Prof. (Dr.) Nilanjana Mukherjee

Prof. (Dr.) Nilanjana Mukherjee is Professor of English and Director of Centre of Border Studies at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. She is also currently serving as the Vice-President of India International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (IISECS). She received her degree of Ph.D. in the year 2011 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her work so far, has involved questions of space, place, landscape and cartography in literary narratives and visual cultures. She especially engages with the history of British imperial transactions in South Asia and traces connections with the present. Apart from these, she is also interested in studying intersections of discourses on gender with nationalism, Bangla literature, Indian art movements, mobilities, architecture and public spaces. 

She has authored the book, Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason: Maps, Landscapes, Travelogues in Britain and India (Routledge: 2020). She has also co-edited the volume, Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations 18th - 19th Centuries (Routledge: 2019). She is recipient of the Delhi University Foundation Day Award for Teaching Excellence, 2021 and of the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize 2015, for her journal article, 'Drawing Roads, Building Empire: Space and Circulation in Charles D'Oyly's Indian Landscapes', from the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS).

In the past, she was the Bajaj Visiting Fellow at the Mittal South Asia Institute, Harvard University (2024-5), Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2017) and a doctoral fellow at King's College, London (2009).