Pradipta Mukherjee is a film critic and Associate Professor in the Department of English, Vidyasagar College for Women, University of Calcutta. She has been a member of the Regional Film Selection Board, Prasar Bharati, Doordarshan Kendra Kolkata, Govt. of India. Her published books include The Fluid Frame in Cinema (2021) (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK), Tragic Survivals: From the Hellenic to the Postmodern (2017), Shakespeare on the Celluloid (2014) and Studies in John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman (2010). She has published ten co-edited books and anthologies including Conundrums of Depiction, Reception and Witnessing (2025), Diaspora and Migration: Interrogating Homeland and Identity in a World of Precarity (2024), Living Dystopian (Cambridge Scholars (2023), 21st Century Perspectives on Indian Writing in English (Cambridge Scholars, 2023), Dodging Dystopia (2022), and The Diasporic Dilemma (2014). Mukherjee has presented her research at some of the most prestigious academic forums across the world including the IASPR Conference in Brussels, Belgium, University of Paris 13, University of Amsterdam, University of London, University of Leeds, Queen's University Belfast (Distinguished Lecture Series) and Romania, IIAS Shimla, Osmania University and Himachal Pradesh University as Resource Person. She was the keynote speaker on South Asian Diasporic Cinema at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France, in 2019. In October 2025, she was invited to co-teach at Queen's University Belfast as a Visiting Professor.