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Dr. Shayani Bhattacharya

Shayani Bhattacharya

Associate Professor of English & Communications

Email: shayanib@lvc.edu

Phone: 717-867-6442

Office Location: Humanities 208-D

B.A., M.A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India; Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo

Expertise:
World Literature, Global Film, Science Fiction and Fantasy, American Literature, British Literature, Postcolonial Literature, Crime Fiction

Research & Practice Areas:
Post-1945 Anglophone Literature, Memory Studies, Narrative Theory

Dr. Shayani Bhattacharya, presentation, “The Futurity of (Re)Generated Black Bodies,” North East Modern Language Association Conference, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 2026.

Dr. Shayani Bhattacharya’s paper, “Alternate Histories as Literary Resistance in Afrofuturism, won the Best Faculty/Independent Scholar Paper, Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2024 Popular Culture Association Conference, Chicago, IL., March 2024.

“The Silence Of the Subaltern: The Rejection of History and Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome,” Environments in Science Fiction: Essays on Alternative Spaces. ed. Susan Bernardo (McFarland, 2014): 112-34.