 Her last and longest spell was as Professor of English in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.She was a visiting professor in several universities outside India, including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, Macquarie University (Sydney), the University of Canberra and Flinders University (Adelaide).Her husband Sujit Mukherjee, was teacher and a literary scholar.