Sandeep Banerjee

Section 08 · McGill University, 2013–

08Teaching and Supervision

Undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the Department of English, McGill University, earlier undergraduate teaching at Syracuse University, and doctoral, MA, and honors supervision.

Undergraduate Courses15

McGill University

ENGL 438
Literature and the EnvironmentWinter 2025; Fall 2022
ENGL 438
Global RealismsFall 2020
ENGL 423
Literature in the Age of EmpireWinter 2014
ENGL 408
The Novel in South AsiaWinter 2022; Winter 2019; Winter 2017
ENGL 404
Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-minded ManWinter 2015
ENGL 360
Literary CriticismTaught eleven times, Winter 2015 – Winter 2026
ENGL 344
Image-Mountain-Text: Mountains and the Environmental ImaginationFall 2025
ENGL 336
The Anglophone Novel in South AsiaFall 2013
ENGL 320
Postcolonial EncountersFall 2025; Fall 2014; Winter 2014
ENGL 297
Introduction to Postcolonial and World LiteratureWinter 2019; Winter 2018
ENGL 290
Introduction to Postcolonial and World LiteratureFall 2024; Fall 2023; Winter 2023; Fall 2021; Winter 2021
ENGL 203
Survey of English Literature II: 1780s to the PresentWinter 2024

Also supervised six undergraduate independent reading courses (ENGL 495).

Syracuse University

ETS 182
Race and LiteratureWinter 2011
ETS 181
Class and LiteratureWinter 2010
ETS 153
Interpretation of FictionFall 2010

Graduate Seminars10

McGill University

ENGL 734
Literary Landscapes of the Long Nineteenth CenturyWinter 2016
ENGL 734
Colonial and Postcolonial GeographiesFall 2014
ENGL 690
Aesthetics in an Uneven WorldWinter 2021
ENGL 662
Cultures of Uneven DevelopmentWinter 2018
ENGL 661
Mountains of the Mind: The Himalaya in Literature and CultureWinter 2026
ENGL 661
Literature and the Environmental ImaginationWinter 2023
ENGL 545
Aesthetics and PoliticsWinter 2024; Winter 2017
ENGL 545
Postcolonial Studies: History, Theory, PracticeWinter 2022
ENGL 535
Reading (into) the LandscapeFall 2013
ENGL 512
Literary Cultures of South AsiaFall 2024

Also supervised two graduate independent reading courses (ENGL 687).

Doctoral Supervision

  1. Ongoing
    Janie Bériault. Uneven development and literary form in Caribbean literature.
  2. Ongoing
    Sainico Ningthoujam. Environmental imagination and northeastern Indian literature.
  3. Ongoing
    Yusuf Saadi. Representations of the nonhuman in colonial and postcolonial South Asian literature.
  1. 2026
    Moinak Banerjee. Imaginations of citizenship and resistance to statist narratives in postcolonial Indian literature.
  2. 2024
    Ali Reza Shahbazin (Architecture). Spatial imaginaries in Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet.Co-supervised with Prof. Alberto Pérez-Gómez.
  3. 2021
    Felix Fuchs. Realism, globalization, and South Asian anglophone novels.Winner, Arts Insights Dissertation Award, Faculty of Arts.

Also supervised 17 completed MA theses and research papers and 17 completed undergraduate honors theses, and examined or served on thirty doctoral, comprehensive, and MA committees at McGill and elsewhere.