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Shinjini Chattopadhyay is an Assistant Professor and Director of Placement in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a PhD from the University of Notre Dame (2022), and prior degrees from Jadavpur University: MPhil (2016), MA (2014), and BA (2012) in English. Her research focuses on Irish, British, and transnational modernisms, with a monograph-in-progress titled Plurabilities of the City exploring metropolitan cosmopolitanism in modernist and contemporary novels. She is also editing a volume on Virginia Woolf and Transnationalism for Edinburgh University Press, and her work intersects modernist studies with blue humanities.
- Education: PhD English, University of Notre Dame (2022); MPhil/MA/BA English, Jadavpur University (2016/2014/2012)
Her research interests span Irish literature, environmental studies, and comparative literature, with recent publications analyzing water imagery in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, climatic consciousness in Woolf’s The Years, and postcolonial readings of Ulysses. She has received multiple awards including the Junior Faculty Development Award (2025-26) and Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award (2021).
- Grants: Arts & Humanities Research Diversity Grant ($1,000, 2025); Dr. John Bishop Memorial Fellowship ($2,000, 2023)
Her teaching includes courses on modernist cities, British literature, and contemporary literature. She directs placement initiatives supporting students’ career transitions.
