Sandip
Sarkar is a Junior Research Fellow in the Department of
English at Raiganj University, West Bengal, India. His research engages with
critical theory and continental philosophy, with particular emphasis on
material humanities, nonhuman studies, environmental and medical humanities,
time and memory studies, and posthuman and post-posthuman thought. His work
also explores architecture, heritage, space and place studies, planetary
thinking, and cosmology. He is the author of the article “Re-Reading the Folk
Performance: Gambhira as Subaltern Narrative of Resistance” (DOI: https://doi.org/10.63698/thespian.v11.1.ss.08),
Thespian Magazine, 2023). He is especially interested in questions of
marginality and the histories and lifeworlds of the Namasudra community, and is
currently conducting independent fieldwork in Namasudra villages of Malda
district.