Sk Sagir Ali

Sk Sagir Ali is assistant professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College, India. His published works include the edited books Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism (Routledge, 2021), Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys (Routledge, 2022), War on Terror: Nation, Democracy, and Liberalisation (Routledge, 2023), Writing Disaster in South Asian Literature and Culture: The Limits of Empathy and Cosmopolitan Imagination (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), and Marginal Narratives and the Question of Human Rights in Asian Pacific Literature (Springer Nature, 2024) His articles appear in journals of repute such as South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies from the University of Florida Press, etc. Ali is also editing a special issue on “Migrant Portrayal: Precarity, Displacement, and Human Rights in South Asian Narratives” for the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Taylor & Francis, 2024–26). He is also a series editor of the book series, “Peripheral Lives in Asia: Reimagining Nationalisms, Citizenship and Precarity in the 21st Century” with Routledge.