PHD New York University
CONTACT
sharmila.mukherjee@bcc.cuny.edu
OFFICE
Colston 633
COURSES
ENG 111: Composition I: Writing and Rhetoric
ENG 112: Composition II: Writing and Rhetoric
Dr. Sharmila Mukherjee
Dr. Mukherjee's first love and passion is teaching. As a first-generation immigrant, she understands and empathizes with the struggles students at BCC go through. These empathies are structured into her teaching. At BCC, she teaches a variety of courses ranging from Composition to Afro-Caribbean Literature to Creative Writing. Her scholarly interests are global discourses of poverty, Asian culture and literature, and Black Thought and Literature. She received her Ph.D. from New York University in Globalization Studies and English. Dr. Mukherjee has published essays on the contemporary South Asian novel and is currently working on a book on narratives of poverty and empowerment in global South Asia. Dr. Mukherjee is also a fiction writer.
Areas
Dr. Mukherjee studies Asian Culture and Literature, Precarity and Literature, Labor and Literature, Afro pessimism, Afrofuturism, and Afro-Caribbean Literature. In summation, she studies expressive theories and cultures of all things in the margins and the periphery of what's deemed "canonical". She also practices pedagogies of (student) engagement, immersion and empowerment.