Dr. Mukherjea studied at New College of Florida and the University of South Florida before receiving her PhD in Sociology from the CUNY Graduate Center. She is an associate professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at CSI and is affiliated with the CUNY School of Public Health and with the Center for Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at CSI. She serves as co-editor for Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ Studies and on the editorial board of the journal Studies in Popular Culture Studies, both peer-reviewed, MLA-indexed, transdisciplinary journals of popular culture studies. She has done research in and published in the areas of: gender and sexuality studies in popular culture; and, the social politics of viral pandemics and responses to them. She also serves on the advisory board of the Futures Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Degrees
BA, New College
PhD, CUNY Graduate Center
Dr. Mukherjea’s recent publications include: a forthcoming essay on the meanings that self-described feminist and queer or queer-friendly fans find in the enormously popular Twilight phenomenon; a book chapter titled, “The Social Politics of Pandemic Influenzas: The Question of (Permeable) International, Inter-Species, and Interpersonal Boundaries;” a critique of the promotion of male circumcision to prevent HIV transmission, “Cutting Risk: Evaluating the Ethics and Practical Benefits of Promoting Male Circumcision as HIV Prevention;” a co-authored piece (with Dr. Amit Sen) on the implications of the TRIPS Agreement and the HIV/AIDS pandemic for sex workers, “The TRIPS Agreement, HIV, and International Sex Work;” and an essay called, “Doing HIV Prevention and Building Community Coalitions” for the Los Angeles-based publication CORPUS. She is the editor of Understanding Emerging Epidemics: Social and Political Approaches (Emerald, 2010) and the recipient of the Whedon Studies Association's award for best paper in the area for 2008 for her article, “'When You Kiss Me, I Want to Die: Gothic Relationships and Identity on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
