Portrait of Dr. Suparno Banerjee

Dr. Suparno Banerjee

  • Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Banerjee, S. (2025). Science Fictionalizing the Epic: Retelling the Ramayana in the Age of Science. In S. A. Khan & M. Tabur (Eds.), The Speculative Route: Futures from South and Southwest Asia and North Africa (pp. 15–31). Routledge.
  • Banerjee, S. (2025). Ruptured Bodies and Invaded Grains: Biotechnology as Bioviolence in Indian Science Fiction. In G. Westfahl (Ed.), Global Science Fiction: Essays on the International Imagination (pp. 157–169). McFarland.

2024

  • Banerjee, S. (2024, December 21). “‘Ecoceanic’: Speculative fiction anthology from the global South reveals climate change injustices. Scroll.in. Retrieved from https://scroll.in/article/1076946/ecoceanic-speculative-fiction-anthology-from-the-global-south-reveals-climate-change-injustices?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1LUQl_AQzTrqRTBwptd02DCUN-IUPLXYWtuouWnHpNWlXo8HhJkOiDxUk_aem_TFLuIuHLbpSRy-BomlwCng

2023

  • Banerjee, S. (n.d.). Early Twentieth Century Bangla SF and the Influence of Wells. In D. Bell & S. Cole (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells. UK: Oxford UP.
  • Co-director, shadow puppet performance, music, Golur Golpo. May 2023.

2022

  • Co-producer, story, music, Thoughts in Motion (8 episodes). January 2022 - December 2022.
  • Banerjee, S. (2022, September). Paranoid Victimhood in Anglo-American SF. Science Fiction Studies. Retrieved from https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/birs/bir148.html#higgins
  • Co-director, shadow puppet performance, voice, music, Henny Penny. April 2022.

2021

  • Banerjee, S. (2021). Generation 14: A Postnational Dystopia. ContactZone, 1, 10–22.
  • Banerjee, S. (2021). Ghosts, Aliens, and Machines: Epistemic Continuity and Assemblage in Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay’s Science Fiction. In I. Campbell (Ed.), SF in Translation (pp. 263–282). Palgrave.
  • Banerjee, S. (2021, November). An Offbeat Ghost Story. LA Review of Books.
  • Banerjee, S. (2021, October). Sami Ahmad Khan, Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: Materiality, Mythology and Technology of Indian Science Fiction. South Asian Review. USA.
  • Co-director, shadow puppet performance, voice, music, subtitles, Narahari Das. March 2021 - June 5, 2021.
    Showings:
    • June 5, 2021 - Present Joydhak Patrika., https://joydhakweb.in/shadowmovie0178/.
  • Reader/actor, The Red Oleander. May 8, 2021.
    Performances:
    • Celebrating Tagore's 160th Birth Anniversary. May 8, 2021 Shakespeare Birth Place Trust (Stratford-upon-Avon, UK), Online event.
  • Kyzer, K. C., & Banerjee, S. (2021). An Introduction to Arthur C. Clarke, (1917-2008). In J. Stock (Ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 481, pp. 1–3). Gale.
  • Banerjee, S. (2021, April). A Pioneering Study on Indian Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies.
  • Banerjee, S. (2021). 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Transcendental Trans-Locution. In J. Stock (Ed.), Contemporary Literary Criticism (Vol. 481, pp. 47–53). Gale.
  • Shadow Play. San Marcos Daily Record. San Marcos, TX. January 31, 2021.
    • Reviewed by: Celeste Hollister.
  • Co-director, shadow puppet performance, music, subtitles, Sharosh o Sheyal (The Stork and the Fox). December 2020 - January 1, 2021.
    Showings:
    • Joydhak Patrika. March 2021 - Present https://joydhakweb.in/shadowmovie0176/.
    • April 2021 - Present Shishukagaj, https://www.shishukagoz.com/2021/03/blog-post_52.html#more.

2020

  • Banerjee, S. (2020). Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press.
  • Banerjee, S. (2020, November). Examining Alternate Histories. Science Fiction Studies.
  • Lyricist, music, and subtitles, Putuser Dosh Bondhu (Putush and Her Ten Friends). August 2020 - November 1, 2020.
    Showings:
    • 23rd Annual Art Works in the Community by TX State Faculty, Staff, Student, & Alumni. April 16, 2021 - May 22, 2021 The Walkers' Gallery, San Marcos, TX.
  • Co-director, shadow puppet performance, voice, music, subtitles, Golruti (Kolobok/The Round Bun). July 2020 - September 4, 2020.
    Showings:
    • October 11, 2020 - Present Boiraag Publications, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlYD3yKmzwI.
    • December 2020 - Present Joydhaak Patrika, https://joydhakweb.in/shadowmovie0275/.
    • 23rd Annual Art Works in the Community by TX State Faculty, Staff, Student, & Alumni. April 16, 2021 - May 22, 2021 The Walkers' Gallery, San Marcos, TX.
  • Co-director, shadow puppet performance, voice, music, subtitles, Pakhi Ar Piprer Golpo (The Bird and the Ant). June 2020 - July 21, 2020.
    Showings:
    • October 17, 2020 - Present Boiraag Publication, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl80rc0VhJ8.
    • April 2021 - Present Joydhak Patrika, https://joydhakweb.in/shadowmovie0177/.
  • Co-director, shadow puppet performance, voice, music, subtitles, Tin Shuorchanar Golpo (The Three Little Pigs). May 2020 - July 21, 2020.
    Showings:
    • September 2020 - Present Joydhak Patrika, https://joydhakweb.in/%e0%a6%b6%e0%a6%ac%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%a6%e0%a6%97%e0%a6%b2%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%aa%e0%a6%a6%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%b0%e0%a7%81%e0%a6%ae-%e0%a6%85%e0%a6%a1%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%93-%e0%a6%ae%e0%a7%8d%e0%a6%af%e0%a6%be%e0%a6%97/.
    • November 3, 2020 - Present Boiraag Publication, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2AsK2T0o0.
  • Banerjee, S. (2020, January). An Excellent Introduction to Diaspora Theory and Transnationalism. Rupkatha.

2019

  • Banerjee, S. (2019). India. In The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture (pp. 408–415). Routledge.
  • Banerjee, S. (2019). Crossing the Border: Depiction of India in Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and Cyberbad Days. In T. Tatsumi (Ed.), Trans-Pacific Cultural Studies Volume III: Science Fiction and Cyber Culture. Sage.
  • Banerjee, S. (2019, July). SF as a Global Genre. Science Fiction Studies.

2018

  • Banerjee, S. (2018). 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Transcendental Trans-Locution. In J. Fenwick (Ed.), Understanding Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey: Representation and Interpretation (pp. 49–62). Intellect.

2017

  • Banerjee, S. (2017). India, Geopolitics, and Specters of Future War. In I. Lavender III (Ed.), Dis-Orienting Planets: Representations of Asia in Science Fiction (pp. 218–231). University of Mississippi Press.
  • Banerjee, S. (2017). Sexual Reproduction and Textual Creation as Mutually Exclusive Processes in Science Fiction and Fantasy: A Comparative Study of Frankenstein and The Golden Key. Victorian Journal of Arts, X(II), 1–10.

2016

  • Banerjee, S. (2016). Crossing the Border: Depiction of India in Ian McDonald’s River of Gods and Cyberbad Days. Science Fiction Studies, 43(3), 496–513.

2015

  • Banerjee, S. (2015). Ruptured Bodies and Invaded Grains: Biotechnology as Bioviolence in Indian Science Fiction. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 26(1), 58–74.
  • Collaborative art work “Finally I am proud to incinerate you precious memories”. The 17th Annual Texas State Show, The Walkers’ Gallery. April 2015 - May 2015 (State)

2014

  • Banerjee, S. (2014). Melodrama, Mimicry, and Menace: Reinventing Hollywood in Indian Science Fiction Films. South Asian Popular Culture 12.1 (2014): 15-28, 12(1), 15–28.
  • Banerjee, S. (2014). Indian SF. In R. Calvin (Ed.), SF 101: A Guide to Teaching and Studying Science Fiction. Science Fiction Research Association.
  • Banerjee, S. (2014). Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics and the Tradition of Mainstream Science Fiction. The Visva-Bharati Quarterly, 23(2,3), 73–85.
  • Photographs titled "Planting Season" and "Way Home". The Walkers’ Gallery. November 15, 2013 - January 10, 2014 (State)

2013

  • Banerjee, S. (2013). No Country for Women: Gender Dystopias in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Escape and Manish Jha’s Matrubhoomi. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 16(2), 111–125.
  • Banerjee, S. (2013, October). Finally I am proud to incinerate your precious memories. Dhrubatara: Journal of Central Texas Bengali Association.
  • Banerjee, S. (2013, October). Waiting. Dhrubatara: Journal of Central Texas Bengali Association.

2012

  • Banerjee, S. (2012). An Alien Nation: Postcoloniality and the Alienated Subject in Vandana Singh’s Science Fiction. Extrapolation, 53(3), 283–306.

2011

  • Banerjee, S. (2011). Dystopia and the Postcolonial Nation. In M. Raja, J. Willis, & S. Nandi (Eds.), The Postnational Fantasy (pp. 125–137). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.

2010

  • Banerjee, S. (2010). “The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Silence Slippage and Subversion.” In E. Hoagland & R. Reema (Eds.), Science Fiction, Imperialism, and the Third World: Essays in Literature and Film (pp. 50–64). Jefferson, NC: McFarland.
  • Banerjee, S. (2010). Into the Loving Breast of Big Brother: An Althusserian Analysis of Ideology, State Apparatus, and Subject Creation in George Orwell’s 1984. Apperception, 4, 87–99.
  • Banerjee, S. (2010). Other Tomorrows: Postcoloniality, Science Fiction and India. Louisiana State University. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/3181/

2009

  • Banerjee, S. (2009). Alternative Dystopia: Science, Power and Fundamentalism in Rimi B. Chatterjee’s Signal Red. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 20(1), 24–41.

2008

  • Banerjee, S. (2008). 2001: A Space Odyssey: A Transcendental Trans-Locution. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 19(1), 39–50.

2007

  • Banerjee, S. (2007). Power of Words: Prospero’s Language and Magic in The Tempest. Journal of the Department of English (The University of Burdwan, India), 28, 84–93.

2004

  • Banerjee, S. (2004). Remembering the Master. Sahara Time.
  • Banerjee, S. (2004, January 17). All for Cinema. Sahara Time.

2003

  • Banerjee, S. (2003, August 23). Interview with Jogen Chowdhury. Sahara Time.
  • Banerjee, S. (2003, August 23). “Where Death Is Not a Negation of Life.” Sahara Time.
  • Banerjee, S. (2003, August 3). Abiding Symbol of Peace. Sahara Time.
  • Banerjee, S. (2003, April 13). Painting the Shades of Wounds. The Asian Age.

2001

  • Banerjee, S. (2001). Literature and Cinema: Some Observations. Literature and Criticism, 1(1), 154–159.