PRADIPTA MUKHERJEE
Pradipta Mukherjee, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., is a Film Critic and Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Vidyasagar College for Women. She is Visiting Faculty in the Post Graduate Department of English, University of Calcutta. Mukherjee completed a UGC funded research project on Shakespearean Cinema and is presently coordinator of Film Studies Department in her college. She has been a member of the Regional Film Selection Board, Prasar Bharti, Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata.
Mukherjee was selected as Associate at IIAS, Shimla, for the Inter-University Programme to work on a Project on “Cinema of the South Asian Diaspora” in 2015.
Her published works include two books as sole author — Studies in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (2010) and Shakespeare on the Celluloid: Global Perspectives (2014).
She has co-authored a book with Debasish Lahiri titled Tragic Survivals: From the Hellenic to the Postmodern (2017).
She has two co-edited anthologies, The Diasporic Dilemma: Exile, Alienation and Belonging (2015) and Women’s Education in India: Past Predicaments and Future Possibilities (2016).
She has published widely in peer reviewed journals like the Journal of the Department of English-- Benaras Hindu University, Calcutta University, Burdwan University and others.
Her articles on Cinema and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender in Cinema and Adaptation Studies have been widely published in national and international journals, the most recent being “Women, Media and Resistance in Contemporary Indian Cinema” in Pleasures of the Spectacle: The London Film and Media Reader 3, UK.
Mukherjee has presented papers on Indian Cinema at several international conferences, notably, at the Adaptation Studies Conference at University of Amsterdam, at the IASPR (International Association for the Study of Popular Romance) Conference in Brussels, Belgium, at the University of London, and at IIAS, Shimla.
She was invited for a presentation on Indian Partition Cinema at University of Paris 13 in June 2017. She has also delivered Plenary Talks at OUCIP, Hyderabad and recently Kuvempu University, Karnataka.
Mukherjee was selected as Associate at IIAS, Shimla, for the Inter-University Programme to work on a Project on “Cinema of the South Asian Diaspora” in 2015.
Her published works include two books as sole author — Studies in John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (2010) and Shakespeare on the Celluloid: Global Perspectives (2014).
She has co-authored a book with Debasish Lahiri titled Tragic Survivals: From the Hellenic to the Postmodern (2017).
She has two co-edited anthologies, The Diasporic Dilemma: Exile, Alienation and Belonging (2015) and Women’s Education in India: Past Predicaments and Future Possibilities (2016).
She has published widely in peer reviewed journals like the Journal of the Department of English-- Benaras Hindu University, Calcutta University, Burdwan University and others.
Her articles on Cinema and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender in Cinema and Adaptation Studies have been widely published in national and international journals, the most recent being “Women, Media and Resistance in Contemporary Indian Cinema” in Pleasures of the Spectacle: The London Film and Media Reader 3, UK.
Mukherjee has presented papers on Indian Cinema at several international conferences, notably, at the Adaptation Studies Conference at University of Amsterdam, at the IASPR (International Association for the Study of Popular Romance) Conference in Brussels, Belgium, at the University of London, and at IIAS, Shimla.
She was invited for a presentation on Indian Partition Cinema at University of Paris 13 in June 2017. She has also delivered Plenary Talks at OUCIP, Hyderabad and recently Kuvempu University, Karnataka.
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confront the basic modern sociological premise that societies are discrete cultures and are nationally structured, hermetically sealed by their respective borders. The narcissistic discourse of national cultures has blinded people's eyes to the past millennia of intercontinental cultural exchange and syncretism. However, we live in an era where people are increasingly becoming gipsies – living, learning, loving and working internationally – and yet migrants are being demonised, just like gipsies. Evidently, a cosmopolitan living does not rule out the desire to keep out strangers: surprisingly, one can be a frequent flier to major cities of Europe and the United States and yet vote for Trump in support of the wall. Many supporters of Brexit realised that their vote went against national interest, though, when the European Union vowed to adopt strict visa and business policies towards Britain. However, the Syrian refugee crisis has resulted in an unprecedented opposition between cosmopolitanism/multicultural strategies and neo-nationalist attitudes. In fact, the fear of immigrants was one of the clinching factors of the United States Presidential election of 2016. The Diasporic Dilemma: Exile, Alienation and Belonging by Pradipta Mukherjee and Sajalkumar Bhattacharya is a sincere effort to find what can be the meaning of home to a migrant, and to explore the processes of acculturation and assimilation that migrants go through, leading to contradictory feelings of emancipation and heartbreak. In the volume, the editors have put together twenty-one essays organised in eight sections followed by an interview of Lakshmi Persaud. The Introduction by Pradipta Mukherjee does a very good job of setting the stage for the discussion, situating diaspora studies with key facts and figures.