English Prof. Sushmita Sircar received a bachelor’s degree in English and French from the University at Buffalo-SUNY and later earned her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University.
Her scholarship examines the different internationalist histories opened up by revolutionary figures in postcolonial South Asia. Her scholarly research, including published and forthcoming work, has appeared in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature, the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, C21: Journal of 21st Century Writings, and Modern Fiction Studies. She is currently finishing a book project entitled “Revolutionary Figures: Imagining Community Against the Nation.”
As a scholar and teacher, Sircar engages with her students through courses on postcolonial theorists and writers, the global bildungsroman (the psychological or moral growth a protagonist undergoes throughout the course of a literary work), translation, and world literature.
“I enjoy introducing students to writers they might not have encountered before, especially if they end up finding a new favorite novelist or poet through one of my classes,” she said.
This fall, Sircar will teach the First-Year Seminar, Alienation, Revolution, and In-Between: The Hidden Costs of Endless Labor. By examining novels, poetry, artwork, and philosophical and critical texts representing a range of literary traditions, Sircar’s first-year students will consider how people and their social relations are shaped by various types of work to understand the relationships between people and the work they perform.
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Posted: 06/11/25