Associate Professor Oindrila Mukherjee
Ph.D. Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Florida
M.A., B.A. English, University of Cambridge; B.A. English, Jadavpur University
340 LOH | 331-8034 | [email protected] |
Oindrila Mukherjee’s creative and scholarly interests including fiction, nonfiction, literary criticism, creative writing pedagogy, and translations from Bengali literature. Her work has been published in Salon, Kenyon Review Online, Ecotone, The Oxford Anthology of Bengali Literature, The Colorado Review, The Writers’ Chronicle, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Journal of Creative Writing Studies and elsewhere. She serves as a Contributing Editor for Aster(ix), a transnational journal of literature and art committed to social justice. She writes a book series called Bottom Shelf about little known or forgotten Indian books in English for the Indian magazine Scroll.in. Her debut novel The Dream Builders, published in 2023 by Tin House Books, was named one of the Best Books of January by Good Morning America and PureWow, a Buzziest Book of the New Year by Goodreads, and a January Indie Next Pick.
At Grand Valley, she currently serves on the University Academic Senate and teaches the following courses:
- WRT 219: Introduction to Creative Writing
- WRT 330: Intermediate Fiction Workshop
- WRT 360: Intermediate Nonfiction Workshop
- WRT 365: Intermediate Magazine Writing
- WRT 430: Advanced Fiction Workshop
- WRT 465: Advanced Magazine Writing
- WRT 495: (Capstone) Genre and Writing
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