Preeshita Biswas

Field: Long Nineteenth-Century British and Global Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

 

Areas of Interest: Global Anglophone prose fiction and graphic novels; modern Indo-Japanese literary networks; postcolonial and transregional studies of East, South, and Southeast Asia; manga; anime; flesh, skin, and body politics; periodicals; visual cultures; Asian popular culture; race; ethnicities; gender and sexuality; queer theory

 

Bio: Preeshita Biswas is a PhD Candidate in literature with graduate certifications in Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies. She is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo. Her research unfolds at the intersections of British and Japanese imperialisms, South and Southeast Asian postcolonialisms, and multiethnic aftermaths, focusing on trans-imperial complexities of the plurilingual and polycentric C19 and beyond. Her doctoral project examines trans-imperial literary networks between England, Japan, and India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research is funded by a Curran Fellowship from the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals, an MLA Global Fellowship, and an LKH Fellowship in English at TCU. Her dissertation has received the honorable mention for the prestigious Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies presented by the Midwest Victorian Studies Association. Preeshita currently serves as the Graduate Fellow for Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies and is a Graduate Instructor of writing and literature.