Gunja Nandi

Biography

Gunja Nandi is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Texas Christian University. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English Literature at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. As the valedictorian in both programs, she was awarded a gold medal. For her doctoral project, she studies twentieth and twenty-first century Anglophone and non-Anglophone postcolonial literatures from ecologically precarious island ecosystems 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 her research at several international conferences like the NAVSA, PAMLA, INCS, VPFA etc., and her publications include contributions to peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, including a forthcoming project for the peer-reviewed digital humanities project “Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom.”