Reshmi Mukherjee

Dr. Reshmi Mukherjee started at Boise State University in 2014 as the Interim Director of Gender Studies and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of English. She received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a minor in Gender Studies, and a M.A. in Comparative Literurature and an M.Phil. in Women’s Studies both from Jadavpur University in Calcutta, India. Dr. Mukherjee's research focuses on the representations of race, gender, sexuality, and subalternity in sub-Saharan, Arab Anglophone, and South Asian literature; transnational approaches to studying and teaching diasporic, exilic, testimonio, and refugee narratives; postcolonial theory, transnational feminism, and culture studies.