Skip to main content Dr. Suparno Banerjee
- Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- Editorial Review Board Member, ContactZone.
June 2021 - Present.
- Advisory Board member, CoFUTURES.
2020 - Present.
- Editorial Review Board Member, Routledge Studies in Global Genre Fiction.
2018 - Present.
- Chair, English Department Library Committee.
August 2017 - Present.
- Member, Departmental Representative on Research Enhancement Committee.
August 2024 - Present.
- Member, International Advisory Council.
August 2024 - Present.
- Member, MA in Literature Committee.
August 2010 - Present.
2025
- Reviewer / Referee, Extrapolation.
2025.
2024
- Reviewer / Referee, South Asian Review.
2024.
- Reviewer / Referee, Bloomsbury.
2024.
- Reviewer / Referee, MIT Press.
2024.
- Book endorsement for Hiranmoy Lahiri’s book Kaleidoscope of Life, Hawakal Publishers.
2024.
- PhD External Examiner, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
January 2024 - February 2024.
2023
- Reviewer / Referee, Science Fiction Studies.
2023.
- Reviewer / Referee, Utopian Studies.
2021 - 2023.
- Member, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts BIPOC Caucus.
2020 - 2023.
- Reviewer / Referee, Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.
2020 - 2023.
- Interim Director, Upper Division Studies.
January 2023 - May 2023.
2022
- Member, Faculty Senate Library Committee.
August 2019 - July 2022.
- Reviewer / Referee, English Literary History.
2022.
- Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Language, Literature and Culture.
2022.
- Reviewer / Referee, Bloomsbury.
2022.
- Reviewer / Referee, Bloomsbury.
August 2022 - September 2022.
- Member, 3301 Committee.
2021 - March 2022.
- Member, Tenure Track Assistant Professor (19th Century British Literature) Hiring Committee.
August 2021 - March 2022.
2021
- Reviewer / Referee, Utopian Studies.
2021.
- Academic advisor, Entry "Arthur C. Clarke, (1917-2008)." Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 481. Ed. Jennifer Stock. Gale, 2021, 1-125. (2019-2020).
August 2019 - January 2021.
- Reviewer / Referee, Science Fiction Film and Television.
2021.
- Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
2021.
- Reviewer / Referee, Postcolonial Studies.
2021.
- Reviewer / Referee, Extrapolation.
2021.
- Reviewer / Referee, South Asian Review.
2021.
- Chair, Session titled "Apocalypse, Dystopia, and the Anthropocene I" at International Conference on Fantastic in the Arts.
March 2021.
2020
- Reviewer / Referee, Modernism/modernity.
2020.
- Reviewer / Referee, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature.
2020.
- Reviewer / Referee, Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.
2020.
- Member, Senior Lecturer Hiring Committee.
November 2020 - December 10, 2020.
- Book Endorsement, Sami Ahmad Khan’s scholarly monograph Star Warriors of the Modern Raj.
October 2020.
- Chair, Panel "Visual Narratives and Gender: A Study of South Asian TV and Films" at South West Conference on Asian Studies.
October 24, 2020.
- Faculty Sponsor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Student Research Symposium.
October 23, 2020 - October 24, 2020.
- Chair, Panel "Literature and Politics in South Asia" at South West Conference on Asian Studies.
October 23, 2020.
- Participant, Curriculum Subcommittee Diversity Forum.
October 9, 2020.
- Participant, 3301/Gateway Courses forum.
October 8, 2020.
- Participant, “Retention Video” project.
July 2020.
- Member, Tenure Track Assistant Professor (Children’s Literature) Hiring Committee.
August 2019 - March 2020.
2019
- Judge, Writing Center Essay Contest.
2019.
- Reviewer / Referee, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture.
2019.
- Advisor, Helped organize art exhibition “Home and the World: Longing(s) and Belonging(s)”, Walkers' Gallery.
December 2019.
- Faculty sponsor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Student Research Symposium.
December 3, 2019.
- Organizer, Organized and moderated screening of documentary film Two Flags and conversation with director, Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
November 14, 2019 - November 15, 2019.
- Other, Helped organize “Where are you from?”, a celebration of international poetry on the occasion of National Poetry Month, San Marcos public Library.
April 2019.
- Chair, Academic session titled “Global Fascism in Contemporary Fantastic Narratives,” at International Conference on Fantastic in the Arts.
March 2019.
- Advisor, Helped organize “A Room of One’s Own”, an art show by local women artists on the occasion of International Women’s Day at San Marcos Public Library.
March 8, 2019.
2018
- Reviewer / Referee, South Asian Review.
2018.
- Reviewer / Referee, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
2018.
- Editorial and Imaging Assistance, for Subir Banerjee edited Glimpses of Ancient India, Visva Bharati Publication.
2015 - 2018.
- Faculty Sponsor, First Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Student Research Symposium.
December 2018.
- Member, Senior Lecturer Hiring Committee.
June 2018 - July 2018.
- Member, Suspensions Appeals Committee.
August 2015 - May 2018.
- Chair, Session titled “Fantastic Motifs and Monsters in Eastern and Western Classics,” at International Conference on Fantastic in the Arts.
March 2018.
2017
- Reviewer / Referee, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
2016 - 2017.
- Reviewer / Referee, Routledge.
September 2017 - October 2017.
- Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Commonwealth Literature.
March 2017 - May 2017.
- Member, English Department Library Committee.
August 2010 - 2017.
- Organizer, 2nd Annual Space Settlement Symposium.
March 2017 - October 19, 2017.
- Chair, Session titled “Representation of Science,” at Science Fiction Research Association Conference.
June 28, 2017 - July 2, 2017.
2016
- Judge, 2016 Jamie Bishop Memorial Award conferred by The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.
2016.
- Assisted in organization of "Come Back River", Baton Rouge Community College, Arts Fest.
March 21, 2016 - March 24, 2016.
- Reviewer / Referee, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.
2016.
- Participant, Alkek Library Website Usability - Feedback and Focus Group.
April 8, 2016.
- Judge, 2016 Writing Center Essay Contest.
February 2016 - March 2016.
2015
- Reviewer / Referee, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature.
April 2015.
- Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies.
May 2015.
- Reviewer / Referee, Working Paper Series.
May 2015.
- Chair, Session Titled “Roots and Shoots: From Vampire Origins to Fairy Tale Adaptations,”.
March 2015.
2014
- Proofreader, Proofs of Debangana Banerjee and Vincent Cellucci’s (translator) Bengali-English bilingual poetry chapbook Come Back River.
2014.
- Tenure Track Faculty Representative, University Council.
2011 - 2014.
- Organizer, Screening of In God’s Land and conversation with the director, Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
October 16, 2014.
- Chair, Session Titled “Monstering Empire: Zombies, Rats, and Foreign Women at International Conference on Fantastic in the Arts".
March 2014.
2013
- Guest presentation “Indian Culture: Unity in Diversity”.
2013.
- Reviewer / Referee, Oxford University Press.
December 2013.
2012
- Guest presentation “Indian Culture: Unity in Diversity”.
2012.
- Chair, Session Titled “From Myth to Fiction to Science Fiction ,” at British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference".
February 2012.
- Organizer, introductory comments on Indian art for "Shilpa," an exhibition of art from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, The Walkers’ Gallery.
January 2012.
2011
- Guest presentation “Indian Culture: Unity in Diversity”.
2011.
- Guest presentation titled “Hinduism" in professor Nancy Wilson's Honors 1390 (Origin of Civilization) class.
2011.
- Faculty Moderator, Department of English Graduate Student Colloquium.
2011.
- Judge, Third International Research Conference for Graduate Students at Texas State University.
November 2011.
- Chair, Session Titled “SFF Explores Religion, Mythology, and Psychology at the Annual National Popular and American Culture Association Meeting".
April 2011.
- Chair, Session Titled titled “Colonial and Postcolonial Violence” at British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference.
February 2011.
2010
- Guest presentation “Indian Culture: Unity in Diversity”.
2010.
- Faculty Moderator, Department of English Graduate Student Colloquium.
2010.
- Chair, Session Titled “Race and Borders in the Latin American Fantastic” at International Conference on Fantastic in the Arts.
March 2010.
2009
- Secretary, Postcolonial Study Group.
2008 - 2009.
2008
- Chair, Panel Titled “Possible (Re) Readings: Rethinking Identity and/in Education through Literature” at the EGSA Mardi Gras Conference.
February 2008.
2007
- Participant, Electronic exhibition of the Laughlin Collection.
2007.
2006
- Participant, Focus group for University Writing Program.
2006.
- Member, Online assessment committee for English 1002 online assessment.
2006.
