Sayan Dey
Sayan Dey is a Bengali. He was born and raised in Kolkata and traces his ancestry to various 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) in Oman. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship with the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2021-2023). He is also 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 works 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, 2025). He was awarded the Nicolas Cristobal Guillen Batista Outstanding Book Award for Performing Memories and Weaving Archives in 2025 by the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA). He is also a lifetime member of the CPA. His forthcoming monograph is Interwoven Human and More-Than-Human Worlds: Methods and Practices of a Rhizomatic Turn (Routledge, 2026). His research interests are posthumanism, decolonial studies, environmental studies, critical race studies, culinary epistemologies, and critical diversity literacy. He can be reached at
www.sayandey.com