MA, PhD
- Literary and cultural history of colonial Bengal
- Contemporary literary and cultural theory with focus on post-theoretical developments
- Contemporary popular culture with focus on the technologized mass media as well as folk cultural forms
- Western philosophy, especially from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, and its implications on ideological and cultural production
- Classical Indian philosophy and resultant literary and aesthetic theories
- The theory and practice of Translation and Comparative literature
30 years
- Erich Auerbach Visiting Chair for World Literature, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany, Summer Semester 2025, April-July 2025
- Visiting Professor, Department of English Philology, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany, June 2024
- Visiting Professor, at the Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM), École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, Lyon, France, January-February 2023
- Visiting Professor, at the ILCEA4 (Institut des Langues et Cultures d'Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie), Université Grenoble Alpes, France, September - December 2021
- Research Stay, at the Siebold Collegium Institute of Advanced Studies, Julius Maximillians Universität, Würzburg, Germany, May-June 2019
- Teaching and Research Stay, under the University Grants Commission (UGC) - Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) - Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education Programme (IGP) , Julius Maximillians Universität, Würzburg, Germany, May-June 2018
- Secondment at the Faculty of Polish Studies, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, under the Marie Curie International Research Exchange Scheme Project “SPeCTReSS” (Social Performances of Cultural Trauma and the Rebuilding of Solid Sovereignties), funded by the European Union, November 2017 - January 2018
- Visiting Professor, under the UGC-DAAD-IGP, Julius Maximillians Universität, Würzburg, Germany, May-June 2017
- Visiting Professor, under the UGC-DAAD- Project-based Personnel Exchange Programme (PPP), Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany, June-July 2016
- Visiting Fellow, UGC-SAP CAS-II, Department of Assamese, Dibrugarh University, March 2016
- Visiting Professor, under the UGC-DAAD-PPP, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany, June 2015
- Visiting Professor, under the ‘A New Passage to India’ Programme, Julius Maximillians Universität, Würzburg, Germany, April 2015
- Visiting Professor, Georg August Universität, Göttingen, Germany, November 2013
- Visiting Professor, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA, October-November 2012
- Visiting Professor, University of Bergamo, Italy, November 2011
- Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, September, 2010
- Invited to inaugurate a new auditorium (Auditorio IACS II), and delivered the inaugural address ‘Culture Studies at the Crossroads: A Case for South-South Conversations’, at the Instituto de Arte e Comunicação Sociale (ICAS), Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 20, 2014
- A Session held in my honour at the 7th Neuro-Humanities Colloquium on ‘Neuro-Ethic, Neuro-Aesthetic and Neuro-Complexity’, at the Ibero-American University, Mexico City, March 20-21, 2012 (Session on ‘Videos on Neuro-Humanities by Students of Design, Architecture and Communication, Ibero-American University and National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Recognition of Saugata Bhaduri’, March 21, 2012)
- Associateship, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, for pursuing a research project, ‘The Body in the Mind-Matter Dialectic: A Comparative Study of Modes of Ontological Tripartition’, 2002-2005
- Junior Research Fellowship, UGC, July 1995, for pursuing doctoral research, ‘Hierarchies and the Dialectics of Discourse: A Study in Theory around Michel Foucault’
- Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Award, 1995, for ranking first in M.A. (English) in the university with a High First Class (A+) and a record grade point of 8.81 on a scale of 9
- H.C. Sarkar Memorial Award, 1993, for ranking first in B.A. (English Hons.) in St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta, with a first division in aggregate
- Partner (with Klaus Stierstorfer as Co-ordinator), CoFund Project ‘MDC’ (Migration – Diaspora – Citizenship), at the Universität Münster, Germany, under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, funded by the European Council, 2023 till date
- Partner (with MaryAnn Snyder-Körber, University of Würzburg, Germany, as Principal Investigator), ‘WueGlobal – Writing, Learning, Digital Connection’, a research project under the International Virtual Collaborations (IVAC) scheme of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD), 2020-2022
- Co-Investigator (with Marie Mianowski, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, as Principal Investigator), HOMES (‘Hosts, Migrations, Exchange Stories’), a research project under the IDEX (Initiative D’Excellence) Scheme, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, 2019-2021.
- Principal Investigator (along with Isabel Karremann, University of Würzburg, Germany), ‘Literature in a Globalized World: Creative and Critical Perspectives’, a research project under the UGC-DAAD Indo-German Partnerships in Higher Education Programme (IGP), 2016-2020.
- Collaborator (with Astrid Ensslin, University of Alberta, Canada, as Principal Investigator, and Prof. Charles A. Baldwin, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, and Dr. Alice Bell, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, as Collaborators), ‘Digital Narratives around the World’, research project funded by Kule Dialog Grants, Kule Institute for Advanced Study, University of Alberta, Canada, 2016-2017.
- Project Leader (along with Barbara Schaff, University of Göttingen, Germany), ‘Polycoloniality in India: Cultural Transactions with Europe from Early Modernity to the 19th Century’, a research project under the UGC-DAAD Project-based Personnel exchange Programme (PPP), 2014-2016.
- Partner (along with Charles A. Baldwin, West Virginia University, USA and Astrid Ensslin, Bangor University, UK), ‘Computer Gaming across Cultures’, a research project funded by UKIERI UK-US-India Trilateral Research in Partnership, 2012-2014.
- Member, Core Group (along with Richard F. Allen & Suman Gupta, Open University, London; Makarand Paranjape & GJV Prasad, JNU; Harish Trivedi, Tapan K. Basu, & Subarno Chattarji, University of Delhi; and M. Asaduddin & Anuradha Ghosh, Jamia Millia Islamia), ‘Prospects for English Studies: India and Britain Compared’, a research project funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, at the Open University, London, UK, 2011-2014.
- Partner (along with Neelam Srivastava & Baidik Bhattacharya, Newcastle University, Francesca Orsini, SOAS, Malashri Lal & Udaya Kumar, University of Delhi, and GJV Prasad, JNU), ‘Research Network in Postcolonial Translation: The Case of South Asia’, a research network funded by the Leverhulme Foundation at the Newcastle University, UK, 2008-2011.
- Conducted academic visits, upon invitation, to many countries – Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, USA, etc. – on multiple occasions, for meetings, workshops, seminars, conferences, etc.
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Polycoloniality: European Transactions with Bengal from the 13th Century to the 19th Century, New Delhi, London, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2020 [ISBN: (hardback) 9789388271417; (e-book) 9789388271424]
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‘The Pre-Truth of the Place (Rather than “The Lie of the Land”): Representations of Bengal in the Writings of Early European Travellers’, Représentations dans le monde anglophone, an online journal of the Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, Issue 28, 2024 (The Unbearable Precariousness of Place and Truth followed by Autour du fonds Léonie Villard). Available at: https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=1085 [ISSN: 2552-1160]
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‘Hospitalities, Hostilities: From Theory to Practice – a conversation with Saugata Bhaduri’ (Hospitalités, hostilités : de la théorie à la pratique. Conversation avec Saugata Bhaduri), interviewed by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot and Marie Mianowski, ILCEA: Revue de l’Institut de langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie, a journal of the Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France, Issue 50, 2023, (Du seuil au refuge, le défi de l’hospitalité / Thresholds and Refuges: Hospitality as a Challenge), pp. 119-27. Available at: https://journals.openedition.org/ilcea/16114 [ISSN: (online) 2101-0609; (print) 1639-6073; ISBN: 978-2-37747-399-1]
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‘The Bhadralok and his “Wild West”: Reading Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay’s Palamou’, in Rita Banerjee (ed.), India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, New Delhi, London, Oxford, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2022, pp. 167-82. [ISBN: (hardback) 978-93-54355-91-2; (e-book) 978-93-54355-15-8]
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‘Polycolonial Angst: Representations of Spain in Early Modern English Drama’, in Joachim Küpper and Leonie Pawlita (eds.), Theatre Cultures within Globalising Empires: Looking at Early Modern England and Spain, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, pp. 150-59, 2018. [ISBN: 978-3-11-053687-4]
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‘Gaming’, in Benjamin Peters (ed.), Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture, Princeton NJ & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016, pp. 140-48. [ISBN: 9780691167336]
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‘The Yayati Complex: A contra-oedipal take on myth and the unconscious’, in Leon Burnett, Sanja Bahun and Roderick Main (eds.), Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious, London: Karnac Books, 2013, pp. 39-57. [ISBN: 978-1-78220-0-024]
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‘Colonial Contact, Translation, and the Case of Modern Bengali’, in Claire Joubert (ed.), “Le Texte étranger (3). Travaux 2008-2011”, Travaux et documents, No. 55, Vincennes à Saint-Denis: Université Paris 8, 2012, pp. 119-28. [ISBN: 978-2-911860-55-1]
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‘The Ideology of Discourse in the Folk Sacred Space: Potentializing Subversion in the vrata-katha Tradition of Bengal’, in M. D. Muthukumaraswamy (ed.), Folklore as Discourse, Chennai: NFSC, 2006, pp. 191-97. [ISBN: 81-901481-6-8].
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‘The (Im)Possibility of Subjectivity: Reading Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo’, in Franson Manjali (ed.), Nietzsche: Philologist, Philosopher and Cultural Critic,
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‘Confessions of the Unwritten Foucault: Subjectivization and Christian Sexuality’, in Franson Manjali (ed.), Post-Structuralism and Cultural Theory,
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‘Languish for Language: A Semiotic Perspective to Look Back in Anger’, in G J V Prasad (ed.), The Lost Temper: Critical Essays on Look Back in Anger,
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‘Of Public Sphere and the Sacred Space: A Study in the Origins of Community Durga Puja in
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‘From Individuality to Subjectivity: A Study in Technologies of the Self’, in Trajectory of French Thought,
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‘Beyond Binaries: The Category of Body and Ontological Tripartition’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (Journal of IIAS, Shimla), Vol. X, No. 1, Summer 2003, pp. 65-86. [ISSN: 0972-1401]
- Saugata Bhaduri and Indrani Mukherjee (eds.), Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)Longing, New Delhi, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, New York, London: Springer, 2015. [ISBN: 978-81-322-2436-5]
- Saugata Bhaduri and Simi Malhotra (eds.), Literary Theory: An Introductory Reader, London, New York, New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2010. [ISBN: 978-93-80601-05-2]
- Saugata Bhaduri and Amar Basu (eds.), Perspectives on Comparative Literature and Culture in the Age of Globalization, London, New York, New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2010. [ISBN: 978-81-907570-8-9]
- Saugata Bhaduri (ed.), Translating Power, New Delhi: Katha, 2008. [ISBN: 978-81-89934-24-8]
- Saugata Bhaduri (ed.), Negotiating ‘Glocalization’: Views from Language Literature and Culture Studies,
- Saugata Bhaduri (trans.), Yogasūtra of Patañjali, New Delhi: DK Printworld, 2000. [ISBN: 81-246-0157-7]