SUKANYA BANERJEE ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE Department of English University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Milwaukee, WI-53201 email: banerjee@uwm.edu EDUCATION Ph.D., English, University of California-Riverside, 2001 M.A., English, University of Delaware, 1997 B.A., English (Honours, First Class), Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi, 1994 RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS Victorian Literature and Culture; Postcolonial Studies; Studies of Colonialism and the Nineteenth Century British Empire; Gender Studies; South Asia; World Literatures in English; Transnationalism and Diaspora. PUBLICATIONS Books Monograph Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010): 272 pgs. Winner of 2012 NVSA Sonya Rudikoff Prize for Best First Book in Victorian Studies Reviewed in: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Victorian Studies, Studies in English Literature, Victorian Literature and Culture (review essay), Review 19, Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, Victoriographies, English Literature in Transition, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of British Studies, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Journal for Colonialism and Colonial History, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, H-ASIA, South Asia, South Asian Diaspora, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, South Asian Review Edited Collection Routing Diasporas: Diaspora Studies at Disciplinary Crossroads, coedited with Aims McGuinness, and Steve McKay (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012): 241 pgs. 1
Articles and Essays The Victorians: Empire and the East, Orientalism and Literature edited by Geoffrey Nash (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Ecology and/of Empire, in Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire, edited by Nathan Hensley and Philip Steer (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming). Who, or What, is Victorian?: Ecology, Indigo, and the Transimperial, Victorian Studies 58.2 (Winter 2016): 223-33. (Selected for NAVSA Special Issue. Respondent: Cornelia Pearsall) Colonial and Postcolonial Literature, in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, edited by Dino Felluga, Pamela Gilbert, and Linda Hughes (New York: Wiley/Blackwell, 2015): 348-54. Troubling Conjugal Loyalties: The First Indian Novel in English and the Transimperial Frame of Sensation, Victorian Literature and Culture 42.3 (September 2014): 475-89. Routing Diasporas in the Twenty First Century, in Routing Diasporas: Diaspora Studies at Disciplinary Crossroads, edited by Sukanya Banerjee, Aims McGuinness, and Steve McKay (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012): 1-22. Empire, the Indian Diaspora, and the Place of the Universal. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 15.1 (Spring 2006): 147-166. Review essay published in May 2010. Empire, Nation, and the Professional Citizen: Reading Cornelia Sorabji s India Calling, Prose Studies 28.3 (December 2006): 291-317. Political Economy, the Gothic, and the Question of Imperial Citizenship, Victorian Studies 47. 2 (Winter 2005): 260-71. (Selected for NAVSA Special Issue. Respondent: James Vernon) Lady Mary Montagu and the Boundaries of Europe, in Gender, Genre, and Travel, edited by Kristi Siegel (New York: Peter Lang, 2004): 31-54. Gender, Violence, and Community in South Asia in the Postcolonial Contemporary Present, co-authored with Angana Chatterji, Lubna Chaudhury, Manali Desai, Saadia Toor, Kamala Visweswaran, Cultural Dynamics 16. 2/3 (October 2004): 125-39.. Reprinted in Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia: Notes on the Postcolonial Present, edited by Angana Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry (New Delhi: Zubaan Books, 2012). 2
Book Reviews Ten Books that Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons, edited by Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). American Historical Review 121.5 (Winter 2016): 1635-36. The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012). Victorian Studies 56.4 (Summer 2014): 722-24. The Indian Periodical Press and the Production of Nationalist Rhetoric by Sukeshi Kamra (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). Victorian Studies 55.4 (Summer 2013): 717-18. Educating Seeta: The Anglo-Indian Family Romance and the Poetics of Indirect Rule by Shuchi Kapila (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010). RaVon (Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, 57-58 (February-May 2010). Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia (ed.) Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003). Journal of Asian Studies 63.1 (February 2004): 141-43. CURRENT RESEARCH By examining texts from nineteenth-early twentieth century Britain and its empire, my book project, Loyalty and the Making of the Modern, traces the centrality of notions of loyalty to the epoch of the industrial modern. In so doing, the book identifies the transimperial circuit as crucial for stabilizing the seemingly counterintuitive relation between loyalty and modernity; it also posits the transimperial as a heuristic for studying the expansive yet connected nodes of multilingual literary production across empire. RECENT HONORS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Fall 2016 Graduate School Research Committee Award, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 2016-17 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2015-16 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016 3
Arts and Humanities Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012 Travel Grant, Center for International Education, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 2014 Sonya Rudikoff Prize for Best First Book in Victorian Studies awarded by Northeast Victorian Studies Association (for Becoming Imperial Citizens), 2012 Robert A. Jones and Mary B. Jones Award for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (for Becoming Imperial Citizens), 2011 Graduate School Research Committee Award, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, 2009-10 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant, 2007 COURSES TAUGHT Undergraduate Courses --Survey of English Literature, 1798-1900 --Writers in English Literature, 1798-1900: Victorian Novelists and the Notion of Englishness --World Literatures Written in English: Postcolonial Fiction (online) --Women Writers: Women Writers in a Global Context --Women Writers: Women and Nationhood Undergraduate Capstone Seminars (graduate students can also enroll) --Seminar in the Literature of England: The Victorian Novel and the British Empire --Seminar in the Literature of England: The Victorian Novel --Seminar in the Literature of England: Sensation Fiction in Victorian Britain --Seminar on Women Writers: Postcolonial Women Writers Graduate Seminars --Seminar on Nineteenth Century British Literature: Reading the Victorian Modern --Seminar on Nineteenth Century British Literature: Gender and the Victorian Novel --Seminar on Nineteenth Century British Literature: Gender, Sexuality, and the Victorian Sensation Novel --Seminar on Nineteenth Century British Literature: Ecology and Empire --Seminar in Critical Theory: Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory --Seminar in World Literatures: Postcolonial Theory and Fiction --Seminar in World Literatures: Fictions of Postcoloniality --Seminar in World Literatures: Commodities, Consumerism, and the Global 4
Modern PROFESSIONAL SERVICE --Member, Delegate Assembly, Modern Language Association (elected as Representative for Special Interest Group: Women in the Profession), 2015-18 --Member, Advisory Board, Victorian Literature and Culture, 2017- --Reviewer for fellowship applications, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2012 5