FHM Researchers - Dr BANERJEE Bidisha
FHM Reseachers - Dr BANERJEE Bidisha
Associate Head of Department / Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
Research Area(s):
- Diaspora and Exile
- Globality and Transnationalism
- Postcolonial Feminist Fictions and Theory of Cultural Studies, Film Studies and Visual Culture
- Postcolonial Studies
My research interests include postcolonial and migration studies, particularly in the South Asian context, as well as photography studies and visual culture. I welcome project proposals from prospective students who are interested in studying postcolonial feminist fictions and theory, South Asian diasporic film and literature and the refugee graphic novel. I invite prospective students to get in touch if they would like to discuss their proposal with me.
Appointments:
Associate Director of International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IRCCS)
Projects:
Principal Investigator for the project titled Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces (www.thanaticethics.com)
Awards:
Winner of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and EdUHK’s nominee for the Hong Kong wide UGC Teaching Excellence Award
Monograph:
Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Diasporic Fiction is forthcoming with Liverpool University Press
GRF Projects:
- Spaces of Precarity: Migration, Spatiality and the Refugee Graphic Narrative (2021-2024)
- "Traces of the Real": The Absent Presence of Photography in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature (2015-2017)
Selected Journal Publications:
- Banerjee, Bidisha (2022). “Alphabets of flesh”: Writing the body and diasporic women’s autobiography in Meena Alexander’s Fault lines. English Studies. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/0013838X.2022.2105025
- Banerjee, Bidisha (2021). Picturing Precarity: Diasporic Belonging and Camp Life in Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57(1), 13-30.
- Banerjee, Bidisha (2020). Defiance and the speakability of rape: Decolonizing trauma studies in Mahasweta Devi's short fiction. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2020(0), 1-18.
- Banerjee, Bidisha (2016). Kinship between ‘Companion Species’: A Posthuman Refiguration of the Immigrant Condition in Shaun Tan’s The Arrival. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(4), -----.
- Banerjee, Bidisha (2016). Creating a 'well-fitted habitus': Material Culture, Home Making and Diasporic Belonging in Shaun Tan's The Arrival. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 7(1), 53-69.
- Banerjee, Bidisha (2010). Diaspora’s Dark Room: Photography and the Vision of Loss in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Story ‘Hema and Kaushik.’ The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 45.3, 443-456.
PhD Student’s Dissertation:
In Search of New Imaginaries: (Re)Reading the Portrayal of Female Resistance in Pakistani Anglophone Women’s Fiction
Co-editing:
A Special Issue on Thanatic Ethics for Interventions: An International Journal of Postcolonial Studies