Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering (SSN), an autonomous institution affiliated to Anna University, Chennai (August 12, 2024 - January 2, 2026)
Sarkar, S. (2025). "The Carbon Coin: An Eco-speculative Approach to Decarbonisation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future". Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 28(4), 297–310. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2025.2483998. (Taylor and Francis)
Sarkar, S., & Rangarajan, S. (2022). "Marine Entanglements: Tropical Materialism and Hydrographic Imaginary in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon". eTropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 21(2), 180–197. https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.21.2.2022.3900. (James Cook University Press, Australia)
Sarkar, S., & Rangarajan, S. (2022). "Do you think it is a pandemic?” Apocalypse, Anxiety and the Environmental Grotesque in Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl". Interlitteraria, 27(1), 69–83. https://doi.org/10.12697/IL.2022.27.1.7. (University of Tartu Press, Estonia)
Sarkar, S., & Rangarajan, S. (2021). "Of Devouring Waters and Unforgiving Lands: An Analysis of Premonition Ecology in Two Wetland Narratives from West Bengal". International Journal of Fear Studies, 3(1), 61-73. (Univeristy of Calgary Press, Canada: PRISM Database)
Sarkar, S. (2021). "Eco-speculation: Envisioning a Sustainable Future in the ‘Eco-architectures’ of Stefano Boeri and Vincente Callebaut". IIS University Journal of Arts, 10(2), 46–53.
Environmental Communication (Climate Change and the Human Footprint)
Environmental Humanities (Climate Futures and Postmodern Environments)
Presented a Paper on "Agency of the Indian Ocean: Marine Ecocriticism in Bengali Nautical Fiction" at the ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Conference 2025 on Literary Narratives, Climate Change, and Social Inequality: ASEAN Perspectives, organized by English Letters Department and English Language Studies Universitas Sanata Dharma in cooperation with Ateneo de Manila University and ASLE-ASEAN in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Presented a Paper on the "Impact of Climate Change in Threshold Environments of India: A Pedagogical Framework for Experiential Learning" at the 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education (WCAHSSE-Vienna-2024), May 13-14, ARCOTEL, Wimberger Wien, Neubaugarte, Vienna, Austria.
Presented a Paper on "Tropical Archipelagic Commons and the Perils of the Indian Mainland Thinking in Pankaj Sekhsaria’s Islands in Flux: The Andaman & Nicobar Story" at the International Conference on ‘Reclaiming the Commons’, July 2023, jointly organized by the American Association of Studies in Literature and the Environment (ASLE) and the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) at the University of Oregon, Portland, USA (Virtual).
Presented a Paper on "Covid-19 as a Hyperobject: Analysing the Anthropo-ecological Temporalities during the Coron(a)ial Interregnum in India" at the Air and Environmental Health International Conference on The Coronavirus Pandemic: An Environmental Humanities Perspective, February 2023, University of Vienna, Austria (Virtual).
Presented a Paper on "The Carbon Coin: An Eco-speculative Approach to Decarbonisation in Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future" at the ASLE-UKI International Conference on Time and the Environment, September 2022, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
Presented a Paper on "The Water Remembers: Eco-speculation and Hydrographic Imaginaries in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon" at the XIV International Conference on Environmental Humanities: Living in Critical Zones, January 2022, organized by the Forum on Contemporary Theory, India and Shreveport University, Louisiana, USA at the International Convention Centre, Goa.
Presented a Paper on "Eco-speculation: Envisioning a Sustainable Future in the Eco-architectures of Stefano Boeri and Vincente Callebaut" at the National Conference on Exploring Ecological and Cultural Consciousness: A Vision of Equitability, January 2020, Organized by Dept. of English, Christ University, Bangalore.
Presented a Paper on "Earth Writing and Geostories in T.C. Boyle’s Contemporary American Eco-Speculative Fiction" at the National Conference on Climate Justice: Exploring Narratives for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future. April 2025, Organized by the Dept. of English, Academy of Maritime Education and Training (Deemed to be University), Chennai.
Presented a Paper titled “Earthbound Imaginaries in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Contemporary American Science Fiction” at the International Seminar on Literature as Discourse, organized by the Dept. of English at Pondicherry University in October 2023.
Certificate of Academic Distinction for the Best Thesis Award in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras (2025)
IIT Madras Institute Research Award (2023)
International Immersion Experience (IIE) Travel Award at IIT Madras - Visiting Researcher at the Department of Virtual Technology and Design Environments, University of Idaho, USA (2023)
IIMK Campus P. O, Kozhikode, Kerala, India,
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