Sutapa Dutta

Prof. Sutapa Dutta teaches in the Department of English at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She did her M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her research interests and publications are focused on eighteenth and nineteenth-century writings, and cover gender, education, and identity politics in colonial India, especially the work of missionary women and western women travellers to India. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla from 2018 to 2020. She has authored British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861 (2017), and has edited Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations, 18th -19th Century (2020), and British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond 1770-1870 (2020). Her latest book is titled Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal (2021).