| Degree Name | Institute | Year Of Passing |
|---|---|---|
Ph.D English
| Jadavpur University | 02/2024 |
| M.A. | 2004 | |
| B.A. | 2002 |
· Ali, S. S. (2024). Community, faith, and resistance: Writing religious resurgence in select British Muslim fiction. Routledge.
· Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2025). Migration, identity and resistance in postcolonial nation state. Routledge.
· Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2024). Marginal narratives and the question of human rights in Asian Pacific literature. Springer.
· Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2024). Writing disaster in South Asian literature and culture: The limits of empathy and cosmopolitan imagination. Bloomsbury.
· Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2023). Literature and the war on terror: Nation, democracy and liberalisation. Routledge.
· Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2022). Literature and theory: Contemporary signposts and critical surveys. Routledge.
· Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2021). Religion in South Asian Anglophone literature: Traversing resistance, margins and extremism. Routledge.
· Ali, S. S. (Ed.). (2018). Literary theory: Textual application. Atlantic Publishers.
· Ali, S. S. (Series Ed.). Peripheral lives in Asia: Reimagining nationalism, citizenship and precarity in the twenty-first century. Routledge.
· Ali, S. S. (2025). Frames of violence: Representations of Kashmiri subjectivities in Our Moon Has Blood Clots and The Night of Broken Glass. European Journal of English Studies.
· Ali, S. S. (2025). Narrating Muslims in post-9/11 America: On Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland Elegies. Wasafiri.
· Ali, S. S. (2025). Framing Kashmir: Limits of Resistance and Human Rights in Rumours of Spring and The Far Field. Bandung (Brill).
· Ali, S. S. (2025). Rewriting history, reading erasure: Muslim subjectivities in Anjum Hasan’s History’s Angel. South Asian Review.
· Ali, S. S. (2024). Islam and the thanatoethics of sacrifice: Reading Qurbani in the post-9/11 climate in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil. Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies.
· Ali, S. S. (2024). The representations of faith and belonging: Surveying Sri Lankan Muslim women in Ameena Hussein’s The Moon in the Water. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
· Ali, S. S. (2024). The veil of resistance in Shaheen Bagh: Muslim women’s activism and the differential solidarity networks. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.
· Ali, S. S. (2023). The Muslim problem: A majoritarian concern in India. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
· Ali, S. S. (2023). Imagining Indian nation-state: Rereading Qurratulain Hyder’s select novels in contemporary scenario. SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English, 60(2).
· Ali, S. S. (2023). Thinking beyond nation: Planetary belonging as an alternative in Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire. Postcolonial Text, 18(4).
· Ali, S. S. (2022). Orientalist revulsion: A Joycean tryst with modernity in Ulysses. Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University.
· Ali, S. S. (2021). Islam and gender: Major issues and debates. Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
· Ali, S. S. (2021). The silenced annals of partition historiography [Review of the book Refugees, borders and identities: Rights and habitat in East and Northeast India by A. Ghoshal]. Journal of Migration Affairs, 3(2), 112–114.
· 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.
· Ali, S. S. (2017). Dalitness of Muslim communities in Bengal: A study. Muse India, (74).
· Ali, S. S. (2016). Surviving theory: A portrayal of Indian Muslim women in select stories of Saleem. Muse India, (66).
· Ali, S. S. (2023). Mapping modernity and tradition: Rushdie’s vision of Indian nation- state in “The Free Radio”. In A. Chanda & A. Ray (Eds.), Indian writing in English. World- view.
· Ali, S. S. (2022). Writing rights: Women and community in Sharmila Seyyid’s Ummath. In F. Jussawalla & D. Omran (Eds.), Muslim women’s writing from across South and Southeast Asia. Routledge.
· Ali, S. S. (2020). Multispecies ecology of war in The Blind Man’s Garden: A study in the instruments of warfare. In S. Das (Ed.), Environment and culture in the Anthropocene. Authors Press.
· Ali, S. S. (2019). The politics of representations in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In
· Konar (Ed.), Popular narratives: Texts and contexts. Avenel Press.
· Ali, S. S. (2018). Modernity and Monaj Das. In S. Jana (Ed.), Annya Janala. Kabitika Publication.
· Ali, S. S. (2018). Muslim women writers in English today. In S. K. Mahapatra (Ed.), The representation of women in English literature. Kalpaz Publication.
Public Writings
· Ali, S. S. (2020, August 31). Online education and the crisis in our classrooms. Cafe Dissensus.
· Ali, S. S. (2017, August 6). Modernity and provincial writing: The case of Manoj Das.
· Orissa Post (The Sunday Post).
E-Learning Pedagogies
· Ali, S. S. (2017). Culture, ideology and technology: Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, Jonathan Dollimore. U.G.C. E-Pathshala.
· Ali, S. S. (2017). John Milton: Poems, themes and legacy. U.G.C. E-Pathshala.
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, De- partment of English, Nowgong College (Nagaon University), Assam, India.
· Ali, S. S. (2024, November 17). Re-imagining genre writing: Muslim women’s 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. Vassanji’s 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 Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own: A feminist perspective. 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, affiliated to Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, 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 organised by the English Department, Aliah University titled “Paradigms in Flux:Contemporary Discourses and Trajectories in the Humanities” Kolkata, India.
· Ali, S. S. (2023). Session chair at the International Conference on The Global Indian Diasporas, Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat and GITAM, Hy- derabad, 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 speaker: 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, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, and Dr. Suvadip Sinha, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 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 Chakra- vorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University. Midnapore College, India.