Sreemati Mukherjee received her M.A. in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, BA in English Honors and B.Ed. from Loreto College, Calcutta University.  She is a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and of South Asian Languages Teachers Association (SALTA).  Mrs. Mukherjee has a double certificate from ACTFL as oral proficiency tester in Bengali for both ACTFL and the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR).  In India she taught English for many years.  Students at Cornell University can be administered Advisory OPIs (oral proficiency interviews) in Bengali by Mrs. Mukherjee.