Niladri R Chatterjee

Niladri R. Chatterjee is Professor, Department of English, University of Kalyani, West Bengal. His doctoral work was on the novelist Christopher Isherwood. A recipient of Fulbright Scholarship (for which he went to University of Texas at Austin) and the British Counci l- Charles Wallace Fellowship (University of Cambridge), Prof. Chatterjee has co-edited The Muffled Heart: Stories of the Disempowered Male (New Delhi: Rupa and Co., 2005), contributed to The American Isherwood (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), www.glbtq.com (2007), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004), The Isherwood Century (Wisconsin: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2001), and Reader’s Companion to Twentieth Century Writers (London: 4th Estate and Helicon, 1995). He has published in the journal American Notes and Queries (Taylor and Francis) and Intersections (www.intersections.anu.edu.au) and has reviewed for Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide (US). He was also a member of the editorial board of the afore-mentioned ANQ. In March 2011 he served as Visiting Faculty at the Dept. of English, University of North Bengal. He has been teaching a course in gender studies at his university since 2009, and runs a facebook group called New Gender Studies, which has over 14,000 members. 

Prof. Chatterjee has recently begun contributing to The Wire. With Tutun Mukherjee, he co-edited Naribhav: Androgyny and Female Impersonation in India (Niyogi Books, Delhi. 2016). He has translated the fiction ofb Krishnagopal Mallick entitled Entering the Maze: Queer Fiction of Krishnagopal Mallick (2023) and is a recipient of Rainbow Award for Literature & Journalism 2023.