Srimati Mukherjee is Professor of English (Teaching Track). She is the author of Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete (Routledge 2016). She has published several essays on film in journals such as The Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media; and South Asian History and Culture. Her short fiction has appeared in Feminist Studies, Xavier Review, and most recently in an anthology, Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories. Mukherjee is the author of articles on American and postcolonial literatures as well, with a specific focus on ethnicity and women’s issues .Mukherjee is the recipient of a Temple University Presidential Humanities and Arts Award in 2017 for two linked book projects in the field of Creative Writing. She has been at Temple University since 1999 and taught a range of courses for English, American Studies, Women’s Studies, and the First-Year Writing Program. In summer 2017, she offered two courses on cinema in London for the English Department’s Study Abroad Program: “The City in English Culture.” Currently, Mukherjee chairs the Temple Faculty Senate Committee for International Programs and the Mary Ann Mannino Awards Committee in the First-Year Writing Program. She also serves on the College of Liberal Arts NTT Promotion Committee and has just been elected a Representative Faculty Senator from CLA for a three-year term.