Nibedita Mukherjee

Nibedita Mukherjee is Professor in English at Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia, India. She specializes in Feminist Studies, South Asian Literature and Shakespearean Drama. Prof. Mukherjee has five books to her credit: Gendering the Narrative: Gender Discourse and Indian English Fiction, Dynamics of Diasporic Identity in Commonwealth Literature, The Fictional World of Amitav Ghosh, Indian Theatre in English and Literary Feminism: Politics of Gender Identity and Authenticity and The Dark Forces in Shakespeare’s Plays. Prof. Mukherjee also has international teaching/learning experience. She went for a brief span to Seattle University, USA as she had received the USA State Fellowship Award (SUSI) funded by Dept of State, USA. She has served as the editor of two reputed journals namely Wesleyan Journal of Research: An International Research Journal and Appropriations: Journal of the Dept. of English, Bankura Christian College. She is working with Teaching Learning Center, IIT Kharagpur as Research Collaborator and Subject Expert in a project titled “Graphic-Novel based Pedagogy in Teaching Grammar in Schools” funded by MHRD. Presently she is also working on an ICSSR funded project titled “Folklores and Folkvoices: Preserving the Environmental Ethnospace”. She has authored a book chapter on “Ecofeminism in Assamese Literature” for Rowman & Littlefield in 2022. Presently, she is co-editing a book on Mahesh Dattani for the Bloomsbury publishing. Mail ID: nibedita.mukherjee@skbu.ac.in