Tenured/Tenure-Track 
Faculty 

Ranita Chatterjee, Ph.D.

• Professor, Department of English —
• British Romanticism, Literary and Critical Theory, Children’s and Adolescent Literature
• Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies Chair
• Phone: (818) 677-3300
• Fax: 4768
• Maildrop: 8338
• Office: EA 100
• ranita.chatterjee@csun.edu

Mauro Carassai, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor - Digital Humanities, American Studies, Criticism, and Theory
• Associate Chair, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies
• Phone: (818) 677-3300
• Fax: 4768
• Maildrop: 8338
• Office: EA 100
• mauro.carassai@csun.edu

Krystal Howard, Ph.D.

• Assistant Professor — Children’s Literature and Comics
• Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies
• Phone: (818) 677-3300
• Fax: 4768
• Maildrop: 8338
• Office: EA 100
• krystal.howard@csun.edu

Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam, Ph.D.

• Associate Professor - Philosophy of Science
• Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Liberal Studies 
• Phone: (818) 677-3300
• Fax: 4768
• Maildrop: 8338
• Office: EA 100
• sindhuja.bhakthavatsalam@csun.edu
• Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam website

Students interested in declaring the Interdisciplinary Studies major can schedule an appointment with Dr. Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam by emailing her at sindhuja.bhakthavatsalam@csun.edu after first meeting with an advisor.