Sreya Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
- Office Phone: 713-743-7291
- Email: schatterjee6@uh.edu
- Office: 235 A Roy Cullen Building
Dr. Sreya Chatterjee specializes in 20th century British, Irish and South Asian literatures, Global Anglophone and Postcolonial Literatures, Feminist theory and Women鈥檚 Writing. She is a member of the English Department鈥檚 Empire Studies Collective, and an affiliate faculty in the India Studies program.
Chatterjee鈥檚 current research explores the interconnections in global 20th century domestic fiction, with a focus on Ireland and India. Her monograph-in-progress, Narratives of Fracture: Class and Gender in Irish and Indian Domestic Fiction, studies the novel as a world-systemic form that exemplifies a complex conceptual engagement with the core-periphery relationship of the modern-to-contemporary world-system. Specifically interrogating the relegation of women鈥檚 writing as an 鈥渁political鈥 corpus, the book emphasizes the latter鈥檚 significant role in the literary articulation of postcolonial combined and uneven development, shaped by distinct kinds of colonialism and capitalism in the long twentieth century.
back to topEducation
- Ph.D. in English, West Virginia University, 2017
- M.A. in English (First Class), Jadavpur University, India
- M.A. in English (Honours), Calcutta University, St. Xavier鈥檚 College, India
Selected Publications
鈥淰ichian Materialism and the Irish Unrest: Brian Friel鈥檚 Translations.鈥 History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature. Ed. Asher Ghaffar (New York: Routledge, 2018): Forthcoming 7500 words.
鈥淏egetting Wayward Sons: Naxalite Insurgency and Revolutionary Motherhood in Mahasweta Devi鈥檚 Mother of 1084鈥. Naxalism: Post-structuralist, Postcolonial and Subaltern Perspectives. Ed. Pradip Basu. (Kolkata: Setu, 2017). 78-94.
鈥淒ialectics and Caste: Rethinking Dalit Life-Writings in the Vernacular, Comparing Dalit Narratives鈥. Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University Press) 53.2 (2016): 377-399.
鈥淏eyond Barriers: Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Transnational Feminist Solidarity鈥. Modern Social Thinkers. Ed. Pradip Basu. (Kolkata: Setu, 2012). 91-109.
Book Review, 鈥Walking with the Comrades by Arundhati Roy鈥. Studies on Asia. Ed. Ali Riaz. Series IV 2.1 March 2012.
Teaching
Prof. Chatterjee regularly offers courses on British, Irish, and South Asian Literatures, and Feminist Theory.