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Indra Mukhopadhyay

Professor (Teaching) of Writing
Email imukhopa@usc.edu Office JEF 150 Office Phone (213) 740-1980

Center, Institute & Lab Affiliations

  • Royal Asiatic Society, Fellow

Biography

Indra N. Mukhopadhyay is Professor of Writing at the University of Southern California. He teaches upper and lower division writing courses in The Writing Program as well as world literature and world empires courses in the General Education program. He is the creator of USC’s Minor in South Asian Studies and its Introduction to South Asian Studies course, which he teaches as well. He serves on the USC Office of Admission Merit Scholarships committee. He served on the Board of the University Club and the University General Education Committee for several years, and was previously Chair of the Diversity Caucus while serving on The Dornsife College Faculty Council.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego, his master’s from The University of Michigan, and his doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also studied Sanskrit at Harvard University and economics at Cambridge University (Pembroke College). His research specializations include comparative colonial studies, with an emphasis on French colonialism in India, South Asian literature and history, European literature and history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, postcolonial philology, and global rhetorics. He is the recipient of the Horace H. Rackham Merit Fellowship, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation Fellowship, and was a visiting fellow at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is fluent in Bengali and French.

Education

  • Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 6/2008
  • M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, 4/2003
  • B.A. Literatures of the World, University of California, San Diego, 12/1998

  • USC Funding

    • USC Center for Scholarly Technology Course Continuity in a Crisis Incentive Grant. Interpreting Crisis: A fully digital essay assignment cycle that uses various technologies for brainstorming, drafting, conferencing, workshopping, and multi-media essay publishing, $5000, Spring 2012
    • USC Center for Scholarly Technology Learning Environments Faculty Incentive Grant. Student-Centered, Collaborative Research: A series of in-class research and presentation activities that take advantage of new technology and infrastructure upgrades in USC classrooms, $1500, Fall 2011

  • Conference Presentations

    • Teaching Advanced Writing: Completing the Circle of General Education. , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, National Council of Teachers of English, Tampa, FL, 2014-2015
    • Discovering our Professional Identities: Writing Professor and NTT Faculty. , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, National Council of Teachers of English, Indianapolis, IN, 2013-2014
    • The Art of Indigenous Rhetorics: Survivance, Ecology, and Pedagogy. Chair. , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationRoundtable/Panel, National Council of Teachers of English, Invited, Indianapolis, IN, 2013-2014
    • Toward an Understanding of Global Rhetorics , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, National Council of Teachers of English, Las Vegas, NV, 2012-2013
    • Alexandre Dumas’s and Jules Verne’s India: The French Republic of Letters Discusses Imperial Historiography , Loss, Nostalgia, and la fracture colonialeTalk/Oral Presentation, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Invited, University of Liverpool, UK, 2008-2009

    Other Presentations

    • Empires of the World., The Dornsife Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, 2011-2012
    • The Arts of Resistance., The Dornsife Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, 2011-2012
    • The Legacies of Empire., The Dornsife Commons, Doheny Memorial Library, 2011-2012

  • Book Chapters

    • Mukhopadhyay, I. N. (2011). Monte Cristo Brings the Empire Home: Alexandre Dumas and the Promise of Postcolonial Philology. The Black Musketeer. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. More Info.
    • Mukhopadhyay, I. N. (2010). Alexandre Dumas’s and Jules Verne’s India: The French Republic of Letters Discusses Imperial Historiography. France’s Lost Empires. Plymouth: Lexington Books. More Info.

    Book Review

    • Mukhopadhyay, I. N. (2018). Ahmed, Siraj. Archaelogy of Babel: The Colonial Foundation of the Humanities. Stanford, Stanford UP: 2017. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.

    Journal Article

    • Read, J. (2008). (Mukhopadhyay, I.N. as photographer). “Axes of projection: poetics of urbanisation and globalisation in the Americas”. The Journal of Architecture. Vol. 13 (5), pp. 607-631.
    • WRIT 540, The Writing Program, 2017-2018
    • GESM 110g, General Education, 2016-2017
    • WRIT 150 Thematic Approaches: Globalization., The Writing Program., 2013-2014
    • ARLT 100g: Literature and Empire., Dornsife College General Education Program., 2012-2013
    • DVD Bonus Featurette, “Myth and the Musketeers.” The Man in the Iron Mask. 20th Anniversary Edition. United Artists., Fall 2018
    • Scholars for the Dream Award. National Council of Teachers of English., 2012-2013

  • Committees

    • Member, USC General Education Committee., 2018-2019
    • Member, USC General Education Committee., 2017-2018
    • Member, USC General Education Committee., 2016-2017
    • Chair, NTT Faculty Caucus, Dornsife College Faculty Council., 2013-2014
    • Chair, Diversity Caucus, Dornsife College Faculty Council., 2013-2014
    • Member, Dornsife College Faculty Council., 2013-2014
    • Chair, Diversity Caucus, Dornsife College Faculty Council, 2012-2013
    • Member, Dornsife College Faculty Council., 2012-2013
    • Member, Professional Development Committee. The Writing Program, 2011-2012

    Other Service to the University

    • Member. Board of Councilors. Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC., 2019-2020
    • Secretary. Board of Councilors. Amy King Dundon-Berchtold University Club of USC, 2019-2020
    • Interviewer. Undergraduate Merit Scholarships Committee. USC Office of Admission. , 2017-2018
    • Interviewer. President’s Scholarships. Dornsife College., 2015-2016
    • Interviewer. Trustees’ Scholarships. Dornsife College., 2015-2016
    • Interviewer. President’s Scholarships. Dornsife College., 2014-2015
    • Interviewer. Trustees’ Scholarships. Dornsife College., 2014-2015
    • The Dornsife College Commons. Proposer and organizer of three events for the 2011-2012 year centered on the theme “Legacies of Empire,” comprising two interdisciplinary panels of USC faculty and one invited guest speaker., 2011-2012
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