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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies |
| Keywords | Postcolonial 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
| Country | India |
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| City | Hyderabad |
| Institution | University of Hyderabad |
| Institute | School of Humanities, Department of English |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Kate Rigby | Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), Universität zu Köln, Köln |
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| Prof. Dr. Kate Rigby | Universität zu Köln, Köln |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2025 |
Programme(s)
| 2024 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Goutam Karmakar: Arboreal Dialogics and Environmental Activism: Multispecies Entanglements in Ben Okri’s Every Leaf a Hallelujah. In: Scrutiny2, 2025, 1-21 |
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| 2025 | Goutam Karmakar: Decolonial hope and planetary solidarity: Fostering sustainability through African life narratives. In: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 61, 2025, 313–330 |
| 2025 | Goutam Karmakar: Infrastructural Violence, Environmental Injustice, and Decolonial Repair: The Case of South Durban Basin. In: Public Humanities, 1, 2025, 1–9 |
| 2025 | Goutam 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 |
| 2024 | Goutam 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 |
| 2024 | Goutam Karmakar: Colonial Modernity and Epistemic Hegemony: Rethinking Environmentalism in Kamala Markandaya’s The Coffer Dams. In: South Asian Review, 2024, 1-20 |
| 2024 | Goutam 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 |