Samata Biswas teaches English at the Sanskrit College and University, Kolkata. and is a member of Calcutta Research Group. Samata holds an M Phil in English Literature and a Ph D in Cultural Studies. Her areas of research interest are Body Studies, Migration Studies, Dalit Studies, Gender and Popular Culture.
Samata is the editor of the “Politics, Space, Memory: Identity Making in the Wake of Partition”, (2023), co-editor of Situating Social Media: Gender, Caste, Protest, Solidarity (2020), and the special issue of the Anveshi Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics on Violence (2017) and has conceptualised and curated the series Calcutta Migrant City. Samata is the book review editor of Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration and a member of the editorial collective of Refugee Watch Online, a blog on forced migration. She's recently produced the documentary short "Friends of Jilipibala".
