معرفی
Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee is a Professor and Chair of American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She serves as Director of the Gutenberg Research College and co-founded the Center of Comparative Native and Indigenous Studies (CCNIS). Her research intersects literature with medicine, law, and economics, focusing on ethnic narratives, decolonization, and medical humanities. She co-leads the DFG research training group Life Sciences – Life Writing and the DFG SFB 1482 project on Successful Aging.
Research Interests: Banerjee explores how cultural narratives shape national identity and resistance, emphasizing Ethnic/Indigenous Studies and Medical Humanities. Key themes include citizenship construction, biopolitics, narrative medicine, and interdisciplinary dialogues between canonical and minority representations.
Publication Trends: Her recent work (2018–2019) emphasizes medical ethics and biopiracy, expanding beyond earlier literary-cultural studies on race and decolonization. Articles consistently engage with identity politics, historical reclamation, and cross-disciplinary methodologies.
Awards:
- JGU Teaching Award (Winter 2018/19) for pedagogical excellence
Affiliations & Projects:
- CCNIS: Fosters transnational indigenous research
- DFG Initiatives: Co-speaker for Life Sciences – Life Writing and Humandifferenzierung projects
- PLATO: Researches narrative medicine in digital learning environments
