Amit R. Baishya

Amit R. Baishya serves as Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma, specializing in postcolonial literature with a regional focus on Northeast India.

His educational background includes:

• PhD from University of Iowa (2010)

Baishya's research traverses postcolonial literature, cultural studies, and film, with concentrated expertise in Northeast Indian narratives of terror and survival. His scholarly trajectory expanded into animal studies through co-edited collections like Postcolonial Animalities (2019), then progressed to environmental humanities via special issues on the Anthropocene and planetary solidarities (2022). He actively bridges academic and literary work through Assamese-to-English translation of historical narratives like Jangam (2018) about WWII migration.

His publication pattern reveals a clear evolution from regional conflict studies to multispecies and planetary frameworks, while maintaining Northeast India as an anchor. Recent works integrate nonhuman perspectives with postcolonial theory, reflecting contemporary critical trends in environmental humanities and decolonial approaches to the Anthropocene.