Publications: - “Pyropolis: Locus of Fire in Nabarun Bhattacharya’s Harbart.” in Eric Prieto, Liam Lannigan, and Anni Lappella (ed.), Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses on Crisis, Resistance, Resilience, and Renewal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. (In Press).
- (Under Review) “Industrial Breeze: Figurations of Urban Air in Satyajit Ray’s Calcutta Trilogy.” In Manishita Dass and Usha Iyer (ed.). Locating the Indian New Wave in Global Art and Political Cinema Circuits, Oxford University Press, 2025.
- “Kinship, Knowledge, and Nationhood in Shyam Benegal’s Kalyug.” In Sneha Kar Chaudhuri and Ramit Samaddar (ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Shyam Benegal, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 100-117.
- “King Lear on the Marathi Stage: on V.V. Shirwadkar’s Natasamrat,*” Jadavpur University Essays and **Studies* Volume 31 (2017): 187-215.
- "Infernal Encounters: Streets and Interpretation in Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta Trilogy.” *Humanities Underground*, September 24, 2015. Web.
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About: Somak Mukherjee is a Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Modern German Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in the University of Tubingen in Germany. His interests lie at the intersection of environmental criticism, materialist aesthetics, urban history, cinema and media studies, and visual culture. He recently completed his PhD at the Department of English, University of California, Santa Barbara. His current book manuscript in progress, tentatively titled *Elemental City: Ecology, Media, and Narratives of Crisis in Postcolonial Calcutta*, explores how the literary and mediatic representation of classical elements, such as earth, air, fire, and water, imagine conditions of urban crisis, with Calcutta as the model site. Somak’s teaching and research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) of UC Santa Barbara, Dean’s Prize for Teaching Fellowship at UCSB, and UCSB Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship, among others. His academic articles have been published, or under review by journals *Amerasia, Critical Humanities, or *edited volumes of Edinburgh University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Oxford University Press. His public writings have appeared in various print and digital publications in South Asia, including *Huffington Post*, *Frontier,* *Scroll,* *The Citizen*, *Daily Star*, *Anandabazar Patrika*, and Humanities Underground. |
