Namrata Mitra, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Namrata Mitra
Office:
32 Hubert
Phone:
(914) 633-2055 (914) 633-2055
Email:

Degrees:

  • Ph.D., Literature and Philosophy, Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University
  • MA, English, Jadavpur University, India
  • BA, English, St. Stephen’s College, India

Dr. Mitra teaches core courses in literature, and upper division courses in South Asian literature and contemporary women’s literature. Her research is motivated by questions such as, how do stories about the past help us understand contemporary violence? How are race and caste, in modernity, forged through each other? How does science fiction about robots help hide or reveal the materiality of artificial intelligence? She has published articles and book chapters on representations of violence in South Asia and on literary pedagogy.

  • “Practicing How We Read What We Read.” Dissonant Methods: The Shape and Movement of Teaching. Eds. Ada Jaarsma and Kit Dobson. Edmonton: U of Alberta Press. Forthcoming.
  • “Disciplinary Matters in the Hypatia Controversy.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice. 39 (2). 2018.
  • “Legacies of Legitimacy and Resistance: Imperial and State Violence in South Asia and   Latin America.” Comparative Studies in Asian and Latin American Philosophies: Cross-Cultural Theories and Methodologies.Eds Stephanie Stephanie Rivera-Berruz and Leah Kalmanson. NY: Bloomsbury, 2018.
  • Routine Unrecognized Sexual Violence in India.” New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment. Ed. Clara Fischer and Luna Dolezal. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
  • “Shamed Bodies: Partition Violence and Women.” The Female Face of Shame. Eds. Patricia Moran and Erica Johnson. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
  • Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam. “Women and Gender in ‘The Muslim World’.” Islam in the Modern World. Eds. Jeffrey Kenney and Ebrahim Moosa. NY: Routledge, 2013.