Psychoanalysis of the Excommunicated

ankhi mukherjee is a professor of English and world literatures at the University of Oxford and a fellow in English at Wadham College. Her most recent book, Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor, was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2021. Her second monograph, What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (Stanford University Press, 2014), won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in English Literature in 2015. Mukherjee’s other publications include Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (Routledge, 2007), and two edited collections of essays, namely, A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (with Laura Marcus; Wiley-Blackwell, 2015) and After Lacan: Literature, Theory, and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is working on two forthcoming book projects: A Very Short Introduction to Postcolonial Literature (Oxford University Press, 2023) and a collaborative volume titled Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum (Cambridge University Press, 2023), coedited with Ato Quayson.