Auritro Majumder

Auritro Majumder is Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston's College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, holding a courtesy appointment in the India Studies Program. His academic profile spans literary scholarship, critical theory, and intellectual history with a focus on non-Western perspectives.

His educational background includes a Ph.D. in English from Syracuse University (2014), a Certificate in Critical Theory from Cornell University (2012), an M.A. (First Class) in English from Jadavpur University (2009), and a B.A. (First Class Honours) in English from Jadavpur University (2007).

Majumder's research centers on peripheral internationalism and decolonial knowledge production, examining literary traditions across India, the Soviet Union, China, Latin America, and the United States. His work bridges literary theory, critical race studies, and global political movements, with particular emphasis on Bengali literature, caste-race intersections, and South-South cultural networks. His monograph Insurgent Imaginations: World Literature and the Periphery (Cambridge University Press, 2020) redefines world literature through non-Western frameworks.

Analysis of his 15 most recent publications reveals consistent engagement with decolonial aesthetics, transnational solidarity, and subaltern epistemologies. His scholarship demonstrates interdisciplinary reach spanning literary studies, political theory, film criticism, and comparative intellectual history, with increasing focus on contemporary debates around planetary consciousness and peripheral modernities.

His scientific recognition includes:

• Project Completion Grant, CLASS (2019)
• William Lee Pryor College Professorship (2018-2019)
• Research Progress Grant (2017)
• CLASS Research Funds (2016)
• New Faculty Summer Research Grant (2015)

Majumder actively contributes to academic service as Executive Committee member of the Modern Language Association’s South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Language, Literature and Culture Forum, editorial board member for Mediations, jurist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and reviewer for multiple international journals. He has lectured globally across North America, South Asia, Europe, and Brazil. His teaching portfolio includes courses on postcolonial literature, modern Indian literature, and graduate seminars in postcolonial theory. Current projects include a monograph titled The Global South in Literature and Theory and a co-edited anthology Cultures of the Cold War in South Asia.