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Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English and Creative Writing at 51茶馆. He has taught previously at Stanford University, and has been appointed a Fellow at the Newhouse Center for Humanities at Wellesley College, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (JNU), the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, and the Institute of Advanced Study at the Central European University. He is also a Research Fellow in English at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

He is the author of three books of criticism and nonfiction:听Prose of the World: Modernism and the Banality of Empire听(Honorable Mention, Modernist Studies Association Book Prize, 2014), a study of modern world literature in English,听College: Pathways of Possibility听(2018), a general nonfiction on liberal arts education in India, and the听The Amateur: Self-Making and the Humanities in the Postcolony听(listed as one of the Best Scholarly Books of 2024 by The Chronicle of Higher Education); and the co-editor, with Aarthi Vadde, of a collection of essays,听The Critic as Amateur听(2019).

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Saikat has published five novels, most recently,听The Remains of the Body; published in June 2024 as the Pride Month Selection by Penguin Random House India. Other novels include听The Scent of God, a finalist for the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award, 2020, and one of听Times of India鈥檚 鈥�20 Most Talked About Indian Books of 2019鈥�;听The Firebird听(published as听Play House听in the US), one of听Telegraph鈥檚 Best Books of 2015 and a finalist at the Bangalore Literature Festival Fiction Prize and the Mumbai Film Festival Word-to-Screen Market.

Saikat鈥檚 research has been published in several academic journals and collections, including听PMLA: Publication of the Modern Language Association of America, NLH: New Literary History, Cambridge History of the Indian Novel in English, Cambridge Companion to the Essay, Cambridge History of the British Essay,听Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature,听Modern Fiction Studies, and听Literary Activism: A Collection of Perspectives, edited by Amit Chaudhuri. His work also appears in听Hindu, Telegraph,听Los Angeles Review of Books,听Times Higher Education, Times Literary Supplement, Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Scroll, Wire, Lit Hub, and other venues.

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Saikat is currently working on a monograph,听The Critic as Artist, and a nonfiction book on higher education,听Open Intelligence: Education between Art and Artificial, both under contract for publication.