Mridula Nath Chakraborty is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Sydney [2011]. Chakraborty completed her doctoral work on 'Hotfooting Around Essentialism: Feminisms of Colour' at the University of Alberta, Canada. Trained in a classical English literary canon at Delhi University, India, her research interests include postcolonial literatures, studies in nationalism, feminism and diasporas, translation theory, culinary cultures, public intellectuals, global English and Bombay cinema. (University of Western Sydney website sighted 11/11/2011)
