FHM Researchers - Dr BANERJEE Bidisha
FHM Reseachers - Dr BANERJEE Bidisha
Associate Head of Department / Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS)
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