Sayantan Chakraborty Sayantan Chakraborty

Curriculum Vitae

Research

Publications and ongoing research projects.

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Indigenous Cultural Relocation in Desmond Kharmawphlang's Poems.” Archiv Orientální 93, no. 2 (2025): 337–356. doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.93.2.337-356
  2. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “The Heritage of Hynñiew Trep in Desmond Kharmawphlang's Poems.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 48, no. 1 (2025): 141–154. doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2456345
  3. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Traditional Land, Postcolonial Development, and Indigenous Ecocriticism in Esther Syiem's Poems.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 60, no. 3 (2024): 285–300. doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2024.2337734
  4. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “'Forgetting the Stories Would Be Catastrophic': Writing the Oral and Protecting the Place in the Poems of Temsula Ao and Esther Syiem.” GeoHumanities 6, no. 1 (2020): 51–64. doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2020.1717364
  5. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Khasi Hills and Khasi Culture: Reconnection in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih's The Yearning of Seeds.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 55, no. 2 (2020): 259–276. doi.org/10.1177/0021989418766672
  6. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Versifying Culture: Reading the Ethnographic Poems of Temsula Ao.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 19, no. 1 (2017): 108–125. doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2015.1131182
  7. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Naga Pastoral? The Post-Pastoral Possibilities in Temsula Ao's Hill Poems.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 51, no. 3 (2016): 358–370. doi.org/10.1177/0021989415608904

Book Chapters

  1. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Stones and Ao-Naga Culture: A Geographical Reading of Temsula Ao's Stone Poems.” In Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Drama: Changing Canons and Responses, edited by Arnab Kumar Sinha, Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, and Himadri Lahiri, 101–112. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
  2. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Writing Nature, Reviving Culture: Geographies of Materiality in Snelson L. Chyne's Echo from the Hills.” In Critical Perspectives on the Post-1980 Indian Novel in English, edited by K. V. Raghupathi, 218–233. Jaipur: Yking Books, 2017.
  3. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Rooted in Tradition: Echo of the Oral Tradition in Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih's Poems.” In Indian Writing in English: Current Critical Approaches, Vol. 3, edited by M. Solayan, 263–268. Chennai: Universal Publishers, 2014.
  4. Chakraborty, Sayantan. “Living in the Hills: A Geographical Reading of Temsula Ao's Hill Poems.” In Gender Perspectives: South Asian Writings in English and in English Translations, edited by Basudeb Chakraborti and A. A. Chandel, 163–177. New Delhi: Today and Tomorrow Printers and Publishers, 2014.

Book Reviews

  1. Nanda, Kritika, and Sayantan Chakraborty. Review of Interrogating Eco-Literature and Sustainable Development: Theory, Text, and Practice, edited by Sharbani Banerjee Mukherjee and Soumitra Roy. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 61, no. 3 (2024): 460–461. doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2024.2429287 Co-authored with doctoral student Kritika Nanda as part of a publication-oriented research mentorship.

Ongoing Research Projects

Edited Volume

Beyond Empathy: Critical Directions in Health Humanities

Co-edited with Prof. Shazi Shah Jabeen. An interdisciplinary edited volume advancing critical approaches to health humanities beyond empathy through ethical, environmental, cultural, and institutional perspectives. Positive responses received from international contributors; manuscript under development for submission to Bloomsbury (expected February 2027).

Journal Article

Teaching Renewable Energy Critically: Slow Violence and Wind Energy in Indian Environmental Education Textbooks

With Prof. Harpreet Singh Bedi and student collaborators from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Examines representations of renewable energy, particularly wind energy, in environmental education through the frameworks of slow violence and energy justice. Intended for submission to the Journal of Environmental Education.

Monograph

Indigenous Ecopoetry: Reconnection, Postcolonial Development and Khasi Poets

Develops an environmental humanities framework for interpreting Indigenous ecological knowledge, place, and postcolonial development in contemporary Khasi poetry.

Book Review

Review of Postcolonial Poetry and the Environment: Place, Precarity and Justice (2025) by Pramod K. Nayar

Currently being edited by the Review Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Co-authored with doctoral student Rachita Arora as part of a publication-oriented research mentorship.