The UoH community is pleased to announce that Dr. Goutam Karmakar, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, has been appointed as the editor-in-chief for the journal Global South Literary Studies, published by Taylor & Francis, along with Routledge, a major imprint within the Taylor & Francis Group. The details of the journal can be accessed here: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgsl20
For everyone interested, this journal is dedicated to examining the literary and cultural expressions that respond to and emerge from the Global South with the aim of advancing understanding of the complex and diverse realities of the area. The launch of this journal under the editorship of Dr. Goutam Karmakar is a significant milestone in encouraging authors to consider contrasts as well as connections to reflect the polyphonic reality of categorisation and to facilitate the exploration of new aspects and paradigms within and beyond literature of the Global South.
Dr. Goutam Karmakar
Taylor & Francis, one of the leading academic publishers, alongside Sage, Wiley, Brill, Springer Nature, De Gruyter, and Elsevier, among other academic and scholarly university presses and publishing houses, provides foundational credibility for those engaged in the editorial and publication processes. Dr. Karmakar’s appointment as the journal’s editor exemplifies academic leadership, impact in shaping research agendas, and a prominent reputation within the academic environment. This position will undoubtedly enhance his research beyond the UoH community, while also involving the invitation and organisation of talks, grant review panels, research projects, and editorial boards for various journals that Dr. Karmakar is currently engaged in. We believe his collaborative approach will yield significant benefits for the journal, the Department of English, his research community, academic networks, and scholarship in the Global South.
For our global readers, Dr. Goutam Karmakar teaches at the Department of English, University of Hyderabad, India. He is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH), an associate member at the Global South Studies Center (GSSC), University of Cologne, Germany, and an honorary research associate at the Faculty of Arts and Design, Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Previously he was a National Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany. Apart from the highly prestigious Humboldt Fellowship, Dr. Karmakar has been awarded the MIASA Individual Junior Fellowship, University of Ghana, Ghana; the Guest Researcher Fellowship, Linnaeus University Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden; and the Visiting Scholarship, Network for Environmental Humanities at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Dr. Karmakar’s research interests include literature of the Global South, postcolonial and decolonial studies, environmental studies, and cultural studies. Dr. Karmakar is also a series editor for the Routledge book series South Asian Literature in Focus.
The Department of English and the university community express their sincerest congratulations and best wishes to Dr. Goutam Karmakar for this editorial position and responsibility!