Dr.Victor Banerjee

Experienced researcher with a strong track record of conducting thorough investigations and providing valuable insights. Collaborates effectively with teams and adapts to evolving research needs. Recognized for exceptional critical thinking and strong analytical skills. Proficient in qualitative and queer research, specializing in cultural, social, and human geography themes.

• 2025-04-26, Guest speaker on the theme of Queer/ing Research in India, Research Symposium at O.P Jindal Global University, Sonipath
• 2025-01-18, Guest speaker at Kitaab-e-Aks: The Lost Lives of Sexual Others, Curated by Dr Kiran Bhairannavar at Arpana Caur Art Gallery, Siri Fort Institutional Area, Delhi
• 2024-03-02, Guest speaker on 'Unboxing the Variegated Geography of Bisexuality', Add-on course on 'Gender, Space and Society' at St. Xavier's College Burdwan
• 2023-09-29, Main speaker on bisexuality and the mental health of bisexual individuals, Bisexual Awareness Week, online Instagram live session organised by the All India Queer Association (AIQA)
• 2021-06-08, Guest speaker on 'Locating the Emotional Cartography of Bisexual Men', Academic Lecture Series organised by IQC, the Indian Queer Circle
• 2020-07-21, Chief spokesperson for the Facebook live webinar on 'Acceptance and Tolerance' (LGBT), Organised by CATFIT, Military Application, and Special Forces Tactics

• Queering The Discourse: Addressing Social Exclusion and Marginalisation, CSCTR Adamas University Kolkata and SAPPHO for Equality
• Qualitative Research Method: Conversational Interviewing, edX MIT, USA
• Gender and Intersectionality, edX University of Iceland
• Research Writing and Effective Communication, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, 560012, India
• Phenomenology and Social Research, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, 560012, India
• Gender and Sexuality: Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace, University of Pittsburgh
• What does it mean to identify as Transgender or Gender Non-Conforming (TNGC), University of Minnesota
• Community Organising for Social Justice, University of Michigan
• LGBTQ Pride: From Origins to Evolution Teach-out, University of Michigan
• Feminism and Social Justice, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Queering the Schoolhouse: LGBTQ+ Inclusion for Educators, University of Colorado System
• Queering Identities: LGBTQ+ Sexuality and Gender Identity, University of Colorado System
• Social Norms, Social Change 1, University of Pennsylvania and UNICEF
• Health Across the Gender Spectrum, Stanford University
• Men, Boys and Masculinity, edX University of Iceland
• The Psychology of Emotions: An Introduction to Embodied Cognition, edX University of Cambridge

• Emotional Geography
• Queer Geography
• Bisexuality
• Geography of Sexuality
• Space and Place
• Autoethnography and Ethnographic Research
• Queer Research and Writing
• Marginality and LGBTQ issues
• Gender Geography

• B.R. Ambedkar IGNOU Research Fellowship, 2020-10
• UGC Net JRF, 2013-12, Qualified for Assistant Professor Post

• 2024-10-23, Mapping the Psycho-Social Geography of Queer Standpoint to Problematise the Monolithic Juggernaut of Heteronormativity, ICSSR sponsored the National Seminar on 'Discussing Issues and Prospects Around the Spectrum of Gender in India: In the Context of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019'
• 2024-10-06, The Everyday Affective Geography of Bisexual Men of India through the Intersectionality of Caste, International Bisexual Research Group Online Conference
• 2024-08-30, Not to be Out and Feel Proud: Queering and Mapping the Everyday Affective and Intimate Geography of Closeted Bisexual Men, Royal Geographical Society, International British Geography Annual Conference 2024
• 2022-04-21, The Morphology of Bi-Negativity in Indian Queer Movies: A Case Study of Sridhar Rangayan's Movie Evening Shadow, ASPECT 2022, Graduate Conference, Virginia Tech
• 2022-04-07, Countering Virtual Heteronormative Gaze with Queer Placemaking: A Case Study of India Gay Chat Room(Chatovod), Comparative Literature and French Studies Graduate Conference on Space and Place, Louisiana State University
• 2022-02-09, Deconstructing the Fluid Topography of Bisexuality: A New Paradigm for Bi Plus, National Seminar on Anthropology in 21st Century and Beyond, University of Delhi
• 2021-12-15, Cusped between Dual Attraction: Contextualising the Emotional Geography of Bisexuality in Janice Pariat's novel Sea Horse, National Conference of Resistance and Revolutions: The Politics of Marginality, Dyal Singh (eve) College
• 2021-10-19, Queering Rural Utopia through the Cinematic Gaze of Buddhadev Dasgupta's Uttara, International Virtual Conference on Humanities through Literature, Film and Media, Vellore Institute of Technology
• 2021-09-30, Locating the Cartography of Bisexual Exclusion within Queer Space: Need for social change to Make Bi-Topia Visible, ICSSR Sponsored a day National Webinar on the Violation of Human Rights and Related Social Stigma against LGBT in the Indian Subcontinent
• 2021-08-26, Fusing Male Cross-Dressing with Female Gaze through Bibhutibushan Bandopadhyay's short story Nosumama and I, Department of English, IQAC and UBA Cell, Bishop Kurialacherry College for Women
• 2021-07-09, Contextualising Homoeroticism with Emotional Geography through Samaresh Basu's short Bengali story Uratiya, Queer Asia Roundtable, Queer+Decoloniality in post-socialist states
• 2020-07-22, The Geography of the Loneliness of Closeted Bisexual Men, 2nd International Economics, Business and Social Science Congress with Kastamonu University Turkey
• 2020-03-05, The Geography of Space and Loneliness of Closeted Bisexual Men, International Women's Day, Researching Gender in the 21st Century
• 2018-12-14, Space, Sexuality and Loneliness of Gay/Bisexual Men, 7th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture

Journals and Blogs.

• Mapping and Queering the Everyday Paradoxical Geography of Indian Rural Landscape, Just Rural Futures, Rural Geography Speciality Group project of the American Association of Geographers
• Mapping the Intimate and Affective Geography of my Indian Bisexuality, Their Bi_Dentity. A Zine for Diverse Bisexual Voices, 1, Sunbird Journal Publishing
• Morphology of Bi Negativity in Indian Queer Cinematic Scape: A case study of Sridhar Rangayan's movie Evening Shadow, Bhavaveena Journal, 19, 12(2), 2022-12, 2456-4702
• Contextualising homoeroticism through Samaresh Basu's short Bengali story 'Uratiya', THE INVESTIGATOR An International Peer-Reviewed Journal of Multidisciplinary Explorations, 7, 3, 2021-09
• The Geography of Space and Loneliness of Closeted Bisexual Men, 2nd International Economics, Business and Social Science Congress, 2020-07-22, 978-605-4697-29-8

 Book Chapters.

• 'Queering the Rural Verdure Scapes of North Bengal: Mapping the Everyday Performative Geography of Gays and Bisexual Men'. Queer Provincialism: Narratives and Resilience of Rural India. Edited by Kaustav Chakraborty and Himadri Roy. Springer Nature. ISBN: 9789819657421. Switzerland.
• 'Queering Rural Utopia through the Cinematic Gaze of Buddhadeb Dasgupta’s Uttara’. Queer Identity and Culture in Indian Writings in English. Editors Dr. Sreekala,B and Mr Manik Mandal. Upanayan Publication, ISBN: 978- 93-91467-22-7, First Edition 2021. New Delhi, 110084 ( India). Email: Upanayanpublications@gmail.com.
• ‘Reinscribing Bisexual Exclusion within LGBTQ+ space: Need for Social change to make Bisexuality Visible’. The Way Ahead. Violation of Human Rights and Related Social Stigma against LGBT in Indian Society. Editor Dr. Tuhin Kanti Ray. Eastern Book Publication. ISBN: 978-93-92038-56-3, First Edition 2024. Guwahati-781001, Assam (India). Email: easternbookhouse@gmail.com

• 2025-01-27, Researching Cultural Vulnerability: Concepts, Contexts, and Challenges, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Trichy
• 2025-01-10, Health, Gender, and Justice: Critical Conversations, Learn with Spriha, Spriha Society, Kolkata
• 2024-12-09, Decolonising Knowledge: Perspectives from the Global South, Inter-Cultural Studies Centre and Malaviya Moolya Anusheelan Kendra, Banaras Hindu University
• 2024-09-06, Grant Writing and Management, Max Planck Gesellschaft and University of Cologne
• 2023-06-19, Beyond Binaries: Understanding Sexual Identities and Queer Rights Issues in India, IMPRI (Impact and Policy Research Institute), New Delhi
• 2023-05-26, Education in India: Violent Desires, Exclusionary Tendencies and Transformative Potential, Centre for Women Studies, University of Hyderabad
• 2022-02-07, Research in Social Sciences: Contemporary Trends, Perspectives, and Pedagogy, JNU, Galgotia University and the Erasmus Programme of the European Union
• 2022-01-31, Gender in Research and Methods of Inquiry, Centre For Women's Development Studies
• 2021-09-30, Introduction to Research Methods in Humanities and Social Science, IIT Patna
• 2021-04-27, Arc Gis based- Story Maps (Mapping the tales: Cartography of experiences), Department of Geography, St Xavier's College, Burdwan
• 2021-03-08, Open Mic: Pawri with Sakhi, Project Clap and team SDG 5 Gender Equality
• 2020-12-15, Emerging Tools and Technologies in Research, Department of Information Technology, Tripura University
• 2020-12-21, Multiculturalism and Secularism, IQAC and Research Committee, Maharaja's College Ernakulam
• 2020-12-21, Theory in Social Sciences, IQAC and Research Committee, Maharaja's College Ernakulam
• 2020-12-21, Social class, Identities and Political Mobilisation, IQAC and Research Committee, Maharaja's College Ernakulam
• 2020-12-13, International Symposium on Transgender Spectrum/ Community in South Asian Diaspora, Indian Queer Collective (IQC)
• 2020-12-10, Environmental Humanities: Narratives and Critical Practices, KIIT (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha)
• 2020-11-20, Essentials of Research Writing & Using Mendeley Reference Manager, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
• 2020-10-25, Gender Sensitization, Women's cell in the Department of English Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College
• 2020-09-21, Theorising Humanities in the Times of Crisis, IIT Ropar
• 2020-08-12, Publishing Ethics and Research Methodology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
• 2020-08-05, Understanding the Complexities in Everyday Life of the LGBTQ Community, Vertex Law Chambers
• 2020-06-30, The Humanities and Social Sciences: Why they are critical to our understanding of today's complex and challenging world, Springer Nature in collaboration with the INFLIBNET Center

I completed an assignment where they undertook the task of analysing the guidelines under Support for Marginalized
Individuals for Livelihood and Enterprise (SMILE) scheme of the Government of India, Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment, Department of Social Justice and Empowerment. My contributions were timely, insightful, and deeply
valuable to SFE’s research efforts.

I have had the privilege of presenting multiple research papers at esteemed international conferences, including the Royal Geographical Society Conference in London, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Louisiana State University. My doctoral dissertation garnered significant acclaim during the viva voce defense, highlighting the impact and rigor of my work.

In addition to my conference presentations, I have actively engaged in numerous workshops and served as an invited speaker at OP Jindal Global University in Sonipat, Haryana, and St. Xavier's College in West Bengal. During these engagements, I not only showcased my research but also delved into the innovative queer methodological framework that underpins it.

I am fluent in English, Hindi, and Bengali, which enriches my ability to connect with diverse audiences. Moreover, I have completed several specialized certificate courses focused on LGBTQ+ issues, covering a wide range of topics in gender and sexuality. My multifaceted experience and expertise position me as a passionate advocate in the field.