Dissertation

Posthuman Becomings in Contemporary Global Anglophone Speculative Fiction 

Agnibha Banerjee is a PhD Fellow in the Department of English at Rice University. Before moving to the US, he worked as Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Adamas University, India. His research and teaching interests include Global Anglophone literatures, posthumanism, postcolonialism, Derridian deconstruction, speculative fiction, theories of racial formations, and ecocriticism. 

Select Publications

"'Waxen Wings’: Marlowe, the Animal, and the Posthuman.” Book chapter for edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of Christopher Marlowe, Oxford University Press, UK. (Forthcoming).

"'We’re all afraid of you’: The Clone as Monster and Commodity in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.” Studies in the Novel, John Hopkins University Press, USA. (Forthcoming).

“Tracing Matter: Derrida, New Materialisms, and Feminist STS.” Derrida Today, Edinburgh University Press, UK. 2025. 

“‘Just Words Written on a Page’: The Paradox of Representation in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People.” Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, University Press of Florida, USA. 2025. 

“‘There is still chaos’: Desire as Error in the Construction of the Posthuman Subject in Yevgeny’s Zamyatin’s We.” Pacific Coast Philology, Penn State University Press, USA. 2025.

“‘Shadowy Objects in Test Tubes’: Gene Fetishism and Racialized Biocapital in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Taylor & Francis, UK. 2024.