Arnab Chakraborty

Visiting Lecturer in English

Office:

Berte Humanities Building 322

Contact Information:

Box 549028
Birmingham-Southern College
900 Arkadelphia Rd
Birmingham, AL 35254
Office Phone: (205) 226-4865
E-mail: [email protected]

Brief Career Background:

Arnab Chakraborty specializes in American and global environmental literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a focus on nonhuman representation and ethics. His research studies ethical assumptions and attitudes that inform nonhuman advocacy in fiction, and expanding definitions of environmentalism that include global, postcolonial and indigenous perspectives. His teaching interests include contemporary international fiction, theoretical and fictional approaches in the fields of animal studies, posthumanism and postcolonial ecocriticism, as well as speculative fiction.

Educational Background:

Ph.D., University of Kansas
M.A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata
B.A., Jadavpur University, Kolkata