Shaibal Dev Roy

• MA English, North Dakota State University, 2019
• MA English, University of Chittagong, 2006
• BA English, University of Chittagong, 2004

I’m a Ph.D. Candidate. As a scholar of nineteenth-century transnational literature and culture, I am concerned with the form, discourse, and intersection of empire, coloniality, and race. I specialize in American literature and culture in the Long Nineteenth Century. In dialogue with contemporary transpacific black studies, my research and teaching combine theories of transpacific transnationalism with the literatures and histories of South Asian radicalism, US anti-racism, and South Asian-American anticolonial affinity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I recast this archive as the site of a heterodox conception of a reordered future. My research is supported by grants and fellowships from the Huntington Library, American Antiquarian Society, the MLA, Massachusetts Historical Society, USC Transpacific Center, UMich Bentley Historical Library, among others.