Aditi Mukherjee

Aditi Mukherjee

Dr. Aditi Mukherjee joined Language Technologies Research Center (LTRC) as a visiting Faculty at IIIT-H. Her research areas are Sociolinguistics and Literacy studies. work on literacy and language maintenance and shift among displaced populations has earned her a formidable reputation in her field. The senior linguist retired as Dean of Arts Faculty, Osmania University and now teaches CS students at IIITH’s Language Technologies Research Centre. Her role in IIITH’s Anusaaraka project spotlighted the relevance of humanities in technology.

Education

Prof. Aditi Mukherjee got her master’s degree in English literature and PG diploma, M.Litt., and Ph.D degrees in linguistics from University of Delhi.

Career & Research

Prof. Mukherjee began her teaching career as an English Lecturer in Lakshmi Bai College, New Delhi. Thirteen years later, she realized that she needed to work in a more challenging and relevant domain. She ventured into linguistics. She joined Osmania University as a Reader in the Department of Linguistics in 1982. She held many academic and administrative positions in the University; as Head of Department for two terms, Board of Studies Chairperson and Coordinator, CAS and ASIHSS programs. When she retired as the Dean, Faculty of Arts, in 2008 the department came together to publish a special volume of Osmania Papers in Linguistics in her honor. In 1986, she received the Nuffield Fellowship from the University of York to work on the migrant Bangladeshi population. It was a very interesting experience because the diaspora initially refused to open up to her since she was perceived as part of the government’s scheme to detect illegal immigrants. The Fellowship given by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla during 1997-1999 was a reprieve from the routine mundane teaching. she worked on the question of literacy and submitted a monograph which was published. IIAS has an excellent library and there were scholars like Krishna Sobti and Bhisham Sahni that you were interacting with, who were shaping your thought in a big way.