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Degrees and Institutions:
MA/PhD, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
BA, Presidency College(University of Calcutta), India
Courses Regularly Taught:
Eng 265: British Literature Survey 1700-1945, Eng 417: Topics in
Romanticism, Eng 416: Topics in the Victorian Novel, Eng 423, Women’s
Studies in Literature
Area:
The Victorian Novel, British Romanticism, The British and European Gothic, Vampires, Topics in Critical Theory, Postcolonial
Theory, Terrorism and Aesthetics, Libertine Culture in 18th and 19th century Britain
Research Interests:
Byron and Poststructuralist theory, theorizing violence, the Romantic and Victorian novel, courtesans and the culture of capitalism,
discourses of terror, fashion theory, Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project.
Recent Publications:
The Exotic Woman in Nineteenth Century British Fiction and Culture: A Reconsideration (University of New England Press, 2005). Reviewed in Victorian Studies, Journal of Victorian Culture, CHOICE
"A Night with La Draculetta": Designing/Desiring Romanian Diva Angela Gheorghiu in Vampirettes, Wretches and Amazons, ed. Valentina Glajar and Domnica Radulescu, Columbia University Press, 2005.
Work-in-progress:
“Byron Avec Sade: Material and Spectral Violence in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,Canto IV” in Byron’s Ghosts, ed. Gavin Hopps, (forthcoming)
Book manuscript in progress: Byronic Violence: Erotics, Aesthetics, Politics
Byron and the Politics of Freedom and Terror, edited collection, co-edited with Dr. Matt Green, University of Nottingham, UK
“Byronic Terror, Death and Impossible Exchange” From Byron’s Werner to Baudrillard’s “The Spirit of Terrorism” [article –in-progress]
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