Ankhi Mukherjee
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Ankhi Mukherjee | |
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| Born | Ankhi Mukherjee Kolkata, India |
| Occupations | Professor of English and World Literatures |
| Awards | Rose Mary Crawshay Prize Robert S. Liebert Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Oxford University |
| Main interests | Victorian Literature Intellectual History (Psychoanalysis) |
| Website | ankhimukherjee |
Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and Fellow in English at Wadham College, Oxford. She specialises in Victorian literature and culture, critical theory, postcolonial studies, world literature, and intellectual history, in particular the history of psychology and psychoanalysis.[1]
After studying in India and the US, Ankhi Mukherjee received a doctor of philosophy degree (PhD) from Rutgers University in the United States. She was visiting lecturer at Royal Holloway College in London between 2001 and 2002 and, in the next academic year, took up a post at Wadham College, Oxford, as a Lecturer in English. From 2003 to 2006, she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she started an Associate Professorship in the English Faculty at Oxford (with a Fellowship at Wadham College) in 2006. She was a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University in 2014 and John Hinkley (Visiting) Professor at Johns Hopkins University in 2019. In 2015, she became Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford.
Mukherjee sits on the editorial boards of several leading peer-reviewed journals, including The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Contemporary Literature, English Literary History (ELH), Paragraph, and Literature, Critique, and Empire Today. She is also on the advisory boards of EXPeditions and Harlem Family Services, a non-profit organisation offering comprehensive mental health services to Harlem and neighbouring communities.
