Shaibal Dev Roy
Biography
PhD Candidate (ABD). My previous studies in Anglo-American literature, in part, because of Bangladesh’s prior connection to Great Britain, produced through nineteenth-century imperialism made me reconsider the perspectives of Eurocentric writers, their white characters, and hence racism and imperialism, straight out of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Thus, on the one hand, I am acutely skeptical of the racial logics that are imposed from afar. On the other, I am particularly interested in how a person nonetheless learns in a world that has been colonized, racially subjected, and enslaved.
Education
- M.A. English, North Dakota St U Fargo, 5/2019
- M.A. English, University of Chittagong, 1/2006
- B.A. English, University of Chittagong, 8/2004
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
My scholarship has considered writing and pedagogy in the context: how readers, writers, and thinkers adapt the tools of colonization, empire, and enslavement to create something new and, perhaps, emancipatory. In my research, I explore the dynamics of racial pedagogies and considers how race is learned and unlearned, and how the material ephemera of culture can be put to new uses to create new meaning.
Research Keywords
American Studies/Literature, Postcolonialism, Intertextuality, Material culture, Black studies, Racial pedagogies, and Poetics.
Research Specialties
American Studies/Literature-the Long Nineteenth Century; Postcolonial Studies; the Intersections of Intertextuality, Material culture, Black studies, and Racial pedagogies; and Poetics.