Preetha Mukherjee
PhD Scholar
About
Research Interests
migration literature, postcolonial studies, digital storytelling,
computational literary analysis, South Asian fiction
Publications
- Mukherjee, Preetha, and Nirmala Menon. “Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India.” Frontiers in Sociology, vol. 9, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1450773 (Published September 2024).
Projects
Achievements
- Short-term Collaborative Research Grant (March 2025 – June 2025) at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
- DH Awards 2024 for the DH Short Publication “Mukherjee, P. and Menon, N. “Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India”, Front. Sociol. 9.
Workshops and Conferences
- Conference Presentations
- “Postcolonial Calcutta: Mapping the Postcolonial space in The Lives of Others” at NVpoCo bimonthly seminar series on Broadening Temporalities: New Perspectives on Postcolonial Literature on 14th December 2023.
- “Migration, Ghosh and Climatic Derangement” at International Conference on Naviagting Sustainable Futures: Literary Reflections on Precarious Lives and the Anthropocene organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna, in association with University of Toronto, University of Northampton, Aarhus University on 24th February 2024.
- “Decolonising the narrative of Minor Literature” at the SHSS Research Symposium 2024 at IIT Indore on 30th April 2024.
- “Power and Postcolonial Movements: A Literary testimony of Tibetan refugees and memory” at Graduate Research Meet, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati on December 9, 2024.
- “A Study of Literary Computation: Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing” at DHARTI Biennial Conference on Digital Subjectivities in the Global South, DH-IRDP, IIT Jodhpur on 11th December 2024.
- “Digital Storytelling in India: From Theory to Praxis” at the SELLL PG Conference, Newcastle University on June 5, 2025.
- Workshops Attended or Organized
- Building Digital Humanities Symposium organized by Western Sydney University in conjunction with Gale, part of Cenage Group, and the Pondicherry University.
- Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2023 (virtual) from 05/06/2023 – 16/06/2023.
- Two-Day Workshop on Working with ArcGIS, organized by the Department of Civil Engineering in association with ESRI at IIT Indore, 8th-9th April 2024.
- Online International Faculty Development Program on Introduction to Digital Humanities organized by IIT Jodhpur, Jodhpur and Scottish Church College, Kolkata from 19/08/23-16/09/2023.
- Hands-on-training session on GIS and Map-making workshop organized by IEEE Student Branch Chapter IIT Indore, in collaboration with IEEE Madhya Pradesh Section GRSS Chapter on 6th December 2023.
- Fundamentals of Digital Archiving on 07th February 2024 organized by the Department of Languages CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus – ‘The Hub of Analytics’.
- Ethnovisual Methods for Co-curating Fluidscapes organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, September 19-21, 2024.
- Three Day Workshop on Language Documentation Techniques and Technologies organized at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Indore and JP Narayan National Centre of Excellence in Humanities February 19- 21, 2024.
- Digital Humanities and Infrastructures: Tools, Archives and Theory organized by Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Heidelberg University and Freie Universität Berlin on 18th-19th September 2024.
- DH Winter School: Online Public Lectures organized by IIT Delhi, 20-21 January 2025.
- Online Workshop on Multilingual Humanities Data organized by IIT Delhi on February 11, 2025.