About

Sayan Dey is a Bengali. He was born and brought up in Kolkata, and he traces his ancestry to different parts of Bangladesh. Currently, he works as an Assistant Professor and Department Chair (English Studies) and Vice-chair (The Committee for Research, Innovations, Consultations, and Training) at Bayan College (affiliated with Purdue University Northwest), Oman. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship with Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2021-2023). He is also a Research Associate at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand, an Associate Fellow at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada, a Critical Research Studies Faculty at The NYI Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, New York, and an Affiliated Member of the Global Posthuman Network. His latest books are Green Academia: Towards Eco-friendly Education Systems (Routledge, 2022), Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean (Anthem Press, 2023), Garbocracy: Towards a Great Human Collapse (Peter Lang, 2025), Palates of Pleasure: Food, Memories and Culture (Routledge India, 2026), and Interwoven Human and More-Than-Human Worlds: Methods and Practices of a Rhizomatic Turn (Routledge, 2026). He was awarded the Nicolas Cristobal Guillen Batista Outstanding Book Award for Performing Memories and Weaving Archives in 2025 by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. His research interests are posthumanism, decolonial studies, environmental studies, critical race studies, culinary epistemologies, and critical diversity literacy.