Nilanjana Bhattacharya

Nilanjana Bhattacharya currently works as Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, at the ‘Institute of Languages, Literature and Culture’ in Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. She has obtained her doctoral degree from the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, India. The title of her doctoral thesis is Fiction as Feminist Historiography: (De)mythifying Patriarchies in Selected Works of Isabel Allende, Mahasweta Devi and Toni Morrison. Her research interest includes Indian literatures, Latin American Literatures, Fiction Studies, Translation Studies, Feminist Literary Criticism, Dance Studies, and Theatre Studies. She also translates in Bangla, English and Spanish. In addition to research and teaching, she is also interested in performing arts, particularly Bharatnatyam. She has attended quite a few conferences/seminars/workshops in India and abroad.