Nilanjana Chatterjee

Nilanjana Chatterjee is Research Associate at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She is a faculty in the Department of English at Durgapur Government College (West Bengal, India). In 2016, Chatterjee completed her Doctoral thesis titled “House as Space in the Fiction of Contemporary Women Writers of Indian Subcontinental Diaspora.” She is the author of the monograph Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora (Routledge 2022). She has co-edited Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture for Routledge (2023), and Re-theorising the Indian Subcontinental Diaspora: Old and New Directions for Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2021). She has published book chapters for publishing houses which include Bloomsbury, Routledge and Rowman and Littlefield. Her articles have been published in journals which include SAGE, Metacritic, ESSACHESS. Presently, she is co-editing the 2024 Café Dissensus Issue on “Discovering the city called Durgapur: Dwelling, Dreaming and Developing a Sustainable Urban Culture.”