Academic Work

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews spanning Victorian literature, postcolonial studies, crime fiction, and gender studies.

  1. Journal Article 2017

    How David Came up Trumps: The NIRF and the Rise of Off Campus Colleges

    Maitrayee Roychoudhury and Priyanka Kulhari

    The Discussant: Journal of the Centre for Reforms, Development and Justice, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 7–16

    An analysis of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) and its impact on the proliferation of off-campus colleges in the Indian higher education landscape.

    Higher Education Policy
  2. Book Review 2016

    This History of Indian Food Goes Where No Food Historian (or Instagram Photo) Has Ever Gone Before

    Maitrayee Roychoudhury

    Scroll.in

    A review exploring the cultural and historical dimensions of Indian food history.

    Book Review Cultural Studies
  3. Book Chapter 2015

    She-Kings, Sprinters, and Aviators: Ama Ata Aidoo's Radical Women-scapes

    Maitrayee Roychoudhury

    A Warble of Postcolonial Voices: An Anthology of Short Stories and Poems, vol. 1: Short Stories, ed. Shikhandin Sati, pp. 125–155. New Delhi: Worldview

    A feminist and postcolonial reading of Ama Ata Aidoo's fiction, examining how her women characters challenge spatial and political boundaries through radical re-configurations of landscape and selfhood.

    Postcolonial Studies Gender Studies African Literature
  4. Article 2010

    Rent Hearths and Fragmented Selves: Disordered Spaces in The Moonstone

    Maitrayee Roychoudhury

    Victorian Web

    An analysis of spatial disorder in Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, examining how the novel's treatment of domestic and imperial space reflects fractured identities and the instability of the Victorian household in the wake of colonial encounter.

    Victorian Literature Wilkie Collins Crime Fiction Spatial Studies
  5. Article 2010

    H.D.'s Palimpsest: A Feminist Historiography of Dissent

    Maitrayee Roychoudhury

    Quiet Mountain: New Feminist Essays, vol. 7, no. 4

    An examination of H.D.'s Palimpsest as a feminist historiographical project, reading the text's layered narrative structure as a mode of dissent against patriarchal literary history.

    Modernist Literature Feminist Theory Historiography

Additional Writing

Essays, articles, and reviews have also appeared in The Discussant: Journal of the Centre for Reforms, Development and Justice, Victorian Web, Quiet Mountain: New Feminist Essays, Scroll.in, and New Indian Express.