Saikat Majumdar

Saikat Majumdar specializes in modern and contemporary world literature in English. His book, Prose of the World (Columbia UP & Orient Blackswan 2013, paperback 2015) , a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association's Annual Book Prize for 2014, explores the aesthetic and political significance of the ordinary in modern and contemporary fiction from Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and India.   

He is also the author of a novel, Silverfish (HarperCollins India, 2007).  His second novel, The Firebird, was published in June 2015 and has been excerpted in The Kenyon Review, World Literature Today,  Scroll, and Firstpost.

Saikat is currently working on a book titled The Amateur, which is a study of the literary public intellectual from the global British Empire as an amateur and autodidactic figure. An abridged version of a chapter from the book appeared in the March 2015 issue of PMLA. An excerpt from this project will be published in, Literary Activism: A Collection of Perspectives, Ed. Amit Chaudhuri (Oxford UP, 2016), and the introductory chapter of the monograph will appear in NLH: New Literary History, in a special issue on the amateur. 

Saikat's work has been published and discussed in Modern Fiction Studies,  Novel: A Forum on Fiction,  James Joyce Quarterly, Cambridge History of the Indian English Novel, Genre, Studies in the Novel, The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, College English, and in mainstream venues such as the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, Caravan, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, etc. He edited a Special Focus in the September/October issue of American Book Review: Little India. 

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