Professor Oindrila Mukherjee
Ph.D. Literature and Creative Writing, University of Houston
M.F.A. Creative Writing, University of Florida
M.A., English, University of Cambridge;
B.A. English, Jadavpur University
340 LOH | 331-8034 | [email protected] |
Oindrila Mukherjee is the author of the novel The Dream Builders, published by Tin House Books in the US, Scribe Publications in the UK and Australia, and Harper Collins in India. The novel 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 an Indie Next Pick, among others. Her shorter work has been published in Salon, The Kenyon Review, 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 the literary and arts journal Aster(ix). She has been a regular contributor to the Indian magazine Scroll, where she created a book series called Bottom Shelf about little known or forgotten Indian books in English. Her creative and scholarly interests include fiction, nonfiction, translations from Bengali literature, South Asian and world literatures in English, postcolonial studies, and creative writing pedagogy.
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 430: Advanced Fiction Workshop
- WRT 411: Style & the Book
- WRT 495: (Capstone) Genre and Writing
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Personal Website: www.oindrilamukherjee.com
