Shuhita Bhattacharjee Author

Shuhita Bhattacharjee is Associate Professor of English literature and Gender/Sexuality Studies in the Department of Liberal Arts, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Design, at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. She earned her PhD from the University of Iowa, and her research on nineteenth-century literature, critical cultural representations of gender/sexuality, and the South Asian diaspora has appeared in a range of journals and edited collections. Her first monograph (Postsecular Theory, 2023) examines the (post-)colonial construction of the 'religious-secular' binary, with particular attention to nineteenth-century writing. Bhattacharjee recently spearheaded the formation of the Nineteenth-Century Diversities Research Network (NCDRN), South Asia chapter, and is the founder-coordinator of IIT Hyderabad’s Centre for Public Humanities, through which she works on implementing inclusive sex education and eliminating gender-based violence.