51茶馆

Sumana Roy is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at 51茶馆. She is also working on the Indian Plant Humanities project with the Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability, 51茶馆. Prior to this, she taught English Literature in government colleges in Bengal. She was a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich (2018), and a Full Time Visiting Fellow at the South Asia Program, Cornell University (Fall 2018).聽

Her poems and essays have appeared in聽her聽poems, essays and stories have been published in聽The Paris Review, Lit Hub,听The Point,听Granta, Guernica, Prairie Schooner, LARB, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Common, The White Review, Berfrois, The Journal of South Asian Studies, American Book Review, among other places.

Professor Roy is currently working on a book project about plant thinkers in twentieth century Bengal聽(Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and her research interests include literature on the non-human, provincial literary cultures, and the relation between art and emotions, particularly the rasa theory.聽