Dr Samraghni Bonnerjee

Research Fellow

Department: Humanities

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature. My project is entitled ‘Imperial Politics and Medical Care: 1915–1925’.

I completed my PhD in English Literature from the University of Sheffield (UK) in 2018. At Sheffield, I was the Vice-Chancellor’s scholar and my PhD was entitled ‘Nursing Politics and the Body in First World World War Life-Writing’. I stayed back in Sheffield for another year to take up the role of Postdoctoral Research Associate in the AHRC-funded project ‘Literature, Psychoanalysis and the Death Penalty 1900–1950’. I was then a Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow at the University of Leeds where my project was entitled ‘Wounds for the King-Emperor: Race and Malaise in the Medical Treatment of the Wounded Indian Soldier during the First World War’. Since March 2021, I have been a Visiting Fellow at Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests are First World War, Life-writing, twentieth century (Anglophone and Bengali) literature, colonialism and postcolonialism, feminist theory, and Medical Humanities. I have published widely in each of these areas. My teaching interests align closely with my research.

Key Publications

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Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial Warby Andrew T. Jarboe, Lincoln, NB, University of Nebraska Press, 2021, viii, 322 pp. + tables, $60.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781496206787, Bonnerjee, S. 14 Oct 2023, In: First World War Studies
The Self-Fashioning of Identity: Incongruity and Self-Fashioning in the Life-Writings of Elsie Knocker, Bonnerjee, S. 2 Jan 2023, In: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
British Colonial Re-affirmation at the 1918−1920 Moment: Appropriation, Dehumanisation, and the Rule of Colonial Difference, Bonnerjee, S. 17 Jan 2022, Exiting War, Manchester, Manchester University Press
Indian Writings of the First World War, Bonnerjee, S. 20 Sep 2021, Handbook of British Literature and Culture of the First World War , Berlin, De Gruyter
Introduction: Subaltern Women’s Resistance, Bonnerjee, S. 30 Dec 2020, Subaltern Women’s Narratives, London, Taylor & Francis
Literature, Law and Psychoanalysis: 1890--1950, Bonnerjee, S., Ebury, K. 1 Apr 2020
Subaltern Women's Narratives: Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies, Bonnerjee, S. 30 Dec 2020
Cosmopolitanism, colonial shopping, and the servant problem: nurse Ida E. Cliffe’s travels in wartime India, Bonnerjee, S. 1 Mar 2019, In: Studies in Travel Writing
‘It Still Haunts Me’: Trauma and Shell Shock in the Writings of the Nurses of the First World War, Bonnerjee, S. 28 May 2019, Trans Atlantic Shell Shock, Dahlonega, GA, University of North Georgia Press
‘The Lure of War’: Reconsidering the Motivations of Women to Volunteer in the First World War, Bonnerjee, S. 10 Nov 2019, In: Women's History Review

Qualifications

English Literature PhD October 11 2018
Fellow of Higher Education Academy FHEA

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