Riya Das is Assistant Professor of English (British/World Literature) at Prairie View A&M University. She earned her PhD in English from Binghamton University, SUNY, and her MA and BA in English from Jadavpur University. Das specializes in nineteenth-century British and Anglophone literature with an interest in gender, empire, and narrative form.
Her first book, Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature, funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship and forthcoming from the The Ohio State UP, reassesses female solidarity in the Victorian novel and demonstrates the overlooked role of strategic antagonism and indifference in fashioning female progress. Das is currently working on the first-ever critical edition of Mona Caird's fin-de-siècle novel The Daughters of Danaus, also funded by an NEH fellowship and under contract at Edinburgh UP, and her next monograph project, Trans-Victorian Transgressions. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Victorians Institute Journal, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, and other venues. Her teaching interests include global Anglophone literature, gender, empire, the British novel, Gothic fiction, science and literature, and nineteenth-century poetry. For more information, please read her interview with the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association and her CV. |