Dr. Goutam Karmakar

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-1 und Äquivalente
FachgebietAllgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Kulturwissenschaft
KeywordsPostcolonial Studies, Global Anglophone Literature, Decolonial Studies, Environmental Humanities, Global South Literary Studies
Auszeichnungen

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.

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandIndien
OrtHyderabad
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Hyderabad
Institut/AbteilungSchool of Humanities, Department of English

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Kate RigbyMultidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), Universität zu Köln, Köln
Prof. Dr. Kate RigbyUniversität zu Köln, Köln
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.06.2025

Programm(e)

2024Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

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