Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Gautam Basu Thakur to the podcast!

Gautam Basu Thakur is a critical theorist working in the fields of comparative cultural studies; postcoloniality and globalization studies; British Literature of the Empire; race and sexuality studies; and world cinema. More specifically, he is interested in theoretical psychoanalysis and its interventions in postcolonial studies; the British Empire and its afterlife in global/transnational literary and (new) media cultures; film; and comparative cultural politics.

His books include:

1) Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (2015) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/postcolonial-theory-and-avatar-9781628925654/

2) Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (2020) http://www.sunypress.edu/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=6858&SEName=postcolonial-lack

3) Lacan and the Nonhuman (2018) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319638164

4) Reading Lacan's Seminar VIII (2020) https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030327415

He has a chapter included in Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory (Routledge, 2021) edited by Sheldon George and Derek Hook: https://www.routledge.com/Lacan-and-Race-Racism-Identity-and-Psychoanalytic-Theory/George-Hook/p/book/9780367345976

Gautam Basu Thakur is the recipient of The Faculty Excellence Award in the College Arts and Sciences, Boise State University, Jan 2020.

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Portrait of Dr Gautam Basu Thakur