Moinak Banerjee is a PhD candidate in the Department of English, McGill University. His dissertation posits modernism as a political aesthetic in South Asia. He investigates literary and cultural forms like novels, long poems, manifestoes, reportage, and photographs – specifically those engaging with and emerging during the Global Sixties and the Cultural Cold War. His articles and book reviews have been published in Café Dissensus and the South Asian Review. He has a forthcoming essay in an anthology titled Radical Aesthetics and the Avant-garde in India by Routledge. Moinak is also a lecturer at McGill University where he teaches courses on decolonization and postcolonialism, global anglophone and world literature as well as critical theory.