Mitra Mukherjee Parikh
- Mitra Mukherjee Parikh retired as Head, Department of English, from the S.N.D.T. Women's University, Mumbai after teaching for more than three decades. She has a Ph.D. from the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She is actively involved in translations from and into Bangla, English, Gujarati, Hindi, and Marathi as well as shaping syllabi and pedagogical practices in translation theory and practice. She was the director of Katha Translation Studies Centre instituted at the S.N.D.T. Women’s University, Mumbai and recipient of the Katha Translation Award. She has also designed syllabi and taught courses incorporating comparative and interdisciplinary methods in social sciences, fine arts and architecture departments and institutions of several universities. She continues to be deeply involved in shaping postgraduate courses, teaching, research, and writing in women’s studies departments across the country. Earlier as trustee and member of the NGO, Majlis, she had been actively engaged with the city, cinema, and other cultural projects and events of the organisation for twenty-five years. Interdisciplinary research and writing, especially in cinema studies in conjunction with modernity and city-centered studies, continue to engage her deeply. Currently engaged in research in comparative feminist studies, she looks forward to participating in several ways in the contemporary discourse centred around this field in India.
