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Somdatta Bhattacharya
Somdatta Bhattacharya is an independent scholar who has been an assistant professor of English till very recently in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT-Kharagpur (2018–24). She holds a Ph.D. in English studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She has taught, published and presented extensively in the areas of urban cultures, social theories of space and spatiality, crime fiction, city in literature, Indian writing in English, gender and South Asian popular culture. She has also been an investigator in multiple funded projects on the Indian urban underclass.