Dr. Bhattacharjee has written often on the intersection of religion and colonization in the nineteenth century, particularly in regards to faith and doubt in women’s experiences. Her graduate work at the University of Iowa focused on British New Woman novels, the experience of the religious, colonial, and gendered Other, and the effect of the Other on British appreciation of the religious “impossible”/miraculous. Additional areas of interest for Dr. Bhattacharjee include material print items and cultural reception, anxiety and bodies in Victorian Literature, and detective fiction in the Victorian Era. Along with her degrees in English, Dr. Bhattacharjee also holds a Masters in Philosophy from Jadavpur University.