Sreya Chatterjee

Sreya Chatterjee serves as Associate Professor of English at the University of Houston within the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. She specializes in 20th and 21st century British, Irish, and South Asian literature, global Anglophone and postcolonial literature, and women's writing. Her academic affiliations include membership in the English Department's Empire Studies Collective and affiliate faculty status in the India Studies program.

Dr. Chatterjee's educational background includes a Ph.D. in English from West Virginia University (2017), an M.A. in English (First Class) from Jadavpur University in India, and a B.A. in English (Honours) from St. Xavier's College, Calcutta University.

Her research interests focus on the intersection of family narratives with global capitalism, caste and globalization, and contemporary Anglophone fiction's relationship to non-fictional cultural history. She has published extensively on Irish and Indian women writers including Anne Enright, Elizabeth Bowen, Mahasweta Devi, Jennifer Johnston, Kiran Desai and Molly Keane, examining how family novels engage with political and economic systems.

Analysis of her publications reveals consistent scholarly output across multiple venues including peer-reviewed journals like Comparative Literature Studies and edited collections from major academic presses such as Routledge. Her work demonstrates a clear trajectory from examining specific authors and texts to developing broader theoretical frameworks connecting postcolonial literature with global economic systems.

At the University of Houston, Dr. Chatterjee contributes significantly to the academic community through her teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses including World Literature and Women Writers, Introduction to Postcolonial Studies, Postcolonial Literature, Modern British Literature, and feminist theory. She also serves as a peer-reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities and multiple academic presses and journals including Interventions, Wasafiri, and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature.