Sk Sagir Ali

Assistant Professor of English Literature | Postcolonial Studies | South Asian Literature

About

Sk Sagir Ali is Assistant Professor of English at Midnapore College, West Bengal, India, and a postcolonial literary scholar working at the intersections of South Asian Anglophone literature, religion, migration, nationalism, and human rights. In his research, Ali explores how literary and cultural texts respond to faith, marginality, political violence, displacement, and global precarity with particular attention to Islam, British Muslim fiction, interfaith encounters, and post-9/11 cultural imaginaries. Ali earned his Ph.D on 'Contemporary British Muslim Fiction' from Jadavpur University in 2024. 

 

Honours and Awards

 International Research Fellowship (Remote), University of Religions and Denominations, Pardisan, Qom, Iran August 2023–February 2024. 

Research Publications

Monograph

Ali, S. S. (2024). Community, Faith, and Resistance: Writing Religious Resurgence in Select British Muslim Fiction. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Community-Faith-and-Resistance-Writing-Religious-Resurgence-in-Select-British-Muslim-Fiction/Ali/p/book/9781032187587

Edited Books

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2025). Navigating New Homelands: Displacement and Migration in Post Colonial Nation-State. Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1466975

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2025). Migration, Identity and Resistance in Postcolonial Nation-State. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Migration-Identity-and-Resistance-in-the-Postcolonial-Nation-State/Ali-Kundu-Sarkar-Saren/p/book/9781032868882

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2024). Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature. Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-4544-9

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2024). Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/writing-disaster-in-south-asian-literature-and-culture-9781666951479/

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2023). Literature and the War on Terror: Nation, Democracy and Liberalisation. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Literature-and-the-War-on-Terror-Nation-Democracy-and-Liberalisation/Ali/p/book/9781032424835

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2022). Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Literature-and-Theory-Contemporary-Signposts-and-Critical-Surveys/Ali/p/book/9781032272146

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2021). Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Religion-in-South-Asian-Anglophone-Literature-Traversing-Resistance-Margins-and-Extremism/Ali-Karmakar-Islam/p/book/9780367745462

Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2018). Literary Theory: Textual Application. Atlantic Publishers. https://atlanticbooks.com/products/literary-theory-textual-application

Book Series Editor

Ali, S. S. (Series Ed.). Peripheral Lives in Asia: Reimagining Nationalism, Citizenship and Precarity in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Peripheral-Lives-in-Asia/book-series/PLIA

Journal Articles

Ali, S. S. (2025). Narrating Muslims in Post-9/11 America: On Ayad Akhtars Homeland Elegies. Wasafiri, 40(3), 109–120. https://doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2025.2497673

Ali, S. S. (2025). Framing Kashmir: Limits of Resistance and Human Rights in Rumours of Spring and The Far Field. Bandung: Jounal of Global South. https://brill.com/view/journals/bjgs/12/3/article-p380_02.xml

Ali, S. S. (2025). Rewriting History, Reading Erasure: Muslim Subjectivities in Anjum Hasans Historys Angel. South Asian Review, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2025.2484933

Ali, S. S. (2024). Frames of Violence: Representations of Kashmiri Subjectivities in Our Moon HasBlood Clots and The Night of Broken Glass. European Journal of English Studies, 28(2–3), 232–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/13825577.2025.2485945

Ali, S. S. (2024). Islam and the Thanatoethics of Sacrifice: Reading Qurbani in the Post- 9/11 Climate in Nadeem Aslams The Wasted Vigil. Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, 12(1), 107–121. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/227/article/948661

Ali, S. S. (2024). The Representations of Faith and Belonging: Locating Sri Lankan Muslim Women in Ameena Husseins The Moon in the Water. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 47(4), 843–861. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2024.2373602

Ali, S. S. (2024). The Veil of Resistance in Shaheen Bagh: Muslim Womens Activism and the Differential Solidarity Networks. Social Identities, 30(6), 535–553. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2024.2415560

Ali, S. S. (2023). Imagining Indian Nation-State: Rereading Qurratulain Hyders Select Novels in Contemporary Scenario. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, 60(2). https://doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol60no2.6

Ali, S. S. (2023). Thinking Beyond Nation: Planetary Belonging as an Alternative in Kamila Shamsies Home Fire. Postcolonial Text, 18(4). https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2801

Ali, S. S. (2022). The Muslim Problem: A Majoritarian Concern in India. Journal of Muslim MinorityAffairs, 42(4), 512–521. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2023.2202045

Ali, S. S. (2022). Orientalist Revulsion: A Joycean Tryst with Modernity in Ulysses. Journal of the Department of English, 15. https://ir.vidyasagar.ac.in/jspui/handle/123456789/6411

Ali, S. S. (2021). The Silenced Annals of Partition Historiography. Journal of Migration Affairs, 3(2), 112–114. https://migrationaffairs.com/the-silenced-annals-of-partition-historiography/

Ali, S. S. (2021). Shakespeare in Jerusalem: Post-Orientalism and the Counter-Appropriation of the Shakespearean Canon in the Geo-Political Discourses in the Middle East. Yearly Shakespeare, 19. https://sites.google.com/view/yearlyshakespeare/about/about-the-journal

Ali, S. S. (2020). Islam and Gender: Major Issues and Debates. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 57(4), 576–577. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2020.1840808

Ali, S. S. (2017). Dalitness of Muslim Communities in Bengal: A Study of the Short Stories of Afsar Ahmed. Muse India, Issue 74. https://share.google/l1grS7xaU6EP7xRu6

Ali, S. S. (2016). Surviving Theory: A Portrayal of Indian Muslim Women in Select Stories of Saleem. Muse India, Issue 66. https://share.google/d3nSPyTNCPR21kQIX

Book Chapters

Ali, S. S. (2025). Mapping Modernity and Tradition: Rushdies Vision of Indian Nation-State in The Free Radio. In A. Ray & A. Chanda (Eds.), Unveiling Identities: Exploring Indian Writing in English. Worldview. https://www.amazon.in/Unveiling-Identities-Exploring-Writing-English/dp/8197662436

Ali, S. S. (2022). Writing Rights: Women and Community in Sharmila Seyyids Ummath. In F. Jussawalla & D. Omran (Eds.), Muslim Womens Writing from Across South and Southeast Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003248064

Ali, S. S. (2019). Multispecies Ecology of War in The Blind Mans Garden: A Study in the Instruments of Warfare. In S. Das (Ed.), Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene. Authorspress. https://www.amazon.in/Environment-Culture-Anthropocene-Shruti-Das/dp/938961547X

Ali, S. S. (2019). The Politics of Representations in Alices Adventures in Wonderland. In A. Konar & S. Dutta (Eds.), Popular Narratives: Texts and Contexts. Avenel Press. https://www.amazon.in/Popular-Narratives-texts-Contexts-Ankur/dp/B08K7K4HRL

Ali, S. S. (2018). Modernity and Monaj Das. In S. Jana (Ed.), Annya Janala. Kabitika Publication. https://www.amazon.in/Annya-Janala-Bengali-Edited-Susnata/dp/B076X18BKN

Ali, S. S. (2015). Muslim Women Writers in English Today. In S. M. Kumar (Ed.), The Representation of Women in English Literature. Kalpaz Publication. https://www.amazon.in/Representation-Women-English-Literature/dp/9351280780

Public Writings

Ali, S. S. (2020, August 31). Online Education and the Crisis in Our Classrooms. Cafe Dissensus. https://cafedissensuseveryday.com/2020/08/31/online-education-and-the-crisis-in-our-classrooms/

Ali, S. S. (2017, August 6). Modernity and Provincial Writing: The Case of Manoj Das. Orissa Post (The Sunday Post). https://odishapostepaper.com/edition/1428/orissapost/page/10

E-Learning Pedagogies

Ali, S. S. (2017). Culture, Ideology and Technology: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Jonathan Dollimore. U.G.C. E-Pathshala. https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/engp10/chapter/culture-ideology-and-technology-louis-althusser-walter-benjamin-jonathan-dollimore/

Ali, S. S. (2017). John Milton: Poems, Themes and Legacy. U.G.C. E-Pathshala. https://ebooks.inflibnet.ac.in/engp02/chapter/john-milton-poems-themes-and-legacy/

Invited Lectures

Ali, S. S. (2025, March 28). Contextualizing Writings from the Indian Subcontinent: Partition, Migration, and Diaspora. Special lecture at the Young Scholars Seminar, Department of English, Nowgong College (Nagaon University), Assam, India.

Ali, S. S. (2024, November 17). Reimagining Genre Writing: Muslim Womens Historical Fiction in Contemporary South Asia. Special lecture at the PG Department of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, West Bengal, India.

Ali, S. S. (2023, July 13). Orientalism Post-9/11: Reimagining Religious Faith, Culture, and Modernity in Select Contemporary Fiction. Special lecture at the two-week workshop on Emerging Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies, Departmental Quality Assurance Cell, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

Ali, S. S. (2023). Looking Beyond Homogeneous Contact Zones: Islam, Transnational Migration, and Internal Colonisation in M. G. Vassanjis The Book of Secrets. Special lecture at Dhupguri Girls College, India.

Ali, S. S. (2023). Theorizing Wounds, Reading Displacement: The (Im)possibility of Being in Select Migrant Literature. Special lecture at SNDT University, Mumbai, India.

Ali, S. S. (2022, November 13). The Phantasmagoria of the Nation-State: Rushdie, Portrayals of Margins, and Alternative Communities. Lecture for the Indigenous Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature (iSPELL).

Ali, S. S. (2021, July 13). Decolonizing European Modernism: The Avant-Garde and Its Transmodern Others. Special lecture for P.G. 4th Semester (English), Department of English, Cooch Behar College, Cooch Behar, India.

Ali, S. S. (2021, March 13). Homi K. Bhabha: The Other Question. Chief speaker at the Postgraduate Lecture Series seminar, Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature.

Ali, S. S. (2020, October 2). Fiction and Economics: A 9/11 Perspective. Special lecture at Calcutta Comparatists 1919.

Ali, S. S. (2020, September 30). Virginia Woolfs A Room of Ones Own: A Feminist Per- spective. Keynote speaker at the One Day State Level Webinar on Feminism and Literature, Department of English and History in collaboration with IQAC, Pandaveswar College, West Bengal, India.

Ali, S. S. (2020, August 31). Imagining Post-Secular India: A Socio-Religious Perspective. Special lecture at the Department of English, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College, West Bengal, India.

Ali, S. S. (2020, August 24). Modernist Novel: A Reading of Joyce, Richardson, and Woolf. Keynote speaker at the One Day State Level Webinar, Department of English, Sabang Sajanikanta Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India.

Ali, S. S. (2020). Overcoming the English Language Barrier in Academia: Ways to Facilitate Better Teaching and Research Skills through Language Acquisition. Lecture at the Faculty Development Programme, Govt D.S.V. Sanskrit College, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.

Ali, S. S. (2019, April 8). Shakespeare Criticism. Special lecture for M.A. Sem II, P.G. Department of English, Bhatter College, West Bengal, India.

Chaired Sessions

Ali, S. S. (2025). Session chair at the International Young Researchers Conference, Paradigms in Flux: Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities, English Department, Aliah University, Kolkata, India.

Ali, S. S. (2023). Session chair at the International Conference on The Global Indian Dias- poras, Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat and GITAM, Hyderabad, India.

Ali, S. S. (2020, July 28). Session chair at the Golden Jubilee International Conference on Digital Humanities, Bharata Mata College, Kerala, India.

Organized Conferences

Ali, S. S. (2025). Convener, International Conference on Vulnerability in South Asian Literature: Understanding the Crisis and Community. Keynote speakers: Professor Pramod K. Nayar, University of Hyderabad, & Professor Ulka Anjaria, Brandeis University. Midnapore College, India.

Ali, S. S. (2024). Convener, International Conference on Disruptive Frames in the Post- Colony: Locating South Asian Cinema Beyond Global Cosmopolitanism. Speakers: Dr. Meheli Sen, Associate Professor, Rutgers University, and Dr. Suvadip Sinha, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota. Midnapore College, India.

Ali, S. S. (2024). Convener, International Conference on Negotiating Lives: Migration, Displacement, and Resistance in Postcolonial Nation-State. Keynote speaker: Professor Rashmi Varma, Warwick University. Midnapore College, India.

Ali, S. S. (2022). Convener, International Conference on Death in Contemporary Culture and Literature. Keynote speaker: Professor Ankhi Mukherjee, Oxford University. Midnapore College, India.

Ali, S. S. (2021). Convener, Invited Lecture on Subaltern? by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University. Midnapore College, India.

 

Contact 

📧 Email: skali661@gmail.com
🔗 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5878-9102