Sayan Mazumder is a PhD scholar and is
currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Comparative
Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has completed his BA, MA
and MPhil Degrees in Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University. As a Senior
Research Fellow, he teaches courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate
levels on Culture and Sustainability, Understanding India, Latin American
Literatures and Comparative Literature Methodology. He has also been on the
organizing committee of several international conferences and is currently
Vice-President of the Research Scholars' Forum of the Department of Comparative
Literature, Jadavpur University. His areas of research and publication are
ecocriticism, environmental humanities, climate fiction, graphic novels
and modern Indian literary traditions. Sayan has also been working on a
freelance basis as a technical assistant for an Indian Council of Social
Science Research (ICSSR) Major Research Project on “Digital Empowerment and
Traditional Knowledge Systems: A Case Study from Bankura and Purulia, West
Bengal” with Professor Debashree Dattaray of Jadavpur University, the Principal
Investigator of the Project. His latest essay on "Life, death and
sustainability through Indigenous literature: An ecocritical study of selected
works from Northeast India" has been published by Lagoonscapes:
The Venice Journal of Environmental Studies.