Nilanjana Mukherjee

Dr. Nilanjana Mukherjee teaches English Literature in Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi. She received her degree of Ph.D. in the year 2011 from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of 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). Apart from these, she has published widely in national and international scholarly journals of repute and successfully completed a number of projects. She was recently conferred the Delhi University Foundation Day Excellence Award in June, 2021 and is the recipient of the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for her journal article, 'Drawing Roads, Building Empire: Space and Circulation in Charles D'Oyly's Indian Landscapes', awarded in 2015 by the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. In the past, she was the Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh in the year 2017 and a doctoral fellow at King's College, London, in 2009. At present, she is working on two projects: first, a creative biography of her grandfather, Ardhendu Prasad Banerji, a Bengal School Santiniketan Artist at the time of the nationalist movement in Bengal; and second, a study of the Indian Desert as a spatial imaginary in its evolution as a frontier zone in North-West India.