Assistant Professor of English

Office: Olin 213
Telephone:(509) 527-5209
Fax:(509) 527-5039
E-mail: majumdg@whitman.edu

Gaurav Majumdar received his B.A. from the University of Delhi (1992), M.A. from the University of Rochester (1993), and Ph.D. from New York University (2003).

His research and teaching interests include postcolonial and modern British literatures, film, and Victorian literature.  He is particularly interested in the modern novel, revisions of cosmopolitanism in literary studies, and figuration.

Gaurav's book, Migrant Form: Modernist Play and Anti-Colonical Aesthetics in Joyce, Rushdie, and Ray, is forthcoming from Peter Lang in 2009.  He has published articles on James Joyce and Howard Hawks, as well as several book reviews. He also has forthcoming publications on critical cosmopolitanism and on Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

The recipient of the Dublin Award for the Study of Global Multiculturalism in 2008, Gaurav is currently working on a project that studies the representation of "failed" constructions in unfamiliar spaces.  This project will investigate the cosmopolitan impulses within postcolonial notions of melancholy, examining the differences of that melancholy with introspective critique for dissent and reconstitution.