Ipshita Chanda has taught Comparative Literature since 1993, first at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and since 2017 at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She held the ICCR Chair of Indian Culture at Georgetown University, Washington DC in 2013-14. Her books include Packaging Freedom: Feminism and Popular Culture(Stree 2003); Reception of the Received (ASIHSS Program in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2006); Tracing the Charit as a Genre (DSA program in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2003); , Selfing the City : Single Women Migrants and their Lives in Kolkata(Sage, Delhi 2017). Edited volumes include Literary Historiography (CAS program in Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 2006) Locating Cultural Change:Theory, Method, Process (Sage, Delhi, 2011) Shaping the Discourse ( with Joyeeta Bagchi, Stree Kolkata 2014), Emotion, Expression and Aesthetics ( Sahitya Akademi Delhi, 2018), Literature and the Other Arts (Sahitya Akademi, Delhi) She translates between Bangla, Hindi and English and has translated Sukumar Ray (Lakshman’s Shaktishail and Chalachitta Chanchari Sahitya Akademi 2006), Satinath Bhaduri (Dhorai Charit Manas, Sahitya Akademi Katha Bharati series, 2013), Phaniswarnath Renu and Mahasweta Devi (Bitter Soil, 1996 and The Glory of Sri Sri Ganesh, 2002, both from Seagull, Kolkata).

Plurality and Ethics, Virtuality and Alterity in transcultural contexts; Francophone and Anglophone African literature and drama, South and West Asian contactual relations.