Amrita Banerjee

Amrita Banerjee is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy and the Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies from the University of Oregon, USA. Banerjee held the position of Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, USA prior to joining IIT Bombay. She specializes in Moral and Socio-Political Philosophy, which she approaches from the perspectives of Feminist Philosophy, Classical Pragmatism, and Twentieth century Continental philosophy. Banerjee focuses on marginalized intellectual spaces within Philosophy, and especially work by women philosophers and philosophers of color within these traditions. Her papers have appeared in prestigious journals such as Hypatia, the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, The Pluralist, and Philosophy in the Contemporary World. She is co-editor of the special issue titled, “Mothering from the Margins” of Philosophy in the Contemporary World.