The Black Hamlet Case

Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. Her most recent book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (Cambridge University Press, 2021), has won Columbia University's Robert S. Liebert Award for ‘outstanding scholarship in the field of applied psychoanalysis’. Mukherjee's second monograph, What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford UP, 2014), was awarded the British Academy Prize in English Literature. Her other publications include Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007) and the collections of essays she has edited, namely A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (with Laura Marcus, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), After Lacan (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (with Ato Quayson, Cambridge UP, 2023). Mukherjee has published in competitive peer-reviewed journals and sits on the editorial boards of several international journals. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow of the British Academy (2003–2006), a visiting fellow at the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University (2015), and the John Hinkley (Visiting) Professor at Johns Hopkins University (2019). She is invited faculty at Harvard University's Institute for World Literature (IWL) and sits on the advisory board. At present, Mukherjee is working on A Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature in the widely circulated VSI series (Oxford UP) and her fourth monograph, Mavericks and Charlatans: Empire, Modernity, and the Authorization of Dreams (Princeton UP).