CUF Lecturer in English
Fellow and Tutor in English, Wadham College

Tel No.    01865 277 977
Email      ankhi.mukherjee@wadh.ox.ac.uk

Department Information
Faculty of English Language and Literature
www.english.ox.ac.uk

Dr Ankhi Mukherjee, PhD (Rutgers University, USA).

Career
British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow (2003-2006)
Lecturer in English, Wadham College (2002-2003)
Visiting Lecturer, Royal Holloway College (2001-2002)

Areas of Research/Interest
Critical and cultural theory, particularly psychoanalysis; intellectual history; postcolonial studies; Victorian literature and culture; British modernism; contemporary British and South Asian Anglophone fiction.

Current Project
My current book project, What is a Classic?, examines the residual influence of the Eurocentric literary canon in the age of world literature and emergent formations of canons and classics.

Teaching
Undergraduate: English Literature (1740-1832), Victorian Literature, Modern Literature, the history and theory of criticism, selected Special Authors and Topics.
Graduate teaching and supervision: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century British and Anglophone literature, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory, Lacan and Freud, feminist and gender studies.

Publications

Books

• Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007)
• Editor (with Laura Marcus), A Companion to Psychoanalysis and Literature (Blackwell  Publishers, 2010)
  
• What is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting, Repetition, and Invention of the Canon (forthcoming, 2011)

Articles 

• “‘This Traffic of Influence’: Derrida and Spivak,” Special Issue “Gayatri Spivak: Postcolonial and Other Pedagogies,” Parallax 60 (Summer 2011)
• “‘What is a Classic?’: International Literary Criticism and the Classic Question,” Special Topic “Literary Criticism for the Twenty-first Century,” ed. Cathy Caruth and Jonathan Culler, PMLA (October 2010)
• “‘Yes, sir, I was the one who got away’: Postcolonial Emergence and the Question of Global English,” Études Anglaises N°3 (2009)
• “Postcolonial Responses to the Western Canon,” Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2 volumes) ed. Ato Quayson, Cambridge: CUP, 2009
• “Bhabha,” “Canonicity,” entries in Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Literary Theory (3 volumes) ed. Robert Eaglestone, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2009
• “The Death of the Novel and Two Postcolonial Writers,” special issue “Influence” ed. Andrew Elfenbein, Modern Language Quarterly 69.4 (December 2008)
• “Fissured Skin, Inner Ear Radio, and a Telepathic Nose: The Senses as Media in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children,” Paragraph 29:6 (November 2006)
  
• “Buried Alive: The Gothic Carceral in V. S. Naipaul’s Fiction,” special issue “V.S. Naipaul” ed. Pradyumna Chauhan, South Asian Review (Fall 2005): 113-25
  
• “‘There’s no place like home’: Exile and a Dream of Return in Salman Rushdie’s India Novels,” in special issue “Fifty Years of British Literature 1950-2000,” The Literary Criterion XL (2005): 143-52
  
• “Missed Encounters: Repetition, Rewriting, and Contemporary Returns to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations,” in Contemporary Literature  46:1 (Spring 2005): 108-33
• Article contribution to In Theory, annual publication of the School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University (November 2001)
  
• “Stammering to Story: Neurosis and Narration in Pat Barker’s Regeneration,” in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 43 (Fall 2001): 49-62
  
• Entries in Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory ed. Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1997