Paromita Chakrabarti

Paromita Chakrabarti is Professor and Head of the Department of English and Director, Global Research Initiatives (GRI) at H.R. College of Commerce and Economics, University of Mumbai where she has been teaching since 2001. Her research areas include migration, diaspora, postcolonial studies, gender and nation. She has been a 2010-11 Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Chakrabarti has published several articles in international journals and is the assistant editor of the peer reviewed journal Writing Today: International Journal of Studies in English. She has been a joint editor for the peer reviewed journal Baltic Worlds from Södertörn University, Stockholm and has been a resource person at University Grants Commission (UGC) sponsored refresher courses and short-term courses for faculty across colleges and universities in India. She annually teaches a Master’s level seminar class on Feminist Critical Theory at the University of Sheffield, UK, and has been an invited speaker for seminar lecture at several universities and colleges both in India and abroad. In her spare time Paromita enjoys trekking and travelling