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Debjani Ganguly

Professor of Literature, Australian Catholic University

Professor of Literature, Australian Catholic University Debjani Ganguly specializes in post-1945 English and global anglophone literatures. Her research is informed by postcolonial and world literary theories, new formalisms, new materialism, media ecologies, philosophies of technology and digitality, human rights discourse, and environmental concerns. She is the author of This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke 2016) and Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge 2005), and the editor of the two- volume The Cambridge History of World Literature (2021). Her third monograph, Catastrophic Modes and Planetary Realism, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She is the general editor of the CUP monograph series, Cambridge Studies in World Literature. Debjani is a Fellow and Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and advisory board member of the Harvard Institute for World Literature, the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, and the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory (Bologna). As director of humanities institutes at the University of Virginia (2016-2023) and the Australian National University (2007-2014), Debjani Ganguly has fostered international projects and networks in the fields of environmental humanities, digital humanities, informatics, big data, and AI, human rights and refugee migration, and global south studies. Prior to her appointment at the University of Virginia, she directed the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) at ANU. Debjani completed her doctoral work at ANU in 2002 and served as tenured faculty in ANU’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics until 2015.