Rita Mookerjee

Say it in 6: "There is no end to knowledge." Rita Mookerjee is pursuing her doctoral degree (PhD) in Literature from Florida State University's College of Arts & Sciences. She comes from generations of scholars and though she has explored other careers, she always returns to academia. Her research and work argues that within postcolonial studies, the relationship between food, women, and resistance in local cultures has not been considered. This means that women's roles in producing and challenging systems of oppression haven't been adequately assessed, nor has the role of women in creating the cultural conditions for undermining the dominance of the commodity. Rita has published a chapbook titled Becoming the Bronze Idol, won the Robert O. Lawton Award for Excellence in Teaching College Composition, received the Edward F. and Marie C. Kingsbury Graduate Fellowship 2 years in a row, and has published several articles including a chapter in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food. She hopes to become a tenured faculty member at a university, a Fulbright scholar, to turn her dissertation into her first academic book, and release a full-length book of poetry.