Professor Sreemati
Mukherjee (Retd. November - 2025)
Dr. Sreemati Mukherjee is a Professor in the Department of Performing Arts at Presidency
University, Kolkata. Her areas of specialization are Narrative Theory, Feminist Theory and
Criticism, Cultural studies, African-American and African women’s writing, 19th century Bengali women’s writing,
Indian women writing in English, Postcolonial theory and criticism, Translation Studies,
East-West dramatic theories and Rabindranath Tagore and his music.
In her latest book Women and the Romance of the Word: 19th Century Contexts in Bengal
(Bloomsbury, 2024), she looks at the emergence of the sign woman in the cultural symbolic of the
second half of the 19th century in Bengal through a magnificent efflorescence of writing in
autobiography, polemics and travelogue writing. She reads this moment as a 'romantic' encounter
between women and language.
In her earlier book The Many Dialogues of the Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita
(Hawakal, 2021) she has used the dialogic framework suggested for the novel by Mikhail Bakhtin
in The Dialogic Imagination, to read the Kathamrita as offering multiple dialogues between
empiricism and faith, myth and history, historical documentation and music as epistemology,
Shakta and Vaishnav epistemologies to create a symphonic text. Both these books were reviewed in
The Telegraph.
Professor
Department of Performing Arts, Presidency University,
Kolkata, India
June 2016 – Present
Associate Professor
Department of English, Basanti Devi College, Kolkata,
India
November 1996 – June 2016
Teaching Assistant
Program in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, US
Fall 1990
Academic Qualifications
PhD, Jadavpur University
April 2005
M.A. English, Jadavpur University
1989
M.A. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,
U.S.A.
1992
B.A. English, Presidency College, University of Calcutta
1982
National Eligibility Test (N.E.T), UGC
1994
State Level Eligibility Test (S.L.E.T), WBCSC
1994
Diplôme de langue Française, Alliance Française du Bengale,
Calcutta
1995
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