Dr. Souvik Mukherjee

Dr. Souvik Mukherjee is an Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, whose research focuses on videogames as storytelling media, with interests spanning Game Studies, Postcolonialism, Digital Humanities, and gaming cultures in South Asia.

Joined: August 10, 2026
Articles: 2

Reflections

Souvik Mukherjee, Indian Gaming Culture, and DH

I started DH as an M.A. student in 2001, researching digital games and storytelling. Having faced much academic ostracism back then, it is heartening to see the interest in gaming cultures and (the) Digital Humanities today. I completed my MPhil…

Dr. Souvik Mukherjee
October 9, 2020

Reflections

Souvik Mukherjee: “Our interest is in looking at how the digital can be useful in helping re-think Humanities research and teaching in India…”

The Digital Humanities initiative at Presidency University started in 2012 in the very early days of DH in India. When DH (then fashionably called ‘DigiHum’) was more about digital archives, what we aimed at was opening up the field (as…