Sayanti Mondal is a Doctoral candidate at Department of English Studies, Illinois State University. Her dissertation, titled "Illustrating Postcolonial indigeneity: Locating experimenting , Collaborative Indian Graphic Narratives in the Twenty-First Century", reassesses the genre of South-Asian postcolonial graphic narratives, particularly the Indian graphic narrative genre, as it experiments with autochthonous modes of storytelling in representing Indigenous epistemologies, while also examining these texts as 'glocal' cultural artifacts circulating within the contemporary twenty-first century global market.
Her research interests include South-Asian literature, Children's Literature, Transmedia studies, Writing Studies, and Postcolonial Museum Studies. She has designed and taught both Composition and Literature/Literary Genres and Theory courses at ISU, where she also received the Diversity and Equity Teaching Award in 2021.