travel, and the philosophy of walking.
Profile links:
https://www.presiuniv.ac.in/web/staff.php?staffid=384