Academics
My teaching and research are primarily in twentieth century literary, film, and media studies. I also work on writing pedagogy-related issues.
At Guttman, I have created and run the Poetry Abroad program in 2019 and 2022, training undergraduate students in modern poetry through independent study-style research seminars and accompanying them to the International T. S. Eliot Summer School, held at the University of London.
At the CUNY Graduate Center, I teach seminars in film studies and advise PhD and MA students on research projects in formal and informal capacities.
Press release: “Guttman Students Go to London to Study T.S. Eliot”
Press release: “Dr. Ria Banerjee, Associate Professor of English”
Newspaper report: “Scholars Discuss Pedagogy and Community College Jobs at MLA Convention”
Newspaper report: “How the Pandemic Is Pushing Professors to Improve Their Pedagogy”
Research interests:
modernist studies, fin-de-siecle and literary decadence, film noir, climate change and pedagogy
Teaching interests:
introductory writing, colonialism in twentieth century literature and culture, climate change in the humanities, film genres and global violence, film history, film aesthetics
Scholarly societies:
Board Member of the International T. S. Eliot Society and local organizing committee member for MSA Brooklyn 2023: Streets