Dr. 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 Postcolonial Theory and Avatar (2015), Postcolonial Lack: Identity, Culture, Surplus (2020), Lacan and the Nonhuman (2018), and Reading Lacan’s Seminar VIII: On Transference (2020).