Sutapa Dutta is Professor of English at Gargi College, University of Delhi. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her research interests and publications are on eighteenth and nineteenth-century writings, and cover gender, education, and identity in colonial India.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London, and has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She has received several national and international grants for research work and has published extensively. She has authored British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861, and Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal, and has edited Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations, 18th -19th Century, British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond 1770-1870 and Making the ‘Woman’: Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th Century India.
Prof. Sutapa Dutta’s Fulbright-Nehru Academic & Professional Excellence project seeks to study the role of American women missionaries in India in the 19th century, and their contribution towards female education and health care. A critical understanding of their agency in the past will enable us to perceive present shifts in perceptions of women’s question by evangelists and conservative religious denominations across social and religious platforms in the U.S. and India.