Department of English
Ashmita Chatterjee
B.A.(H) English, Lady Shri Ram College, 2016, M.A. English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2018 , MPhil English, Cambridge, 2019
Research Interests
Affect Theory, Decolonization and Postcolonial Studies, Contemporary Hispanophone and Anglophone Fiction
Biography
My work focuses on the depiction of state violence through theories of affect in post 1970s fiction across specific countries in Latin America and South Asia. I study state-enforced disappearances and the aesthetic and political problems and possibilities of their representation.
Teaching
Fall 2025: ENGL0900 Critical Reading and Writing - Our Brilliant Friends
Spring 2026: ENGL0202N - Ghosts of Colonialisms Past – The Uncanny and the Postcolonial
Summer 2026 (Brown Pre-College) - CEE1056 - I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream: Female Rage in Contemporary Writing