Suchetana Banerjee
Suchetana Banerjee is a distinguished scholar, educator, and theatre director whose work spans over two decades across literature, performance, and cultural research. With an MPhil and PhD in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, she teaches literature and theatre at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune. Her academic journey includes pivotal roles at IIT Bhilai and Sahapedia, where she contributed to ethnographic research, digital archiving, and public humanities. Suchetana’s work reflects deep commitments to pluralism, cultural memory, and grassroots knowledge systems.
Her ongoing research project, Traditions of Devotion, supported by INTACH, maps oral histories and lived religious practices in Maharashtra. She has been selected as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tübingen’s College of Fellows for 2026–27. Active in institutional governance and academic boards, her scholarship appears with reputed publishers like Routledge, Peter Lang, and Palgrave Macmillan. She is currently translating Girish Manas by Utpal Dutt for LeftWord Books.
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As a founding member she looks forward to a space where the politics of reading, listening and representation will come alive and to networking and collaborating with scholars to build a community that truly celebrates multiplicity and dialogue.