Dr. Ronjaunee Chatterjee

Biography

Ronjaunee Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing at Queen's University. Her research interests lie primarily in the politics of gender, race, and sexuality, utilizing a wide array of literary texts through the lens of queer feminist theory, postcolonial studies, and Marxism. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and has published extensively in the field of nineteenth-century British literature. Her book, 'Feminine Singularity: Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature,' argues for a re-examination of feminine literary genres from the nineteenth century, using the concept of singularity to describe a model of subjecthood grounded in relationality. She has received recognition for her work, winning an Honorable Mention for the Sonya Rudikoff Prize from the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. Chatterjee also serves on the editorial boards of noted literary journals and has been awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for her research from 2021 to 2023. Currently, she is working on a new book project that explores the diagrammatic work of prominent authors and artists, including George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, with a focus on their intersection with contemporary critical frameworks.

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