Media & Press
Media & public engagement
A selection of podcast appearances, featured-researcher profiles, and public writing. For enquiries about interviews, features, or commentary, please use the contact form.
Podcasts
The Lost Detectives Podcast
Episode 7: In Conversation with Maitrayee Roychoudhury · Hosted by Claire Whitehead, University of St Andrews
A wide-ranging conversation about Victorian female detectives across Britain, Australia, and India. The discussion covers the emergence of female detective fiction in the Bengali Battala tradition, the role of mobility and colonial transport networks in shaping crime fiction, the figure of the nobeena (New Woman) detective, and the transnational adaptation of detective narratives in the age of steam — touching on the detective characters Bama, Kusum, and the villainess Bijoli Bala.
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SGSAH Featured Researcher
Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities · April 2025
Selected as the SGSAH Featured Researcher, spotlighting the doctoral project on mobility and the nineteenth-century female detective.
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School of English, University of St Andrews
Institutional research profile with details of the doctoral project, supervision, and academic activity.
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“This History of Indian Food Goes Where No Food Historian (or Instagram Photo) Has Ever Gone Before”
Scroll.in · 2016
A review essay exploring the cultural and historical dimensions of Indian food history for a general readership.
Read on Scroll.inFor academic articles and book chapters, see publications.
Press & interview enquiries
I am happy to speak with journalists, producers, and event organisers on Victorian and Bengali detective fiction, the New Woman, mobility studies, and the history of the book.
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