Professor Madhura Bandyopadhyay is a Doctoral Lecturer in Writing in the English Department at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has been the recipient of John Jay College’s Distinguished Teaching Prize in 2023 and of the Digital Humanities Innovation Award in 2021. She was also chosen to be a CUNY Career Success Fellow for the year 2023-24. 

Dr. Bandyopadhyay teaches writing courses at John Jay.  She has served the department and college in various roles by building curriculum, running faculty development workshops and creating and managing digital content for faculty. She has also worked on promoting student excellence through managing student digital publications and awards processes, developing courses and culturally inclusive content and by rising to the challenges of the post-covid world by embracing teaching in various modalities. Dr. Bandyopadhyay has CCE (Certificate of Continuous Employment, the equivalent of tenure).

Prior to joining John Jay in Fall 2019, Dr. Bandyopadhyay worked as a full-time faculty in Writing Studies at Syracuse University, at the University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, at Singapore for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at its collaboration with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and at the University of California, Davis.
 
Dr. Bandyopadhyay has taught First-Year Composition, Advanced Composition, Business, Technical and Health Science Writing at various institutions. She has also taught literature and cultural studies, women and gender focused courses, postcolonial and world literatures, General Education, ESL, Adult Education and bridge courses. She has also worked with Writing Centers at different institutions. 
 
Dr. Bandyopadhyay’s Ph.D. dissertation was on nineteenth-century British literature and culture. She grew up in Kolkata, India and came to the US for graduate studies after completing her M.A. at Jadavpur University, Kolkata and her B.A. at Presidency College, Kolkata. Outside of work, she enjoys blogging and walking around the city. Apart from English, Dr. Bandyopadhyay enjoys reading and writing in Bengali and has a working knowledge of Hindi.