Nivedita
Majumdar
Professor
Phone number
212.237.8589
Room number
7.63.16NB
Bio

Nivedita Majumdar is Professor of English at John Jay College, CUNY.  Her research interests include postcolonial studies, Marxist theory, and cultural studies; she has published widely in these areas. She is the author of The World in a Grain of Sand: Postcolonial Literature and Radical Universalism (Verso, 2021), and The Other Side of Terror (Oxford University Press, 2012/2009). She sits on the national council of the AAUP, is member of the the Higher Education Programs and Policy Committee of the AFT, and has served as Secretary of PSC-CUNY from 2015 to 2021. She currently serves as Academic Director of CUNY's Faculty Fellowship Publication Program.