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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 currently pursuing an MSc (second master's) in Environmental Change and Sustainability from Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability (JSES), OP Jindal Global University, India. He is also a Research Associate at Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand, an Associate Fellow at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada, a Critical Cultural 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), and Interwoven Human and More-Than-Human Worlds: Methods and Practices of a Rhizomatic Turn (Routledge, 2026). 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). 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
Keywords: environment, ecology, decolonial praxis, critical food studies, critical diversity literacy