Faculty

Dr. Sayanti Mondal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Writing at Ithaca College. She is a postcolonial literary critic whose pedagogical
commitment is rooted in social justice pedagogy, highlighting the politics of power
implicit in literary and cultural activities. Her forthcoming book project reassesses
the genre of postcolonial Indian graphic narratives and their potential to redefine
Indigenous (collective) identity. Her research interests include South-Asian
literature, postcolonial approaches, children’s literature, adaptations, and writing
studies. Her articles have been published (and are forthcoming) in International
Research of Children's Literature (IRCL), South Asian Review, Ashwamegha Indian
Journal on English Literature, and Modern Language Studies, in addition to a few
book chapters. When she is not teaching or writing, she makes (mostly) single-
panel gag cartoons.

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming Accepted Articles
2024. “Mapping the Self: Assessing Pedagogic Implication of Hand-drawn Maps in Young-
Adult Graphic Memoirs.” Arts Integration and Young Adult Literature: Connecting
Stories through Art to Create Knowledge and Deepen Understanding, Edited by Rebecca
Maldonado.

Article Under Review
2024. "Hidden Image-Text Transcripts: Trans-forming Postcolonial Graphic Narrative Within an
Undergraduate Classroom," Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature,
Language, Composition, and Culture, Duke University Press.

2024. “Indigenous Aesthetics: Reading Allegory and “Third Space” in Cole Pauls’s Dakwakada
Warriors,” Drawing Protest: Graphic Novels for Youth and Social Justice. Ed. Michelle
Ann Abate and Frederick Luis Aldama. University of Missouri Press.

2023. "The Gaze of the Margin: Agency, Identity, and the Postcolonial Storyteller." Modern
Language Studies. University of Buffalo Press.

Academic Book Review
2023. “Performing Indigeneity: Writing Stories through Warli Art in The Deep,” Feral
Feminisms. Issue 10.

Book Chapter
2019. “Filling in the Gap: The Dynamics between English Translations of Mahasweta Devi’s
Fiction and Non-fiction,” Mahasweta Devi: Her Art and Vision, ed. Sanjeev Kumar
Vishwakarma, Latur: Vishwabharti Research Centre, ISBN: 9789387966024.

Articles
2023. “Where the ‘Wild’ Things Are: A Postcolonial Critique of Niki Daly’s Pretty Salma.”
International Research in Children’s Literature, Special Issue: ‘Black Spaces.’ Edited by
Karen Chandler and Michelle Martin. Edinburgh University Press.

2017. “The Custodianship of Mahasweta Devi: A Responsibility for the Readers”, Indian
Scholar: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal, Vol. 3 Issue IV. ISSN:
2350-109X.

2016. “Pleasure of the Carnivalesque: Rituals during Shiv Gajan”, Ashvamegh Indian Journal of
English Literature, Vol.II, Issue XXII, ISSN: 2454-4574.

2016. “Sonnets as Modern Poetry: Contesting the Form during
the Hungryalist Movement,” Ashvamegh Indian Journal of English Literature, Issue XII.
ISSN: 2454-4574.

2015. “Popularizing the Folk in Urban Spaces: A Case Study of Jhumur in Bengal,” GALAXY
International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, Vol.3, Issue 9. ISSN: 2347-6915.

Manuscripts in Preparation
“Past that Haunts: Afterlife, Caste, and Gender Politics in Bengali Children’s Literature.” To be
submitted to South Asia Review