Dr. Samrat Sengupta is Associate Professor, Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor and Head of the Dept. of English at Sammilani Mahavidyalaya under University of Calcutta. His co-edited volume on Bengali experimental writer Nabarun Bhattacharya titled Nabarun Bhattacharya: Aesthetics and Politics in a World after Ethics has been published this year from Bloomsbury. He has co-edited a special issue of the international journal Sanglap on “Caste in Humanities”. His first Bengali monograph on Pratibader Pathokrom (Syllabi of Resistance) will be published in 2021. His important publication includes a book chapter and a journal article on Technology and Power relating to the philosophy of Bernard Stiegler. He published a couple of articles on human/non-human relationship in the works of the Bengali author Nabarun Bhattacharya.Affiliation: Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, West Bengal
Research Interests: Experimental Bengali Literature. Gender studies, Post-structuralism, Memory Studies, Philosophy of Technology and Posthumanism.