Goutam Karmakar

Dr. Goutam Karmakar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India. He holds an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) at the University of Cologne, Germany, and is an honorary research associate at Durban University of Technology’s Faculty of Arts and Design, South Africa. His research focuses on subaltern environmentalism, decolonial ecologies, and Global South literature, examining environmental injustice, epistemic violence, and colonial legacies. He has held prestigious fellowships at institutions including the University of South Africa, University of Ghana, and Linnaeus University.

Education: PhD in English from National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India. Previous academic roles include Senior Lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia and Visiting Scholar at the Rachel Carson Centre (LMU Munich).

Research Interests: His work bridges literary studies with environmental justice, advocating for decolonial frameworks rooted in Indigenous and marginalized knowledges. Key themes include climate coloniality, infrastructural violence, and planetary sustainability through African and South Asian case studies.

Publications: Over 30 peer-reviewed articles in journals like ISLE, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Scrutiny2, plus multiple edited special issues on environmental humanities, decoloniality, and African literature.

• Awards: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, MIASA Junior Fellowship, NRF Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• Grants: Multiple international fellowships supporting his research on environmental injustice in Nigeria and South Africa.
• Labs/Teams: Active collaborator in MESH (University of Cologne) and part of global environmental humanities networks.