She teaches Victorian and Modern literature, postcolonial studies, critical theory and intellectual history. Mukherjee’s first book is Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007). Her second monograph, What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon, published in 2013 by Stanford University Press, examines the residual influence of the Eurocentric canon on postcolonial and world literatures and emergent formations of canons and classics. Mukherjee has published in international peer-reviewed journals such as PMLA, MLQ, Contemporary Literature, Paragraph, Parallax, and others, and has co-edited A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture, to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2014.