Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of three monographs: Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Literature (Routledge, 2007), What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford UP, 2014), and Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor (Cambridge UP, 2021). Mukherjee has edited three essay collections, including After Lacan (CUP, 2018), and published in PMLA, MLQ, Contemporary Literature, Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry and others. She is currently co-editing Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge UP).