Preeshita Biswas

 

Biography

Preeshita Biswas is pursuing her PhD degree in English Literature with graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Texas Christian University. She has received her B.A and M.A. degrees in English from Presidency University in Kolkata, India. She has also been the recipient of the gold medal award for securing the highest scores in both programs at Presidency.

A scholar of global Victorian and neo-Victorian literatures, Preeshita's research takes up conventional literary genres (primarily prose fiction and novels) and popular literary forms such as Victorian periodicals and neo-Victorian anime and manga/comics. Her doctoral research focuses on Asian neo-Victorian popular literatures, specifically Japanese manga and anime, examined through the critical lenses of transimperialism, transculturation, oceanic migration, race, ethnicity, and queer sexuality theories. She has presented her research at national and international conferences including EMMIR, BWWC, NAVSA, VPFA, and SGNCS. Her work appears in ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 and Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, and in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women’s Writings. 

While at TCU, Preeshita hopes to refine her pedagogy of teaching global Anglophone and multiethnic literatures of the nineteenth century and their contemporary aftermaths and afterlives. When she is not dwelling in the library, exploring the literary archive of the nineteenth century, Preeshita loves to sketch, go for walks, watch anime, and listen to music.