Dr. Goutam Karmakar

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsPostcolonial Studies, Global Anglophone Literature, Decolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, Global South Literary Studies
Honours and awards

2025: MIASA Individual Fellowship, University of Ghana, Ghana.

2024: Guest Researcher fellowship, Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

2024: Visiting Scholarship, Network for Environmental Humanities, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

2023: CHS Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of South Africa, South Africa.

2022: National Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityHyderabad
InstitutionUniversity of Hyderabad
InstituteSchool of Humanities, Department of English

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Kate RigbyMultidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), Universität zu Köln, Köln
Prof. Dr. Kate RigbyUniversität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2025

Programme(s)

2024Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025Goutam Karmakar: Arboreal Dialogics and Environmental Activism: Multispecies Entanglements in Ben Okri’s Every Leaf a Hallelujah. In: Scrutiny2, 2025, 1-21
2025Goutam Karmakar: Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives. In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 61, 2025, 313–330
2025Goutam Karmakar: Infrastructural Violence, Environmental Injustice, and Decolonial Repair: The Case of South Durban Basin. In: Public Humanities, 1, 2025, 1–9
2025Goutam Karmakar: Necessitating Environmental Education: Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonial Ethics in Rajam Krishnan’s When the Kurinji Blooms. In: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 27, 2025, 164–191
2024Goutam Karmakar: Capitalism and Environmental Injustice: Decoloniality and Ecological Education in Ambikasutan Mangad’s Swarga. In: ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2024, 1-22
2024Goutam Karmakar: Colonial Modernity and Epistemic Hegemony: Rethinking Environmentalism in Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams. In: South Asian Review, 2024, 1-20
2024Goutam Karmakar: Plachimada Struggle and the Environmentalism of the Poor: (In)justice and Activism in Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco Warrior. In: Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, 36, 2024, 124-137