WRITER, THINKER AND EDUCATOR.

Sayan Roy (he/him) hails from the Jungle Mahals of West Bengal, a region shaped by its long history of resistance against power structures — from the Chuar Rebellion against British colonialism to the more recent legacies of the Naxalite insurgency. Experiences of growing up in a region where questions of struggle, displacement, community, and state power were embedded in everyday life shaped his interest in memory, marginality, and the lives that often remain outside dominant narratives. Many of these concerns continue to inform his intellectual work, as his research seeks to examine how questions of exclusion, epistemic violence, and alternative forms of community emerge across literature, culture, and technology.

 

He is currently working as a PhD researcher at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He qualified CUET-PG with AIR 5 in 2022 and UGC-NET with AIR 10 in 2024. After qualifying CUET-PG, he completed my Master’s at JNU with a 3.5 GPA and received an A+ for his dissertation. His research interests include monster studies, contemporary continental thought, disability studies, and critical race studies, particularly in relation to AI, community, and carcerality. He has worked on projects involving the archiving and translation of 1960s Bengali little magazines, and he is currently researching digital Necromancy and Afrofuturist horror.

 

His scholarly work has appeared or is forthcoming with publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Springer, alongside presentations at several national and international conferences. Apart from research, he has mentored more than 1,000 students for CUET PG and UGC NET preparation. Over the years, he has helped more than 100 students qualify for NET, supported 25+ students in securing admission to leading Indian universities for master’s programmes, and guided several scholars into PhD programmes. Through both teaching and academic writing, he tries to create spaces where literature and cultural studies remain critically rigorous while also accessible and engaging. Through his Open Academia project, he seeks to democratise and un-gatekeep knowledge in the humanities by making academic discourse more accessible beyond institutional and class barriers.