Sourit Bhattacharya
Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures · College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences · University of Edinburgh
Quick answer: Sourit Bhattacharya is Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures at University of Edinburgh. Sourit Bhattacharya shows an active PhD hiring signal as of 2026-09-11.
⭐ Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes
Research interests
colonial and postcolonial studies, South Asian literatures and cultures, environmental and disaster studies, famine and food studies, and materialist theories
Selected publications (since 2023)
Postcolonialism Now: Literature, Reading, Decolonising. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2024. Monograph.
“Plants in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Indian Writings”, in Bonnie Lander Johnson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Plants (Cambridge UP), 2024.
"“World-Ecology, Peasant Resistance, and Catastrophic Realism in Victorian India: Dinabandhu Mitra’s Nil Darpan (1860)” in Catastrophe, Crisis, and Responsive Literature in India: In Search of Commons. Eds. Dhritiman Chakraborty, Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty and Mukunda Mishra. Cham: Springer, Nov 2024.
“Postcolonial Civil War, Compound Disaster, and Imaginative Recovery: Cinema and Literature of the Bangladesh War of Liberation” in Kerstin Oloff, Treasa DeLoughrey, Claire Westall, and Sharae Deckard eds., The Routledge Compani
Frequently asked questions
Is Sourit Bhattacharya hiring PhD students at University of Edinburgh?
Yes. As of 2026-09-11, Sourit Bhattacharya's faculty page shows a PhD hiring signal: Open to PhD supervision enquiries? Yes.
What does Sourit Bhattacharya research?
colonial and postcolonial studies, South Asian literatures and cultures, environmental and disaster studies, famine and food studies, and materialist theories
Data last updated: 2026-09-11 · Source: phd-match.com faculty database.
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