Malcolm Sen

Malcolm Sen is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and serves as Director of the Environmental Humanities Specialization. His academic work bridges literary studies, postcolonial theory, and ecological crisis, with deep engagement in Irish, South Asian, and global Anglophone literatures.

• Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• School: College of Humanities and Fine Arts
• Department: Department of English
• Role: Associate Professor, Director of Environmental Humanities Specialization

His research centers on justice, sovereignty, and statecraft in the context of climate change, exploring how literature responds to environmental and political crises. He teaches courses on environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, Irish literature, climate fiction, and global Anglophone writing at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

The recent publications reflect a sustained intellectual trajectory across ecocriticism, postcolonial theory, and modernist literature—particularly focused on James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, and Amitav Ghosh. The articles and chapters demonstrate a consistent engagement with planetary aesthetics, spatial justice, sovereignty in marginal geographies, and the cultural dimensions of the Anthropocene. Keywords include environmental humanities, postcolonial studies, Irish modernism, and climate fiction, with sub-fields ranging from oceanic sovereignty to decolonial ecologies.

Malcolm Sen has received significant recognition for his scholarly contributions, including:

• Irish Research Council Elevate Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment
• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame

He has also been active in public scholarship, writing for The Irish Times, The Chicago Review of Books, and History Ireland, and hosting a podcast on Irish literature and the environmental humanities. His advising, grant, and team affiliations are not explicitly detailed in the provided text, but his leadership in the Environmental Humanities Specialization suggests programmatic and mentorship roles. He has delivered invited lectures at Princeton, Harvard, Notre Dame, NYU, and international conferences in Lisbon, Singapore, and Germany, indicating broad academic influence.