Nisarga Bhattacharjee is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He was formerly a lecturer of English at Seth Anandram Jaipuria College (Day) and at Acharya Prafulla Chandra College. He has completed his M. Phil. in English Literature from the University of Calcutta. He is the author of several articles in online and offline journals, and has written chapters for multiple books. His publications discuss poets and authors like Seamus Heaney, Jorge Luis Borges, J. M. Coetzee, Maurice Blanchot, Milan Kundera, and others. He is an academic editor for the journal New Literaria.
Publications:
- “Contrivances of Female Empowerment and the Millennial Wave in Disney Movies”, in Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Volume 1: Essay on Film Representation, 2012-2019 by McFarland and Company. (pISBN: 978-1-4766-7766-8, eISBN: 978-1-4766-3760-0) https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Fourth_Wave_Feminism_in_Science_Fiction.html?id=j6C3DwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
- “The Limits of Sentience and the Non-Normative Bodies from Heaney’s Bog”, published in Body Politics: Rethinking Gender and Masculinity (ISBN 978-81-948850-0-9), by Akhand Publishing House, 2021.
- “The Limits of Intertextuality, the Passion for Transgression, and Borges’s Aesthetics”, published in Off the Line: Transgression and Its Representation in Literature and Culture (ISBN 9788126931125), by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors Pvt. Ltd, 2020.
- ‘The ‘Emigrant-Dream’ and the Question of a Postmodern History in Kundera’s Ignorance’, jointly published in Postmodern Perspectives in English Language and Literature (ISBN 13: 9789388332088), on January 2019 by Authorspress.
- ‘Modernism, Personal Myths and the Condition for Poetry’, published in Revisiting Modernism: Special Issue from the Spring Magazine on English Literature (E-ISSN 2455-4715, Vol. III, Number 1, 2017).
Areas of Interest:
Late-Modernist and Postmodern Poetry, Posthuman philosophy
Statement of Interest:
My interest in posthumanism stems from my area of research, postmodern English poetry. Modern poetry has consistently problematized the locale of the individual subject. Postmodern poetry takes this further as it is provoked by an ontological scepticism, and resultantly expresses deep dissatisfaction with the conventional Western models of the human subject. Further, the emergence of cybertexts, and the innovations in game studies and animations have broadened the horizons of literary and cultural possibilities beyond the limits of the humanist paradigm. As a part of the Indian Posthumanism Network, I wish to contribute to and benefit from the awareness, circulation and enhancement of resources that will enable everyone in academically responding to the newer forms of knowledge and textuality that have emerged and will further be created due to the innovations in philosophy, poetics and technology.