Gunja Nandi

Biography

Gunja Nandi received top scores in her Bachelor’s and Master’s programs in English literature at Presidency University, Kolkata, India, securing a Gold Medal award. She joined the doctoral program at the department of English at Texas Christian University as a STARS program awardee in Fall 2022. As part of her doctoral project, she studies twentieth and twenty-first century postcolonial literatures from ecologically precarious locations in the Global South in conjunction with long-nineteenth century literatures of the Empire to examine how specific colonial structures persist in the afterlives of the Empire, in the Anthropocene. She has presented at several international conferences and her publications include contributions to Volupté, forthcoming edited volumes on South Asian literatures by Bloomsbury Academic and Springer Nature, and the digital humanities project “Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom.”